marketplace-gate

marketplace-gate is a skill for Claude Code from chrono-meta/forge-harness. It costs 44 tokens per session (2,632 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A five-part review that decides whether a repository is ready to be listed in a software marketplace. It checks the README, setup effort, maintenance signals, duplication, and public safety.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it before publishing or externally sharing a repository, especially when checking whether it is ready for open-source distribution.
Why use it?
It identifies problems that could make a repository difficult, unsafe, or unsuitable for other teams to use.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: allowed-tools in frontmatter. Also seen: model in frontmatter.

Part of the fh-meta plugin — 38 skills, 7 agents shipped together

Good fit Use it before publishing or externally sharing a repository, especially when checking whether it is ready for open-source distribution.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/chrono-meta/forge-harness/marketplace-gate
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 chrono-meta/forge-harness --skill marketplace-gate
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/chrono-meta/forge-harness

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install fh-meta, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 38 skills, 7 agents.

Wrote 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.

agentmods badge for marketplace-gate

README.md
[![agentmods](https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/chrono-meta/forge-harness/marketplace-gate/github.svg)](https://agentmods.dev/skills/chrono-meta/forge-harness/marketplace-gate)
Your own site
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/chrono-meta/forge-harness/marketplace-gate"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/chrono-meta/forge-harness/marketplace-gate/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.

agentmods 80×15 button for marketplace-gate

Your own site · 80×15
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/chrono-meta/forge-harness/marketplace-gate"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/chrono-meta/forge-harness/marketplace-gate.svg" alt="Reviewed on agentmods" width="80" height="20"></a>
Per session 44 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,632 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 Excessive Agency · line 6
    Skill selects an external model or provider that may use a different account or billing plan than the operator expects. Undisclosed model switches can cause unexpected cost or quota consumption.
    Fix: Remove the model/provider override or disclose it prominently and require explicit operator approval before invoking an external coding CLI or billed model.
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 $0.00044 $0.02632
Opus 5 $0.00022 $0.01316
Sonnet 5 $0.00009 $0.00526
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00263

Measured 11d ago against content hash 6b3498915726, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-10, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

marketplace-gate 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 11d 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.

plugins/fh-meta/skills/marketplace-gate/SKILL.md · 222 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 222 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

marketplace-gate — Marketplace Listing Suitability Gate

Evaluates a repository against 5 listing criteria — README completeness, zero-config readiness, maintenance signals, duplication, and public safety — and outputs a listing suitability verdict.

While asset-placement-gate answers "is this asset suitable for FH?", marketplace-gate answers "is this repo ready to be listed in a marketplace?"

Triggers

  • /marketplace-gate
  • /marketplace-gate --target <repo path>
  • "Can I list this in the marketplace?", "Pre-listing repo check", "Verify before publishing", "Is this ready for marketplace listing?"
  • "Can other teams use this repo?", "Is there a checklist before external distribution?", "Check if this is ready to be public"
  • "Review for open-source release", "Verify before sharing outside the team"

Step 0. Confirm Target Path

Use the path specified by --target <path> if provided. Otherwise use current cwd.

REPO_PATH="${ARGUMENTS#--target }"
REPO_PATH="${REPO_PATH:-$(pwd)}"
echo "Target: $REPO_PATH"
ls "$REPO_PATH" 2>/dev/null | head -20 || echo "Path not found — please verify the path"

Stop immediately if path is not found.


Step 1. 5-Point Check

Check 1 — README Completeness

README=$(ls "$REPO_PATH"/README* 2>/dev/null | head -1)
[ -z "$README" ] && echo "FAIL: No README found" && exit
# Installation command exists
grep -i "install\|clone\|setup" "$README" | head -3
# Code block (usage example) exists
grep -c '```' "$README" 2>/dev/null
Criterion Check
README file exists ls
Purpose in 1 sentence (first 50 lines) presence check
Installation path documented install·clone·setup keywords
At least 1 usage example code block presence
Version notation version·v[0-9] pattern

Result: PASS (5/5) / PARTIAL (3-4/5) / FAIL (≤2/5)

Check 2 — Immediate Usability (zero-config)

# plugin manifest exists
ls "$REPO_PATH"/.claude-plugin/plugin.json "$REPO_PATH"/package.json 2>/dev/null
# single-line install command (from README)
grep -i "claude plugin install\|npm install\|pip install\|brew install" "$README" 2>/dev/null | head -3
# prerequisites documented
grep -i "prerequisite\|requirement\|env\|api.key" "$README" -A 2 | head -6

Read the full file on GitHub · 222 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. 11d ago First seen · 222 lines · 44 tokens per session scan A 6b3498915726

Subscribe to this mod's changes

marketplace-gate is a skill published in the GitHub repository chrono-meta/forge-harness (14 stars, last pushed today), licensed MIT. It adds 44 tokens to every session and 2,632 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 2026-08-30.

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