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agent reliability guardrails
SHOW HN2026
How HN took it
35 positive, 48 neutral or asking, 1 mixed, 19 critical, out of 103 comments about the project. Thread score +0.12.
Idea: 15 for, 5 againstPerformance: 8 for, 4 againstExecution: 5 for, 2 againstDocs: 0 for, 7 againstDesign: 1 for, 0 against
The thread, comment by comment
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What HN said
What people liked
Useful idea of domain-agnostic nudges at the tool call level
From 1 comment
Ah, so it a "smart" retry mechanism?
k__ on HN
Objections
Documentation is unclear about the workflow and guardrail pieces
From 2 comments
The docs should start with that with a very clean explanation how it works. Basically first paragraph. :) Otherwise you should expect churn. But also it should really go into…
_pdp_ on HNI've just read through your readme and I have zero clue what this does. Something about proxying model calls and applying "policies" to them? But what kind of things does it…
esperent on HN
Requests
Support for LM Studio backend
From 2 comments
Hey this genuinely _fucks_, you're a legend. You can even get stupid good results from the 1 bit bonsai models! Plays v nice with lmstudio It's now completely reasonable to throw…
monster_truck on HNI couldn't get it working with lmstudio. I have bonsai-8B running with llama-cpp and am attempting to build a harness for it. Looking good so far, I just got it started but Forge…
tmjdev on HN
Questions
How does proxy mode differ from the WorkflowRunner class
From 1 comment
> # External mode — you manage llama-server, forge proxies it > python -m forge.proxy --backend-url http://localhost:8080 --port 8081 This is a good example because I've…
nzeid on HN
Does it work with qwen models and remote APIs
From 1 comment
I'm curious if in proxy mode it works also with remote models or only with local models. Also, did someone tried it with local Qwen 3.6?
DeathArrow on HN
Alternatives named
Simple retry loops around workflows
From 1 comment
A thousand monkeys on a thousand typewriters…
koolba on HN