Updates
A compact log for site-wide changes and major project log references.
Development hardware for Bastion (dedicated x86-64 workstation) and Sentinel (development laptop) is now in place. Both projects were previously flagged as hardware-blocked on the roadmap; active work resumes on both, with Bastion taking priority. Neither will match Forge's release cadence — the systems are longer-horizon by design — but the standstill is over.
Neural Substrate — the biophysical spiking-network tissue model and its embodied 3D navigation environment — is transitioning from internal research to preparation for open source release. Work is currently focused on readying the codebase, documentation, and release infrastructure. Release timing is not yet fixed. Weekly project logs continue at the project page.
A reliability release focused on local-model edge cases. The
edit_file tool no longer dead-ends on a failed
match — it returns bounded recovery hints (closest match,
whitespace diffs, or an occurrence list) so weaker local models
can self-correct instead of looping.
Token usage tracking is restored on streaming OpenAI-compatible
endpoints (mlx_lm, vLLM, llama.cpp, LM Studio,
OpenAI). Without it, /usage and the context footer
had been stuck at zero and auto-compaction was silently
disabled on long local sessions.
Tool calls that some servers leak as raw text (notably
mlx_lm at high context, including Qwen3-Coder's
XML dialect) are now recovered into real calls, so the agent
stops stalling or returning empty turns in that state.
Installer preflight now checks for curl,
ripgrep, and bun up front. See the
CHANGELOG.
v0.2.0 ships streaming reasoning display for
chain-of-thought models — a compact "Thinking…" line that
settles into a "Thought for Xs" summary when the answer arrives,
expandable with Ctrl+T. Works with any OpenAI-compatible
endpoint that streams reasoning in a separate field (LM Studio,
Ollama, vLLM, mlx_lm, and most cloud reasoning
models).
Fixed: compatibility with strict
OpenAI-compatible servers like mlx_lm that require
the system message to come first — Forge now keeps the
leading system prompt and relocates later ones. Ctrl-key
shortcuts (Ctrl+F, Ctrl+T) no longer leak their letter into the
input field.
Formally removed: the Claude subscription (Pro/Max) OAuth code path. The behavior was first patched out within v0.1.0 on June 22; v0.2.0 is the tagged release that completes the removal — client id, user-agent impersonation, token store, and weekly version self-check all gone. Anthropic is still fully supported via API key. See the CHANGELOG.
Forge no longer supports Claude (Pro / Max) subscription OAuth login. Anthropic's terms restrict subscription OAuth credentials to its own applications, so the Claude OAuth code path has been removed entirely from Forge. ChatGPT Codex subscription OAuth is unaffected and remains supported. To connect to Anthropic models, use a direct Anthropic API key — see the CHANGELOG for details. This is a patch to v0.1.0; no version bump was issued because nothing else changed.
Forge is now publicly available. The terminal-based autonomous AI coding agent runs locally against any OpenAI-compatible endpoint, or against Claude Pro and ChatGPT Plus subscriptions via OAuth. Source on GitHub at github.com/Vulkgryph/Forge. Installation and configuration notes live in the repository README. Inquiries: [email protected].
The Vulkgryph public site is live at vulkgryph.com. It serves as the canonical public index for current projects, research tracks, and development state. Forge remains pre-launch, with public availability targeted for late June 2026.
Initial site structure added: home, research, roadmap, and updates. The public site is structured as a systems index and engineering statement.
Forge is listed as local-first AI coding tooling and runtime systems. Public documentation remains pending.
Neural Substrate and Bastion are presented as research and long-term systems work, separate from the near-term project list.
