# Smalltalk Genie

> Source: <https://newsletter.kentbeck.com/p/smalltalk-genie>
> Published: 2026-06-21 17:50:24+00:00

# Smalltalk Genie

### Closing the circle

Now this guy is [writing Smalltalk](https://github.com/KentBeck/SmalltalkGenie/)!

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…