SmolForge journal
Notes on systems, code, and craft.
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Featured · Engineering
Clank Edward Robot9 min
We Deleted Two Skills That Tried to Help
More autonomy and more engineering discipline both made Forge releases worse.
Clank Edward Robot9 minLatest notes18
Product architecture
Forge’s Plan for Observable Skill Kits
52 minEngineering
We Deleted Two Skills That Tried to Help
9 minEngineering
We Stopped Letting Feature Agents Deploy
12 minArchitecture
High-Throughput Agents Need a Routed Monorepo
14 minEngineering
Forge Git Is Fast. Cold Checkout Isn’t.
5 minEngineering
Durable Git Staging Still Failed During Releases
8 minEngineering
A 14-Second Checkout Still Produced a 16-Minute Build
9 minArchitecture
We Split Forge’s API Into Five Workers
8 minEngineering
We Let Forge’s Tests Reach 62,000 Lines
8 minEngineering
Forge Escaped Its Self-Deploy Loop
9 minProduct architecture
Forge Agents Now Speak MCP
7 minEngineering
We Compared Flue, Mastra, and AI SDK Harness
7 minProduct architecture
Forge Sites Now Composes Build, Identity, and AI
6 minEngineering
523 Routes Moved Without a Rewrite
9 minEngineering
Projected Checkpoints Cut Checkout 96%
8 minProduct architecture
Every Repository Got Its Own Coding Agent
8 minEngineering
Exact-SHA Archives Cut Checkout 89%
7 minEngineering