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.
npx skills add CarbeneAI/Forge --skill governancegit clone --depth 1 https://github.com/CarbeneAI/ForgeWrote this? Show the measurements
A badge with what this costs and how it scanned, read live from this page, so it follows the numbers instead of freezing them. Markdown for a README, HTML for a documentation site or a project page.
[](https://agentmods.dev/skills/carbeneai/forge/governance)<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/carbeneai/forge/governance"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/carbeneai/forge/governance/github.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>Or the 80×15 button, for a site that already has a row of RSS and ATOM ones. Only the verdict fits; the numbers stay here.
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/carbeneai/forge/governance"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/carbeneai/forge/governance.svg" alt="Reviewed on agentmods" width="80" height="20"></a>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.
| Model | Per session | Once invoked |
|---|---|---|
| Fable 5.1 | $0.00076 | $0.01557 |
| Opus 5.5 | $0.00030 | $0.00623 |
| Sonnet 5.5 | $0.00015 | $0.00311 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00008 | $0.00156 |
Grade A, and why
Governance 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 1mo 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.
How it starts
The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 197 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.
Governance
Organizational intelligence for PAI, cherry-picked from Paperclip's zero-human-company model and adapted for CLI-first personal AI infrastructure.
Workflow Routing
| Action | Trigger | Tool/Config |
|---|---|---|
| Budget Review | "budget report", "agent spending", "cost tracking" | tools/BudgetReport.ts |
| Org Chart | "org chart", "show team", "agent hierarchy" | tools/OrgChart.ts |
| Goal Management | "goals", "goal context", "why are we doing this" | tools/GoalManager.ts |
| Approval Check | "approval needed", "can I deploy", "governance gate" | tools/ApprovalGate.ts |
| Standing Orders | "standing orders", "heartbeat", "scheduled agents" | tools/StandingOrders.ts |
| Config Export | "export config", "backup PAI", "portable config" | tools/ConfigExport.ts |
| Config Import | "import config", "restore PAI", "load config" | tools/ConfigImport.ts |
| Task Locking | "lock task", "task checkout", "atomic task" | tools/TaskLock.ts |
Features
1. Budget Controls
Track and limit per-agent spending with cost estimates based on model pricing.
# Show spending report for current month
bun tools/BudgetReport.ts
# Compare against budget limits
bun tools/BudgetReport.ts --budget
# Filter by agent
bun tools/BudgetReport.ts --agent hiram --period week
Config: config/budgets.yml — per-agent monthly limits with alert thresholds.
2. Approval Gates
Human-in-the-loop governance for high-impact actions via Telegram.
# Check if action needs approval
bun tools/ApprovalGate.ts check deploy --agent hiram
# Request approval (sends Telegram, waits for response)
bun tools/ApprovalGate.ts request deploy --agent hiram --action "Push to carbene.ai production"
# List all gates
bun tools/ApprovalGate.ts list
Config: config/approvals.yml — gate definitions with Telegram integration.
3. Goal Ancestry
Every task traces back to a company goal. Provides "why" context for agent prompts.
What ships with it
13 files beside SKILL.md in the same directory: the scripts, references and assets a skill reads on demand. Not counted in the per-session cost; read them before you install if any of them is executable.
- config/approvals.yml 1.2 KB
- config/budgets.yml 1.6 KB
- config/standing-orders.yml 2.1 KB
- config/workspaces.yml 1.5 KB
- reference/PaperclipInspiration.md 2.6 KB
- tools/ApprovalGate.ts 10 KB runs code
- tools/BudgetReport.ts 9.7 KB runs code
- tools/ConfigExport.ts 8.4 KB runs code
- tools/ConfigImport.ts 6.9 KB runs code
- tools/GoalManager.ts 7.8 KB runs code
- tools/OrgChart.ts 16 KB runs code
- tools/StandingOrders.ts 6.6 KB runs code
- tools/TaskLock.ts 6.3 KB runs code
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.
- 1mo ago First seen · 197 lines · 76 tokens per session scan A 8dfc8b269bbd
Governance is a skill published in the GitHub repository CarbeneAI/Forge (9 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed MIT. It adds 76 tokens to every session and 1,557 once invoked, about $0.0003 per session on Opus 5.5. 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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