Forge is a personal browser for macOS: Chromium underneath through CEF, a native AppKit shell on top. It is not trying to replace Chrome or Brave and has no password manager, sync or extension store. It does a few things no mainstream browser does because no mainstream browser’s users ask for them.
Running localhost services appear on the new tab page with their port and process, and a tab pointed at a dev server reloads itself when the server restarts. Thirteen local utilities (JSON, JWT, Base64, regex and others) run without the network. The request inspector lists every host the active tab has talked to and can block any of them permanently.
The part closest to Listen is stats for nerds. When something plays, it shows the whole audio path: codec and container read from the MediaSource buffer, bitrate measured from appended bytes, the browser’s mix rate, then the real output device with its sample rate and bit depth, and whether macOS is resampling in between.
The division of labour is the honest centre of this project. The Swift and C++ were written by the model. The product decisions, the diagnosis and every catch of the model being confidently wrong came from Hari. Two of those catches are in the iteration log, because they are the reason the numbers in Forge can be trusted.