alt Hacker NewsFunny timing. I’ve been building something adjacent, though from a different angle: not primarily local-model reliability, but a control layer around agent execution, tools, routing, and operator intent. I was calling these "synthetic models", but decided yesterday "LLM middleware" is a clearer description.
Very early prototype, so I’m looking more for architectural/conceptual reactions than polish: https://wardwright.dev / https://github.com/bglusman/wardwright
The common thread I see is treating the harness around the model as first-class infrastructure. Forge seems focused on tool-call correctness and recovery; Wardwright is more about controlling what the agent is supposed to do, where work gets routed, and how the operator stays in the loop.
Curious whether you see those as complementary layers. I’m planning to try Forge and would be interested in seeing whether they fit together cleanly.
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I've just read through your readme and I have zero clue what this does. Something about proxying model calls and applying "policies" to them? But what kind of things does it actually do, what benefits are there? That should be at the top of the readme.
Ironically, the project this idea emerged out of for me is also called Forge, actually Calciforge… https://calciforge.org / https://github.com/bglusman/calciforge
Name was just a portmanteau of Calcifer's forge, because Howl’s moving castle seemed like a good metaphor for what I was trying to do… I had synthetic models as apiece there but I realized a) it was out of place and b) it was my favorite feature there
Conceptually I think definitely! Forge has no opinion on what the agent should be trying to do, that's the "middleware"'s job, so to speak.
Forge is just trying to make sure that when the model decides to do something, thee execution is reliable.
As for software integration, let me know if you run into any issues and I'll be happy to take a look or try to patch something!
Harnesses as first class infra all the way. I'll take a look at your work and see if I spot any obvious tensions.