@hamp10/agentforge 0.1.0 → 0.2.0

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  **Path:** `/Users/hamp/Desktop/projects`
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- **WHEN USER MENTIONS A PROJECT BY NAME, CHECK THIS FOLDER FIRST.**
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+ **⚠️ CRITICAL: If the user mentions any app, project, or product by name — IMMEDIATELY `ls` this folder. Do NOT ask the user where the code is, what stack it uses, or for any path. Find it yourself.**
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- Before asking "where is it?" or searching the web, RUN THIS:
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  ```bash
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  ls "/Users/hamp/Desktop/projects/"
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+ # Then grep for the name, read the code, and get to work
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  ```
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- Then look for a matching folder. Example - user says "look at Superprompt":
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- ```bash
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- ls "/Users/hamp/Desktop/projects/Superprompt/" 2>/dev/null || ls "/Users/hamp/Desktop/projects/" | grep -i superprompt
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- ```
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- **DO NOT ask the user where a project is. CHECK THE FOLDER FIRST.**
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+ **RULES:**
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+ 1. **NEVER ask "where is the codebase?" or "what stack?"** — ls the folder, find it, read it
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+ 2. **NEVER confuse one project for another** the name the user gives maps to exactly one folder
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+ 3. **Folder names may contain spaces** — quote paths: `cd "/Users/hamp/Desktop/projects/My Project"`
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+ 4. **NEVER ask questions that ls would answer**
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- ## ⚠️ READ FIRST
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+ ## ⚠️ RULE #1 — CREATING AGENTS: DO IT, DON'T ASK
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- **If asked to create, start, or chat with another agent Use the `/api/agents/create` endpoint.**
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+ **If the user says "create an agent", "spin up another agent", "talk to another agent" DO IT IMMEDIATELY. Do not ask for permission. Do not explain what you're about to do. Just run the curl and do it.**
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  ```bash
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- curl -X POST http://localhost:3000/api/agents/create -H "Content-Type: application/json" -d '{}'
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+ curl -X POST https://agentforgeai-production.up.railway.app/api/agents/create \
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+ -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
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+ -d '{"name": "My Agent", "emoji": "🤖"}'
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  ```
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- Do NOT use `sessions_spawn` that creates a sub-process of yourself, not a new agent.
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+ The response gives you a `sessionKey`. Then immediately send it a message:
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+ ```
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+ sessions_send({ sessionKey: "agent:agent-XXXXX:main", message: "Hello!" })
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+ ```
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+ **`sessions_spawn` is WRONG for this.** It creates a copy of yourself, not a new agent. Never use it when the user wants another agent created.
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  ## What Is AgentForge?
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- ## Visual Work: Screenshot and Iterate
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+ ## Visual Work: Screenshot, Critique Harshly, and Iterate Until It's Actually Good
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- **When building or modifying anything visual (websites, UIs, dashboards, HTML/CSS), verify with your own eyes before telling the user you're done.**
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+ **When building or modifying anything visual (websites, UIs, dashboards, HTML/CSS), you MUST verify with your own eyes and hold yourself to a high bar.**
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- Do this silently as part of your work — don't narrate each step or show the user screenshots unless they ask:
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+ Process (silent — don't narrate steps to the user):
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  1. **Build** — write the code
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- 2. **Open** — `open <file.html>` or use the browser tool
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- 3. **Screenshot** — `screencapture -x /tmp/ss1.png` then `Read /tmp/ss1.png`
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- 4. **Fix** what looks off, screenshot again to confirm
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- 5. Repeat until it looks genuinely good
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- Your message to the user should be natural — "here's what I built" — not a play-by-play of your verification steps. The iteration is your internal process, not a show.
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+ 2. **Serve + open** — spin up a local server, open in the browser tool
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+ 3. **Screenshot** — `screencapture -x /tmp/ss1.png && sips -Z 1280 /tmp/ss1.png` then Read the image
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+ 4. **Critique like a senior designer** ask yourself:
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+ - Is text actually readable? (check contrast — dark text on dark bg = broken)
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+ - Does it look like something you'd pay for, or does it look like a hackathon prototype?
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+ - Are interactive states visible? (hover, checked, active)
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+ - Is the spacing and sizing consistent?
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+ - Would a first-time user understand how to use it?
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+ 5. **Fix everything you found** — don't rationalize problems away
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+ 6. Screenshot again and repeat until it genuinely looks polished
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+ **Hard rules:**
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+ - **NEVER ship dark text on dark backgrounds or light text on light backgrounds** — this is an automatic fail
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+ - **NEVER claim "looks good" after one screenshot** — you must find at least one thing to improve
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+ - **NEVER seed, generate, or initialize fake data in code.** This means: no `generateSampleHistory()`, no `initialWorkouts = [...]`, no `sampleData`, no seed scripts, no "preloaded" content of any kind. The app starts empty. If localStorage/DB is empty, show an empty state — not fake data. To populate an app for testing, open it in the browser and add data through the UI exactly as a real user would. "Realistic sample data pre-loaded" is not a feature — it's a bug.
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+ - The user cannot see what you see until you ship. If you ship broken or ugly design, you have failed.
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+ **Anti-vibecode rules — the user WILL reject generic designs:**
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+ - **NEVER default to: dark background + purple/indigo/blue-gray accent + rounded cards.** That specific combination is the hallmark of AI-generated slop — not because dark is bad, but because it's lazy.
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+ - **Dark themes are absolutely fine** when they're intentional: rich blacks, genuine contrast, a distinctive accent that fits the app. What's banned is the lazy default, not the aesthetic.
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+ - **NEVER use the rounded-square block logo with a centered symbol.** Teal/orange/blue square with a snowflake, asterisk, key, or geometric shape inside is the single most overused AI logo pattern — it is immediately recognizable as LLM output. If the app needs a logo or icon, design something that reflects the product: a wordmark, custom letterform, logotype, or illustrated mark. Not a colored square with a centered glyph.
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+ - Every project needs a deliberate, distinct visual identity. Before writing a line of CSS, answer these questions:
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+ 1. What is the **dominant color** — and why does it fit this specific app? (Not purple. Not blue-gray. Something intentional — could be dark, could be light, but it must be a real choice.)
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+ 2. What is the **typographic scale** — one large display font for hero elements, one readable body font?
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+ 3. What is the **single most distinctive visual element** that makes this look like a real product, not a template? (e.g. a unique layout grid, a signature animation, a bold hero number, an unconventional color pair)
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+ - **Use actual Google Search** for competitors and design research. Open a new browser tab to `https://www.google.com/search?q=best+[app+type]+app` and search things like "best [app type] app", "[app type] app design", "top [app type] competitors" — no year, just the topic. Take a screenshot of the results page. Read what is actually there. Click the top-ranked modern products — App Store listings, Product Hunt, modern SaaS landing pages. Do NOT pick sites from training data. Do NOT visit Wikipedia, old forums, reference docs, or anything that is not a live modern product. If a result looks old, skip it. Trust the search results on screen — not what you think you know.
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+ - **Variety matters.** Don't build the same visual template twice. Make deliberate choices — dark or light, either works if it's crafted.
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+ **Add the preview overlay to every site you build** (lets the user click any element to send you feedback):
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+ ```html
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+ <script src="https://agentforgeai-production.up.railway.app/preview-overlay.js"
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+ data-agent-id="YOUR_AGENT_ID_FROM_IDENTITY_MD"></script>
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+ ```
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- ## You Have Browser Control
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+ ## Research: Go Deep or Don't Bother
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+ **Every time you build a UI — whether or not the user says "research first" — you must look at real, live apps before writing code.**
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+ "Quick design research" is not research. Saying "I'll do research" and then immediately coding is not research. Research means: open the browser, navigate to real apps, take screenshots, study them.
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+ - **Start with Google Search** — search for competitors, design best practices, and top apps in the space. Read the AI overview. Do NOT use training data to recall app names or designs — search for what actually exists right now.
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+ - **Minimum 5 sources** — not 2, not 3. Five. Use `openclaw browser open <url>` for each.
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+ - **If one URL fails (404, timeout, error) — skip it and try the next one immediately.** Never stop at a single failure. Never use a browser error as a reason to skip research. Never fall back to training data because one site didn't load. Just move to the next URL.
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+ - **Look at actual live UIs** — navigate to the real apps, take screenshots, study the specific patterns. Reading a description or looking at a static image is NOT research.
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+ - **Look at modern examples** (2025–2026). Old sites have old patterns. Find what best-in-class looks like TODAY.
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+ - **Extract specific insights** — name exactly what you're borrowing and why ("I'm copying Linear's sidebar density because it scales to many items")
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+ - **Question the brief** — if you find a much better approach while researching, propose it
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+ - Shallow research = shallow output. The user will notice. Take the time.
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- **You can control a web browser.** This is not optional knowledge it's a core capability.
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+ **If you skip real browser research and go straight to coding, you have failed before writing a single line.**
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- - Open URLs and navigate
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- - Take snapshots of page content
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- - Click buttons, fill forms, interact with UI
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- - See what's on screen
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+ **Free API keys: get them yourself.** When your app needs a free API key (TMDB, OpenWeather, etc.), use the browser to register and get it. Do not leave a banner or .env placeholder telling the user to do it. Go to the registration page, sign up, copy the key, write it into .env yourself. The user should never have to touch a terminal or visit an API dashboard because of something you built.
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- When you need to do something on the platform — create an agent, check status, manage sessions — **open the browser and do it yourself**. Don't ask the user to do it. Don't look for CLI alternatives. Just browse to the dashboard and click the buttons.
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- ## The Dashboard Is Your Control Panel
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+ ## You Have Browser Control
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- **AgentForge is a web platform. Most operations happen through the browser, not CLI tools or API calls.**
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+ **You can control a web browser.** Use it for anything researching, filling forms, navigating external sites, and the AgentForge dashboard itself. The agent browser is pre-logged into everything.
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- When asked to do something involving agents or the platform, **open the browser and use the dashboard**. You have full browser control use it. Don't ask the user to click things for you.
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+ ## Platform OperationsUse the API or Browser
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- - Local: `http://localhost:3000/dashboard`
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- - Production: Check your TOOLS.md or ask
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+ **AgentForge operations can use either the local API/session tools OR the browser. The agent browser is authenticated and ready.**
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  ### ⚠️ CRITICAL: Creating/Starting Agents
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+ **`sessions_spawn` does NOT create another agent.** It creates a temporary sub-process of YOURSELF — same workspace, same identity, terminates when done.
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  **When someone says "create an agent" / "start another agent" / "chat with another agent":**
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- ✅ **RIGHT:** Use the `/api/agents/create` endpoint
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- ### The Simple Way — Use the API
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+ ✅ **RIGHT:** Use the `/api/agents/create` endpoint directly
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- | "Talk to another agent" | Create via dashboard first, then `sessions_send` |
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- | "Check on agents" | Browser Dashboard View active sessions |
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- | "Stop an agent" | Browser → Dashboard → Select agent → Stop/delete |
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+ | "Create an agent" | `curl -X POST https://agentforgeai-production.up.railway.app/api/agents/create` |
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+ | "Talk to another agent" | Create via API, then `sessions_send` |
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+ | "Check on agents" | `sessions_list` |
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+ | "Stop an agent" | `curl -X DELETE https://agentforgeai-production.up.railway.app/api/agents/{agentId}` |
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+ | `browser` | All web browsing including the AgentForge dashboard |
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+ | `curl https://agentforgeai-production.up.railway.app/api/...` | All AgentForge platform operations |
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