About

ForgeTrail is a persistent development system for building software with AI agents.

Who it is for: builders using Cursor, Claude Code, Codex, or similar agents who want structure without a heavyweight process.

Why it works: phases with exit criteria, a live .forgetrail/workflow_tracking.json, and templates pre-loaded with production lessons. Each project leaves a trail of decisions, gotchas, and breadcrumbs that future work can follow.

What it is not

• Not a project tracker, audit log, or observability product
• Not a hosted SaaS or a plugin
• Not a substitute for your judgment at phase gates

Origin

Distilled from Exec Foundry and refined across about a dozen further projects. Built by Catalyst Forge.

Open source under Apache License 2.0. Community support via GitHub issues (best-effort, no SLA). Commercial help: catalystforge.com.