The apps of KognogOS, in one place. KognogOS is nog, its package manager, plus the Forge Suite: small apps that set up and run the desktop, most of them in the terminal, all with the same look. This repository holds them, one section per app (D-60).
| Section | What it is | Where it runs | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| hypeForge | The KognogOS desktop: a slim, quick tiling desktop on Sway, built from small applets | Sway (it is the desktop) · Arch Linux / KognogOS | 🔄 being built, lived in daily |
| displayForge | Screen settings in the terminal: arrange, resolution, refresh rate, size, rotation, brightness — with a countdown that undoes a change by itself | Sway only, in a terminal window · written for KognogOS · on a plain text console it explains why and closes | ✅  |
| sudoForge | The password helper for the Sway desktop: one floating box for every admin request (the system's pop-up, and sudo -A), saying who is asking and what for |
Sway only (its box opens in an Alacritty window) · written for KognogOS · not for a plain text console | ✅  |
| workspaceForge | Your workspaces in the terminal: their names and order, and which apps open on each one, however you start them | made for hypeForge on Sway · any terminal, even a plain text console · written for KognogOS, needs only Python | ✅  |
| nightForge | The night light, your way: on or off, how warm the evening gets and when (by the sun or fixed times), with its own tray icon (a muted ☀ by day, a mustard ☾ at night) | made for hypeForge on Sway (the night light is wlsunset, Sway's wlroots family) · any terminal, even a plain text console · written for KognogOS | ✅  |
| forgekit | The shared foundation every Forge app is built on: title bar, menu bar, dialogs, one look — the start-up check that explains when an app can't run here (0.7.0), the password's dots centred (0.8.0), every menu entry's keys made from the menu and the --hypeforge start option for hypeForge Settings (0.10.0) |
any Linux distribution (a library) · its apps run in any terminal, with or without a desktop, a plain text console too | ✅  |
Moving in, one at a time (each keeps its own version, tags <app>-vX.Y.Z and AUR package; its old repository is archived with a pointer). Moved in: forgekit (2026-10-06, with its full history). Next: alacrittyForge 
Staying outside, on purpose: nog 
Coming, born here: one Forge app for every setting of the desktop — sound, network, Bluetooth, a theme manager, notifications, workspaces and windows, lock and idle, default and startup apps, USB drives, a calculator — all held by hypeForge Settings, the control centre (D-59); for installing, installForge and welcomeForge; later, fileForge, cloneForge, greetForge and promptForge. Most names are still to come. The same list is on kognogos.org; the detail is in hypeForge's TODO.
- Terminal first — a text-based app wherever one does the job.
- Works with Sway — nothing that brings a whole other desktop along.
- Smallest install — the fewest packages that do the job well.
(D-57) And every app is built on forgekit, so they all look and work the same.
Every app's needs to build, run and test are measured from its code, not remembered: each import, each program it starts, each library it links, mapped to the Arch package that provides it. Each section keeps the list, with why, in its docs/PACKAGING.md, and a test fails when the code uses something the list doesn't name. Every AUR recipe is also built in a clean Arch system, tests included, before it ships (the audit, 2026-10-11; the tool: scripts/needs-audit.py).
hypeForge · displayForge · sudoForge · workspaceForge · nightForge · forgekit · outside: nog · grubForge · alacrittyForge · bitlaForge · nogForge · mindForge
A human and an AI, working in the open. Decisions are written down the day they are made, each section keeps its own to-do list and decision log, and every commit is GPG-signed. The method: Building grubForge with AI.
jetomev — idea, vision, direction, testing · Claude (Anthropic) — co-developer, architecture, research, implementation
Free software under the GNU General Public License v3.0 (LICENSE).