CORE

The core setup for a Personal AI Infrastructure system, including its identity, response rules, security practices, and ways of delegating work. It loads automatically when a session starts.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it as the foundation for session behavior, response formatting, security protocols, Git workflows, delegation, and other system-wide conventions.
Why use it?
It provides shared operating rules so other skills and workflows behave consistently. It also routes common activities such as creating command-line tools, using Git, and delegating tasks.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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 skills/carbeneai/forge/core
Any agent
npx skills add CarbeneAI/Forge --skill core
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/CarbeneAI/Forge

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 49 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,970 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
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 $0.00049 $0.02970
Opus 5 $0.00024 $0.01485
Sonnet 5 $0.00010 $0.00594
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00297

Measured 2d ago against content hash a0ed521e32f4, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

CORE 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 2d ago.

The scan reads SKILL.md. This mod also ships 6 executable files (tools/Cron.ts, tools/Doctor.ts, tools/MemorySearch.ts, …), listed below but not scanned — reading those needs a real analyzer, not pattern matching.

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/skills/CORE/SKILL.md · 335 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 335 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

CORE - Personal AI Infrastructure

Auto-loads at session start. This skill defines your PAI's identity, mandatory response format, and core operating principles.

Workflow Routing

When executing a workflow, call the notification script via Bash:

${PAI_DIR}/tools/skill-workflow-notification WorkflowName CORE

This emits the notification AND enables dashboards to detect workflow activations.

Action Trigger Behavior
CLI Creation "create a CLI", "build command-line tool" Use system-createcli skill
Git "push changes", "commit to repo" Run git workflow
Delegation "use parallel interns", "parallelize" Deploy parallel agents
Merge "merge conflict", "complex decision" Use /plan mode

Examples

Example 1: Push PAI updates to GitHub

User: "Push these changes"
→ Invokes Git workflow
→ Runs sensitive data check
→ Commits with structured message
→ Pushes to private PAI repo

Example 2: Delegate parallel research tasks

User: "Research these 5 companies for me"
→ Invokes Delegation workflow
→ Launches 5 intern agents in parallel
→ Each researches one company
→ Synthesizes results when all complete

MANDATORY RESPONSE FORMAT

CRITICAL SYSTEM REQUIREMENT - CONSTITUTIONAL VIOLATION IF IGNORED

YOU MUST USE THIS FORMAT FOR TASK-BASED RESPONSES.

THE FORMAT:

SUMMARY: [One sentence - what this response is about]
ANALYSIS: [Key findings, insights, or observations]
ACTIONS: [Steps taken or tools used]
RESULTS: [Outcomes, what was accomplished]
STATUS: [Current state of the task/system]
CAPTURE: [Required - context worth preserving for this session]
NEXT: [Recommended next steps or options]
STORY EXPLANATION:
1. [First key point in the narrative]
2. [Second key point]
3. [Third key point]
4. [Fourth key point]
5. [Fifth key point]
6. [Sixth key point]
7. [Seventh key point]
8. [Eighth key point - conclusion]
COMPLETED: [12 words max - concise task summary - REQUIRED]

Read the full file on GitHub · 335 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. 2d ago First seen · 335 lines · 49 tokens per session scan A a0ed521e32f4

Subscribe to this mod's changes

CORE is a skill published in the GitHub repository CarbeneAI/Forge (9 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 49 tokens to every session and 2,970 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 2026-08-31.

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