Core NXTG-Forge SKILL.md skillA

Core NXTG-Forge from nxtg-ai/forge-plugin is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.

Install it, pinned
mdr add nxtg-ai/forge-plugin/Core NXTG-Forge@git:20261015.4f19a9c

Pins git:20261015.4f19a9c in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.

Audit grade
A, 17 of 17 checks passed
Kind
SKILL.md skill
Repository
nxtg-ai/forge-plugin
Path
plugins/nxtg-forge/skills/core-nxtg-forge/SKILL.md
Versions recorded
6
Latest version
git:20261015.4f19a9c, committed Oct 15, 2026
First version recorded
Jul 14, 2026
Size
11,899 bytes
Repository stars
6
License
MIT

Ground truth for the NXTG-Forge platform — the real forge CLI subcommands, the /nxtg-forge:* slash commands, the .forge/state.json + events.jsonl model, both MCP servers (Rust orchestrator + Node governance), the agent roster, and the security hooks. Use when working inside or on NXTG-Forge (the forge-plugin, forge-orchestrator, or forge-ui repos), when a user asks "what does forge <x> do", how state/checkpoints/drift work, which MCP tool to call, which agent to invoke, or when a task…

Collected from public GitHub. Every version is saved exactly as it was and never changes. Install it at an exact version with the mdr tool, and every file is checked before it reaches your agent. The main file is checked against the SHA-256 fingerprint recorded here, and the others against the fingerprints GitHub keeps for its source commit. The automatic checks below grade the latest version, and the same checks always give the same file the same grade.

What the file says

# NXTG-Forge — Platform Ground Truth

NXTG-Forge is a governance-native AI development system with three independent repos wired only
through MCP (no shared code). This skill is the authoritative map; verify against source before
asserting behavior, because earlier docs invented CLI that never shipped (see Gotchas).

| Repo | What it is | Integration |
|------|-----------|-------------|
| `forge-orchestrator` | Rust binary `forge` (CLI + stdio MCP server) | orchestrator-mcp (Rust) |
| `forge-plugin` | Pure-markdown Claude Code plugin — commands, agents, skills, hooks + a Node MCP server | governance-mcp (Node) |
| `forge-ui` | Vite 7 + React 19 dashboard on :5050; sign-in required since v3.4.1 | runs from its own repo (`npm run dev`), not spawned by the plugin. `/nxtg-forge:dashboard` is a separate static HTML snapshot that needs no server |

## The `forge` CLI (forge-orchestrator binary)

These are the ONLY real subcommands (source: `forge-orchestrator/src/main.rs`, `src/cli/`):

```bash
forge init [name]      # Initialize .forge/, detect AI tools on PATH, write state.json
forge plan             # Generate task plan from SPEC.md
…

Read the whole file at its exact version.

How to install

The exact contents, by fingerprint
mdr add nxtg-ai/forge-plugin/Core NXTG-Forge@sha256:63d1442e27d554ed

The line at the top of this page pins the label git:20261015.4f19a9c, which is what most people want. This one pins the sha256 fingerprint of the contents instead, so it survives a label being moved. Either way the exact version is written to mdr.lock, and mdr install downloads and checks those contents again, so it installs them exactly or stops with an error.

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Versions

The registry has recorded 6 versions of this file, between Jul 14, 2026 and Oct 15, 2026, about one every 18 days.

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git:20260714.4fd09522026-07-14 4fd0952 11,161 BA view

Audit of the latest version

A  17 of 17 checks passed. Fixed automatic checks with no AI involved, so the same checks give the same answer every run.
  • pass: Frontmatter block present
  • pass: Frontmatter declares a name
  • pass: Frontmatter declares a description
  • pass: Size between 200 bytes and 200 KB (11899 bytes)
  • pass: No zero-width or bidi control characters
  • pass: No instruction hidden inside an HTML comment
  • pass: No link to an exfiltration or paste host
  • pass: No credential-shaped string
  • pass: No instruction to send local credentials anywhere
  • pass: No text hidden with inline styles
  • pass: No prompt-injection phrasing
  • pass: No curl or wget piped into a shell
  • pass: No recursive delete of root, home or parent
  • pass: No instruction to read or print local credentials
  • pass: No base64 blob over 200 characters
  • pass: No link to a raw IP address
  • pass: No script tag

Source

GitHub

nxtg-ai/forge-plugin · 6 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-10-15 · branch main

API

GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_4ee5atjakim23g7d
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=nxtg-ai/forge-plugin/Core NXTG-Forge
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/63d1442e27d554ed5115c98c37c37ff634c06393fa4df2b72ee0faf2a2092804

Your AI assistant does the legwork. You hear about the deals worth your word. Hand yours the standing instructions at modelranch.com and it joins the network that reads files like this one.

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