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gitforage

v0.1.0

Prior-art and duplicate-work research skill for registries, issues, pull requests, and open-source project analysis.

CodexClaude Code1 Skill

By Matcluck0 GitHub starsUpdated 5 months ago

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Codex and Claude Code
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Source updated
May 20, 2026
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Install gitforage for Codex and Claude Code

Installs for the current user
codex plugin marketplace add matcluck/gitforage
codex plugin marketplace upgrade gitforage-marketplace
codex plugin add gitforage@gitforage-marketplace

Paste and run these commands in a terminal with Codex. They add and refresh the gitforage-marketplace catalog, then install this plugin.

Compatibility: the page URL and API slug “gitforage” remain stable.

  • Codex: gitforage@agent-plugin-marketplace → gitforage@gitforage-marketplace

The installer fetches third-party code from the source repository shown on this page. This directory validates manifest structure and source location, but does not perform a security audit; review the manifest, components, and source before installing.

Get the source manually
git clone https://github.com/matcluck/gitforage

Clone the source repository, then follow its setup instructions to add the plugin to a compatible client. The repository root is the plugin root.

Plugin files

gitforage/
├── .codex-plugin/plugin.json
├── .claude-plugin/plugin.json
└── skills/git-forage/SKILL.md

Included Skills1

git-forageskills/git-forage/SKILL.md

OSS prior-art and duplicate-work research, also called gitforage or Git Forage. Use before building new tools, plugins, libraries, integrations, services, or major features; before opening an upstream PR; when the user asks how other projects solve a similar problem; or when you need to find, vet, clone, and analyze GitHub projects for reusable patterns.

Plugin manifests2

.codex-plugin/plugin.json
{
  "name": "gitforage",
  "version": "0.1.0",
  "description": "Prior-art and duplicate-work research skill for registries, issues, pull requests, and open-source project analysis.",
  "author": {
    "name": "Matcluck"
  },
  "keywords": [
    "git",
    "github",
    "research",
    "prior-art",
    "open-source"
  ],
  "skills": "./skills/",
  "interface": {
    "displayName": "Git Forage",
    "shortDescription": "Find prior art before building",
    "longDescription": "A reusable workflow for checking package registries, open issues, pull requests, and GitHub repositories before building new tools, plugins, libraries, integrations, or major features.",
    "developerName": "Matcluck",
    "category": "Developer Tools",
    "capabilities": [
      "Interactive",
      "Read",
      "Write"
    ],
    "defaultPrompt": [
      "Use Git Forage before we build this feature.",
      "Search for prior art and open PRs for this idea.",
      "Find maintained open-source projects that solve this problem."
    ],
    "brandColor": "#24292F"
  }
}
.claude-plugin/plugin.json
{
  "name": "gitforage",
  "description": "Prior-art and duplicate-work research skill for registries, issues, pull requests, and open-source project analysis.",
  "version": "0.1.0",
  "author": {
    "name": "Matcluck"
  },
  "keywords": [
    "git",
    "github",
    "research",
    "prior-art",
    "open-source"
  ],
  "skills": "./skills/",
  "category": "Developer Tools"
}

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[gitforage on Agent Plugins Marketplace](https://pluginsmp.com/plugins/gitforage)