binaries - Scaffold and operate standalone binaries
Explains when to use binaries, workers, services, or operators and how to scaffold, compose, configure, run, and deploy binaries.
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Updated: 2026-10-01Capabilities
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What this skill does
- Choose a long-running shape
- Scaffold standalone binaries
- Define typed composition roots
- Wire binary dependencies
- Handle graceful shutdown
- Configure binary workloads
- Declare one-off jobs
Inputs
- Binary name
- Typed configuration
- Binary dependencies
- Workload kind
Outputs
- Binary entrypoint files
- Binary composition root files
- Lifecycle test files
- Deployment discovery
- Workload deployment kind
- Clean shutdown behavior
Requirements
- Forge CLI
- Forge project
- Go toolchain
- Cobra command surface
- Typed internal configuration