A context aware backend for AI coding agents
Hey HN, I’m Hang. Today I’m open-sourcing InsForge, a context aware backend for AI coding agents. When using agents like Cursor or Claude to build applications, they often assume what the backend looks like instead of inspecting it. Without access to the actual backend state, they fall back on outdated information, which leads to concrete issues. For example: 1. Storage, edge functions, and database logic are closely connected. Without understanding how these parts interact, existing setups get overwritten and important flows break. 2. Database migrations conflict with foreign keys or miss…
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InsForge is an open-source backend system designed for AI coding agents like Cursor and Claude. It provides agents with access to actual backend state and infrastructure details—including storage, databases, edge functions, and schemas—so they can make informed decisions rather than relying on outdated assumptions. This helps prevent common issues such as conflicting database migrations, overwritten configurations, and failed deployments that occur when agents work without understanding the live backend environment.
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Hey HN, I’m Hang. Today I’m open-sourcing InsForge, a context aware backend for AI coding agents. When using agents like Cursor or Claude to build applications, they often assume what the backend looks like instead of inspecting it. Without access to the actual backend state, they fall back on outdated information, which leads to concrete issues. For example: 1. Storage, edge functions, and database logic are closely connected. Without understanding how these parts interact, existing setups get overwritten and important flows break. 2. Database migrations conflict with foreign keys or miss functions because the agent never inspects the live schema. 3. Recreating tables or adding columns that already exist, which leads to conflicts and failed deploys. These problems are not about the agent’s ability to code. They happen because there’s no structured way for the agent to inspect and understand the actual backend before acting. To address this, I built InsForge, which exposes the backend in a structured way and gives the agent direct control: 1. Introspection endpoints for schema, relations, functions, triggers, policies, routes, storage, roles, documentation, logs and events 2. Control endpoints for operations usually done through CLI, dashboards or SQL editors InsForge is a full backend platform that includes: - Postgres - Authentication - Storage - Edge functions - Built in AI-model endpoints (via OpenRouter) On top of this, it exposes structured backend metadata and control capabilities through an MCP server and tools, providing a structured, self-describing interface for agents to inspect schemas, policies, triggers, and docs, and interact with the backend. It’s open source and can be self hosted (https://github.com/InsForge/InsForge) or try our cloud service at (https://insforge.dev/). We love feedback!
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