scaffold-guide

scaffold-guide is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from tomthebearded/guide-forge. It costs 85 tokens per session (559 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A project setup tool for GuideForge guides, a documentation format organized around planned milestones. It creates the guide's folder structure and six starting documents after a plan is approved.

In plain words
What is it for?
It helps start a guide with documents for the technology stack, status, progress, glossary, conventions, decisions, and feedback.
Why use it?
It removes the repetitive setup work before writing can begin and keeps the guide's supporting files consistent.

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/scaffold-guide
Any agent
npx skills add tomthebearded/guide-forge --skill scaffold-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.

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.

agentmods badge for scaffold-guide

README.md
[![agentmods](https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/tomthebearded/guide-forge/scaffold-guide.svg)](https://agentmods.dev/skills/tomthebearded/guide-forge/scaffold-guide)
Your own site
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/tomthebearded/guide-forge/scaffold-guide"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/tomthebearded/guide-forge/scaffold-guide.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>
Per session 85 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 559 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 $0.00085 $0.00559
Opus 5 $0.00043 $0.00280
Sonnet 5 $0.00017 $0.00112
Haiku 4.5 $0.00009 $0.00056

Measured 3d ago against content hash 677dcd682c78, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

scaffold-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 3d 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/scaffold-guide/SKILL.md · 45 lines

What it actually says

Skill: scaffold-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 approved plan is at guide/PLAN.md (written there by plan-guide); read it from disk. It may also be $ARGUMENTS below (attached, pasted, or already in the conversation). Don't move or overwrite guide/PLAN.md — scaffold the rest of the guide around it.
  • You have file tools herewrite the skeleton to disk under guide/ (the prompt describes each file), rather than only printing fenced blocks. This includes seeding an empty guide/feedback-log.md from templates/feedback-log.md. Then list what you created.
  • Where the prompt hands off to another prompt by filename, use the sibling skill of the same name (/draft-milestone).
  • Read the GuideForge version yourself — the prompt's provenance rule needs the plugin version. Read it with your file tools from the plugin's .claude-plugin/plugin.json (it sits two levels up from this skill folder: ${CLAUDE_SKILL_DIR}/../../.claude-plugin/plugin.json), then stamp that exact value into the README.md provenance line + Updates seed and the status.md provenance line. Don't ask the user for it — you can read it.

Plan / args:

$ARGUMENTS

Gate: write only the skeleton + foundation docs, not step content; leave undecided template headings empty rather than guessing.

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. 3d ago First seen · 45 lines · 85 tokens per session scan A 677dcd682c78

Subscribe to this mod's changes

scaffold-guide is a skill published in the GitHub repository tomthebearded/guide-forge (3 stars, last pushed 13d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 85 tokens to every session and 559 once invoked, about $0.0004 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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