Forge Studio

Status

MVP — VS Code & Cursor extension

Overview

Forge Studio is a VS Code and Cursor extension for context engineering and agentic development. It helps teams keep product vision and technical contracts in .ai/, sync roadmaps with GitHub, and move issues through refinement, implementation, and review with explicit agents and skills.

Key features

Vision to implementation

Track direction in vision.json, maintain domain contracts under .ai/ (knowledge map + SME-owned folders), and sync milestones and issues on GitHub. Agents read the same context so implementation stays aligned with what you documented.

Staged agent workflow

Six phases—Product Owner → Architect → Planner → Technical Writer → Engineer → Quality Assurance—with clear handoffs. Slash commands and chat participants invoke each phase.

Branch and quality discipline

• Technical Writer (/refine-issue): creates the parent issue branch from main, pushes it, and links it to the parent issue. Optional sub-issues exist only on GitHub—no separate git branch per sub-issue during refine.
• Engineer (/build-from-github): creates or checks out feature/issue-<N> for the issue being built (from main or the parent branch for sub-issues), links it to that issue, implements, then runs project validation (tests, lint, build per repo conventions) until required checks pass before commit and PR.

Domain subject matter experts

The Architect delegates to six domain agents—Runtime, Business Logic, Data, Interface, Integration, Operations—that own their .ai/<domain>/ contracts.

Commands and chat participants

Commands: /architect-this, /plan-roadmap, /refine-issue, /build-from-github, /build-from-pr-review, /review-pr. Chat: @forge-help, @product-owner, @architect, @planner, @technical-writer, @engineer, @quality-assurance.

The workflow

Forge follows: Market input → Vision → Knowledge → Roadmap → Refining → Building → Reviewing.

Agent and phase details →

Installation

Marketplace

1. Open VS Code or Cursor.
2. Extensions (Ctrl/Cmd + Shift + X).
3. Search for Forge Studio (alto9.ai).
4. Install.

Quick start (after install)

1. Open a repository.
2. Command Palette → Forge: Initialize Cursor Agents.
3. Confirm .cursor/ at the repo root (agents, commands, skills, hooks as installed) and project .ai/ (vision, schemas, knowledge map).

Links

• GitHub repository
• VS Code Marketplace