Skill architect and builder — six-phase pipeline from idea to installable package.
Building agent skills is harder than it looks. Most skills are either too thin to be useful or so bloated they're unmaintainable. Forge solves this with a mandatory six-phase pipeline — existence gate, classification, scoping, architecture, construction, validation — that ensures every skill is built to standard. The output is always the finished, installable package, never a design brief.
Skill packages follow the agentskills.io open standard and are compatible with OpenClaw, Hermes Agent, Claude, and any agentskills.io-compliant client.
# Build a new skill
"Build me a skill that monitors RSS feeds and sends summaries to Slack"
# Critique an existing package
"Review the ocas-bower package for defects"
Forge auto-initializes on first use.
Forge is the only place where new OCAS skills are designed and built. Rather than generating a plan or brief, it runs a mandatory six-phase internal pipeline before writing a single file. Skills are classified by type — shortcut (20-120 lines), workflow (80-250 lines), or system (150-300 lines) — and each type has its own structural expectations. Mentor routes improvement proposals to Forge via journal payloads.
| Command | Description |
|---|---|
forge.build |
Design, scope, build, and validate a complete skill package |
forge.critique |
Review a package and identify defects |
forge.repair |
Fix broken files in an existing package |
forge.classify |
Classify a proposed skill |
forge.validate |
Run validation checks on a package |
forge.scaffold |
Generate a minimal package skeleton |
forge.status |
Current build state |
forge.journal |
Write journal for the current run |
forge.update |
Self-update from GitHub source |
- Mentor — receives VariantProposal and VariantDecision files
| Job | Schedule | Command |
|---|---|---|
forge:journal-scan |
Every heartbeat | Process incoming proposals from Mentor |
forge:update |
0 0 * * * |
Self-update |
- Version alignment per publishing spec
- Synced reference docs with ocas-architecture
- Added
{agent_root}/skills/to filesystem write paths
Forge is part of the OCAS Agent Suite.