Forge

Nothing leaves your device

Agents, chats, keys and memory live in local storage. No account, no hosted backend, no telemetry, no sync you didn't ask for.

Costs you nothing to run

Forge drives the Claude Code CLI already on your machine, on the subscription you already pay for. Nothing metered. Bring an API key instead if you prefer.

Agents you can hand to someone

A GAP packs agents together with their skills, knowledge, connectors and config into one file. Export it, send it, they install it.

What's inside

A workspace, not a chat box

Agents here are things you build, version, schedule and keep running — not a tab you leave open.

Computer access

Let an agent touch the machine, on a leash

Opt in per agent and it gets a shell and file writes, scoped to your home folder. Every single call stops for approval and shows the exact command. Denial is the default, credential folders are blocked outright, and anything running unattended always says no.

Scout wants to run git status --short

Allow onceDeny

Brains

Detachable minds

A brain carries its own persona, model settings, knowledge and memory pool. Attach it to any agent, move it to another, keep the memory. New facts wait in a queue until you approve them.

Workshop

Build a pack properly

A wizard for the quick version, a full editor when you need it: identity, agents, MCP servers, environment variables, and a raw-manifest escape hatch when the UI is in your way.

Knowledge

Local retrieval

Per-agent documents with semantic search. The embedding model runs on your machine.

Schedules

Cron for agents

Give an agent a routine and it runs without you sitting there watching it.

Runs

Every run counted

Token and cost accounting on every run, so a surprise shows up as a number, early.

Getting started

Three steps, no terminal

You do not need Node, Rust, a package manager, or any idea what those are.

Download the DMG

One universal build for both Intel and Apple Silicon Macs.

Drag it to Applications

The usual macOS install. Open the disk image, drag the Forge icon across.

Open it and pick a runtime

Point Forge at Claude Code, or paste an API key. That is the entire setup.

Questions

The honest answers

macOS says Forge is damaged. Is it?

No. You will see "Forge is damaged and can't be opened" or "cannot be opened because Apple cannot check it for malicious software." macOS shows that for any app whose developer hasn't paid Apple's yearly signing fee — it is a statement about the paperwork, not about the app.

To get past it once: try to open Forge and let it be blocked, then go to System Settings → Privacy & Security, scroll to the bottom and click Open Anyway. You won't be asked again. If you would rather not, the source is on GitHub and you can build it yourself.

Does my data go anywhere?

Your agents, chats, keys and memory are stored on your Mac and nowhere else. There is no account and no server behind Forge to send them to. Two things do use the network, because of what they are: the actual conversation with Claude, and a one-time ~25 MB download of the local search model the first time you use semantic knowledge search. Offline, search quietly falls back to keyword matching.

What does it cost?

Forge is free and open source. If you point it at Claude Code it runs on the subscription you already have and meters nothing. If you use an API key instead, you pay Anthropic directly for tokens — Forge shows you the running total either way.

Windows or Linux?

Not yet. Forge is built on Tauri, which targets all three, so the ports are possible — they just aren't built or tested. macOS is what ships today.

Can I get my data out?

Yes. Settings exports everything to a single JSON file, and imports it back on another machine. Credentials are deliberately stripped from the export, so a backup you share can't leak your API key. There is also a one-click wipe that leaves nothing behind.

Bring your agents home

Free, open source, and yours after one download.

Download for macOS

macOS 10.15+ · Intel & Apple Silicon