forge: Instructions file for Claude Code

CLAUDE.md

forge CLAUDE.md is an instructions file for Claude Code from zjio26/forge. It costs 1,216 tokens per session, scanned C, original, MIT.

Repository instructions for Forge, a Claude Code plugin made of agent definitions, a coordinating skill, and a plugin manifest.

In plain words
What is it for?
They guide the multi-agent workflow, wave-based task processing, integration testing, and checkpointing progress for recovery.
Why use it?
They explain how the coordinator divides development into planning, implementation, testing, fixing, and learning stages.

Instructions file for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: Claude Code plugin machinery. Also seen: reads .claude/ paths; mentions .claude-plugin; mentions CLAUDE.md.

This is zjio26/forge's own configuration. It tells Claude Code how to work on 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 forge configures →

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Reuse

Borrowing it

Nothing to install: this file belongs to zjio26/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
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Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/zjio26/forge

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Recursive force deletehighDestructive command

rm -rf with a variable or a broad path is one typo away from removing the wrong tree.

rm -rf ~/.claude/agents/planner.md ~/.claude/agents/dev.md ~/.claude/agents/test.md ~/.claude/agents/learner.md ~/.claude/skills/forge
CLAUDE.md · 101 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 101 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 (claude.ai/code) when working with code in this repository.

Project Overview

Forge is a Claude Code multi-agent collaborative development workflow distributed as a Claude Code plugin. It's not a traditional codebase — it's a collection of agent definitions (markdown files), a skill orchestrator, and a plugin manifest.

Architecture

Coordinator pattern: skills/forge/SKILL.md is the central orchestrator (Coordinator) that dispatches four specialized agents via the Agent tool. The Coordinator never reads intermediate file content — it only tracks paths and status to keep its context lean.

Coordinator (SKILL.md)
  ├── Planner (agents/planner.md) — sonnet, decomposes requirements into subtasks
  ├── Dev     (agents/dev.md)     — sonnet, implements + writes unit tests + fixes bugs
  ├── Test    (agents/test.md)    — haiku, unit tests (must pass) + integration tests (may skip)
  └── Learner (agents/learner.md) — haiku, extracts lessons → knowledge base

Key flow: Planner → (Wave loop: Dev → Test → Fix) → Full Integration Test → Learner. State checkpointing (state.json) at every step enables crash recovery. The Coordinator resumes the same agent instances (via SendMessage + agentId) rather than creating new ones.

Wave-Based Processing

For large requirements with many subtasks, the workflow uses waves to prevent context overflow:

  • Planner groups subtasks into waves based on dependency order (waves.json)
  • Each wave gets a fresh Dev + Test agent pair
  • Wave-level testing: unit tests + local integration only (no cross-wave business flows)
  • Handoff: each Dev agent writes a handoff file (modified files, key interfaces, decisions) for the next wave
  • Full integration test runs after all waves, using the complete unit + business test combo
  • Small projects (single wave) run identically to the original flow — zero overhead

Test Layering

  • Unit tests: must pass (no external deps). Dev agent writes them; Test agent verifies.
  • Integration tests: best-effort. If skipped due to environmental constraints (network, hardware, etc.), it's informational only — does not cause overall FAIL.

Read the full file on GitHub · 101 lines

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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. 2mo ago First seen · 101 lines · 1,216 tokens per session scan C c5931638544f

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forge CLAUDE.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository zjio26/forge (11 stars, last pushed 5mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 1,216 tokens to every session, about $0.0049 per session on Opus 5.5. A static security scan graded it C with 1 finding (recursive force delete). No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-30.

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