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Goals

Vision​

CmdForge is a universal librarian for AI-powered tools — enabling developers to build applications from verified, composable, Lego-like components. It breaks complex problems into small, decoupled, reusable tools, tracks them across a global registry, continuously verifies their correctness, and makes them composable through Unix pipelines. The result: development that's faster, safer, and collaborative on a humanity-wide scale.

The private project-docs repository contains the detailed July 2026 strategic analysis and roadmap. They are intentionally excluded from this public build.

Active​

  • Complete the reviewed production deployment and publish forge-tool 1.1.0 #high
  • Make CmdForge the easiest path for coding agents through discovery, project-local tools, and host bootstrap #high
  • Complete transactional email and administrator recovery #high
  • Grow a small, dependable official-tool baseline and adoption guide #medium

Completed​

  • Provide a simple, intuitive way for users to create AI-powered CLI tools without coding #high
  • Enable tool sharing so users can discover, use, and improve community-created tools #high
  • Integrate seamlessly with Unix workflows through standard stdin/stdout piping #medium
  • Abstract away AI provider complexity so tools work with any backend #medium
  • Maintain tool reliability through offline caching and graceful degradation #medium
  • Ensure tool quality through a curation system that prevents duplication and maintains standards #low
  • Support tool composition where tools can chain together and build on each other #medium
  • Provide extensibility for custom AI backends and integrations #low
  • Update and modernize provider ecosystem for the 2026 landscape #critical
  • Integrate MCP as both client and server #high
  • Evolve providers into bounded agents with skills, tool access, and delegation #high
  • Add contracts, preflight, verification, scoring, reuse guidance, and auditing #high
  • Add prompt optimization, improvement, integrity, community, and attestation workflows #high

Future​

  • Create a monetization plan for sustainable tool ecosystem #low
  • Supply chain attestation (signed releases, GPG/Sigstore verification) #low

Non-Goals​

  • Replace shell scripting - CmdForge augments shell workflows, not replaces them
  • Build a full IDE - Focus on CLI tool building, not general development
  • Require coding knowledge - Tools should be creatable without programming
  • Lock users to specific providers - Provider-agnostic by design