evidence-synthesis-forge

evidence-synthesis-forge is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from Vambrocop/EvidenceForge. It costs 65 tokens per session (937 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A guide for planning and carrying out structured research reviews, such as systematic reviews, evidence maps, and meta-analyses. These methods collect and compare findings from multiple studies.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to design review protocols, search strategies, screening and data-extraction workflows, statistical or written summaries, and review reports.
Why use it?
It separates finding studies, deciding which ones qualify, recording their details, combining results, and judging their reliability.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one.

Good fit Use it to design review protocols, search strategies, screening and data-extraction workflows, statistical or written summaries, and review reports.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/vambrocop/evidenceforge/evidence-synthesis-forge
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 Vambrocop/EvidenceForge --skill evidence-synthesis-forge
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Vambrocop/EvidenceForge

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 65 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 937 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 $0.00065 $0.00937
Opus 5 $0.00032 $0.00468
Sonnet 5 $0.00013 $0.00187
Haiku 4.5 $0.00006 $0.00094

Measured 9d ago against content hash ba83c1b315e9, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-09, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

evidence-synthesis-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 9d ago.

The scan reads SKILL.md. This mod also ships 1 executable file (scripts/generate_prisma_flow.py), 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/evidence-synthesis-forge/SKILL.md · 122 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 122 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Evidence Synthesis Forge

Use this skill as the general orchestrator for evidence synthesis. It helps move from a broad review idea to an auditable protocol, screening workflow, extraction plan, synthesis strategy, and report structure.

Core Principle

Separate:

  1. Question: what evidence is being synthesized.
  2. Search: how studies are found.
  3. Screening: how studies are included or excluded.
  4. Coding: how study features and effects are extracted.
  5. Synthesis: whether evidence is narratively summarized, mapped, or statistically pooled.
  6. Judgment: risk of bias, certainty, and interpretation.

Do not jump to meta-analysis before checking whether studies, outcomes, and effect sizes are comparable.

Intake

Identify:

  • domain: environment, ecology, medicine, life science, economics, policy, education, psychology, or other;
  • review type: systematic review, scoping review, evidence map, rapid review, meta-analysis, umbrella review, or second-order meta-analysis;
  • question framework: PICO, PECO, PICOS, SPIDER, or custom;
  • population/exposure/intervention/comparator/outcome;
  • eligible study designs;
  • desired outputs;
  • whether machine learning will assist screening or extraction.

If the user is unsure, propose a review type and explain the tradeoff.

Workflow

  1. Build the review question.
  2. Define eligibility criteria.
  3. Draft search strategy and databases.
  4. Design screening stages and exclusion reasons.
  5. Define extraction fields and coding rules.
  6. Choose synthesis type: narrative, evidence map, first-order meta-analysis, umbrella review, or second-order meta-analysis.
  7. Specify risk-of-bias or quality assessment.
  8. Align the protocol and report with the relevant guidance source: PRISMA for reporting, Cochrane for intervention reviews, JBI for broader review types, CEE for environmental evidence.
  9. Add reproducibility artifacts: search log, screening log, coding sheet, analysis script, protocol.

Load:

  • references/review-types.md when the user needs help choosing review type or question framework.
  • references/protocol-reporting-crosswalk.md when the user needs PRISMA/Cochrane/JBI/CEE alignment.
  • templates/prisma-flow-counts.csv and scripts/generate_prisma_flow.py when the user needs a simple reproducible PRISMA-style flow diagram.

Read the full file on GitHub · 122 lines

Files

What ships with it

5 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. 9d ago First seen · 122 lines · 65 tokens per session scan A ba83c1b315e9

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evidence-synthesis-forge is a skill published in the GitHub repository Vambrocop/EvidenceForge (5 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 65 tokens to every session and 937 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 2026-08-31.

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