Core documents
The core documents define scope, rules, file grammar, and procedure.
Project Forge / ChatGPT Projects
Make the opening legible before the work begins.
Project Forge helps you prepare serious ChatGPT Projects from explicit files, scope, and startup structure instead of rebuilding the opening from chat.
Project package
The startup files carry project-specific state without mixing it into the core rules.
Live project
The real project opens from visible files, bounded scope, and a clear approved starting point.
A preparation layer, not the live project.
Project Forge helps you define the target, close scope, separate stable rules from live project state, and assemble the files a ChatGPT Project needs to start cleanly.
It is not a notebook, a case archive, or a memory substitute. Its job is to prepare the project so the real work can start cleanly.
Core idea
Keep the core rules separate from the project package.
The system works because the rules and the live project state do not collapse into each other. The core defines how Forge works. The package carries what the real project needs at startup.
When it fits
Use it when a project should start from files, not carry-over.
Bounded opening
Prepare a clean startup package before the live work begins.
Visible state
Keep scope, basis, constraints, and transfer notes explicit.
Controlled continuity
Reopen work without relying on hidden chat continuity.
How it works
A controlled path from blank workspace to ready project.
01
Close the target
Define what project is being prepared, what must be in scope, and what the opening files must actually contain.
02
Shape the package
Put the right project state into the right files instead of leaving it implicit in chat.
03
Open the real project
Start from the prepared files, not from reconstruction, improvisation, or memory.
Repository map
The repo is already the system map.
Operator guides
The practical path for people using Forge to prepare a project cleanly.
Open operator guideWeb compiler
A guided web tool for filling the opening files and exporting the package.
Open the compilerStart here