forge

forge is a command for Claude Code from zakelfassi/skills-driven-development. It costs 20 tokens per session (530 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A command for creating a new SkDD skill from a repeated work pattern. SkDD means Skills-Driven Development, where reusable instructions guide an coding agent through a task.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when a recurring development task should become a project skill with a name, description, triggers, steps, and edge-case guidance.
Why use it?
It gives a repeatable process for defining, validating, and registering a skill instead of creating its files from memory.

Command for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: argument-hint in frontmatter. Also seen: reads .claude/ paths.

Good fit Use it when a recurring development task should become a project skill with a name, description, triggers, steps, and edge-case guidance.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add commands/zakelfassi/skills-driven-development/forge
Install

Getting it into your agent

One page per mod, every tool's command on it. A separate URL per tool would split the same page into five that compete with each other.

Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/zakelfassi/skills-driven-development

Made for: Claude Code.

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README.md
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Per session 20 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 530 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe.
Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.
Token cost

What it costs to keep this loaded

Counted locally with the o200k_base tokenizer, which is exact for GPT models; Claude uses its own tokenizer and its counts differ. Treat this as one consistent yardstick across the catalogue rather than a bill. Prices are per million input tokens.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5.1 $0.00020 $0.00530
Opus 5.5 $0.00008 $0.00212
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00004 $0.00106
Haiku 4.5 $0.00002 $0.00053

Measured 1mo ago against content hash 33ad5242388d, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

forge scanned grade A with 0 findings against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured 1mo ago.

A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.

Nothing flagged

None of the 26 patterns this scan looks for appear in this file: no shell pipes, no recursive deletes, no credential paths, no hidden text, no instruction-override or anti-refusal phrasing, no agent-config snooping. That is not a guarantee, it is the absence of the things that are checkable.

plugins/skdd-claude/commands/forge.md · 44 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 44 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

/forge

You are being asked to forge a new skill as part of a Skills-Driven Development workflow.

What the user typed

/forge $ARGUMENTS

Your task

  1. Parse $ARGUMENTS. The first whitespace-delimited token is the skill name. Everything after -- (if present) is an optional description. Examples:
    • /forge deploy-preview → name = deploy-preview, no description yet
    • /forge deploy-preview -- Deploy the current branch to staging for review → name = deploy-preview, description = Deploy the current branch to staging for review
  2. Validate the name against the Agent Skills spec:
    • Lowercase alphanumeric and hyphens only
    • 1-64 characters
    • Must not start or end with a hyphen; must not contain -- (unless used as the description separator)
    • If invalid, tell the user exactly what's wrong and stop.
  3. Load the skillforge skill (skdd-claude:skillforge, or the project-scope skillforge if present). Follow its steps literally:
    • Ask the user for inputs you don't have (description, triggers, steps, conventions, edge cases) — do not fabricate.
    • Write the new SKILL.md to .claude/skills/<name>/SKILL.md.
    • Append a row to .skills-registry.md at the project root.
    • Update .skills-registry.json too if it exists.
  4. When done, summarize in one paragraph:
    • Where the skill was written
    • What the registry now contains
    • What the next session will see

Rules

  • Never skip the registry update. A forged skill that isn't registered is invisible to future agents.
  • Never fabricate steps for the skill body. Ask the user if you don't know.
  • Always include trigger language in the description (Use when …) so future sessions can discover the skill.
  • Prefer updating an existing skill over forging a new similar one. If a skill with the same name already exists, stop and ask the user whether to update it instead.

After forging, suggest the user commit the new skill (git add .claude/skills/<name> .skills-registry.md && git commit -m "forge: <name>").

Read the full file on GitHub · 44 lines

Changes

What this file has done since we first saw it

Hashed on every crawl. A supply-chain change to an agent config is a question of when, not whether, so the history is kept rather than the latest state alone.

  1. 1mo ago First seen · 44 lines · 20 tokens per session scan A 33ad5242388d

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forge is a command published in the GitHub repository zakelfassi/skills-driven-development (18 stars, last pushed 3mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 20 tokens to every session and 530 once invoked, about $0.0001 per session on Opus 5.5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-30.