Read-only repository analysis · 21 Aug 2026 HST

SKILL.md size distribution

Measured UTF-8 byte length for every discoverable SKILL.md in the ForgeApps checkout, including hidden repository paths and excluding node_modules and .git. This is the observed distribution—not a claim that skill sizes are normally distributed.

339
Skills measured
8.37 KiB
Average
5.75 KiB
Median
3.54 KiB
Carmen · rank 85 ascending

Empirical histogram

33
0–2 KiB
77
2–4 KiB
68
4–6 KiB
40
6–8 KiB
26
8–10 KiB
30
10–12 KiB
32
12–16 KiB
15
16–24 KiB
13
24–40 KiB
5
40+ KiB
10 KiB Carmen policy marker

The dashed marker shows Carmen's objective main-file threshold for context; it is not a monorepo-wide cap. 95 of 339 measured files exceed 10 KiB. Carmen is 3,627 bytes, rank 85 from smallest to largest (about the 25.1th ascending percentile). That position is descriptive only.

Range

Smallest: .forgebot\skills\wellness\SKILL.md at 0.14 KiB.
Largest: .forgebot\skills\research\research-paper-writing\SKILL.md at 103.36 KiB.

Method

Exact UTF-8 bytes were calculated from file contents. KiB values divide bytes by 1,024 and are rounded only for display. The pass/fail policy is applied only to Carmen's main SKILL.md.