toolbench
Ship small interactive tools on a website. A tool is one function and one JSON file; the framework builds the form, runs it, and renders the result.
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Introducing toolbench: a tiny framework for interactive web tools
Toolbench is a small framework for interactive tools in web pages. A tool is a pure function and a JSON manifest, and the runtime builds the form, runs the function and draws the answer. What it is, how it fits together, and the choices behind it, shown with tools that run live on mainLog.
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Inside toolbench: the runtime for small interactive web tools
The internals of toolbench, the framework behind mainLog's tools: what the runner guards against, why a worker exists only to be terminated, how a graph is laid out and routed the same in every browser, how known answers and size budgets keep tools honest, and why every migration is the identity function.
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Software craftIntroducing toolbench: a tiny framework for interactive web tools
Toolbench is a small framework for interactive tools in web pages. A tool is a pure function and a JSON manifest, and the runtime builds the form, runs the function and draws the answer. What it is, how it fits together, and the choices behind it, shown with tools that run live on mainLog.
frameworksarchitectureOct 2026
Software craftInside toolbench: the runtime for small interactive web tools
The internals of toolbench, the framework behind mainLog's tools: what the runner guards against, why a worker exists only to be terminated, how a graph is laid out and routed the same in every browser, how known answers and size budgets keep tools honest, and why every migration is the identity function.
frameworksarchitectureOct 2026