Forge is a terminal-native IDE for multi-agent agentic coding — think "vim/nvim equivalent for AI-assisted development." It allows a developer to orchestrate multiple AI coding agents (Claude Code, Codex, aider, etc.) across local and remote machines from a single keyboard-driven TUI.

Forge is an attempt to fill a gap in modern AI-assisted coding. Currently, AI-assisted coding relies on agent CLIs running in terminals, but there's no purpose-built terminal environment for orchestrating multiple agents simultaneously.

• TUI shell for managing agents and sessions
• MCP-based agent communication
• File locking system to prevent conflicts
• PTY-based terminal emulation for agents
• Local agent spawning and management
• NATS-based message bus for inter-agent communication - which can be extended

Forge is built on a client-server architecture with a central daemon and a TUI client.

• Daemon: forged - runs in the background and manages agents and sessions
• Client: forge - TUI client for interacting with the daemon
• Message Bus: nats - message bus for inter-agent communication
• State Storage: sqlite - database for storing agent and session information
• MCP Bridge: forge-mcp - MCP bridge for inter-agent communication - advertises forge's capabilities as MCP tools to the agent and handles the MCP <-> NATS translation for inter agent communication.

# Clone the repository
git clone https://github.com/yourusername/forge.git
cd forge

# Build the project
cargo build --release

./target/release/forged

./target/release/forge

From the TUI, press Esc then n to spawn a new agent.

./target/release/forge stop

Configuration is managed through forge.toml in the data directory.

MIT License