Project Forge is a preparation system for ChatGPT Projects. Instead of relying on chat memory, momentum, or informal notes to reconstruct your project context, Project Forge gives you a disciplined workflow for compiling an explicit opening package — a set of files your target project reads at startup to begin from a known, clean state.Documentation Index
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Introduction
Understand what Project Forge is, what it solves, and when to use it.
Quickstart
Run your first preparation session and build an opening package in minutes.
How It Works
Walk through the standard flow from intake to authorized artifact output.
Artifacts
Learn the four artifact classes and when each one is required.
What Project Forge gives you
Canonical Core
Four governing files that define system identity, rules, artifact grammar, and procedure.
Information Model
Classify information by stability and assign it the right residence before it becomes project basis.
Readiness States
Four honest states — READY, NOT_READY, BLOCKED, CONFLICT — that prevent false progress.
Operator Guide
Practical operating rhythm for human operators running preparation sessions.
Session Hygiene
Best practices for keeping sessions clean and preventing context contamination.
Web Compiler
Browser-based surface for guided artifact compilation without editing files directly.
The core idea
Keep the preparation workspace clean
Use a dedicated Project Forge workspace as a preparation room. Do not mix preparation work with the target project itself.
Close your target and scope
Define the objective, scope in, and scope out for the project you are preparing. Nothing moves forward until these are closed.
Compile the opening package
Build the minimum set of authorized artifacts — at minimum an Entry Point, a Target Project Brief, and an Initial SSOT.
Project Forge prepares target projects — it does not run them. The opening package is the bridge between preparation and execution.