Open Forge

open-forge

A Claude Code skill that self-deploys 2,200+ open-source apps to your own infrastructure.

Tell Claude Code what to self-host. It does the rest — picks the right install method, provisions the server, configures DNS + TLS, sets up SMTP, hardens it, and brings the app up at your domain.

No more reading a 30-step README and copy-pasting bash for hours. You stay in chat; Claude Code drives the CLIs (aws, gcloud, kubectl, docker, ssh, …) and asks you only the things only you can answer (which cloud, which domain, which credential).

Backed by a self-improving catalog: every deploy can feed gotchas back so the next user starts further ahead.

> "Self-host OpenClaw on AWS Lightsail with Bedrock pre-wired."

  Claude Code: Loading verified recipe openclaw.md (v0.24.0).
  Claude Code: Combo: AWS Lightsail OpenClaw blueprint (vendor-bundled, Bedrock IAM included).
  Claude Code: I'll need your AWS profile and the domain you want.

  AWS profile name?

(OpenClaw — the self-hosted personal AI agent at openclaw.ai — is the project's signature use case; works the same way for any of the 2,200+ verified recipes.)

Install in Claude Code

/plugin marketplace add zhangqi444/open-forge
/plugin install open-forge@open-forge

That's it. From now on, just say what you want self-hosted in any Claude Code session:

"Self-host Vaultwarden on my laptop, expose via Cloudflare Tunnel."

"Run Immich on a Hetzner CX22 with restic backups to Backblaze B2."

"Deploy Ghost on AWS Lightsail at blog.mydomain.com."

Also works on other AI coding tools and agent platforms

Claude Code is the canonical home, but the same recipes ship for other agents — see docs/platforms/:

Platform	How
Codex (ChatGPT / CLI)	System-prompt embedding or workspace files
Cursor	.cursor/rules/ bundle
Aider	--read files + CONVENTIONS.md
Continue.dev	Context provider + slash command
OpenClaw (personal AI agent at openclaw.ai)	Workspace skill at ~/.openclaw/workspace/skills/open-forge/
Hermes-Agent (Nous Research)	User skill at ~/.hermes/skills/open-forge/
Generic agents	Any LLM that can read files + run shell

Agent-mode caveat: When running inside an autonomous agent (OpenClaw / Hermes / messaging-channel agents), credential paste is disabled — the skill only accepts file paths, env vars, cloud-CLI sessions, or secrets-manager refs. Pasting credentials into messaging channels (WhatsApp / Telegram / etc.) is meaningfully riskier than into coding-tool chat. Group-channel deploy conversations are also refused.

On Windows? See docs/windows-setup.md for WSL2 + Docker Desktop setup and common Windows gotchas (stale Git proxy, line endings, WSL integration).

Updates

To know when a new version ships: