forage

forage is a skill for Claude Code from IamK77/Skill. It costs 32 tokens per session (805 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A workflow for finding useful open-source repositories. It supports targeted searches for a specific need and broader searches when you are exploring without a fixed goal.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to discover candidate repositories, search from several angles at once, compare results, and choose projects worth closer inspection.
Why use it?
It narrows a noisy search into a ranked, duplicate-free shortlist, reducing the time spent evaluating irrelevant or abandoned repositories.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: argument-hint in frontmatter.

Part of the quarry plugin — 2 skills shipped together

Good fit Use it to discover candidate repositories, search from several angles at once, compare results, and choose projects worth closer inspection.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/iamk77/skill/forage
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 IamK77/Skill --skill forage
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/IamK77/Skill

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install quarry, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 2 skills.

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.

agentmods badge for forage

README.md
[![agentmods](https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/iamk77/skill/forage/github.svg)](https://agentmods.dev/skills/iamk77/skill/forage)
Your own site
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Or the 80×15 button, for a site that already has a row of RSS and ATOM ones. Only the verdict fits; the numbers stay here.

agentmods 80×15 button for forage

Your own site · 80×15
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/iamk77/skill/forage"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/iamk77/skill/forage.svg" alt="Reviewed on agentmods" width="80" height="20"></a>
Per session 32 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 805 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 $0.00032 $0.00805
Opus 5.5 $0.00013 $0.00322
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00006 $0.00161
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00081

Measured 27d ago against content hash 4f7330d1c167, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

forage 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 27d 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/quarry/forage/SKILL.md · 65 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 65 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

forage

Find and capture a bounded shortlist of software projects for a concrete need. Use for repository discovery, with dated sources and an explicit search stopping point.

Inputs

Problem to solve; runtime and licence constraints; acceptable maturity; search budget and shortlist size.

Run record

Use checklist 0.5 or newer for this SOP. Reading or reloading the skill must not reset work. For a new task, run checklist init "${CLAUDE_SKILL_DIR}" --new --path "/absolute/project"; retain its returned ID as RUN. For existing work, use checklist resume "$RUN", then checklist show --run "$RUN". Outside Claude, replace the skill-directory variable with this directory’s actual path.

Commands below record work after it is done. Replace evidence placeholders with concise artifact locations and observations. Manual confirmations are not independent proof; a sensor pass covers only the command and inputs it observed. verify does not close a stage; advance checks that its required readings are fulfilled. Use report --run "$RUN" for the retained history.

Procedure

main

Define inclusion and exclusion criteria, then search several relevant surfaces: code/package indexes, dependency graphs, discussions, or neighbouring projects. Follow useful leads within the time budget. Inspect candidate source material and capture why each remains plausible.

Record these artifacts after doing the work:

  • Need, constraints, and search budget are explicit. checklist check main criteria --run "$RUN" --evidence "<artifact and observation>"
  • Queries and consulted sources are recorded with dates. checklist check main search --run "$RUN" --evidence "<artifact and observation>"
  • Candidates include direct sources, fit, and disqualifying uncertainties. checklist check main shortlist --run "$RUN" --evidence "<artifact and observation>"
  • Shortlist separates discovery from adoption recommendations. checklist check main handoff --run "$RUN" --evidence "<artifact and observation>"

Read the full file on GitHub · 65 lines

Files

What ships with it

7 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. 27d ago Changed · -91 lines · -199 tokens per session 4f7330d1c167
  2. 1mo ago First seen · 156 lines · 231 tokens per session scan A c997fa89f43a

Subscribe to this mod's changes

forage is a skill published in the GitHub repository IamK77/Skill (2 stars, last pushed 5d ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 32 tokens to every session and 805 once invoked, about $0.0001 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 2026-08-31.

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