open-forge: Instructions file for Claude Code

CLAUDE.md

open-forge CLAUDE.md is an instructions file for Claude Code from zhangqi444/open-forge. It costs 10,744 tokens per session, scanned B, original, MIT.

A project guide for working on the open-forge plugin, an add-on that turns setup instructions into a guided conversation where an AI agent performs the steps.

In plain words
What is it for?
Understanding the plugin's documentation, system design, supported scope, and rules for creating or updating its instruction bundles.
Why use it?
It explains the plugin's policy, architecture, goals, and file structure so contributors can maintain it correctly.

Instructions file for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: Claude Code plugin machinery. Also seen: reads .claude/ paths; mentions CLAUDE.md; names the AskUserQuestion tool.

This is zhangqi444/open-forge's own configuration. It tells Claude Code how to work on open-forge itself, so it is not a mod to install elsewhere. Copy it as a starting point and replace the rules that are about this project. Everything open-forge configures →

Reuse

Borrowing it

Nothing to install: this file belongs to zhangqi444/open-forge. Take a copy, put it at the same path in your own repository, and replace the rules that are about this project with yours.

Copy the file
curl -O https://raw.githubusercontent.com/zhangqi444/open-forge/main/CLAUDE.md
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/zhangqi444/open-forge

Made for: Claude Code.

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Per session 10,744 This file is loaded in full into every session.
When invoked 10,744 The same file — it is already loaded in full.
Security scan B 2 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 $0.10744 $0.10744
Opus 5 $0.05372 $0.05372
Sonnet 5 $0.02149 $0.02149
Haiku 4.5 $0.01074 $0.01074

Measured 7d ago against content hash cbbf0a2bc78a, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-06, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade B, and why

open-forge CLAUDE.md scanned grade B with 2 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 7d 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.

Asks for rootmediumPrivilege escalation

A mod that escalates privileges can change anything on the machine, not only the project.

- **Refuse files with permissions wider than 600**; offer to `chmod 600` first.

Makes network callslowCapability

Not a fault in itself. Listed so you know the mod talks to something, and to what.

│ ├── native.md # native installer (curl/apt)
CLAUDE.md · 527 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 527 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

CLAUDE.md

Instructions for any AI coding session working on the open-forge plugin (not running it). Different audience from plugins/open-forge/skills/open-forge/SKILL.md, which is what an end-user's agent reads to use the plugin.

Also accessible as AGENTS.md per the agents.md convention. AGENTS.md is a thin landing page that points here; this file is the canonical reference. Tools that look for either filename find their way in.

For system shape (actors, data flow, state stores, quality gates, cadence) see ARCHITECTURE.md. This file is the policy (what's in scope, strict-doc rules, sanitization principles, processing workflow); ARCHITECTURE.md is how the policy is operationalized as a maintenance system.

For intent — why the project exists, who it's for, what success looks like, what we're explicitly not building — see BRD.md. When a strategic decision feels off (or when a recipe-authoring choice has policy ambiguity), check BRD.md before re-litigating.

What is open-forge

A Claude Code plugin/skill that turns "read a README, copy-paste 30 lines of bash, debug for hours" into a guided chat where Claude executes everything via the user's local CLI tools and the user only makes choices.

Architecture — 3 layers, asked in 3 questions

A deployment is a tuple of three independent axes, asked in this order:

# Question Layer Examples
1 What to host? software OpenClaw, Ghost, Mastodon, Vaultwarden, Nextcloud
2 Where to host? infra (cloud or local) AWS / Hetzner / DigitalOcean / GCP / Azure / bring-your-own-VPS / localhost
3 How to host (within that cloud)? infra-service + runtime AWS: Lightsail blueprint, Lightsail Ubuntu + Docker, EC2 + native, EKS, ECS Fargate. Hetzner: Cloud CX + Docker, Cloud CX + native. localhost: Docker Desktop, native.

The third question is dynamically generated from (software, cloud) — different clouds expose different compute services, and some software has vendor-bundled blueprints on specific clouds.

Read the full file on GitHub · 527 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. 7d ago First seen · 527 lines · 10,744 tokens per session scan B cbbf0a2bc78a

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open-forge CLAUDE.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository zhangqi444/open-forge (98 stars, last pushed 3mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 10,744 tokens to every session, about $0.0537 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it B with 2 findings (asks for root, makes network calls). No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-30.

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