idea-forge

idea-forge is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from mickpletcher/AI-Skills. It costs 118 tokens per session (4,042 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

An idea-planning workflow that examines a raw idea, develops it, scores it, and turns it into an engineering plan. Engineering here means the practical work needed to build and test a product or system.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to analyse, expand, assess, or explore an idea, invention, or concept and produce a practical plan for building it.
Why use it?
It helps move from a vague concept to clearer decisions and actionable next steps. The staged review also exposes weak points before development starts.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one.

Good fit Use it to analyse, expand, assess, or explore an idea, invention, or concept and produce a practical plan for building it.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/mickpletcher/ai-skills/idea-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 mickpletcher/AI-Skills --skill idea-forge
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/mickpletcher/AI-Skills

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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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 118 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 4,042 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 $0.00118 $0.04042
Opus 5.5 $0.00047 $0.01617
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00024 $0.00808
Haiku 4.5 $0.00012 $0.00404

Measured 1mo ago against content hash 1b055d341948, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

idea-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 1mo ago.

The scan reads SKILL.md. This mod also ships 2 executable files (scripts/save_to_apple_notes.py, scripts/save_to_obsidian.py), listed below but not scanned — reading those needs a real analyzer, not pattern matching.

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.

claude/skills/idea-forge/SKILL.md · 354 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 354 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

IdeaForge

Intent

Run raw ideas through a structured R&D pipeline that clarifies the concept, expands it, scores it, and produces an MVP direction.

Workflow

  1. Identify the exact task and available source material.
  2. Apply the domain rules and output format in this skill.
  3. State assumptions, uncertainty, and missing inputs clearly.
  4. Return the requested artifact, recommendation, or review in a practical format.
  5. Check the result against the validation checklist before finishing.

Constraints

  • Do not fabricate missing facts, measurements, dates, sources, or user context.
  • Keep output aligned with Mick's direct, practical communication style unless the skill says otherwise.
  • Preserve safety, legal, medical, financial, and operational boundaries stated in this file.
  • Prefer concise, usable output over broad explanation.

Validation Checklist

  • The output matches the skill's intended task and platform.
  • Required inputs, assumptions, and uncertainty are explicit.
  • Safety, scope, and source limits are respected.
  • The response follows the requested format or the skill's default output format.
  • The result is practical enough to use without another cleanup pass.

Runs raw ideas through a five-stage R&D pipeline — capture, interpret, expand, score, output. Turns a rough thought into a structured invention plan with scoring, architecture suggestions, monetization paths, and a working MVP roadmap.

Trigger

Start any message with idea to activate immediately.

idea [raw idea, rough concept, or messy note]

Other triggers: ideaforge, analyze this idea, expand this concept, assess this invention, explore this thought, develop this further, evaluate feasibility

Delivery target modifiers:

  • save to apple notes
  • send to apple notes
  • save this analysis to apple notes folder [folder name]
  • save to obsidian
  • send to obsidian
  • save this analysis to obsidian ideas folder

Read the full file on GitHub · 354 lines

Files

What ships with it

9 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. 1mo ago First seen · 354 lines · 118 tokens per session scan A 1b055d341948

Subscribe to this mod's changes

idea-forge is a skill published in the GitHub repository mickpletcher/AI-Skills (20 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed MIT. It adds 118 tokens to every session and 4,042 once invoked, about $0.0005 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 2026-08-30.

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