forage

forage is a skill for Claude Code from Exponential-OS/prompt-engineering-in-action. It costs 132 tokens per session (2,886 once invoked), scanned A, original, AGPL-3.0.

A weekly discovery workflow for finding new coding tools such as plugins, MCP servers, and skills, then checking whether they solve problems encountered during the week.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to search current tool marketplaces and repositories, score possible additions against session friction, verify them safely, and create an approval ticket for candidates that pass.
Why use it?
It turns tool discovery into a recurring process tied to actual work instead of relying on random searching. Candidates are tested in an isolated worktree before approval.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin.

Part of the co-dialectic plugin — 11 skills, 5 hooks shipped together

Good fit Use it to search current tool marketplaces and repositories, score possible additions against session friction, verify them safely, and create an approval ticket for candidates that pass.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/exponential-os/prompt-engineering-in-action/forage
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 Exponential-OS/prompt-engineering-in-action --skill forage
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Exponential-OS/prompt-engineering-in-action

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install co-dialectic, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 11 skills, 5 hooks.

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 forage

README.md
[![agentmods](https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/exponential-os/prompt-engineering-in-action/forage/github.svg)](https://agentmods.dev/skills/exponential-os/prompt-engineering-in-action/forage)
Your own site
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/exponential-os/prompt-engineering-in-action/forage"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/exponential-os/prompt-engineering-in-action/forage/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 forage

Your own site · 80×15
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/exponential-os/prompt-engineering-in-action/forage"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/exponential-os/prompt-engineering-in-action/forage.svg" alt="Reviewed on agentmods" width="80" height="20"></a>
Per session 132 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,886 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 unknown 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 $0.00132 $0.02886
Opus 5 $0.00066 $0.01443
Sonnet 5 $0.00026 $0.00577
Haiku 4.5 $0.00013 $0.00289

Measured 9d ago against content hash 570a14c283b9, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-09, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

forage 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.

plugins/co-dialectic/skills/forage/SKILL.md · 260 lines

The source is not reproduced here

Licensed AGPL-3.0

The repository is licensed AGPL-3.0, which this catalogue does not treat as permission to reproduce the file. Read it at the source.

Read it on GitHub

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 · 260 lines · 132 tokens per session scan A 570a14c283b9

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forage is a skill published in the GitHub repository Exponential-OS/prompt-engineering-in-action (9 stars, last pushed 22d ago), licensed AGPL-3.0. It adds 132 tokens to every session and 2,886 once invoked, about $0.0007 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.