Show HN: Forge – Guardrails take an 8B model from 53% to 99% on agentic tasks
Summary
The article introduces Forge, a reliability layer for self-hosted LLM tool-calling that boosts performance of 8B models on multi-step agentic tasks through guardrails and context management. It outlines three usage modes—WorkflowRunner, Guardrails middleware, and a proxy server—and lists supported backends (Ollama, llama-server, Llamafile, Anthropic). It also covers installation, testing, evaluation, and project structure.