forge-friction

forge-friction is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from griffinwork40/agent-framework. It costs 25 tokens per session (1,550 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A tool that examines recent coding-agent session records for repeated sources of friction and proposes focused skills to address them. It can also produce a dry-run table of the detected patterns.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it with /forge-friction to analyse recent sessions, review ranked friction categories, inspect examples, and draft or report skills that target repeated problems.
Why use it?
It turns recurring failures or slow points into concrete improvement candidates instead of relying on memory. It distinguishes strong evidence such as timeouts from weaker unexplained command failures.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Part of the agent-workflow-amplifiers plugin — 25 skills, 2 commands, 2 agents shipped together

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/griffinwork40/agent-framework/forge-friction
Any agent
npx skills add griffinwork40/agent-framework --skill forge-friction
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/griffinwork40/agent-framework

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Or install agent-workflow-amplifiers, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 25 skills, 2 commands, 2 agents.

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README.md
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Per session 25 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,550 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 $0.00025 $0.01550
Opus 5 $0.00013 $0.00775
Sonnet 5 $0.00005 $0.00310
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00155

Measured 4d ago against content hash 32e76a02f012, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

forge-friction 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 4d 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-friction/SKILL.md · 94 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 94 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Run the friction analyzer to get a summary of recent friction patterns:

python3 "${PLUGIN_ROOT}/scripts/friction/analyzer.py"

If no friction sessions exist, tell the user there are no friction patterns in the lookback window.

If friction data exists, review the output. It contains friction categories ranked by confidence, then frequency, each with recent examples showing friction_detail (what went wrong) and goal (what the user was trying to do).

Tool-error categories carry a failure-class suffix. :timeout, :truncated, and :slow are high-confidence — real, specific friction a skill can address — and rank first. :plain is the low-confidence residue: a fast non-zero exit the trace cannot distinguish from a benign result (a grep no-match, a test that exits 1). It ranks last and should be treated with skepticism.

Dry-run mode

If $ARGUMENT contains --dry-run: after the analyzer runs, identify themes using the filter criteria in "Your job" below, but instead of presenting them interactively, output a single markdown table:

Category Count Example friction_detail
... N "truncated quote 1"; "truncated quote 2"

One row per theme. Truncate each friction_detail to ~80 chars. Up to 3 examples per row (semicolon-separated in the cell). If no themes pass the filter, print "No themes in lookback window."

After the table (or "no themes" line), print:

dry-run: no /forge invocation, no telemetry written

Stop. Do NOT proceed to the y/n prompts, /forge dispatch, or telemetry write described in "Your job" — those are skipped entirely in dry-run.

Auto mode

If $ARGUMENTS contains --auto: skip all y/n prompts and auto-approve all qualifying themes. For each theme that passes the filter criteria (3+ sessions, recurring failure mode, skill-addressable), immediately run /forge with the theme as a seed. Chain the invocations sequentially, then log telemetry for each generated skill. --auto respects --dry-run (if both flags are present, dry-run takes precedence and no /forge invocation or telemetry occurs).

Read the full file on GitHub · 94 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. 4d ago First seen · 94 lines · 25 tokens per session scan A 32e76a02f012

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forge-friction is a skill published in the GitHub repository griffinwork40/agent-framework (23 stars, last pushed 10d ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 25 tokens to every session and 1,550 once invoked, about $0.0001 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.

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