forge-cut

forge-cut is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from harshanandak/forge. It costs 47 tokens per session (690 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A workflow for turning settled software work into a dependency-aware set of small issues. Each slice describes its behaviour, failing check, scope, files, risks, and expected size.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to file tasks, bugs, features, or larger work items, connect prerequisites, and split an approved goal into manageable development slices.
Why use it?
It prevents vague or oversized tasks from reaching implementation. Dependencies and clear done boundaries make it easier to work on one demonstrable change at a time.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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

Good fit Use it to file tasks, bugs, features, or larger work items, connect prerequisites, and split an approved goal into manageable development slices.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/harshanandak/forge/forge-cut
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 harshanandak/forge --skill forge-cut
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/harshanandak/forge

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 47 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 690 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 $0.00047 $0.00690
Opus 5.5 $0.00019 $0.00276
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00009 $0.00138
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00069

Measured 2d ago against content hash 16714d71fad0, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

forge-cut 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.

templates/delivery/skills/forge-cut/SKILL.md · 39 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 39 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

forge-cut

Intake: file before you forget

Before filing, route an unclear goal or done condition to forge-intake. Route open decisions to forge-intake; read framing.md for facts and decision records before slicing.

forge issue create --input '{"title":"...","kind":"task","labels":["p2"],"parent":"<intent id>","dependsOn":["<dep id>"],"body":"..."}'

Kind: task, bug, feature or epic. Priority is one label of p0, p1, p2, p3, p4. File settled work and move on; fixes outside the current slice stay filed.

Use intake's intent issue as parent when it created one, otherwise the epic. Set dependsOn at creation; omit it for unblocked slices.

Slice body: all six sections

  1. Behaviour: the demoable, end-to-end user change, sized for one fresh context.
  2. Failing check: the named check that fails before and passes after.
  3. Done boundary: what is in. File anything beyond it.
  4. Touches / Needs / Owns: files read, required from main, and written.
  5. Door: reversible, or one-way (publish, force-push, prod-write, migration-apply, delete-branch, delete-worktree, merge-to-autodeploy, global-config).
  6. Size: Aim at 400 changed lines; split above 800. If deletions exceed twice the additions, do not split and score light. Otherwise sum risk: churn over 518 lines +2, over 10 files +2, touches core or blocks +1. Bands: light 0-1, standard 2-3, heavy 4-5. Record estimates, points and band.

Order

  • Write a graph of demoable, one-context slices as issues in Forge. Put prefactors and contract slices first; a need missing from main gets a contract slice.
  • For later edits, use forge issue dep --input '{"id":"<slice>","target":"<dep>","action":"add","expectRevision":<n>}'; hold the claim and read the revision from forge issue show first, then release with forge issue release <slice>.
  • Each slice ships green alone. Wide refactors run expand, migrate in batches, then contract; each step is a slice and contract depends on every migration batch.
  • Uncertain work goes last. For rename or removal, search the whole repo first and list every hit under Touches.

Read the full file on GitHub · 39 lines

Files

What ships with it

1 file 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. 2d ago First seen · 39 lines · 47 tokens per session scan A 16714d71fad0

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forge-cut is a skill published in the GitHub repository harshanandak/forge (0 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed MIT. It adds 47 tokens to every session and 690 once invoked, about $0.0002 per session on Opus 5.5. 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 2026-10-28.