SpecForge

A desktop app for spec-driven development, built and released by the studio. Cross-platform, open source, and deliberately read-only.

3 platformsmacOS, Windows and Linux, built and published from one tag-driven release pipeline.

MIT licensedThe full source is public — the studio's work is inspectable, not just described.

Read-only by designIt observes and renders. No write path exists to a spec or to git.

The problem it solves

Spec-first work leaves its state on disk, spread across repositories and git worktrees. Checking it meant leaving the code for a separate panel in an editor — a context switch heavy enough that between deliberate visits, you stop looking. SpecForge puts the count in the menu bar and the detail one click away.

Why it is proof

SpecForge is a Rust and TypeScript application with a headless core that is fully unit-testable without a GUI, a mutation-tested test suite, and a release pipeline that builds three platforms from a tag. It is the studio’s verification practice applied to its own product, in public, where the code can be read.

The proof point
The architecture and verification discipline the studio brings to client work — visible in something it ships itself, with the source open.

Talk to us about building something like this

Visit specforge.avantmedia.uk Source on GitHub