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Dev tools · May 18, 2026

Forge

Self-hosted workflow engine for all favor agents

What it does

Forge is a self-hosted workflow engine that lets coding agents hand off cleanly — one writes the code, another reviews it. Tasks run in isolated git worktrees, hit your CI gate, then merge. Adapters for Claude Code, Codex, Gemini, and opencode. MIT-licensed.

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