{"slug": "smalltalk-genie", "title": "Smalltalk Genie", "summary": "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.", "body_md": "# Smalltalk Genie\n\n### Closing the circle\n\nNow this guy is [writing Smalltalk](https://github.com/KentBeck/SmalltalkGenie/)!\n\nHere’s the quick start:\n\nLoad the server into a Pharo image.\n\n`Metacello new baseline: ‘Genie’; repository: ‘github://KentBeck/SmalltalkGenie:main/src’; load.`\n\nStart it.\n\n`GenieServer current`\n\nConnect an MCP client.\n\n`claude mcp add --transport http genie http://localhost:8087/mcp`\n\nClone the repo, which contains the instruct…", "url": "https://wpnews.pro/news/smalltalk-genie", "canonical_source": "https://newsletter.kentbeck.com/p/smalltalk-genie", "published_at": "2026-06-21 17:50:24+00:00", "updated_at": "2026-06-22 03:38:56.376951+00:00", "lang": "en", "topics": ["ai-tools", "developer-tools", "large-language-models"], "entities": ["Kent Beck", "Smalltalk Genie", "Pharo", "Claude", "MCP"], "alternates": {"html": "https://wpnews.pro/news/smalltalk-genie", "markdown": "https://wpnews.pro/news/smalltalk-genie.md", "text": "https://wpnews.pro/news/smalltalk-genie.txt", "jsonld": "https://wpnews.pro/news/smalltalk-genie.jsonld"}}