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Forge — Engineering & Architecture Deliberation Room

Convenes a panel of Feynman, Ada, Torvalds, Popper, Occam, Nietzsche and Wittgenstein to run an evidence-based, structured debate on architecture, debugging, refactoring and code review.

Dev & CodingIntermediate★ 167⑂ 24AI score 9/10Last updated: Apr 9, 2026

What it does

  • Opens the "Forge" deliberation room via /forge and auto-assembles a 3–7 persona panel: Feynman (first-principles debugging), Ada (formal systems/abstraction), Torvalds (pragmatic ship-it), Popper (falsification/red-team), Occam (complexity audit), Nietzsche (creative destruction), Wittgenstein (naming/API language precision).
  • Mandates code evidence before any debate: read relevant files, Grep for key constructs, Glob the module structure, git log history, run tests, inspect dependency manifests — all compiled into a "Forge Evidence Brief".
  • Runs an 8-step protocol: parse mode → gather evidence → restate the problem plus three probing questions (time pressure, your own leaning, who maintains the code) → Round 1 independent analysis → adaptive depth gate → Round 2 Hegelian cross-examination → synthesis → verdict.
  • Produces a Markdown verdict with the architecture recommendation, accepted/rejected trade-offs, a 3-phase implementation path, a risk table, a technical debt ledger (created/paid/deferred), the strongest dissenting position, and a confidence rating.
  • Flags: --quick, --duo, --triad architecture|debugging|refactoring|code-review|api-design|naming|abstraction, --members, --full, --depth auto|full.

Who it's for

  • Developers and tech leads facing hard-to-reverse decisions (splitting a monolith, monorepo vs polyrepo)
  • Solo devs or small teams who want a deliberate devil's advocate before committing
  • Senior engineers who must justify a large refactor or full rewrite with evidence
  • Teams short on reviewers who want a red-team lens on PRs and API designs

Examples

  1. /forge --triad architecture "Should we split our 50k-line monolith into microservices?" → Ada + Occam + Feynman inspect the codebase, deliberate, and return a verdict with a phased implementation path.
  2. /forge --quick "Is our N+1 query in the user/posts relation worth fixing now?" → auto-selects the debugging triad and returns a fast verdict plus one concrete next step.
  3. /forge --duo "Incremental refactor or full rewrite?" → Torvalds vs Nietzsche dialectic that exposes the irreducible engineering trade-off.

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  1. Open a terminal.
  2. Create the skills folder if needed: mkdir -p ~/.claude/skills
  3. Clone the whole repository: git clone https://github.com/geekjourneyx/agora.git ~/.claude/skills/agora
    • The skill lives at rooms/forge/SKILL.md but relies on protocol/deliberation.md and the council-* / agora-* sub-agents, so keep the full repo instead of copying a single file.
  4. Verify: ls ~/.claude/skills/agora/rooms/forge/SKILL.md
  5. Restart Claude Code, then call it: /forge "How should we split our auth module?". If the command isn't recognized, just ask in plain language: "Use the agora forge skill to…".
  6. Launch Claude Code inside the project you want analyzed so the evidence-gathering step (Read/Grep/git log/tests) actually works.
  7. The prompt mixes Chinese and English, so add "answer in English" if you want consistent output language.
View source on GitHub ↗License: MIT