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Spec-driven development for Claude Code

Production-ready code from Day 1.

Spec-driven development, enforced. Claude Code writes code fast: TLM Forge makes sure it's correct: a spec audit before any code, independent multi-agent review of your plan and your diff, and a commit gate that blocks any code no reviewer has seen.

The engineering discipline of a senior staff team, enforced on every feature.

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The Problem

It shipped. Nobody checked it.

  • A missing auth check nobody flagged
  • An untested edge case in production
  • A review that never actually happened

TLM Forge checks it before it ships.

Every change with real logic gets an independent, adversarial review: a gate, not a best effort.

A pull request adds ship(order) to a payment webhook handler, and a dotted line runs from that line to a CRITICAL red-team-reviewer finding from TLM Forge's Stage 5 review wave (five reviewers in parallel): replaying the webhook ships the order twice, so the merge is held while the fix wave writes a failing test and then the fix.
How It Works

From your request to shipped,
one disciplined pipeline.

After install you manage none of this. TLM Forge hooks into your Claude Code flow: it syncs the architecture and gets your diagram signed off before a line of code is written, then puts the finished diff through a parallel, adversarial review wave drawn from its Review Council before anything ships.

The Memory Layer

It gets sharper the longer it works with you.

TLM's memory layer persists across every session and project: architectural decisions, past bugs, and the conventions it learned the hard way. The proof is spec accuracy: the share of your work TLM anticipated before you wrote it.

Spec Accuracy Over Time

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Spec accuracy = what percentage of your work was anticipated by TLM's spec.
The gap is bugs, unplanned features, and missed edge cases. The line goes up because TLM learns from every commit.

What It Enforces

Discipline, enforced:
not politely suggested.

Most tools recommend good practice and hope you follow it. TLM Forge builds it into the pipeline and backs the key gates with hooks: independent adversarial review, tests first, and a final review wave whose CRITICAL and HIGH findings are fixed, or brought to you, before work ships.

Stage 1 · Before any code

Spec audit before any code

Deep work starts with an audit of hidden assumptions, threats, and rollback risk, before a line is written. Medium work gets a shorter written analysis of the fix.

A feature request with "Retry the charge if a payment fails" highlighted, and a dotted line to a CRITICAL assumption from TLM Forge's Stage 1 spec audit: it doesn't say how many times or whether a customer can be charged twice, one of six findings surfaced before any code, raised as a [GATE-BLOCKING] question you answer before any code is written.
Stage B · Before agents spawn

Design sign-off gate

On Medium and Deep work, you get a flowchart and sequence diagram first: nothing builds until you approve it.

A sequence diagram for a payments webhook (Checkout, Payments, Webhook, Orders) with the step "skip if event seen" highlighted, and a dotted line to an APPROVED card from TLM Forge's Stage B diagram gate: the design is approved, nothing was built before it, and the next stop is signing the goal contract in GOAL.md.
Stage 4 · Every phase

Tests first, every phase

Each phase writes failing tests first, RED then GREEN, then commits. Affected tests run while iterating, and the full suite runs at the end of the build, before the final review wave.

Stage 6 · Deep work

Live verification, end-to-end

On Deep work, the feature is proven on a real deployed environment, not mocks, with the evidence written down: real API output, sample records, and the exact commands to reproduce it.

A checkout's Order confirmed page on a dev site with "1 charge · $108.00" highlighted, and a dotted line to a PASS card from TLM Forge's Stage 6 live verification, run as a dedicated test user on the deployed dev environment: after a dropped connection and a retry the customer was charged once, with the evidence recorded in E2E_VERIFICATION.md.
Post-audit · Anti-drift

SHA-anchored commit lock

After the final audit, pushes are blocked if HEAD drifts past the reviewed commit, so no silent changes slip in.

A git log with the reviewed commit 3f9c2a1 highlighted below a newer commit 8b41e07 at HEAD, and a dotted line from it to a TLM Forge terminal where git push is stopped by the "Stage 5 re-review required" hook message, with a BLOCKED card saying the final audit reviewed 3f9c2a1 but HEAD is now an unreviewed commit, so the push is blocked until 8b41e07 is reviewed.
Stage 5 · The review wave

One review wave, one fix wave

The finished diff gets one parallel review wave. Every CRITICAL and HIGH is fixed test-first or brought to you; MEDIUM and LOW go on a written residual list instead of looping forever.

The Review Council

Eight specialists.
Every gap caught before you ship.

The gates above are staffed by a bench of specialist agents. TLM Forge launches each one cold, at the stage where it catches the most, with a single sharp focus: so the threat-modeler isn't swayed by style, and no one reviewer has to catch everything.

review-council8 specialists · each launched cold
red-team-reviewerSECURITY
Thinks like an attacker with full code knowledge, so the gaps get sealed before anyone else finds them.
threat-modelerSECURITY
Surfaces the assumptions an attacker could exploit, so you can close them early.
architect-reviewer
Would a senior staff architect actually ship this design?
tester
What breaks under empty input, races, timeouts, partial failure?
code-reviewer
TDD compliance, pattern consistency, no surprises for the next dev.
phase-auditor
Was every promised item delivered, tested, and reversible?
ux-reviewer
Accessibility and platform conventions on anything user-facing.
general-purpose
On request: cost, ops, and docs, the cross-cutting gaps specialists miss.
~4× leanerthan re-running every review from scratch~35 agent runs vs ~145 cold fan-out
Efficient by design

Spec-driven, so it builds on itself: never from scratch.

Every reviewer checks the work against the same written spec, plan, and saved proof run instead of re-deriving it, the way a strong engineering team's spec and codebase get sharper over time. That's what lets a full review wave run on every Medium and Deep change, not just the risky ones.

TLM Forge vs the rest

Others structure the work. TLM Forge enforces it.

BMAD-METHOD and GitHub spec-kit help an agent plan. Only TLM Forge blocks the merge until independent, adversarial review says the work is sound.

CapabilityTLM ForgeBMADspec-kit
Blocks the merge until every critical issue is resolved✓——
Adversarial reviewers: a threat-modeler at design, a red-team on the diff✓——
Ship or no-ship is a scored gate, not an opinion✓——
Enforced test-driven development with full-suite regression evidence✓——
Diagram and goal-contract sign-off before any code is written✓——

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Pricing

Ship with discipline. Founding-member pricing.

A subscription that pays for itself on the first bug it catches. Cancel anytime, annual is ~70% off the $349.99 list price. Lock in the launch rate.

~84% fasterto ship production-ready
~7× more bugsfound vs. vanilla Claude

Based on early-adopter data; your results will vary.

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Pro-only power
  • Versioned design diagrams on a GitHub issueThe design gate posts your flow and sequence diagrams as images to a GitHub issue and re-versions them (v1, v2, v3…) as you give feedback: a reviewable design history, with the issue link surfaced every round.
  • Goal contract that runs to completion (/goal)The /goal gate locks the goal, non-goals and measurable exit criteria up front, then keeps building until every criterion is proven, no stopping at 80%, no re-asking "shall I continue?".
  • Optimization for future modelsEvery new Claude model is re-tuned day one: prompts optimized to keep your token usage, and your bill, down.
  • Early access to every new upgradeNew agents, recipes and improvements reach Pro subscribers first.
The full engine, included
  • Unlimited runs, no 10-run capFree is capped at 10 total runs so you can try the full recipe; Pro removes the cap entirely.
  • Light / Medium / Deep auto-classificationEvery task is auto-triaged into Light, Medium, or Deep so review effort always matches the real risk.
  • Full 7-stage feature-development recipeSpec → plan → tests → build → verify → audit → ship, gated end to end so nothing skips a step.
  • 8 specialized review agentsDedicated agents for security, performance, correctness and style: architect, tester, threat-modeler, red-team and more.
  • Spec audit + independent multi-agent plan reviewRequirements and the implementation plan are vetted before a single line of code is written.
  • Phase-gated TDD with a convergence gateTests come first (RED → GREEN), and you literally can't ship until CRITICAL issues hit zero.
  • Adversarial red-team audit + SHA-anchored commit lockA final red-team pass, with results pinned to the exact commit SHA they were run against.
  • Always up to date, one command: /tlmforge:buildThe methodology is served from the licensed TLM Forge brain and improves continuously, no reinstalls.
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