forge-skills CLAUDE.md

forge-skills CLAUDE.md is an instructions file for Claude Code from aneja5/forge-skills. It costs 4,173 tokens per session, scanned A, original, MIT.

A set of planning-first skills and instructions for Claude Code projects. It organizes work into stages such as clarifying an idea, writing a specification, designing the system, planning tasks, and implementing them incrementally.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to run structured planning, create product and architecture documents, break work into dependent tasks, and implement those tasks with test-driven development.
Why use it?
It gives a team a repeatable path from an idea to working code. The shared handoff files preserve decisions and keep later stages aligned with earlier ones.

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Install

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CLAUDE.md · 260 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 260 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

forge-skills

A planning-first skill library for Claude Code. Skills are structured workflows, not reference docs. Each skill encodes a specific engineering process that the agent follows step-by-step.

Project Structure

forge-skills/
├── skills/                          # All skill definitions (one per directory)
│   ├── using-forge-skills/          # Meta-skill: skill discovery, pipeline, anti-rationalization
│   ├── idea-griller/                # Socratic interview → .forge/idea-brief.md
│   │   ├── SKILL.md
│   │   └── evaluation-criteria.md
│   ├── spec-driven-development/     # PRD via interview + codebase → .forge/prd.md
│   ├── architecture-and-contracts/  # System design + interface contracts → .forge/architecture.md + contracts/
│   ├── planning-and-task-breakdown/ # Task sizing + dependency graph → .forge/tasks.yaml
│   ├── incremental-implementation/  # Execute tasks.yaml one task at a time with TDD
│   ├── tdd/                         # Red-green-refactor with vertical slices
│   │   ├── SKILL.md
│   │   ├── deep-modules.md
│   │   ├── interface-design.md
│   │   ├── mocking.md
│   │   ├── refactoring.md
│   │   └── tests.md
│   ├── debugging-and-recovery/      # Reproduce → localize → fix → guard
│   ├── code-review-and-quality/     # Five-axis review with contract compliance
│   ├── git-workflow/                # Atomic commits, branch strategy, PR prep
│   ├── shipping-and-launch/         # Six-domain pre-launch gate
│   ├── triage-issue/                # Bug investigation → GitHub Issue + TDD fix plan
│   ├── competitive-analysis/        # Market research → .forge/competitive.md
│   ├── gtm-strategy/               # Go-to-market plan → .forge/gtm.md
│   ├── security-and-compliance/     # Security assessment → .forge/security.md
│   ├── scalability-analysis/        # Capacity planning → .forge/scalability.md
│   ├── cross-validation/            # External review → .forge/cross-validation-*.md
│   ├── redaction-and-cleanup/       # Redact for sharing → .forge/redacted/
│   ├── api-design/                  # REST conventions, error envelopes → .forge/api-design.md
│   ├── database-design/             # Schema + migrations → .forge/database-design.md + migrations-policy.md
│   ├── brand-and-identity/          # Brand essence, voice, logo, icons → .forge/brand-identity.md
│   ├── design-system/               # Tokens + components → .forge/design-system.md (soft dep on brand)
│   ├── interaction-patterns/        # Modal/sheet/expand decisions → .forge/interaction-patterns.md
│   ├── component-library/           # Component catalog → .forge/component-library.md
│   ├── page-composition/            # Page templates + responsive plan → .forge/page-composition.md
│   ├── data-visualization/          # Chart selection + color encoding → .forge/data-visualization.md
│   ├── visual-polish/               # Quality pass before demo/ship → .forge/polish-checklist.md
│   ├── parallel-execution-strategy/ # Multi-agent dispatch → .forge/parallel-plan.md
│   ├── seed-data-and-fixtures/      # Realistic data → .forge/seed-data.md
│   ├── testing-strategy/            # Test pyramid + coverage → .forge/testing-strategy.md
│   ├── error-handling-and-resilience/ # Retries + circuit breakers → .forge/error-handling.md
│   ├── observability/               # Logs + traces + alerts → .forge/observability.md
│   ├── performance-and-cost-optimization/ # Latency + cost budgets → .forge/performance-budget.md
│   ├── incident-response-and-postmortems/ # Severity + runbooks → .forge/incident-response.md
│   ├── accessibility/               # WCAG AA baseline → .forge/accessibility.md
│   ├── refactoring-and-tech-debt/   # Debt registry + strangler-fig → .forge/tech-debt-registry.md
│   ├── demo-narrative/              # Demo script + fallbacks → .forge/demo-narrative.md
│   ├── documentation-hygiene/       # README + changelog policy → .forge/docs-policy.md
│   ├── writing-skills/              # Meta-skill for contributors (TDD for skills)
│   ├── forge-sync/                  # Check .forge/ artifact freshness → .forge/sync-report.md
│   ├── forge-migrate/               # Backfill forge:meta headers on legacy .forge/ files (in-place)
│   └── feedback/                    # File reverse-cascade entries → .forge/feedback/*.md
├── agents/                          # Specialist agent personas
│   ├── architect.md                 # System design, contracts, ADRs
│   ├── project-manager.md           # Task breakdown, dependency ordering
│   ├── test-engineer.md             # Test strategy, TDD coaching
│   ├── code-reviewer.md             # PR review, contract validation
│   ├── security-auditor.md          # Threat modeling, hardening
│   ├── competitive-analyst.md       # Market research, positioning
│   ├── compliance-officer.md        # Regulatory assessment, certification
│   ├── reliability-engineer.md      # Errors, observability, incidents, performance
│   ├── data-engineer.md             # Schema, migrations, query performance
│   ├── qa-engineer.md               # Test strategy, quality gates
│   ├── design-engineer.md           # Visual system, interaction, accessibility
│   ├── brand-strategist.md          # Brand identity, voice, cross-product consistency
│   └── platform-architect.md        # Multi-product boundaries, deploy topology
├── references/                      # Shared checklists linked from skills
│   ├── contract-templates.md        # Interface contract + ADR formats
│   ├── idea-evaluation.md           # Per-branch resolution criteria for idea-griller
│   ├── testing-patterns.md          # Good/bad tests, mocking rules, TDD patterns
│   ├── security-checklist.md        # OWASP checklist, severity levels
│   ├── motion-system.md             # Durations, curves, transitions, reduced-motion
│   └── forge-dependency-graph.md    # Canonical .forge/ dependency tree (read by forge-sync)
├── commands/                        # 36 slash commands for the full lifecycle
│   ├── grill.md spec.md architect.md plan.md build.md review.md ship.md
│   ├── compete.md gtm.md secure.md scale.md validate.md redact.md
│   ├── api.md db.md design.md interaction.md
│   ├── brand.md components.md pages.md dataviz.md polish.md
│   ├── parallel.md seed.md test-strategy.md
│   ├── errors.md observe.md perf.md incident.md
│   ├── a11y.md debt.md demo.md docs.md
│   ├── sync.md forge-migrate.md feedback.md
├── hooks/
│   ├── hooks.json                   # SessionStart hook configuration
│   └── session-start.sh             # Injects using-forge-skills at every session start
├── tests/                           # Pressure scenarios + RED/GREEN test results
│   ├── METHODOLOGY.md               # TDD-for-skills cycle
│   ├── idea-griller/                # Test scenarios and results
│   ├── architecture-and-contracts/
│   └── spec-driven-development/
├── docs/                            # Guides and explanations
├── install.sh                       # Single-skill installer
├── CLAUDE.md                        # This file
├── AGENTS.md                        # Intent-to-skill mapping for non-Claude-Code tools
└── README.md

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forge-skills CLAUDE.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository aneja5/forge-skills (3 stars, last pushed 3mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 4,173 tokens to every session, about $0.0209 per session on Opus 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 2026-08-31.