modernize-guide

A planning skill that turns an existing tutorial, README, or runbook into a staged learning plan with a map showing where its material went.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to analyse an old guide, check its technology choices online, report gaps, and write an approved modernization plan.
Why use it?
It exposes missing learning steps and outdated technology before the guide is rewritten.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Part of the guide-forge plugin — 14 skills 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/tomthebearded/guide-forge/modernize-guide
Any agent
npx skills add tomthebearded/guide-forge --skill modernize-guide
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/tomthebearded/guide-forge

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Or install guide-forge, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 14 skills.

Per session 119 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 456 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 $0.00119 $0.00456
Opus 5 $0.00060 $0.00228
Sonnet 5 $0.00024 $0.00091
Haiku 4.5 $0.00012 $0.00046

Measured 2d ago against content hash 7c4c64f1d116, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

modernize-guide 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.

skills/modernize-guide/SKILL.md · 38 lines

What it actually says

Skill: modernize-guide

The complete, canonical contract for this skill is the paste-prompt it wraps, inlined here — follow it in full:

!cat "${CLAUDE_SKILL_DIR}/prompt.md"

(If the block above came back empty or errored, read prompt.md in this skill folder — it sits beside this SKILL.md — and follow that.)

As you follow it, adapt for the fact that you're a Claude Code skill, not a pasted prompt:

  • You're already invoked — skip its "How to use / paste this" preamble. The source doc to modernize is $ARGUMENTS below (plus any attached source files and real target code). Read the source yourself where you can.
  • The deliverable is a plan + gap report — produce it inline as your reply and, once settled, write the plan to guide/PLAN.md (creating the guide/ folder). That single file is the only thing you write now — do not write the finished guide (that's /scaffold-guide then /draft-milestone).
  • Where the prompt hands off to another prompt by filename, use the sibling skill of the same name (/draft-milestone).

Source to modernize:

$ARGUMENTS

Gate: stop and ask the user to approve the plan before any milestone is drafted.

Files

What ships with it

1 file 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. 2d ago First seen · 38 lines · 119 tokens per session scan A 7c4c64f1d116

Subscribe to this mod's changes

modernize-guide is a skill published in the GitHub repository tomthebearded/guide-forge (3 stars, last pushed 12d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 119 tokens to every session and 456 once invoked, about $0.0006 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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