forge-prompt-coach

forge-prompt-coach is a skill for Claude Code from ForgeyClap/claude-forge. It costs 0 tokens per session (5,788 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A questioning guide that turns a vague request into a clearer, buildable task. It is intended for people who may not know the computer terms needed to describe what they want.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it for one-word requests, unclear bug reports, requests to improve something, or before gathering the details needed to start development.
Why use it?
It reduces misunderstandings caused by short, incomplete, or ambiguous requests without asking unnecessary questions for simple work.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: installed under .claude/. Also seen: mentions Codex.

Good fit Use it for one-word requests, unclear bug reports, requests to improve something, or before gathering the details needed to start development.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/forgeyclap/claude-forge/forge-prompt-coach
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 ForgeyClap/claude-forge --skill forge-prompt-coach
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/ForgeyClap/claude-forge

Made for: Claude Code.

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.

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README.md
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Per session 0 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 5,788 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 $0.00000 $0.05788
Opus 5.5 $0.00000 $0.02315
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00000 $0.01158
Haiku 4.5 $0.00000 $0.00579

Measured 14d ago against content hash bfe8bd40281f, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

forge-prompt-coach 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 14d 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/forge-prompt-coach/SKILL.md · 233 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 233 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

forge-prompt-coach — from a vague request to a buildable one

Evidence base. Every rule below is grounded in Forge's own internal UX research (35 sources, run forge-2026-09-24-config-v250). The ids in square brackets, such as [GOOG] or [G-Q], are short internal source labels kept for traceability during development — the underlying research file is a dev-only artifact and is not part of a fresh install, so the labels are not meant to be dereferenced by the shipped product; treat this SKILL.md as self-contained. Nothing here is new research. Where this skill makes a Forge design choice that no source states (for example the exact gap ranking in §2), it says so.

Why this exists. The owner builds Forge for beginners who do not think in computer terms. Beginners write short requests: successful prompts are about 21 words, first attempts fewer than 9 [GOOG]. They expect the AI to understand them the way a person would [JOHNNY] and often cannot put into words what they want [NNG-AB]. One good clarifying question gives a large gain (more than 170% better retrieval in [ALI]); asking only where the intent is genuinely uncertain doubles the benefit [ZC]; bad questions make things worse ([ZOU], secondary, abstract not verified). Anthropic lists checking in or asking clarifying questions too often on simple agentic tasks as something to avoid [CONST]. So this skill does two things: it fills most gaps silently with safe, stated assumptions, and when one gap really matters it asks one easy multiple-choice question.

When to use

  • A raw owner request is vague: only a vague verb ("maak het beter", "improve", "fix", "regelen"), fewer than 9 words, a single word ("webshop", "bot"), or taste words without an example.
  • A bug report without a symptom ("werkt niet", "kapot", "doet raar").
  • Before and during forge-intake: this skill decides which ONE question the intake asks, if any.
  • When forge-promptcheck ask reports VAGUE, or the owner asks how to ask Forge for something — give them references/HOW-TO-ASK.md.
  • Mid-run when the goal changes ("laat maar", "eigenlijk", "toch liever") — failure mode F12.

Read the full file on GitHub · 233 lines

Files

What ships with it

4 files beside SKILL.md in the same directory: the scripts, references and assets a skill reads on demand. Not counted in the per-session cost; read them before you install if any of them is executable.

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. 14d ago Changed · -57 tokens per session bfe8bd40281f
  2. 19d ago Changed · +3 lines 9e26728aa2b1
  3. 21d ago First seen · 230 lines · 57 tokens per session scan A 214577c1f6c4

Subscribe to this mod's changes

forge-prompt-coach is a skill published in the GitHub repository ForgeyClap/claude-forge (2 stars, last pushed 16d ago), licensed MIT. It costs nothing until one of its globs matches a file; then it loads 5,788 tokens. 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 2026-09-25.

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