template-conventions

template-conventions is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from Langerrr/zforge. It costs 107 tokens per session (1,762 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A set of rules for organizing feature-planning documents in a project. It defines standard files for design, context, plans, progress, decisions, and work logs.

In plain words
What is it for?
Planning features, deciding which document owns information, recording verification methods, and maintaining files under a feature's documentation folder.
Why use it?
It gives planners and implementers a shared place and format for decisions, requirements, verification evidence, and phase status.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Part of the zforge plugin — 13 skills, 8 commands, 2 agents shipped together

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/langerrr/zforge/template-conventions
Any agent
npx skills add Langerrr/zforge --skill template-conventions
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Langerrr/zforge

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Or install zforge, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 13 skills, 8 commands, 2 agents.

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 template-conventions

README.md
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Your own site
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Per session 107 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,762 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 $0.00107 $0.01762
Opus 5 $0.00053 $0.00881
Sonnet 5 $0.00021 $0.00352
Haiku 4.5 $0.00011 $0.00176

Measured today against content hash 5442416fcb81, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

template-conventions 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 today.

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/template-conventions/SKILL.md · 106 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 106 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Zforge Template Conventions

Features are documented in docs/{feature_name}/, snake_case.

Core files

Always created by the zforge plan workflow:

File Owner Purpose
00_design_spec.md Planner Problem, actors, requirements, boundary, acceptance vocabulary
01_context.md Planner Doc Map, key decisions, open questions with owner and method
02_plan.md Planner Technical plan, phase decomposition, Verification Matrix, environment assumptions, invariants
discussion.md Planner Reasoning generated during planning — written while thinking, not after
decision_review.md Planner appends · user adjudicates Decisions made without blocking, awaiting review
05_progress_overview.md Planner only Phase status, standing flags
05_progress/05_XX_*.md One agent each Per-phase contract, evidence, decisions, work log
session_log.md Planner Which sessions touched this feature, and how they ended

Created when the feature needs them, never as empty placeholders:

File When
Core patterns doc The feature changes data models, abstractions or architectural patterns. Without it agents follow the checklist and write structurally wrong code
03_integration_summary.md, 04_integration_plan.md The plan spans backend and frontend
07_harness_conventions.md A phase learns something about how the project is run and observed that a later phase would otherwise pay for again
05_progress/review.md The zforge review workflow has findings
06_post_deployment.md At completion
08_configuration.md, 09_troubleshooting.md Config or gotchas emerge
10_12_refactor_* The task is a refactoring rather than a new feature
.zforge-retro/*.md The zforge retro workflow is invoked

Numbering

0002 and the 05 family have fixed prefixes. Everything else is named for what it is and numbered by creation order in whatever slot is free — the name carries the identity, the number only sorts. Register every document in the Doc Map in 01_context.md with its purpose and which phases it binds.

Read the full file on GitHub · 106 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. today Changed · +2 lines 5442416fcb81
  2. 4d ago First seen · 104 lines · 107 tokens per session scan A 282ae88d835b

Subscribe to this mod's changes

template-conventions is a skill published in the GitHub repository Langerrr/zforge (10 stars, last pushed 3d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 107 tokens to every session and 1,762 once invoked, about $0.0005 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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