the-forge

the-forge is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from TheMattBerman/openclaw-100k-posts-kit. It costs 109 tokens per session (5,938 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A content-planning skill that studies why a popular post worked and turns those patterns into original ideas for a specific brand.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to turn viral posts, competitor content, trend reports, or research into three to five platform-specific content concepts with hooks, angles, formats, and story outlines.
Why use it?
It removes the guesswork between spotting a trend and creating content that fits your own voice. Each idea remains traceable to the source pattern without simply copying it.

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/themattberman/openclaw-100k-posts-kit/the-forge
Any agent
npx skills add TheMattBerman/openclaw-100k-posts-kit --skill the-forge
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/TheMattBerman/openclaw-100k-posts-kit

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.

agentmods badge for the-forge

README.md
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<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/themattberman/openclaw-100k-posts-kit/the-forge"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/themattberman/openclaw-100k-posts-kit/the-forge.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>
Per session 109 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 5,938 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 $0.00109 $0.05938
Opus 5 $0.00055 $0.02969
Sonnet 5 $0.00022 $0.01188
Haiku 4.5 $0.00011 $0.00594

Measured 4d ago against content hash 2346eb1c9a01, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

the-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 4d ago.

The scan reads SKILL.md. This mod also ships 2 executable files (scripts/forge.py, scripts/the-forge.sh), 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.

skills/the-forge/SKILL.md · 515 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 515 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

The Forge

Raw trend data goes in. Brand-native, source-traceable content concepts come out.

The Forge runs every input through three psychology frameworks in sequence, but it does NOT jump straight from trend to concept. It first identifies what made the source outlier work, decides which parts of that pattern are portable, translates those parts through the active brand voice, then outputs structured concepts you (or an agent) can take straight to a scheduler or content calendar.

When the upstream Pattern Report is provided as JSON, The Forge normalizes and prioritizes the richer Content DNA fields instead of only reading the markdown summary. That means it can reason from the source video's brick, why-it-worked explanation, and use-this-when guidance, not just the topic and angle.

When to use this skill:

  • You have a trending topic, viral post, or emerging idea and need content angles
  • You want to convert competitor content into original concepts
  • You have raw research from last30days, content-calendar, or similar skills
  • You need 3-5 distinct platform-specific concepts fast

What you get back: Numbered concepts, each with a hook, angle, body arc, format, platform fit, source attribution, and visible pattern lineage. When a structured Content DNA Pattern Report is available, The Forge also explicitly uses brick_name, brick_definition, why_it_worked, and plain_english_takeaway to improve transfer quality. Final concepts should surface that logic explicitly, including a source why-it-worked summary and a plain-English Use this when... line.

When iterating or debugging the skill: Read references/lessons.md for the practical learnings from real test runs, especially around hook simplicity, visible transfer, execution notes for experiments, and avoiding invented specifics.


The Three Frameworks

Framework 1: Puppet Strings (Why People Care)

Every piece of content pulls at least one of six core human drives. Match your content to the right drive and attention is almost automatic.

Read the full file on GitHub · 515 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. 4d ago First seen · 515 lines · 109 tokens per session scan A 2346eb1c9a01

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the-forge is a skill published in the GitHub repository TheMattBerman/openclaw-100k-posts-kit (20 stars, last pushed 5mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 109 tokens to every session and 5,938 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 2026-08-30.

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