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🔥 SkillFoundry (forge) — open, vendor-neutral toolchain for authoring, validating, testing & publishing AI agent skills. Works across Claude Code / Cursor / Codex / OpenCode / Cline. Ships 15 starter skills.

Install
npx -y skills add NSBen/skillfoundry --skill readme-badge

Assembled from the repository path, not quoted from the project. Check it against their README if it does not work.

2 things to look at

  • 14 days oldThe repository was created 14 days ago. New is not bad, but a brand new repository carrying a familiar-sounding name is the shape a typosquat arrives in, and there has been no time for anyone else to find a problem with it.
  • 1 stars1 stars. Stars are a popularity signal and not a quality one, but at this level it is likely that nobody has read this closely except its author, and you would be relying on your own review.

What its author says it does

Copied from the file, not written here

Use when you want to add accurate, up-to-date status badges (build, version, license, coverage, PyPI) to a README and avoid broken, stale, or misleading shields.

The file declares its own license as MIT. That is the author’s claim about this one file, and it is not the same thing as the license GitHub reports for the repository, which is listed with the other numbers below.

SKILL.md

1.2 KB, as published. Nobody here has run it

README Badge

When to use

Invoke this skill when finalizing a README and you want status badges that stay correct and load reliably.

Steps

  1. Pick badges that reflect real signals: build, version, license, coverage, downloads.
  2. Prefer shields.io dynamic endpoints or the project's native badge (GitHub Actions, PyPI).
  3. Use a flat, compact style and keep the row to 3–6 badges.
  4. Avoid badges that lie (hardcoded "passing") or services that rate-limit hotlinks.
  5. Verify each image URL renders, then place the markdown at the top of the README.

Examples

  • "Insert a build + license + PyPI version badge row"
  • "My coverage badge is stale — point it at the right job"

References

Keep badges honest and few; a clutter of fifteen shields hurts credibility more than it helps.

Keep looking

Skills are one crate of 328,083. Ordering is by how many stacks a row turns up in, so the top of any crate is what has actually been picked rather than what has the most stars.