forgeguard-engineering

A set of working rules for software and related technical tasks. It tells an agent to inspect the relevant project, make a focused change, test it, review it, and verify the result.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it for coding, testing, security, database, architecture, analysis, content, and other non-trivial engineering workflows.
Why use it?
It reduces unnecessary edits, unsupported assumptions, and untested work. It also adapts the same checking process for tasks that do not produce code.

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/suiflex/forgeguard/engineering
Any agent
npx skills add suiflex/ForgeGuard --skill engineering
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/suiflex/ForgeGuard

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 55 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,366 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 $0.00055 $0.01366
Opus 5 $0.00028 $0.00683
Sonnet 5 $0.00011 $0.00273
Haiku 4.5 $0.00006 $0.00137

Measured 2d ago against content hash fac16ba599b5, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

forgeguard-engineering 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.

crates/forgeguard-core/assets/skills/engineering/SKILL.md · 82 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 82 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

ForgeGuard Engineering

Follow: inspect → design → implement → test → review → verify.

For non-code work, interpret the workflow as inspect → frame → produce → check → review → verify. Do not invent code-shaped steps for a product brief, investigation, test session, analysis, decision, or operational task.

Work surgically

  • Inspect the affected code, tests, contracts, schemas, direct callers, and compatibility surface before editing.
  • Resolve missing facts with read-only inspection. When unresolved ambiguity materially changes behavior, data, security, scope, cost, or external or irreversible state, use the host's native structured user-input tool and wait; otherwise state the safest reversible assumption.
  • Reuse an existing project pattern only when its purpose and change reasons match. Prefer the standard library and installed dependencies over new abstractions or packages.
  • Make every changed line trace to the objective. Do not refactor adjacent code or remove pre-existing dead code; remove only orphans created by the change.
  • Choose the smallest safe design. Define only the relevant bounds, failures, complexity, I/O, and concurrency risks.

Reject AI slop

  • Do not add generic boilerplate, speculative abstractions, duplicate helpers, decorative comments, or dependencies without a requirement demonstrated in the repository.
  • Do not invent requirements, APIs, schemas, files, command results, metrics, or evidence. Inspect them directly; label anything still unknown as unverified.
  • Do not disguise incomplete work with placeholders, fake data, silent fallbacks, swallowed errors, or TODO-only implementations unless the user explicitly requested a stub or test fixture.
  • Deliver the smallest complete path through the real code, remove only additions made obsolete by the change, and prove changed behavior with the narrowest executable check.

Register the goal

Use the session id injected by the lifecycle hook. In an initialized repository, run forgeguard mode to resolve Code Guard policy: register every change in strict mode and every non-trivial change otherwise. Outside an initialized repository, General Guard has no repository mode; register every non-trivial task directly.

Read the full file on GitHub · 82 lines

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 · 82 lines · 55 tokens per session scan A fac16ba599b5

Subscribe to this mod's changes

forgeguard-engineering is a skill published in the GitHub repository suiflex/ForgeGuard (13 stars, last pushed 3d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 55 tokens to every session and 1,366 once invoked, about $0.0003 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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