Software Design: Tidy First?

Smalltalk Genie

Closing the circle

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Kent Beck
Jun 21, 2026
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Now this guy is writing Smalltalk!

Here’s the quick start:

  1. Load the server into a Pharo image.
    Metacello new baseline: ‘Genie’; repository: ‘github://KentBeck/SmalltalkGenie:main/src’; load.

  2. Start it.
    GenieServer current

  3. Connect an MCP client.
    claude mcp add --transport http genie http://localhost:8087/mcp

  4. Clone the repo, which contains the instruct…

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