forge-idiomatic-developer

A coding rulebook for applications that use forgelib, a library providing backend building blocks such as database access and other service capabilities. It tells agents to use the project’s installed version and consult only the relevant language reference.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it before writing, editing, or reviewing forgelib code, especially when working with configuration, databases, authentication, queues, scheduling, or other non-trivial service behaviour.
Why use it?
It prevents agents from guessing how the library works based on another tool or version. This matters because exact APIs and behaviour can differ between Node.js, Python, Rust, and Go.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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.

agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/isala404/forge/forge-idiomatic-developer
Any agent
npx skills add isala404/forge --skill forge-idiomatic-developer
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/isala404/forge

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 32 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 712 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
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 $0.00032 $0.00712
Opus 5 $0.00016 $0.00356
Sonnet 5 $0.00006 $0.00142
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00071

Measured 2d ago against content hash a49790a290f8, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

forge-idiomatic-developer 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.

skills/forge-idiomatic-developer/SKILL.md · 54 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 54 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Building on Forge

Forge provides the backend primitives most applications need, with Postgres backends by default. Initialize one client from forge.toml and use Forge's actual API rather than inferring behavior from similar libraries.

Use the Forge version resolved by the project. Check its installed declarations when an exact signature or behavior matters; when editing Forge itself, use the repository source.

Read the relevant sections of the language reference:

Read these only when they apply:

  • references/runtime-contract.md for configuration, errors, deployment, queues, scheduling, rate limits, pub/sub, presigning, flags, or maintenance.
  • references/application-design.md for a nontrivial service, storage decision, authentication workflow, cross-system side effects, lifecycle, or test strategy. Do not preload unrelated language references.

Pick the primitive deliberately

Need Forge primitive Core constraint
Direct-key values, TTL state, counters, CAS kv Single-key operations; weakly consistent prefix scans
Durable background work and retry queue Requires an owning consumer; at-least-once
Ephemeral live fan-out pubsub At-most-once, live subscribers only
Files and presigned transfer URLs blob Application must enforce its ownership policy
Passwords, sessions, API keys, one-time tokens auth Application owns user and authorization records
Request throttling ratelimit Fail mode is a security/availability choice; not a business counter
Cron or delayed enqueue schedule Application must run scheduler ticks
Runtime settings and rollout flags config Cached; secrets remain environment-backed

Read the full file on GitHub · 54 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. 2d ago First seen · 54 lines · 32 tokens per session scan A a49790a290f8

Subscribe to this mod's changes

forge-idiomatic-developer is a skill published in the GitHub repository isala404/forge (85 stars, last pushed 6d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 32 tokens to every session and 712 once invoked, about $0.0002 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 2026-08-30.

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