fork-intelligence

fork-intelligence is a skill for Claude Code from terrylica/cc-skills. It costs 26 tokens per session (3,358 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A method for finding useful work in GitHub fork networks by comparing branches, changes from the original repository, and related pull requests. A fork is a separate copy of a repository that can be developed independently.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to inspect all forks of a repository, measure how far they differ from the original, find active branches, and cross-check related pull requests.
Why use it?
Sorting forks only by star count can miss important changes. This approach helps identify forks with meaningful development or domain-specific value.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: allowed-tools in frontmatter. Also seen: names the TodoWrite tool.

Part of the gh-tools plugin — 6 skills shipped together , and of cc-skills

Good fit Use it to inspect all forks of a repository, measure how far…

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/terrylica/cc-skills/fork-intelligence
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 terrylica/cc-skills --skill fork-intelligence
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/terrylica/cc-skills

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install gh-tools, 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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Your own site
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Per session 26 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 3,358 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 $0.00026 $0.03358
Opus 5 $0.00013 $0.01679
Sonnet 5 $0.00005 $0.00672
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00336

Measured yesterday against content hash 4e1d14e57174, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-06, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

fork-intelligence 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 yesterday.

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.

plugins/gh-tools/skills/fork-intelligence/SKILL.md · 337 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 337 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Fork Intelligence

Systematic methodology for discovering valuable work in GitHub fork ecosystems. Stars-only filtering misses 60-100% of substantive forks — this skill uses branch-level divergence analysis, upstream PR cross-referencing, and domain-specific heuristics to find what matters.

Validated empirically across 10 repositories spanning Python, Rust, TypeScript, C++/Python, and Node.js (tensortrade, backtesting.py, kokoro, pymoo, firecrawl, barter-rs, pueue, dukascopy-node, ArcticDB, flowsurface).

Self-Evolving Skill: This skill improves through use. If instructions are wrong, parameters drifted, or a workaround was needed — fix this file immediately, don't defer. Only update for real, reproducible issues.

FIRST — TodoWrite Task Templates

MANDATORY: Select and load the appropriate template before any fork analysis.

Template A — Full Analysis (new repository)

1. Get upstream baseline (stars, forks, default branch, last push)
2. List all forks with pagination, note timestamp clusters
3. Filter to unique-timestamp forks (skip bulk mirrors)
4. Check default branch divergence (ahead_by/behind_by)
5. Check non-default branches for all forks with recent push or >1 branch
6. Evaluate commit content, author emails, tags/releases
7. Cross-reference upstream PR history from fork owners
8. Tier ranking and cross-fork convergence analysis
9. Produce report with actionable recommendations

Template B — Quick Scan (triage only)

1. Get upstream baseline
2. List forks, filter by timestamp clustering
3. Check default branch divergence only
4. Report forks with ahead_by > 0

Template C — Targeted Fork Evaluation (specific fork)

1. Compare fork vs upstream on all branches
2. Examine commit messages and changed files
3. Check for tags/releases, open issues, PRs
4. Assess cherry-pick viability

Signal Priority Order

Ranked by empirical reliability across 10 repositories. See signal-priority.md for details.

Read the full file on GitHub · 337 lines

Files

What ships with it

4 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. yesterday First seen · 337 lines · 26 tokens per session scan A 4e1d14e57174

Subscribe to this mod's changes

fork-intelligence is a skill published in the GitHub repository terrylica/cc-skills (62 stars, last pushed today), licensed MIT. It adds 26 tokens to every session and 3,358 once invoked, about $0.0001 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 2026-09-05.

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