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.
npx agentmods add skills/harshanandak/forge/issue-basicsnpx skills add harshanandak/forge --skill issue-basicsgit clone --depth 1 https://github.com/harshanandak/forgeWrote 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.
[](https://agentmods.dev/skills/harshanandak/forge/issue-basics)<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/harshanandak/forge/issue-basics"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/harshanandak/forge/issue-basics.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>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.
| Model | Per session | Once invoked |
|---|---|---|
| Fable 5 | $0.00241 | $0.01673 |
| Opus 5 | $0.00120 | $0.00837 |
| Sonnet 5 | $0.00048 | $0.00335 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00024 | $0.00167 |
Grade A, and why
issue-basics 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.
How it starts
The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 113 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.
Issue basics — the CRUD floor
Everyday issue operations over the Forge kernel. Every command here is a real
forge issue verb (confirm with forge issue --help). The kernel is the single
source of truth — never hand-edit the issue store.
Every --json reply is the same envelope: { ok, schema_version, command, data, next_commands } on success, or { ok:false, error:{ message, exit_code } } on
failure. Gate on ok — do not parse data until you confirm ok:true.
The core loop
| Need | Command |
|---|---|
| Create an issue | forge issue create --title "…" --type <task|bug|epic|decision> |
| Inspect one issue | forge issue show <id> [--json] |
| List / filter issues | forge issue list [--status … --type … --priority … --label …] [--json] |
| Full-text search | forge issue search "…" [--json] |
| Backlog counts | forge issue stats [--json] |
| Claim work (DB-enforced lease) | forge issue claim <id> |
| Release a claim | forge issue release <id> |
| Update fields | forge issue update <id> [flags] |
| Add a handoff note | forge issue comment <id> "…" |
| Close (one or many) | forge issue close <id...> --reason "…" |
| Dependencies | forge issue dep add|remove <id> <blocks-id> |
Create — the flags that matter
forge issue create --title "Add rate limiting" --type task \
--priority P1 --label "feature,api,security" --assignee alice \
--acceptance "429 returned after N req/min; covered by a test"
| Flag | Meaning | Default |
|---|---|---|
--title "…" |
Human title (a bare leading positional also works) | minted id |
--type <…> |
task · bug · epic · decision |
task |
--priority <…> |
P0..P4 (or bare 0..4); P0 is highest |
unset |
--label "a,b" |
Comma-separated set — one flag, split on , (repeats do NOT accumulate) |
none |
--body "…" |
Long description (--description is an accepted alias) |
empty |
--assignee <who> |
Persistent assignee | unset |
--acceptance "…" |
Acceptance criteria (--design, --notes also persist) |
unset |
--parent <id> |
Parent/epic id | none |
What ships with it
2 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.
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.
- 4d ago First seen · 113 lines · 241 tokens per session scan A 351bf1993508
issue-basics is a skill published in the GitHub repository harshanandak/forge (4 stars, last pushed 3d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 241 tokens to every session and 1,673 once invoked, about $0.0012 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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