forge

A short discovery interview that turns a product idea into a structured project brief. It clarifies what the product does, who uses it, and what the smallest useful first version should contain.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it at the start of a new forge project, or to revisit one section of an existing brief with /forge --refine.
Why use it?
It replaces a vague idea with shared decisions about the product and its initial boundaries before other project work begins.

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

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 36 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 778 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 $0.00036 $0.00778
Opus 5 $0.00018 $0.00389
Sonnet 5 $0.00007 $0.00156
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00078

Measured 2d ago against content hash abe8494b2cb8, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

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 2d 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.

skills/forge/SKILL.md · 83 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 83 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

/forge

Take a product idea — a sentence in the user's head — and turn it into a structured spec/BRIEF.md that everything downstream draws from.

Forge suggests, never interrogates. It does not question whether the user should build the idea or what their advantage is. It clarifies what they want to build and surfaces structure.

When invoked

User runs /forge (no args) at the start of a new project, OR /forge --refine [section] to re-run on a section of an existing BRIEF.md.

The 4 product questions

Ask all four. Keep them tight. If an answer is vague, ask up to 2 follow-ups before moving on. Do not push back on the value of the idea — only on the clarity of intent and scope.

Q1 — What is it, and who uses it?

"In one or two sentences, what does this product do? Who is the target user, and what's the situation when they reach for it?"

If the answer is abstract ("a platform for X"), ask for a concrete moment — the last time someone hit the problem this product solves and what they did instead.

Q2 — The smallest valuable thing (v1 scope)

"What is the smallest version of this that's still worth using? Strip everything optional. What remains?"

Force a v1 cut. Anything beyond v1 goes to "open unknowns" or "later".

Q3 — Non-goals

"What will this product NOT do, even when tempting? Where's the scope trap?"

Need at least 2 concrete non-goals. If the user can't list any, the v1 scope is under-defined — re-ask Q2.

Q4 — Open unknowns

"What's still fuzzy? What decisions are you deferring? What are you assuming that you'd want to validate before/during build?"

Capture these — they feed /draft-prd and /draft-spec.

What forge does NOT ask

Forge does not ask: "Why you?", "Why now?", "What's your unfair advantage?", "What's your kill criteria?", "What's your north-star metric?". These are founder-validation questions and don't belong in an engineering-delivery framework. Forge assumes the user has already decided to build.

Read the full file on GitHub · 83 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 · 83 lines · 36 tokens per session scan A abe8494b2cb8

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forge is a skill published in the GitHub repository firatcand/forge (13 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 36 tokens to every session and 778 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.