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TL;DR
Forge is a Python reliability layer for self-hosted LLM tool-calling, built by Antoine Zambelli, AI Director at Texas Instruments. It hit the Hacker News front page on May 19, 2026 with 206 points and a tagline that did the heavy lifting on its own: "Guardrails take an 8B model from 53% to 99% on agentic tasks."
The headline result, drawn from Forge's own 26-scenario eval suite:
Bare 8B local model: ~53% on multi-step agentic workflows
