skillforge

A skill for finding, reviewing, and installing Agent Skills, which are add-ons that give a coding agent extra capabilities. It can match skills to a project or a plain-language goal.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to scan a project, search for relevant skills, create a ranked plan, audit candidates, install them, and manage the installed set.
Why use it?
It removes the need to manually decide which skills fit a project and adds a security review before installation.

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/yvzhou1111/skillforge/skill
Any agent
npx skills add yvzhou1111/skillforge --skill skill
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/yvzhou1111/skillforge

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 124 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,439 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan B 2 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 $0.00124 $0.01439
Opus 5 $0.00062 $0.00720
Sonnet 5 $0.00025 $0.00288
Haiku 4.5 $0.00012 $0.00144

Measured 2d ago against content hash 42a40950fbcf, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade B, and why

skillforge scanned grade B with 2 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.

Downloads and executes remote codemediumSupply chain

curl | sh runs whatever the server returns today, which is not necessarily what it returned when this was reviewed.

surface the specific finding (e.g. "this skill runs `curl | sh`") and require

Downgraded: this mod is about security review, or the phrase is quoted, so it is likely naming the pattern rather than instructing it.

Makes network callslowCapability

Not a fault in itself. Listed so you know the mod talks to something, and to what.

surface the specific finding (e.g. "this skill runs `curl | sh`") and require
skill/SKILL.md · 127 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 127 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

SkillForge

SkillForge is the intelligent dependency butler for Agent Skills. It turns a natural-language goal or a project's tech stack into a vetted, installed set of skills — with a security audit before anything touches disk.

Two ways to use it (pick whichever is available)

  1. MCP tools — if the SkillForge MCP server is connected, call the skillforge_* tools directly (preferred; structured results).
  2. CLI — if MCP is not available, run the skillforge (alias sf) command in the terminal. Every capability is available both ways.

When to use this skill

  • "Is there a skill for X" / "find a skill that does X"
  • The agent needs a capability it lacks (design, testing, deploy, payments, i18n…)
  • "Set up skills for this project" / "what skills should I install"
  • Vet a third-party skill before installing it
  • Discover, install, or manage agent skills

Pipeline

scan (tech stack) + intent (NL goal) -> plan (ranked combo) -> audit (security) -> install (per agent)

MCP tools

Tool Purpose
skillforge_scan Detect a project's capability needs
skillforge_search Search skills, ranked by relevance + quality
skillforge_plan Recommend a skill combination (reasons + conflicts)
skillforge_audit Static security audit of a skill
skillforge_lint Quality-grade a skill (A–F) against authoring conventions
skillforge_install Audit + install a skill into a target agent
skillforge_list List installed skills from the lockfile

CLI usage (when MCP is unavailable)

Run via npx skillforge-butler <command> or sf <command> if installed globally.

# 1. Understand the project
sf scan                       # detect tech stack -> capability needs
sf scan --path ./my-app --json

# 2. Search the ecosystem
sf search "playwright e2e testing"
sf search "kubernetes" --offline      # built-in catalog only, no network

# 3. Plan a combination for a goal (no install)
sf plan "build a cross-border e-commerce site with payments and i18n"
sf plan "add CI and tests" --dry-run --json

# 4. ALWAYS audit before trusting a skill
sf audit catalog:react-best-practices
sf audit owner/repo/skills/their-skill      # audit a GitHub skill
sf audit --dir ./local-skill                # audit a local folder
# exit code 2 == blocked (high/critical risk)

# 4b. Check skill QUALITY (grade A–F)
sf lint catalog:react-best-practices
sf lint --dir ./local-skill                 # grade a local skill
# exit code 2 == failing grade (F)

# 5. Install one skill into a specific agent
sf install catalog:react-best-practices --agent claude-code
sf install owner/repo/skills/x --agent cursor --global
sf install owner/repo/skills/x --min-quality 75   # refuse low-quality skills

# 6. Full pipeline end-to-end (scan -> plan -> audit -> install)
sf auto "build a REST API with auth and tests" --agent claude-code
sf auto "add docker and CI" --dry-run        # preview without installing

# 7. Manage installed skills
sf list                       # show skillforge.lock.json entries
sf update                     # check installed skills for upstream changes

Read the full file on GitHub · 127 lines

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 · 127 lines · 0 tokens per session scan B 42a40950fbcf

Subscribe to this mod's changes

skillforge is a skill published in the GitHub repository yvzhou1111/skillforge (2 stars, last pushed 3mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 124 tokens to every session and 1,439 once invoked, about $0.0006 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it B with 2 findings (downloads and executes remote code, makes network calls). No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-31.

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