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Project Forge gives you a deliberate, structured way to open a ChatGPT Project. Instead of hoping the model remembers your last conversation, you prepare an explicit opening package — files the target project reads at startup — so every session begins from a known, verified basis.

Introduction

Understand what Project Forge is, what problem it solves, and when to use it.

Quickstart

Set up your first opening package and launch a target project in minutes.

Core Concepts

Learn the information model, authority hierarchy, and readiness states that govern the system.

Operator Guide

Practical operating rhythm — session setup, hygiene, failure modes, and smoke testing.

How it works

Project Forge separates the system’s stable rules from the per-project state it prepares. The canonical core never holds live case data — that lives in external artifacts the target project reads at startup.
1

Load the canonical files

Provide AI_START.md and the four canonical files (00_SCOPE.md, 01_RULES.md, 03_ARTIFACTS.md, 02_PROTOCOL.md) to your AI session.
2

Close the target

Define the objective, scope in, and scope out for the project you want to open. This is the foundation of your opening package.
3

Compile the artifacts

Generate the minimum opening package: an ENTRY_POINT.md, a TARGET_PROJECT_BRIEF_ARTIFACT, and an INITIAL_SSOT_ARTIFACT. Add a handoff or transfer artifact only if your case genuinely needs them.
4

Open the target project

Create or open a fresh ChatGPT Project and provide the opening package. The target project starts from those files — not from remembered chat context.

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Using Project Forge

Manual, guided, agent-based, and web compiler workflows.

Canonical Reference

The four governing files that define scope, rules, artifacts, and protocol.

Artifact Templates

Schemas and field definitions for every artifact class.
Project Forge is licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0. It was developed with AI assistance under human direction.

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