forward

forward is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from automateyournetwork/netclaw. It costs 41 tokens per session (3,223 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A network analysis tool for Forward snapshots, which are saved records of network devices and their configurations. It checks reachability, configurations, topology, vulnerabilities, hardware and software support, and differences between snapshots.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to verify paths, run network queries, compare configurations or snapshots, review vulnerabilities and lifecycle status, search configurations, and analyze traffic blast radius.
Why use it?
It brings network checks and comparisons into one workflow instead of requiring separate manual reviews of device data. It helps identify failed checks, missing devices, and the likely impact of a network path.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Which agent this was written for is unclear — built for openclaw. Also seen: built for openclaw.

Good fit Use it to verify paths, run network queries, compare configurations or snapshots, review vulnerabilities and lifecycle status, search configurations, and analyze traffic blast radius.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/automateyournetwork/netclaw/forward
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.

Any agent
npx skills add automateyournetwork/netclaw --skill forward
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/automateyournetwork/netclaw

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 41 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 3,223 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. Third-party audits
  • NVIDIA SkillSpector warn 7 Sept 2026
SkillSpector: 1 finding, up to medium

These are SkillSpector’s own severities. On a checked sample its high-severity flags on skills were ~96% false positives — a documented command, a public API, a “never do X” rule — so we show them as a caution to read, not a verdict. Why →

  • medium Rogue Agent · line 107
    Skill establishes unauthorized persistence across sessions via cron jobs, startup scripts, or state files. Session persistence allows an attacker to maintain access beyond the current interaction.
    Fix: Remove any persistence mechanisms (cron jobs, startup scripts, state files). Skills should not maintain state across sessions without explicit user consent.
How audits are shown
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 $0.00041 $0.03223
Opus 5 $0.00020 $0.01612
Sonnet 5 $0.00008 $0.00645
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00322

Measured 9d ago against content hash 59c8e7ca353e, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

forward 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 9d 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.

workspace/skills/forward/SKILL.md · 309 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 309 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Forward Skill

Skill: /forward MCP Server: forward-mcp Source: https://github.com/forwardnetworks/forward-mcp

Use When

Use this skill for Forward snapshot assurance, collection, and analysis:

  • Discover Forward networks, snapshots, and devices
  • Verify paths and reachability
  • Discover and run NQE checks
  • Review predefined checks, failed checks, and vulnerability analysis
  • Compare NQE, snapshot, and config diffs
  • Search configurations
  • Analyze blast radius for a source location to destination IPv4 subnets
  • Review hardware and OS lifecycle support
  • Find missing devices inferred during collection
  • Support lab or real-network collection workflows

Startup

  1. Start with get_default_settings to see configured defaults.
  2. If no default network is set, use list_networks with a small limit and ask the user which network to use.
  3. Prefer explicit network_id and snapshot_id values for repeatable results.
  4. Use bounded limits by default. Use all_results only when the user needs the complete dataset.
  5. In Forward SaaS, prefer FORWARD_API_BASE_URL=https://fwd.app and set FORWARD_INSTANCE_ID for local cache partitioning when multiple SaaS orgs or accounts are used on the same NetClaw host.

Tool Routing

User intent Preferred tools
"List Forward networks" list_networks
"Use this network by default" set_default_network
"Show collection sources" list_classic_devices, get_classic_device
"Add lab devices" upsert_classic_devices
"Show collector status" get_collector_status
"Start collection" start_collection_task, get_collector_task, then wait_for_latest_snapshot; use start_collection only for legacy flows
"Show snapshots" list_snapshots, get_latest_snapshot
"List devices" list_devices, get_device_basic_info
"Find missing collection neighbors" get_missing_devices
"Trace paths" search_paths_bulk, then search_paths for one-off traces
"Trace app-aware paths" list_l7_applications, then search_paths_bulk or search_paths with app_id, url, or domain
"Show blast radius" suggest_blast_radius_sources, then get_blast_radius
"Find NQE checks" search_nqe_queries, list_nqe_queries
"Run an NQE check" run_nqe_query_by_id; use start_nqe_query for long-running checks
"Write or run ad-hoc NQE" Prefer search_nqe_queries first; use run_nqe_query only when no built-in query fits and async NQE for long-running or large results
"Show predefined checks" list_predefined_checks
"Show failed checks or intent status" list_checks, then get_check
"Show vulnerabilities or CVE exposure" search_nqe_queries, then run_nqe_query_by_id with the /Security/CVEs/... query IDs
"Draw topology from Forward" get_snapshot_topology, then search NQE for CDP/LLDP and protocol-peer evidence when needed
"Summarize large results" get_nqe_result_summary, get_nqe_result_chunks, analyze_nqe_result_sql
"Search configs" search_configs
"Compare NQE or intent/check results" get_nqe_diff
"Summarize snapshot diffs" get_snapshot_diff_summary
"Show route, ACL, NAT, interface, check, or vulnerability diffs" get_snapshot_diff
"Compare snapshots/configs" get_config_diff
"Check hardware or OS support" get_device_hardware, get_hardware_support, get_os_support
"Show locations" list_locations, get_device_locations

Read the full file on GitHub · 309 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. 9d ago First seen · 309 lines · 41 tokens per session scan A 59c8e7ca353e

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forward is a skill published in the GitHub repository automateyournetwork/netclaw (657 stars, last pushed 6d ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 41 tokens to every session and 3,223 once invoked, about $0.0002 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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