forge

forge is a skill for Claude Code from IamK77/Skill. It costs 34 tokens per session (1,003 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A controlled workflow for turning a tested research method into production experiment code and running it to collect evidence. It is aimed at fields such as machine learning, optimization, operations research, and computer systems.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it after choosing and freezing an experimental method, when the next step is to harden the code and execute the real runs. It helps structure a read-only, evidence-focused experiment pipeline.
Why use it?
It keeps the experiment protocol fixed during the run, so the agent cannot quietly change code, thresholds, or results to make an outcome look better. This makes the recorded results suitable for confirming the method.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: argument-hint in frontmatter.

Part of the inquiry plugin — 6 skills shipped together

Good fit Use it after choosing and freezing an experimental method, when the next step is to harden the code and execute the real runs. It helps structure a read-only, evidence-focused experiment pipeline.

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

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install inquiry, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 6 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.

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README.md
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Per session 34 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,003 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 $0.00034 $0.01003
Opus 5.5 $0.00014 $0.00401
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00007 $0.00201
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00100

Measured 27d ago against content hash 08b157ee66d5, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

forge 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/inquiry/forge/SKILL.md · 89 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 89 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

forge

Execute a defined research experiment with traceable inputs, configurations, runs, and outputs. Use for experiment implementation and reproducibility, not to invent the research claim.

Inputs

Versioned experimental plan; implementation; data access; environment; compute authorisation and budget.

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

prepare

Match code, data, and configuration to the plan. Run a small end-to-end sanity check and verify that metrics and failure records have the intended meaning.

Record these artifacts after doing the work:

  • Code, data, environment, and plan versions are recorded. checklist check prepare inputs --run "$RUN" --evidence "<artifact and observation>"
  • A small end-to-end run validates data flow and metric computation. checklist check prepare sanity --run "$RUN" --evidence "<artifact and observation>"

When this stage is fulfilled: checklist advance prepare --run "$RUN".

execute

Run within the agreed budget. Preserve seeds, commands, logs, failed runs, and deviations; checkpoint where useful. Keep exploratory adjustments separate from the committed comparison.

Read the full file on GitHub · 89 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 · -79 lines · -182 tokens per session 08b157ee66d5
  2. 1mo ago First seen · 168 lines · 216 tokens per session scan A c79a6873aa6f

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forge is a skill published in the GitHub repository IamK77/Skill (2 stars, last pushed 4d ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 34 tokens to every session and 1,003 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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