Default engineering colleague
Dale
Calm, concise, and evidence-led. Dale prioritizes correctness, trust, simplicity, and maintainability.
Active Development · Flagship Software
Forge
Serious engineering work, kept in context.
Forge is a software-engineering environment for sustained work on real repositories. It brings project understanding, planning, implementation, review, and validation into one continuous working thread.
Active Development
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Interface preview coming soon
Forge is in active development. Approved interface captures will be added as the product approaches its public preview.
What Forge is
A workspace for the whole engineering thread
Forge is not positioned as a disposable prompt window or a model picker. The product is organized around one continuing project conversation where plans, evidence, files, proposed changes, approvals, and results remain connected.
Why it exists
Keep context attached to the work
Software work stretches across architecture decisions, defects, diffs, tests, and repeated review. Forge is being built to preserve that history, reduce repeated setup, and make consequential actions visible before they are applied.
Core workflow
From understanding to verified change
- 01
Understand
Start with the repository itself: its files, structure, conventions, and the decisions already visible in the code.
- 02
Plan
Turn a goal into a reviewable sequence of work, with scope and affected areas made clear before consequential changes.
- 03
Work
Coordinate supported reasoning engines and tools while keeping the project thread connected to the implementation.
- 04
Review
Present evidence, affected files, and proposed diffs so the engineer can inspect the work instead of trusting a summary.
- 05
Verify
Run the available checks, investigate failures, and keep the validation result attached to the work that produced it.
Repository and project work
Forge can discover a local project, inspect files, preserve per-project context, and present proposed changes through review and approval surfaces. The design favors cited files and visible diffs over unsupported summaries.
Models, tools, and user control
Forge coordinates supported reasoning engines and tools inside a consistent project workspace. Third-party models remain third-party services, and data sent to a configured cloud provider is governed by that provider. Local project state and credentials are handled on the device; consequential file changes remain subject to the user's approval and configured autonomy.
Engineering colleagues
One workspace, three working approaches
Dale, Iris, and Victor are selectable engineering personalities applied across supported models. They shape communication and working approach; they are not separate foundational models. Dale is the default.
Research engineer
Iris
Methodical and curious. Iris emphasizes architecture, patterns, tradeoffs, and understanding before change.
Performance engineer
Victor
Measured and practical. Victor looks for unnecessary work, profiles before optimizing, and keeps performance claims tied to evidence.
Current development state
Built in public terms, without pretending it is finished
Implemented now
Project and folder discovery, a continuous working thread, streaming responses, file inspection, review and approval cards, local project state, and the engineering-colleague system are represented in the current application.
Active development
The end-to-end planning, execution, review, provider, privacy, and settings experience is being connected and hardened as one reliable workflow.
Not yet available
Forge is not currently released, downloadable, or purchasable. Public preview details have not been announced.
Intended audience
For engineers with real code to maintain
- Independent developers maintaining real products
- Small engineering teams that need durable project context
- Game and application developers working across unfamiliar codebases
- Technical founders coordinating implementation, review, and validation
Development inquiry
See what Reed Creative Labs is building
Forge remains in active development. Contact the studio for product or press inquiries.
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