agora: Skill for Claude Code

.claude/skills/open-world-forge/SKILL.md

open-world-forge is a skill for Claude Code from DanceNitra/agora. It costs 189 tokens per session (2,225 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

An idea-generation workflow that uses books and other outside material from an Obsidian vault instead of repeatedly studying the vault's existing ideas. It is designed to find gaps, novelty, and unexplored directions.

In plain words
What is it for?
For generating new research or project ideas from books and less-used areas of a knowledge vault.
Why use it?
It reduces the risk of producing variations of the same ideas by adding fresh external sources to the process.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: installed under .claude/.

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

Reuse

Borrowing it

Nothing to install: this file belongs to DanceNitra/agora. 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
curl -O https://raw.githubusercontent.com/DanceNitra/agora/main/.claude/skills/open-world-forge/SKILL.md
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/DanceNitra/agora

Made for: Claude Code.

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Per session 189 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,225 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.
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 $0.00189 $0.02225
Opus 5 $0.00095 $0.01112
Sonnet 5 $0.00038 $0.00445
Haiku 4.5 $0.00019 $0.00222

Measured 7d ago against content hash 706ae277fb12, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

open-world-forge 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 7d 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.

.claude/skills/open-world-forge/SKILL.md · 64 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 64 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Open-World Forge — break the loop by anchoring on the books, not on ourselves

The owner's complaint that created this skill: "I want to go farther than the same loop about the same research." The old idea-forge read the brain's own substrate (ideation/inputs = canon, beliefs, recent ideas) and so it recycled — coherence of what's-already-in-view manufactures confidence and the generator converges on its own attractor.

We have measured this exact failure: a generator that weights its own prior output with super-linear self-trust locks a permanent fraction of its founding bias (Lab 75db49, the strange-loop attractor — 50% locked at p=2; needs a ≥3–5% external-evidence anchor to recover). The books say the same thing three ways — Kahneman (WYSIATI: confidence comes from the coherence of what's in view, not its completeness), Gazzaniga (the interpreter confabulates a coherent story for outputs it didn't derive), Johnson (the adjacent possible: the reachable frontier is only what current memory makes visible).

So the cure is structural, not stylistic: keep the external-evidence fraction HIGH and search for novelty/absence, not coherence. This skill is built so that every run must stand on material from outside our own canon.

The four rules that make it open-world (do not skip)

  1. External anchor every run. The primary substrate is the 36 books + cold vault domains, NOT our canon. The brain's self-knowledge is used for ONE thing only: to avoid repeating (the dedup/cold-domain set). Never let our own canon laws be the source of an idea.
  2. Rotate the draw (divergence by construction). Each run reads a different random subset of books and a different set of cold domains, so two runs can't converge on the same combination. (No Math.random needed — vary by the date and what was drawn last, recorded in the note.)
  3. Reward DISTANCE, not just feasibility. Score each idea on how far it sits from our current canon/recent-ideas. A safe, on-canon idea is the failure mode, not the goal. Surprise and "secrets" (Thiel) beat tidy coherence.
  4. Open targets. There are NO fixed targets (the old 4 — os/agora/mcp_memory/realworld — were part of the loop). Generate first, anywhere, civilization-scale allowed; tag applicability after.

Read the full file on GitHub · 64 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. 7d ago First seen · 64 lines · 189 tokens per session scan A 706ae277fb12

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open-world-forge is a skill published in the GitHub repository DanceNitra/agora (3 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed MIT. It adds 189 tokens to every session and 2,225 once invoked, about $0.0009 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.