Building on Forge

Forge is one library that gives an app eight backend primitives on a single Postgres connection, with the same behavior in Rust, Node, and Python. You call init() once, which reads a forge.toml, and every primitive hangs off the returned client.

The API is small and consistent, but the exact names differ per language and are not in any model's training data. Do not invent method names. Use the tables in this skill, or read bindings/node/client.d.ts and bindings/python/src/lib.rs in the repo — those files are the contract.

Pick the primitive first

Match the job to the primitive before writing anything. Reaching for the wrong one (pub/sub for durable work, a queue for a cache) is the most common mistake.