forge-skills vs agent-skills
forge-skills is a plugin bundle for AI coding tools published by aneja5. Marketplaces we read that list it: 2 (Claude Code: claude-plugins-community, Community GitHub marketplaces). agent-skills is a plugin bundle for AI coding tools published by Arjun Prabhulal. Marketplaces we read that list it: 1 (Community GitHub marketplaces). As of our marketplace pass on 2026-10-16. This pair was picked by a reader, not by our comparison rule, so search engines are asked not to index the page.
Where each is published
| Marketplace |  forge-skills | |
|---|---|---|
| Claude Code: claude-plugins-community | Listed Version: 3.4.1 Forks (GitHub): 1 Stars (GitHub): 3 Not marked · First seen |
Not listed |
| Community marketplace arjunprabhulal/agent-skills | Not listed | Listed Version: 2.0.0 Forks (GitHub): 0 Stars (GitHub): 5 Not marked · First seen |
Each figure is the marketplace's own and is never added up across marketplaces. A marketplace that publishes no figure shows none: no number is not zero.
The facts side by side
| Fact | forge-skills | agent-skills |
|---|---|---|
| Marketplaces that list it (differs) | 2 (better) | 1 (worse) |
| Stars (GitHub) (differs) | 3 (worse) | 5 (better) |
| Forks (GitHub) (differs) | 1 (better) | 0 (worse) |
| Last release | Not published | Not published |
| Where it runs | Installs as a plugin bundle | Installs as a plugin bundle |
| Transport | Not stated | Not stated |
| Tools it declares | Not published | Not published |
| Environment variables it asks for | Not published | Not published |
| Hooks it runs (differs) | 1 | Not published |
| Parts of the bundle (differs) | 92 | 60 |
| Licence | MIT | MIT |
| Repository (differs) | github.com/aneja5/forge-skills | github.com/arjunprabhulal/agent-skills |
| Changes in the last 7 days | 2 | 2 |
| First seen (differs) | 2026-10-11 | 2026-10-15 |
Lines where the two differ have a tinted background and bold values. Where the data itself says which value is better (more marketplaces, a larger figure of the same marketplace, a fresher release, a verified mark on a marketplace that lists both), the better one is also marked green with ▲ and the worse one red with ▼. Where it runs, the transport, the tools, the settings, hooks, the bundle's parts, the licence and the week's changes are marked only as different: more or fewer is not better in itself.
What each says it does
forge-skills
Agentic Engineering toolkit with 12 structured workflow skills, 5 specialist agent personas, and 7 slash commands. Covers the full development lifecycle from idea to production. Each pipeline stage produces .forge/ artifacts that the next stage consume; enabling parallel implementation with interface contracts. Inspired by Andrej Karpathy's Agentic Engineering concept.
agent-skills
60 Agent Skills spanning the agent lifecycle, building, diagnosis, SRE, security, review, QA, data, delivery, docs, and research.
How to run each
forge-skills As a Claude Code plugin
/plugin marketplace add anthropics/claude-plugins-community
/plugin install forge-skills@claude-communityagent-skills As a Claude Code plugin
/plugin marketplace add arjunprabhulal/agent-skills
/plugin install agent-skills@arjunprabhulalCommands built only from what the marketplaces declare; the full set for every client is on each card.
Tools each declares
Neither one's marketplaces publish a list of tools, so there is nothing to compare.
Settings each asks for
Neither one's marketplaces publish the settings it asks for.
What it can do: forge-skills · What it can do: agent-skills · Compare two other plugins
Data comes from the public marketplace file https://github.com/anthropics/claude-plugins-community/blob/HEAD/.claude-plugin/marketplace.json. Data comes from public marketplace files in GitHub repositories of their authors. Figures come from our own regular passes over the marketplaces, last read on . We publish no contact details for plugin publishers.