Skill Forge & Context Bazaar
Knowledge artifacts for AI coding assistants. Author once, compile to every harness.
What Is This?
AI coding assistants (Claude Code, Kiro, Copilot, Cursor, Windsurf, Cline, Q Developer) each use a different format for rules, context, and configuration. Context Bazaar lets you author a knowledge artifact in a single canonical format and compile it to any supported harness with the Skill Forge CLI.
This repository contains the forge tool and a catalog of 41 artifacts organized into themed collections.
Key Concepts
| Concept | Description |
|---|
| Knowledge artifact | A skill, prompt, workflow, power, agent, rule, template, or reference pack. Lives in skill-forge/knowledge/<name>/. |
| Harness | An AI coding assistant target (e.g. Kiro, Claude Code, Copilot). Each has its own file format and conventions. |
| Collection | A group of related artifacts. Membership is declared in each artifact's frontmatter. |
| Catalog | Machine-readable index (catalog.json) of all artifacts. Powers the browse UI and MCP bridge. |
| Capability matrix | Per-harness declaration of feature support levels (full, partial, none) with degradation strategies for unsupported features. |
| Skill Forge | The CLI that validates, builds, catalogs, imports, installs, and publishes artifacts. |
Supported Harnesses
| Harness | Compiled Output |
|---|
| Kiro | Steering files, hooks, powers, skills |
| Claude Code | CLAUDE.md, settings.json, MCP config |
| GitHub Copilot | Instructions, path-scoped rules, AGENTS.md |
| Cursor | Rules, MCP config |
| Windsurf | Rules, workflows, MCP config |
| Cline | Toggleable rules, hook scripts, MCP config |
| Amazon Q Developer | Rules, agents, MCP config |
Collections
| Collection | Artifacts | Focus |
|---|
| Kiro Official | 26 | Upstream powers from Kiro — AWS, observability, infrastructure, partner integrations |
| Byron Powers | 8 | Literary and publishing workflows — novelists, technical authors, agents, proofreading |
| Neon Caravan | 6 | Craft-focused developer workflows — commits, debugging, code review, type discipline |
| JHU | 1 | Johns Hopkins University Sheridan Libraries artifacts |
Browse the full catalog with bun run dev catalog browse or see the deployed catalog site.
Repository Structure
