SkyrimForge — AI skill for Claude Code

Skyrim Forge 6.0.1

Skyrim Forge is developed and released here again. The [Ultimate AI Starter Bundle](https://github.com/SenjuWoo/Ultimate-AI-Starter-Bundle) installs a **pinned, SHA-256-verified release** of it only when the user has Skyrim (or asks for the Skyrim pack), so general users no longer carry it. The bundle's CI installs that exact release end to end and requires `forge doctor` to pass, which is the one contract the two repositories share.

Skyrim Forge is a local, safety-first engineering workbench and MCP server for Skyrim Special Edition and Anniversary Edition mod development.

Forge 5.0 speaks the current **MCP `2026-07-28`** revision, which replaced the `initialize` handshake with per-request metadata, while still serving the handshake era every installed AI client uses today. Both eras run from the same process and expose the same 52 tools, so existing Codex, Claude, and Grok registrations need no change. See [docs/MCP.md](docs/MCP.md).

Forge includes the **Automation Fabric** plus a mandatory rights-and-publication gate for shareable releases. An AI does not click around SSEEdit, Creation Kit, Wrye Bash, LOOT, or Mod Organizer 2. It submits a typed JSON job. Forge validates the job, snapshots inputs, runs only the configured adapter, captures logs and outputs, reopens what it can verify, and writes an audit receipt.

Public and Nexus releases

Private packaging and public distribution are different trust levels. When the user or AI states that a mod is **shareable**, **public**, **for Nexus**, or otherwise intended for redistribution, Forge requires a typed Nexus publication plan and the Nexus target release gate. A normal ZIP is not called share-ready.

forge nexus-scaffold  NEXUS-PUBLICATION-PLAN.json --mod-name "My Mod" --mod-version 1.0.0 --uploader "Author" --approve
forge nexus-audit NEXUS-PUBLICATION-PLAN.json 
forge nexus-build NEXUS-PUBLICATION-PLAN.json