Skill: prompt-forge — Pre-flight team for H/BLOCKER tasks

Skill: prompt-forge — Pre-flight team for H/BLOCKER tasks 

 Skill path: ~/.claude/skills/prompt-forge/ 

 Description 
 Pre-flight team meta-design for H/BLOCKER MC tasks. Spawns 5 specialist agents (petter-graff + devils-advocate + anthropic-chief-architect + openai-chief-architect + chip-huyen) in parallel. Synthesizer (petter-graff in 2nd role) combines into unified prompt with preserved <disagreements> XML field. 

 Output: ~/system/prompts/forged/<mc_id>.md 

 Trigger: /prompt-forge <mc_id> 

 When to Use 

 Run prompt-forge when ALL of the following apply: 
 
 Priority = H 
 AND: BLOCKER label OR effort estimate ≥ M OR 3+ acceptance criteria OR multi-component 
 

 Skip prompt-forge (go directly to /mehanik) when ANY of: 
 
 Priority = M or L 
 BLOCKER but trivial scope (single-file edit, single-line config, runbook execution) 
 Recurring template task (deploy step, cert renewal, credential rotation) 
 Effort estimate = S 
 

 Workflow 

 
 Preconditions: Verify MC task exists, status is open/in_progress, scope gate passes 
 Parallel dispatch: Spawn all 5 panelists simultaneously (Sonnet × 4, Opus × 1) 
 Synthesis: Petter Graff in synthesis role combines outputs into unified prompt 
 Output format: 8 sections including mandatory <disagreements> block 
 Next step: Feed forged prompt into /mehanik 
 

 Cost and Scope Gates 

 
 Hard cap: $1.00 per invocation 
 Daily budget: $5.00 (≈ 5 BLOCKER tasks/day maximum) 
 Typical cost: $0.34 warm cache / $0.95 cold 
 Model tiering: Sonnet × 4 panelists + Opus × 2 (Anthropic CA panelist + synthesis) 
 

 Output Format (8 sections) 

 The forged prompt at ~/system/prompts/forged/<mc_id>.md contains: 

 
 OBJECTIVE — Single paragraph: what and why 
 CONTEXT FILES — Explicit list with absolute paths 
 DELIVERABLES — Numbered artifacts with acceptance signals 
 CONSTRAINTS — Hard limits (what NOT to do) 
 SUCCESS CRITERIA — Machine-verifiable checklist 
 AGENT ROUTING — Which specialist handles this 
 <disagreements> — Raw panelist conflicts, unsmoothed 
 FOOTER — Synthesis flag, cost estimate, next step 
 

 v0.1 Deferred (post-Akershus 2026-05-04) 

 
 Eval harness: 20-task golden dataset replay 
 Complexity classifier: automated scope gate 
 cost-tracker.js integration 
 Observability: per-panelist latency, token counts 
 BFPR ship gate: ≥70% Builder First-Pass Rate over first 20 uses 
 

 References 

 
 Local SKILL.md: ~/.claude/skills/prompt-forge/SKILL.md 
 Agent briefs: ~/.claude/skills/prompt-forge/references/agent-briefs.md 
 Full spec: /tmp/std1-synthesis.md 
 Related: ZAKON #25 (john-operating-system.md line 77) 
 

 

 Author: ALAI, 2026 
 Last updated: 2026-04-28