Forge by Alto9

Forge is Alto9’s harness for running a software team in Cursor: named roles, real SDLC rituals, and a human who still approves the work.

The Agent can draft the brief, groom the ticket, open the pull request, and write the launch note. You decide whether that apply-set is the one you meant. Forge turns that loop into a practice: Product Owner, Project Manager, Architect, Engineer, QA, Security, Release, and Marketing as specialists you invoke; slash-command events for the columns from Grooming through launch; GitHub or GitLab as the board that wins when memory drifts.

A command calls the roles, they propose, and nothing is written until you approve the hand-off. Between rituals you can still ask; /forge.help only reads, so start there when the map goes fuzzy.

The workshop course teaches the same path in three passes: how software gets made, how the rituals run, then a playbook per role. Command Palette → Forge: Open Forge Course opens it in a browser tab.

Forge Studio

Forge Studio (alto9.forge-studio) is the VS Code / Cursor extension in this repository. Teammates install Forge by installing Studio: on startup it clones the Forge Cursor plugin into ~/.cursor/plugins/local/forge-cursor, and Forge: Sync Cursor Plugin does the same clone-or-pull on demand. After a clone or update, reload the window so Cursor loads the agents, commands, skills, and harness rule.

Git must be on PATH. A folder already at the install path that is not a git clone is left alone, so a local symlink for plugin development is safe.

Quick start

Install the extension from the VS Code Marketplace or Open VSX.
Open Cursor. The first launch clones the plugin; accept Reload Window when prompted.
Command Palette → Forge: Open Forge Course to walk the workshops, then /forge.help in Agent chat to confirm the plugin loaded.

Command Palette → Forge: Sync Cursor Plugin runs the clone-or-pull again whenever you want a current checkout.

Settings

Setting	Default	Purpose
`forge.cursorPlugin.repoUrl`	`https://github.com/alto9/forge-cursor-plugin.git`	Remote cloned into `~/.cursor/plugins/local/forge-cursor`
`forge.cursorPlugin.autoUpdate`	`true`	Clone or fast-forward on startup

Development

npm ci
npm run build
npm test
bash scripts/verify-packaging.sh

Requires Node 22+ (see .nvmrc). Press F5 to launch the Extension Development Host.

Release

Publishing is manual via Actions → Cut Release. See RELEASE.md.

Forge Studio by Alto9

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