I've been building StellarForge, a cloud-based development environment for building smart contracts with Rust on Stellar's Soroban platform.

The main thing I wanted to explore was:

What does an IDE look like when an AI agent is a first-class part of the development workflow rather than a chat sidebar?

So I built the agent directly into the development environment.

What it does

🤖 Agentic coding
The agent can create files, understand the project, modify existing code, diagnose build errors, and help implement features.

🦀 Real Rust tooling
Instead of lightweight syntax highlighting, StellarForge runs rust-analyzer for autocomplete, type inference, hover documentation, go-to-definition, and other LSP capabilities.

💻 Full browser IDE
Monaco editor, file explorer, terminal, Git integration, project management, and build tooling all run inside the same environment.

☁️ Cloud development
Projects are persisted in the cloud, so the development environment doesn't depend on a specific machine.

👥 Real-time collaboration
Multiple developers can work on the same project using CRDT-based synchronization.

🚀 Build → test → deploy
The development workflow is integrated into the IDE rather than requiring developers to switch between an editor, terminal, CLI, and deployment tools.

The problem I wanted to solve

For Soroban development, the traditional workflow involves setting up Rust, Cargo, dependencies, the Stellar CLI, and the rest of the local toolchain before getting to the actual development.

I wanted to see how much of that could disappear behind an IDE.

Instead of:

install → configure → troubleshoot → start coding

the goal is:

open → describe → build → test → deploy

It's still an evolving project, but the interesting part for me isn't just the blockchain use case — it's experimenting with what an AI-native developer tool looks like when the agent has access to the actual editor, LSP, filesystem, terminal, compiler, and project context.

🔗 Try it: https://stellarforge.app
🐙 Source: https://github.com/SagantaHQ/StellarForge

I'd especially love feedback from people building IDEs, LSP tooling, coding agents, cloud development environments, or developer infrastructure.

I’ve been building StellarForge, a cloud-based agentic IDE for developing smart contracts on Stellar’s Soroban platform.

The idea was pretty simple:

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So I built it.

StellarForge combines an AI coding agent with a full Rust development environment:

• 🤖 AI coding agent that can write, understand, debug, and modify contracts
• 🦀 Real Rust tooling with rust-analyzer, autocomplete, type inference, hover docs, and go-to-definition
• 🛠️ Build, test, and deploy directly from the browser
• ☁️ Cloud projects + autosave
• 👥 Real-time collaboration
• 💻 Built-in editor, terminal, file explorer, and Git

One of the things I wanted to eliminate was the usual setup process:

rustup → cargo → dependencies → stellar-cli → configuration → finally start coding

Instead:

Open StellarForge → create a project → start building.

You can also ask the agent to create a contract, fix compiler errors, make changes across the codebase, or help you work through an implementation.

The project is open source, and I'm still actively building it.

🔗 https://stellarforge.app
🐙 https://github.com/SagantaHQ/StellarForge

Would love feedback from other people who build developer tools, AI coding environments, or Web3 infrastructure. What would you add to an agentic IDE?

Getting started with Soroban can mean setting up Rust, cargo, the Stellar CLI, dependencies, and a local development environment before you even write your first contract.

We wanted to make that easier.

StellarForge is an agentic development environment for building Soroban smart contracts in Rust.

Instead of just giving you an editor, StellarForge gives you an AI coding agent that works alongside you to write, understand, debug, and improve your contracts.

It combines:

• AI coding agent for writing and fixing code
• Real rust-analyzer support — type inference, hover docs, go-to-definition, autocomplete
• Monaco editor, terminal, file explorer, and Git
• Build, test, and deploy directly to Stellar Testnet/Mainnet
• Cloud projects and autosave
• Real-time collaboration
• Ready-to-use Soroban templates

And you don't need to install rustup, cargo, stellar-cli, or Docker.

The idea is simple: go from an idea to a working Soroban contract without spending hours fighting your development environment.

We're sharing it here because we'd genuinely like feedback from the Stellar/Soroban community — especially from developers who have built with Soroban before.

Try it: https://stellarforge.app
Source: https://github.com/SagantaHQ/StellarForge

Built by Saganta · Open source under Apache 2.0.