chrono-meta

convergence-loop

A universal gate-reinforcement meta-skill that replaces the "single-pass = done" pattern with a converging loop of up to N rounds. Can be applied to any gate, checkpoint, or verification step. Only declares "truly passed" after FAIL→FIX→re-verify repeats until convergence (all items pass). Escalates to structural redesign if not converged within N rounds. Triggers on: "convergence-loop", "how many rounds do we need", "suspicious of single-pass", "not sure if it really passed", or equivalent phrasing.

deliberation

Multi-perspective synthesis structure — Innovator (propose) → Devil-Advocate (challenge) → Mediator (synthesize) 3-layer execution. Outputs conditional verdicts without binary win/loss. Activates on "deliberation", "battle this out", "weigh the pros and cons", "review from multiple angles", "which side is right?". Optional deep-insight persona jurors for domain-specific views. Designed for design decisions, skill proposals, and architectural choices.

agent-composer

Reads the current work context and plans the optimal agent dispatch. Clarifies direction with 1-2 questions when unclear; infers and proceeds immediately when execution path is unclear. Runs an automatic recording gate after each Wave completes. Triggered by "compose agents", "which agent should I use?", "run in parallel", or "agent-composer".

apex-review

Reviews a technical proposal from the perspective of organizational decision-makers (CTO, technical lead, QA lead, conference reviewers, etc.) and generates an HTML presentation deck. Outputs approval gate results per persona and connects to sim-conductor for improvement suggestions.

context-doctor

Reduces token waste in Claude Code sessions. Scans projects to automatically generate .claudeignore files, and guides on over-read files and /clear timing. In hub environments, regularly audits bloated CLAUDE.md/MEMORY.md/memory/*.md files and proposes compression. Usable standalone without a hub clone.

cross-ecosystem-synergy-detection

Automatically discovers useful combinations (synergy pairs) across multiple installed plugins and skills, and presents them as a ranked table. Proactively suggests undiscovered synergies when new projects or skills are registered in the registry. Activates on phrases like "do my installed tools work well together?", "they seem to work in isolation", "find synergies".

edit-manifest

Implements a predict-verify loop for harness edits. Every SKILL.md, rules/*.md, or CLAUDE.md change is paired with a predicted impact stored in a manifest. The next session verifies predictions against actual outcomes, and a validation gate accepts edits only when improvement is measurable. Runs automatically on harvest-loop Step 0-c and on explicit invocation.

field-harvest

Scans git history of field projects to detect patterns worth backporting to the meta-harness (Mode A), and logs session work to the knowledge hub when a session ends (Mode B). Triggers on "save this pattern", "make this reusable across projects", "can we automate this repetition?", "push this to FH", "reverse absorption", "harvest pattern", "session log", "log today's work", "sync to hub".

frontier-digest

Collects the latest AI/harness engineering trends from HackerNews and arxiv, then synthesizes them into actionable insights directly relevant to forge-harness operations. Triggered by "AI trends", "latest trends", "this week's AI updates", "what's on the frontier", "harness trends", "frontier-digest".

goal-quench

Wraps /goal with a tiered safety + orchestration ladder. core (default): a token budget gate (pre-run estimate), mid-run budget thresholds, and an automatic post-run quality verification via pipeline-conductor — closing /goal's two gaps (Haiku evaluates completion, pipeline-conductor evaluates correctness). pro: adds context-doctor token reduction and agent-composer goal decomposition. max: adds plugin-recommender capability-gap fill and cross-ecosystem-synergy-detection pre-validation. The Phase-1 budget verdict auto-recommends the mode. Triggered by "goal with quality gate", "safe goal", "goal-quench", "orchestrate this goal", or before running /goal on high-stakes tasks.

harness-doctor

Scans a project's harness structure (.claude/ directory, CLAUDE.md, rules, agents) to diagnose complexity, drift, missing files, and broken references, then suggests improvements. `--lint` flag adds language-pattern scan (self-marketing, cushion words, version brags). Triggered by "harness check", "structure diagnosis", "CLAUDE.md audit".

harvest-loop

A self-evolution pipeline that runs automatically after field sessions end. field-harvest (pattern extraction) → contention-layer (collision signals) → [Agent(subagent_type="challenger") + persona-innovator parallel] → synthesizer (challenger/innovator collision harvest) → Critic isolated Agent (SAGE automated critique) → harness-doctor (health check) → verify-bidirectional (consistency validation) → curator (skill lifecycle management) — 8 steps. Session learnings are automatically absorbed back into the FH ecosystem so the harness evolves on its own. In the main development environment, runs automatically at session end. For external FH users, proposes execution first. Triggered by "session harvest", "learning absorption", "fh evolution", or "harvest-loop". (The phrase "run the pipeline" is ceded to pipeline-conductor to avoid a trigger collision — for end-to-end verification sweeps use pipeline-conductor.)

hub-cc-pr-reviewer

Checks a submitted PR against the environment's baseline assets (CLAUDE.md, memory, naming, asset classification) and attaches a review comment with a merge recommendation. 5 steps — diff read, 8-area consistency check, self-catch, comment, merge recommendation.

install-wizard

Run when setting up a new project for the first time or onboarding after installing FH (first setup, initial configuration, onboarding start, configure project, help me set up). Performs environment detection → gap diagnosis → item-by-item suggestions → user approval → execution → acceleration baseline setup in sequence. Use --dry-run to output diagnosis report only (bg dispatch compatible).

marketplace-gate

Evaluates whether a repository meets marketplace listing criteria via a 5-point check and outputs a listing suitability verdict. Checks README completeness, zero-config readiness, maintenance signals, duplication, and public safety.

meta-prompt-builder

Generates structured prompts to send to each agent in an agent dispatch plan. Triggered by "write the instructions", "what do I say to the agent?", "write the prompt for me", "meta-prompt-builder". Bridges agent-composer (which agents) and prompt content (what to say). Uses Goal/Context/Constraints/Done When structure.

pipeline-conductor

Chains the four core FH verification pipelines (harvest-loop → steel-quench → phantom-quench → sim-conductor) into a single gated sweep. Accepts a scope (single skill, specific asset, full harness) and aggregates results into one structured report. Supports --quick mode (steps 2+3 only) and --full mode (all four steps). Triggered by "run the full pipeline", "chain all verifications", "end-to-end sweep", "pipeline-conductor", or "verify everything".

plugin-recommender

Given a task description, searches internal and external open-source ecosystems (including Codex marketplace and Claude Code marketplace) to find and recommend suitable plugins with installation guidance. Recommendation is quality-validation based (marketplace-listed + performance-validated), not source-origin based. Activates on "recommend a plugin", "what tool should I use?", "is there a plugin for this?", "recommend a tool". Also checks for duplicate installations.

prompt-regression

Detects harness regressions by running standard prompt probes after rule/skill changes and comparing outputs against saved baselines. Triggers on "prompt regression", "did my changes break anything", "regression check", "test harness changes".

return-path-gate

Audits SKILL.md files in plugins/ for return-path gate compliance. Detects fire-and-forget chains where a caller dispatches a downstream skill but does not gate its next step on the callee's verdict. Reports each chain as CLOSED or OPEN and outputs specific fix suggestions. Triggered by "chain audit", "return-path check", "fire-and-forget detection", "chain closure audit", "skill chain compliance".

self-marketing-lint

DEPRECATED — merged into harness-doctor --lint mode (2026-06-02). Language pattern detection (self-marketing, cushion words, version labels) is now Step 3-L of harness-doctor. Use /harness-doctor --lint instead.

sim-conductor

Autonomously runs external user reaction simulations, internal audits, ideation scans, artifact validation, and quality reviews. Profiles the target artifact first, then derives task-appropriate personas, dispatches them as parallel agents, classifies findings into M/S/R tiers, and completes the pipeline through to commit automatically.

steel-quench

A meta-skill that concretizes a designer's anxiety into AI-driven all-angle challenger attacks (via fh-commons:quench-challenger) and shakes off flaws through defensive rounds. Systematically surfaces root weaknesses of near-complete projects wave by wave, guaranteeing near-human-review quality without direct human deep inspection. Wave 4 (Meta-Aware Adversary) is an advanced mode where the challenger uses its own AI nature — hallucination, context collapse, prompt injection, tool lock-in — as attack vectors. Wave-P3 (gate-passage re-attack) re-attacks an artifact on Coverage/Narrative/False-confidence right after an upstream gate declares PASS. Built-in fh-commons:quench-challenger agent outputs harness structure 6-axis attack+prescription pairs; after convergence, fh-meta:persona-innovator auto-extracts new patterns. Triggered by: "quench this", "devil's judgment", "all-angle review", "end-to-end verification", "steel quench", "deep pre-completion inspection", "shake out design anxiety", "attack from the ro

verify-bidirectional

A skill that immediately updates the baseline and reflects it in the next session when the user raises a counter-argument to an AI recommendation. Triggered by "is that right?", "re-examine this", "something seems off here". Explicit /verify-bidirectional call also possible.

phantom-quench

The grounding member of the quench series — extracts proper nouns, numerical values, and branching conditions from artifacts (TCs, analysis reports, design documents), back-traces them to declared source files, and marks anything not found as a Phantom Claim (ungrounded — present in the artifact but not traceable to a declared source; not a claim that it is necessarily false). If steel-quench attacks output patterns (self-declarations, cushion language), phantom-quench attacks input tracing (where did this come from?). Renamed from source-grounding-audit (2026-06-06, quench-series); `/source-grounding-audit` still resolves as an alias. Triggered by "phantom detection", "phantom-quench", "phantom claim", "hallucinated claim detection", "source back-trace", "source audit", "verify source", "TC evidence tracing", "where did this come from", "grounding audit", "source grounding audit", "false claim detection".

public-surface-audit

Scans git-tracked (public) files for operator-private tokens that should live only in gitignored files — real usernames, absolute home paths, companion-store names, company asset names. Reports file:line + matched token + severity, so a public/private split stays clean before publish. Triggered by "public surface audit", "did I leak anything", "check tracked files for private tokens", "private token scan", "public-surface-audit".

skill-splitter

Splits an over-loaded SKILL.md into always-loaded (SKILL.md) + on-demand (SKILL_detail.md) layers using a governance-semantic criterion — not length, but when the content is needed. Connects the two files with imperative pointers. Based on paper §9.5 Protocol-Priority Split pattern. Diagnoses, classifies, splits, and verifies in one pass.

mcp-circuit-breaker

Detects MCP tool failure patterns and trips a circuit breaker to stop cascading retries. Proposes fallback alternatives and resets when the tool recovers. Triggers on "MCP failing", "tool keeps erroring", "circuit-breaker", repeated tool call failures.

token-budget-gate

Estimates token cost before a multi-step task and outputs a Green/Yellow/Red gate verdict. Tracks actual vs. estimated after completion for calibration. Triggers on "token budget", "how much will this cost", "will this be expensive", "estimate tokens", before long multi-agent tasks.

frontier-status-summary

Maps which assets to use for externally distributed materials (briefings, cards, guides) by audience type. Performs cross-referencing only — does not transform hub asset content.

pr-review-watcher

Monitors for incoming PR reviews and summarizes their content. Determines approval/change-request/comment verdicts and extracts action items. Triggers on "did the PR review come in?", "when will the review arrive", "PR waiting" utterances.

asset-placement-gate

Routes a proposed skill, plugin, or agent to its correct home — forge-harness (FH) meta-skill, project-local agent, or drop — by applying a 4-criteria meta-skill bar followed by a project-local value test.

contention-layer

When two skills or agents produce conflicting verdicts on the same output, reads the conflict as a signal rather than an error and harvests new skill candidates. Routes skills born from contention to fh-meta if they are meta-layer, to commons plugin if project-agnostic, or to field harvest if domain-specific. Triggered by "two skills conflict", "they produce different conclusions", "contention-layer", "contention harvest".

deep-clarify

Clarifies ambiguous requests through Socratic dialogue, drawing out goals, completion criteria, and constraints to produce a structured spec document. Pre-dispatch requirement clarification step for agent dispatch. Triggered by "I don't know what to build", "how should I approach this", "organize this for me", "clarify this", "deep-clarify".

install-doctor

Scans the existing environment before and after meta-harness plugin install to diagnose conflicts, duplicates, and silent overwrite risks. Reports potential conflict areas with existing CLAUDE.md, skills, hooks, and audit practices. Activates on "install conflict", "any overlaps?", "is it safe to install?".

memory-hygiene

Detects "stale-but-confident" memory entries — facts that were once verified but have silently drifted. Scans memory/*.md for entries past their staleness threshold and proposes re-verification or archival. Runs automatically as part of harvest-loop Step 0-c and on explicit invocation.

context-bridge-dispatch

DEPRECATED — merged into agent-composer Step 3-a (2026-06-02). Context Card injection (N≤2 standard / N≥3 Registry mode) + coordination-overhead budget + Focus Mode are now part of agent-composer Step 3. Invoke /agent-composer for parallel dispatch.

source-grounding-audit

RENAMED to phantom-quench (2026-06-06, quench-series rebrand). Same skill, same ruleset — only the label changed to fit the quench family (steel-quench · phantom-quench · goal-quench). Use /phantom-quench. This alias is retained so old references and the v1 paper's name still resolve.