Skill Forge

Validate, fix, and publish skills as GitHub repos. Structures workflow skills for execution fidelity. Registers skills across platforms via symlinks and guides first-use onboarding. Use when the user says "create a skill", "forge a skill", "review this skill repo", "audit this skill", "audit all my skills", "audit this project", "clean up my skills", "check my skill", "publish this skill", "push this to GitHub", "structure my workflow skill", "extract a skill from this folder", "turn my prototype into a skill", or points to a project directory with mixed skills and rules, or to an engineering

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Install

skills CLI (Claude Code, Cursor, Codex and more)

npx skills add motiful/skill-forge --skill skill-forge

Manual install

git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/motiful/skill-forge.git /tmp/skill-forge
mkdir -p ~/.claude/skills
cp -r /tmp/skill-forge/. ~/.claude/skills/skill-forge

Personal skills live in ~/.claude/skills. Use .claude/skills in a project folder to share a skill with your team.

From the SKILL.md

# Skill Forge

Skill engineering methodology and publishing pipeline. Defines what "well-engineered skill" means, validates skills against that standard, and produces publishable GitHub repos.

## Three-Dimension Mental Model

Skill engineering decisions split along three orthogonal dimensions. Keep them separate — mixing causes self-contradictory choices.

| Dimension | Question | Decides |
|-----------|----------|---------|
| **A. Entry** | Should this be its own skill? | New capability skill / new rule-skill / just a reference file |
| **B. Dependency** | How do skills relate to each other? | Runtime (setup.sh, cross-repo OK) vs Maintenance (must ship together) |
| **C. Publishing** | How to package for distribution? | Single Skill repo / Collection repo / In-repo |

Each reference below covers ONE dimension (mostly):
- `references/publishing-strategy.md` — Dimension C
- `references/rule-skill-pattern.md` — Dimension A (for rule-skills specifically)
- `references/skill-composition.md` — Dimension B
- `references/anti-graceful-skip.md` — orthogonal quality check (applies to all dimensions)

When a decision seems to conflict, check which dimension you're reasoning about. A/B/C answers do not constrain each other.

## Engagement Principles

These rules always apply. Read them before acting.

1. **Assess before acting** — first step is always understanding the situation (scan, inventory, read)
2. **Report before modifying** — show findings, get user approval, then act

Read the full skill on GitHub

Details

Skill name: skill-forge
Repository: motiful/skill-forge
License: MIT
Repo updated: 12 July 2026

FAQ

What does the Skill Forge skill do?

How do I install the Skill Forge skill?

skills CLI (Claude Code, Cursor, Codex and more): npx skills add motiful/skill-forge --skill skill-forge. Skills go in ~/.claude/skills (personal) or .claude/skills (project), and Claude loads them automatically when a task matches the description.

Is Skill Forge popular?

It lives in motiful/skill-forge, which has 46 GitHub stars and 3 forks.

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