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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 won't let work ship until an adversarial red-team pass clears.

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

From your request to shipped —
one disciplined pipeline.

After install you manage none of this. TLM Forge hooks into your Claude Code flow and runs the right stages automatically, in four acts — scaling rigor to the work.

Understand the work before a line of code is written.

  1. 01

    Classify — Light / Medium / Deep

    TLM Forge reads your request, picks the intensity, announces it, and proceeds. Security surfaces auto-escalate to Deep.

  2. 02

    Sync the architecture

    Reconciles a living architecture document so the plan is grounded in your real component map — and detects drift.

  3. 03

    Show the design

    Produces a flowchart + sequence diagram and, on Medium/Deep work, waits for your approval before any agents spawn.

  4. 04

    Spec audit

    Surfaces hidden assumptions, threats, cost, and rollback risk — before a single line is planned.

  5. 05

    Master plan

    A structured, phased plan — each phase independently shippable and reversible, no irreversible step left unflagged.

AI writes code fast.
It also ships disasters fast.

AI coding tools are powerful but process-blind. They don't ask clarifying questions, don't test edge cases, and don't remember what went wrong last time.

Speed without verification

Claude Code optimizes for velocity, not correctness. It happily writes the feature — nothing independently checks that the result is actually right before it lands.

Footguns ship silently

Missing auth checks, unhandled edge cases, untested error paths, race conditions. The details you didn't explicitly think about are the ones that slip straight into production.

Review doesn't scale

A single human reviewer is the bottleneck — and one pair of eyes misses what an adversarial panel of specialists would catch. Real review on every change just doesn't happen.

Stop letting Claude grade
its own homework.

When Claude writes code, it has blind spots. On Pro, TLM Forge brings other vendors' models into the loop: Gemini and Codex join as independent, cross-model reviewers at the final adversarial audit. A different model catches what Claude's own review misses — and their findings feed the convergence gate you control, not a black box that ships on its own.

A Pro feature — bring your own Gemini and/or OpenAI key. Each skips gracefully if its key isn't set.

Claude
Claude
Gemini
Gemini
Codex
Codex

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

84% ↑ from 52%
80%60%40%
Wk 1Wk 2Wk 3Wk 4Wk 5Wk 6Wk 7Wk 8Wk 9

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.

Discipline, enforced —
not politely suggested.

Most tools recommend good practice and hope you follow it. TLM Forge makes the gates mechanical: independent adversarial review, tests-first, and a convergence rule that won't let work ship until critical issues are gone.

Stage 8 · The gate

Convergence gate: ship at zero

Reviewers emit structured severity findings; a rule counts the real CRITICALs and blocks shipping until they hit zero — with synthetic CRITICALs injected for missing or lazy reviews. It can't ship until the CRITICALs hit zero, and you can't merge around it.

Stage 1 · Before any code

Spec audit, every time

Every non-trivial change starts with an audit of hidden assumptions, threats, cost, and rollback risk — surfaced before the bug ships, not after.

Stage 2 · Before agents spawn

Design sign-off gate

On Medium and Deep work you get a flowchart and sequence diagram first — and nothing gets built until you approve it.

Stage 7 · Mechanically

TDD enforced by hooks

Tests first, RED → GREEN, full regression every phase. Enforced by hooks — not by willpower, and not skippable on a deadline.

Pre-ship · Independent QA

Live verification, end-to-end

A fresh QA agent — never the one that wrote the code — runs the finished feature against the real environment before it's marked done.

Post-audit · Anti-drift

SHA-anchored commit lock

After the final audit, commits and pushes are blocked if HEAD drifts past the reviewed SHA. No silent changes slip in after review.

The Result

Gates that hold under a deadline — so production-ready is the only way out.

Eight specialists.
Every gap caught before you ship.

The gates above are staffed by a bench of specialist agents. TLM Forge spawns each one cold, with a single sharp focus — so the threat-modeler isn't swayed by style, and no one reviewer has to catch everything.

review-council8 agents · spawned cold & in parallel
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
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.

Each round picks up where the last left off — later reviews verify prior findings instead of re-deriving them, the way a strong engineering team's spec and codebase get sharper over time. That's what lets the full council run on every change, not just the risky ones.

Ship with discipline. Pay once.

A lifetime license — no subscriptions, no seats, no renewals. Around $1.50 a day over a year. Less than a coffee.

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

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

TLM Forge Starter
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one-time · lifetime license & support · ≈ $1.50/day for a year
Costs less than an hour of a senior engineer's time.

What's included
  • 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 agents + 6 companion workflowsDedicated agents for security, performance, correctness and style, plus supporting automations around them.
  • 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.
  • Property tests · test-impact graph · golden-eval · live verificationDeep correctness signals plus continuous verification of every change as it lands.
Only in Pro — not included
  • Multi-LLM review council — Gemini + OpenAI cross-model reviewers
  • Optimization for future models
  • Monthly product upgrades
  • Persistent team memoryComing Soon
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The same review discipline that ships at the world's most demanding engineering orgs — packaged for your Claude Code workflow.

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