# Forge

An open-source runtime for Anthropic's Agent Skills standard that compiles a SKILL.md into a portable, hardened agent you can deploy on Kubernetes, on-prem, air-gapped, in CI, or as an A2A endpoint.

Forge compiles a SKILL.md file into a secure, runnable agent with egress controls, encrypted secrets, and audit logging, meant to run next to a service on infrastructure you already operate rather than as a hosted product. A setup wizard configures the provider, keys, channels, and skills, and a try command scaffolds a keyless demo agent using whatever model credential is already available, dropping you into a chat where every tool call and egress check is shown inline.

By default it makes only outbound connections, enforces egress allowlists, encrypts secrets, and opens no public listeners, while structured NDJSON audit logs record every action with correlation IDs. The same compiled agent can run locally, in Docker, or in Kubernetes. Its feature set includes SKILL.md-based agent definitions with YAML frontmatter, build- and runtime domain allowlists enforced through a subprocess proxy, outbound-only Slack and Telegram channel connectors, cron scheduling with channel delivery, session persistence with long-term vector-search memory, automatic multi-provider LLM failover, an MCP client for connecting to HTTP MCP servers, and a browser-based web dashboard.

Website: https://go.useforge.ai/launch