v1.0.0

Forge 1.0.0 rewrites every skill lean for Claude 5 era models.

Forge was originally written in the defensive, verification-heavy style that Claude 4
era models rewarded. That style is counterproductive on Claude 5: the model follows
instructions well and verifies its own work, so the scaffolding spends tokens and
suppresses quality instead of adding safety. Every skill has been rewritten against
Anthropic's Claude 5 prompting guidance. The prompt corpus is about 26 percent smaller
and the plugin does exactly the same things.

Nothing about the workflow changed. Every gate and safety behavior is intact.

Changed

• Removed self-verification and re-check instructions. Claude 5 already verifies its
  own work, and instructing it again caused over-verification rather than better
  results.
• Converted model-babysitting absolute bans into adaptive guidance, while keeping every
  ban that protects your repository.
• De-duplicated instructions across layers. Testing discipline, git lifecycle, release
  cadence, documentation duties, and typography are stated once in forge-standards,
  and the phase skills point at it rather than restating it.
• Trimmed generic engineering sermons and speculative guards for failure modes that
  were never actually observed.
• The dailen marketplace now lives in the catalog repo DailenG/dailens-claude-toolbelt.
  Install is claude plugin marketplace add DailenG/dailens-claude-toolbelt then
  claude plugin install forge-workflow@dailen.

Unchanged, deliberately

The detection ladder and its project-state check, SRS approval as an always-strict gate
that Claude never self-approves, record-versus-reality reconciliation that stops on a
discrepancy, the full always-confirmed action list, the pre-push gate with --no-verify
prohibited, failing regression tests before bug fixes, test harness failure
verification, the code-intelligence license gate, and ASCII-only typography.

On older models

If you run Claude 4 era models, use forge4-workflow (command /forge4) instead. It is
a frozen snapshot that keeps the original defensive prompting, enforces the same gates,
and produces the same project files.

Upgrading

claude plugin marketplace update dailen
claude plugin update forge-workflow

The version is also the plugin cache key, so this bump from 0.1.0 is what delivers the
rewrite to existing installs.