holocron/plugins/kyberforge/.apm/skills/forge/SKILL.md

name, description, metadata

name	description	metadata
forge	Use when the user wants to build or improve something but has not named its type ("skill or plugin?"). Not a skill -> skill-author. Not an agent -> agent-author. Not a hook, instruction or prompt -> primitive-author. Not a plugin -> apm-workflow.	version category source_keys 1.0.2 factory claude-code-subagents-docs context7-websites-code-claude agentskills-spec

Gotchas

• Claude Code's skill-level context: fork frontmatter field and the /fork subagent command are opposites despite the shared word: context: fork isolates (fresh context, no parent access), while /fork inherits the full conversation. The route reference each classification loads spends that distinction: references/author-routes.md chooses between a /fork subagent and an inline run, and references/apm-routes.md rules the fork out.

Step 1 — Grill the intent

Call grill-with-docs unless a grill session has already run and is available in the context.

If grill-with-docs does not resolve, read references/grill-fallback.md.

Grilling often overturns or splits the assumed type, so it runs before classification, inline — a subagent cannot hold the back-and-forth.

Step 2 — Classify and dispatch

Match the grilled intent against exactly one row — or more than one, if the intent genuinely spans several artifacts.

Intent	Artifact type	Route to	Read
A reusable capability the agent loads inline in the main conversation, triggered by description-matching, free to bundle its own references/, scripts/ or assets/	Skill	skill-author	references/author-routes.md
A recurring task needs its own reusable definition — dedicated system prompt, tools and description, invokable by name across sessions	Agent / subagent	agent-author	references/author-routes.md
A runtime callback at a harness event, a rule scoped to a file pattern, or a reusable user-typed message steering existing skills or agents	Hook / instruction / prompt	primitive-author	references/author-routes.md
A new distributable unit — no existing plugin is the right home for the skill, agent, hook or MCP server being built, or the bundle needs its own manifest, versioning and install lifecycle	Plugin	apm-workflow (apm plugin init)	references/apm-routes.md
The plugin already exists and only its marketplace-facing metadata changes — a first listing, or a version/description update, never the plugin's contents	Marketplace entry	apm-workflow (apm marketplace package add)	references/apm-routes.md

The table classifies what to build, not how to run it: a one-off task that merely needs an isolated or context-inheriting run is not an artifact and has no row here. If the intent stays genuinely ambiguous between rows after grilling, ask the user rather than guessing.

A real artifact that matches no row — an MCP server, an AGENTS.md, a research doc — has no route here. Say so, hand the user the skill that does own it, and never bend it into a row to make the table fit.

When the intent spans several rows, chain the routes in dependency order — an artifact that must exist on disk before another skill can target it goes first, so apm-workflow scaffolds the plugin directory before skill-author scaffolds a skill inside it.

Announce, then invoke. State the classification and which skill(s) will run. Then read the reference file for each classified artifact type — only those — and follow it.

Step 3 — Closing gates, common to every route

• Resolve before closing. A route is finished only when its verification reports nothing unresolved. An actionable finding reopens the route; it is never reported onward as a caveat.
• Bump the package version. A skill route always lands here: skill-author moves only a skill's own metadata.version, which is not the package apm.yml's number — so read references/version-bump.md after one; it skips the bump when the branch already has one. agent-author, primitive-author and the apm routes bump the package themselves at plugin scope; after those, read it only when their output says neither that they bumped nor that the branch already had.