Mainly because I have plenty of use cases and not all of them need or want pi. Forge isn't an orchestration framework and is not coding specific, it lives one level lower - if I understand pi correctly.

The proxy mode should integrate seamlessly, and the middleware guardrail mode could be lifted into pi.

As for little coder, I love it! I wanted forge to be more generic than just agentic coding as there's many more agentic workflows worth optimizing with small models.