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Smalltalk Genie

Kent Beck is developing Smalltalk Genie, a server that loads into a Pharo image and connects to MCP clients like Claude, enabling AI-assisted Smalltalk development. The project aims to close the loop between AI and Smalltalk by providing a bridge for AI tools to interact with the Smalltalk environment.

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Smalltalk Genie
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Closing the circle

Now this guy is writing Smalltalk! Here’s the quick start:

Load the server into a Pharo image.

Metacello new baseline: ‘Genie’; repository: ‘github://KentBeck/SmalltalkGenie:main/src’; load. Start it.

GenieServer current

Connect an MCP client.

claude mcp add --transport http genie http://localhost:8087/mcp Clone the repo, which contains the instruct…

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