forge-skills vs jhostalek-skills
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). jhostalek-skills is a plugin bundle for AI coding tools published by Jan Hostalek. Marketplaces we read that list it: 1 (Community GitHub marketplaces). As of our marketplace pass on 2026-10-24. 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 jhostalek/dotclaude | Not listed | Listed Version: 3.1.0 Forks (GitHub): 5 Stars (GitHub): 11 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 | jhostalek-skills |
|---|---|---|
| Marketplaces that list it | 1 | 1 |
| Stars (GitHub) (differs) | 3 (worse) | 11 (better) |
| Forks (GitHub) (differs) | 1 (worse) | 5 (better) |
| 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 | 10 |
| Licence (differs) | MIT | CC0-1.0 |
| Repository (differs) | github.com/aneja5/forge-skills | github.com/jhostalek/dotclaude |
| Changes in the last 7 days | 2 | 2 |
| First seen (differs) | 2026-10-11 | 2026-10-23 |
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.
jhostalek-skills
Opinionated skills for planning, auditing, shipping, and improving software.
How to run each
forge-skills As a Claude Code plugin
/plugin marketplace add anthropics/claude-plugins-community
/plugin install forge-skills@claude-communityjhostalek-skills As a Claude Code plugin
/plugin marketplace add jhostalek/dotclaude
/plugin install jhostalek-skills@jhostalekCommands 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: jhostalek-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.