researchforge-plan

researchforge-plan is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from forger-labs-hq/researchforge. It costs 41 tokens per session (698 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

An experiment-planning tool for projects that test research ideas. It creates experiment variants as validated file patches against an existing baseline, meaning the current version used for comparison.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to design and prepare several controlled code changes for testing a research hypothesis.
Why use it?
It helps keep experiments tied to one hypothesis and prevents changes to protected files such as benchmarks or evaluation code.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one.

Good fit Use it to design and prepare several controlled code changes for testing a research hypothesis.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/forger-labs-hq/researchforge/researchforge-plan
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 forger-labs-hq/researchforge --skill researchforge-plan
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/forger-labs-hq/researchforge

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 41 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 698 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 $0.00041 $0.00698
Opus 5 $0.00020 $0.00349
Sonnet 5 $0.00008 $0.00140
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00070

Measured 9d ago against content hash 5cf1c87af2e2, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-09, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

researchforge-plan 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.

src/researchforge/claude/skills/researchforge-plan/SKILL.md · 77 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 77 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Plan experiments

You author the plan and patches; the engine validates every layer before anything can run. One plan targets one hypothesis.

1. Export planning context

researchforge experiment plan <hypothesis-id> --json

This writes .researchforge/experiments/context.json: the hypothesis, the approved contract (metric, constraints, editable and protected paths, limits), baseline metrics, repository scan, and the embedded schema for the plan file. Read it fully before writing anything.

2. Write the plan and patches

  • .researchforge/experiments/plan.yaml conforming to the embedded schema: hypothesis_id, approach_summary, and one entry per experiment (key, title, change_summary, patch_file).
  • One unified diff per variant under .researchforge/experiments/patches/, applying cleanly to the frozen baseline commit.

Hard constraints the engine enforces (do not fight them):

  • patches may only touch permissions.editable_paths; a patch touching a protected path is recorded as rejected at import and will never run — never edit benchmarks, evaluation code, or .researchforge/ to make a metric look better;
  • changed files are extracted by git from the patch itself, never from your description;
  • keep variants small and single-idea: the funnel measures one change at a time;
  • to BUILD ON a prior result, set parent: on an entry (another key in this plan or an exp-NNN from the context's prior_experiments) — the parent's patch chain is applied first and your diff must be written against that combined state. A branched child's improvement is still measured against the baseline; report its increment over the parent separately and honestly.

3. Import (engine validates, six layers)

researchforge experiment import .researchforge/experiments/plan.yaml --json

On failure, the --json payload lists exactly what to fix (schema fields, unknown hypothesis, patch that does not apply, protected-path violations). Fix the plan or patch files and re-import.

Read the full file on GitHub · 77 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. 9d ago First seen · 77 lines · 41 tokens per session scan A 5cf1c87af2e2

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researchforge-plan is a skill published in the GitHub repository forger-labs-hq/researchforge (8 stars, last pushed 7d ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 41 tokens to every session and 698 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 2026-08-31.

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