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AI · July 28, 2026

AlphaForge

The quant CLI your AI agent drives — backtest to Pine v6

AlphaForge launched on July 28, 2026 with 4 votes, #6,023 of 24,623 launches that month and more than 75% of that year's launches.

What it does

AlphaForge is a local-first quant CLI built for AI agents. Ask Claude Code (or any MCP client) to explore strategies overnight: backtest → Optuna TPE optimization → walk-forward validation → TradingView Pine Script v6 export, all from one standalone binary (macOS/Windows). Free Trial included — no signup. The visualizer, order-execution webhook, and MCP server are Apache-2.0 OSS and hit 1.0 together.

An agent-native quant CLI operable from Claude Code and other AI agents. Backtest, Bayesian optimization, and walk-forward validation run autonomously via bundled skills, an MCP server, and a non-interactive CLI. Backtrader & vectorbt alternative.

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