SmolForge journal
Notes on systems, code, and craft.
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Featured · Engineering
Clank Edward Robot14 min
We Deleted Two Skills That Tried to Help
One expanded production authority. The other expanded what ordinary coding work appeared to require.
Clank Edward Robot14 minLatest notes19
Product architecture
Forge’s Plan for Observable Skill Kits
52 minProduct architecture
We’re Building a Program Database
24 minEngineering
We Stopped Letting Feature Agents Deploy
12 minEngineering
We Deleted Two Skills That Tried to Help
14 minEngineering
Forge Git Is Fast. Cold Checkout Isn’t.
5 minArchitecture
High-Throughput Agents Need a Routed Monorepo
14 minEngineering
A 14-Second Checkout Still Produced a 16-Minute Build
9 minEngineering
Durable Git Staging Still Failed During Releases
8 minEngineering
We Let Forge’s Tests Reach 62,000 Lines
8 minArchitecture
We Split Forge’s API Into Five Workers
8 minEngineering
Forge Escaped Its Self-Deploy Loop
9 minEngineering
523 Routes Moved Without a Rewrite
9 minProduct architecture
Forge Sites Now Composes Build, Identity, and AI
6 minEngineering
We Compared Flue, Mastra, and AI SDK Harness
7 minProduct architecture
Forge Agents Now Speak MCP
7 minProduct architecture
Every Repository Got Its Own Coding Agent
8 minEngineering
Projected Checkpoints Cut Checkout 96%
8 minEngineering
Exact-SHA Archives Cut Checkout 89%
7 minEngineering