forge: Skill for Claude Code

.agents/skills/triage-ready/SKILL.md

triage-ready is a skill for Claude Code from harshanandak/forge. It costs 240 tokens per session (1,546 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A read-only guide for choosing the single best issue to work on next in a Forge project. It calculates the live ready queue instead of relying on a possibly outdated board view.

In plain words
What is it for?
Reviewing issue counts, finding blocked work, identifying active claims, and handing one recommended issue to the next work step.
Why use it?
It explains why work is ready or blocked and avoids recommending issues whose dependencies, claims, or waiting periods prevent them from being started.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: allowed-tools in frontmatter. Also seen: installed under .agents/ (shared by several agents).

This is harshanandak/forge's own configuration. It tells Claude Code how to work on forge itself, so it is not a mod to install elsewhere. Copy it as a starting point and replace the rules that are about this project. Everything forge configures →

Reuse

Borrowing it

Nothing to install: this file belongs to harshanandak/forge. Take a copy, put it at the same path in your own repository, and replace the rules that are about this project with yours.

Copy the file
curl -O https://raw.githubusercontent.com/harshanandak/forge/master/.agents/skills/triage-ready/SKILL.md
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/harshanandak/forge

Made for: Claude Code.

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Per session 240 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,546 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 $0.00240 $0.01546
Opus 5 $0.00120 $0.00773
Sonnet 5 $0.00048 $0.00309
Haiku 4.5 $0.00024 $0.00155

Measured 8d ago against content hash ebd7df0bb399, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-08, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

triage-ready 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 8d 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.

.agents/skills/triage-ready/SKILL.md · 124 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 124 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Triage: what should I work on next

A read-only orientation skill. It answers "what is the single best thing to work on right now, and why?" and hands the pick off to claim-safety / dev — it never mutates the store itself.

Readiness in the Forge kernel is a derived read model: an issue is ready only when every dependency is satisfied, it is unclaimed (no live lease), it is a claimable type (epics and decisions never enter the queue), and no defer window holds it back. Because it is derived, always recompute it — never trust a cached "status == ready". Recompute means: run the query fresh each time.

Do NOT use board

forge board reads a legacy snapshot store, not the live kernel, so its readiness can be stale or wrong. This skill uses forge issue ready, forge issue blocked, and forge issue stats exclusively.

Procedure

1. Take the pulse

forge issue stats --json

Returns data.counts (open/done/cancelled — keys are present only when non-zero, and there is no in_progress bucket: claimed work stays in status open and is surfaced via active_claims), ready_count, blocked_count, and active_claims. A high blocked_count relative to ready_count is your signal that dependency repair (not new work) is the real bottleneck — hand off to dependency-planning / backlog-hygiene.

2. Rank the ready queue

forge issue ready --json

data.issues[] comes back ordered by rank (priority ascending, then id), each carrying id, title, type, priority (P0..P4), rank, blocked, claimed_by, parent_id, labels[], and dependencies[]. The top item is your default pick. Surface the top few (see Fork points for how many), not the whole list.

3. Explain WHY the top item is ready

Do not just name it — justify it. Pull its full record:

forge issue show <id> --json

State the reason in one sentence, drawn from the record:

  • Priority / rankP0 at rank 0 outranks everything below it.
  • Dependencies satisfied — every id in dependencies[] is closed/done, so nothing gates it (blocked: false).
  • Unclaimedclaimed_by is null, so no other agent holds the lease.
  • Claimable type — it is a task/feature/bug, not an epic/decision.

Read the full file on GitHub · 124 lines

Files

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.

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. 8d ago First seen · 124 lines · 240 tokens per session scan A ebd7df0bb399

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triage-ready is a skill published in the GitHub repository harshanandak/forge (4 stars, last pushed 8d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 240 tokens to every session and 1,546 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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