Forge CLAUDE.md

Forge CLAUDE.md is an instructions file for coding agents from CarbeneAI/Forge. It costs 1,720 tokens per session, scanned A, original, MIT.

A repository guide that tells Claude Code how the Forge project is organised, which technologies it uses, and which commands are commonly needed.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when working on Forge, especially to understand its Bun and TypeScript setup, Claude Code hooks, skills, and directories.
Why use it?
It gives the coding agent project-specific context so its changes and commands match the repository’s structure and tools.

Instructions file

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.

agentmods
npx agentmods add instructions/carbeneai/forge/claude-md
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/CarbeneAI/Forge

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Security

Grade A, and why

Forge CLAUDE.md 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 yesterday.

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.

CLAUDE.md · 210 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 210 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

CLAUDE.md

This file provides guidance to Claude Code when working in this repository.

Repository Overview

Forge by CarbeneAI is an open-source AI operations platform built on Claude Code. It provides skills-based architecture, specialized agent personalities, event-driven automation, and automatic work capture.

Technology Stack

Component Technology Notes
Runtime Bun NOT Node.js
Language TypeScript Primary language for hooks and tools
Package Manager Bun NOT npm/yarn/pnpm
Platform Claude Code All features built around Claude Code's hooks and skills system

Directory Structure

~/Forge/
├── .claude/
│   ├── settings.json          # Configuration (PAI_DIR, DA name, env vars)
│   ├── .env                   # API keys (never committed)
│   ├── hooks/                 # Event-driven automation (TypeScript)
│   │   ├── initialize-session.ts
│   │   ├── capture-all-events.ts
│   │   ├── capture-tool-output.ts
│   │   ├── stop-hook.ts
│   │   └── lib/pai-paths.ts   # Centralized path resolution
│   ├── skills/                # 120 domain-specific capabilities
│   │   ├── CORE/              # Identity, architecture, principles
│   │   ├── Fabric/            # 248 native AI patterns
│   │   ├── Research/          # Multi-source research workflows
│   │   ├── Private/           # Local Ollama privacy routing
│   │   ├── Observability/     # Real-time agent monitoring dashboard
│   │   └── [90+ more]/
│   ├── agents/                # Specialized agent configs
│   ├── history/               # Automatic work capture (gitignored)
│   └── tools/                 # System utilities
├── scripts/
│   ├── setup-new-machine.sh   # Initial setup
│   └── pai-aliases.sh         # Shell aliases
├── docs/                      # Guides and references
├── CLAUDE.md                  # This file
└── README.md

Common Commands

# Initial setup on new machine
bash ~/Forge/scripts/setup-new-machine.sh

# Verify configuration
forge-check

# Run health check
forge-test

# List all skills / agents
forge-skills
forge-agents

Read the full file on GitHub · 210 lines

Changes

What this file has done since we first saw it

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Forge CLAUDE.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository CarbeneAI/Forge (9 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 1,720 tokens to every session, about $0.0086 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 2026-09-03.

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