forge-skills vs software-engineering
software-engineering is no longer listed on any marketplace we read: these are its last known data, as of 2026‑10‑17.
forge-skills is a plugin bundle for AI coding tools published by aneja5. Marketplaces we read that list it: 1 (Claude Code: claude-plugins-community). software-engineering is a plugin bundle for AI coding tools published by Bermon Painter. No marketplace we read lists it any more. As of our marketplace pass on 2026-10-23. A plugin in this pair is no longer listed on any marketplace we read, 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 bpainter/composable-dxp-claude-marketplace | Not listed | Removed on 2026-10-17 Version: 0.3.1 Forks (GitHub): 2 Stars (GitHub): 2 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 | software-engineeringno longer listed · |
|---|---|---|
| Marketplaces that list it (differs) | 1 | 0 |
| Stars (GitHub) (differs) | 3 | 2 |
| Forks (GitHub) (differs) | 1 | 2 |
| 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 | 33 |
| Licence | MIT | MIT |
| Repository (differs) | github.com/aneja5/forge-skills | github.com/bpainter/composable-dxp-claude-marketplace |
| 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. No value is marked better or worse: a plugin no marketplace lists any more is shown with its last known data, which we do not rank against current figures.
What to use instead of software-engineering
Plugins still listed whose own names, descriptions, tools and skills are closest in meaning to it. Comparable, not endorsed.
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web-development-agents
8 specialized web development agents: React/Next.js, API Integration, Full-Stack, Performance, PWA, CSS/Tailwind, Static Sites, Browser Automation
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36 specialized agents and 32 skills. Supports Vue, React, Next.js, SvelteKit, Angular, Astro, and Nuxt with framework-specific patterns.
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Use this agent for expert assistance with web development tasks using React, Next.js, NestJS, and other modern web frameworks with TypeScript and Tailwind CSS. This includes code…
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Expert web development assistance with React, Next.js, NestJS, TypeScript, and Tailwind CSS
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Elite full-stack engineering capabilities with expert-level development across frontend, backend, databases, and infrastructure. Includes architecture design, feature…
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A coordinated engineering team of named AI specialists that remembers your project between sessions. Call yui to route work, or call any specialist directly: Go (jaan, siim…
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.
software-engineering
Twenty-eight engineering specialists: architecture personas (composable, cloud, backend), build personas (frontend, mobile, design systems, DevOps, QA), AI/ML/data/security/writing, Next.js 16 deep dives (routing, server/client, cache, actions, errors, performance, config), plus task-focused workflows for shadcn + Tailwind. One agent (software-engineering-agent). Contentful platform-implementation work has moved to the adjacent `contentful` plugin; Vercel platform-implementation work has moved to the adjacent `vercel` plugin.
How to run each
forge-skills As a Claude Code plugin
/plugin marketplace add anthropics/claude-plugins-community
/plugin install forge-skills@claude-communitysoftware-engineering
No data for an automatic command: what its marketplaces declare does not say unambiguously how to connect it.
Commands 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: software-engineering · 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.