Forge
Where agent tools are crafted.
Forge is a marketplace of domain-scoped plugins for [Claude Code][claude] and [GitHub Copilot CLI][copilot].
Each domain bundles its own skills, agents, hooks, and rules — install one plugin and get everything you need for that domain.
Install
Add the forge marketplace, then install the domains you need.
See docs/installation.md for full instructions for Claude Code, GitHub Copilot CLI, and VS Code.
# Claude Code
/plugin marketplace add ani1797/forge
/plugin install engineering@forge
# GitHub Copilot CLI
copilot plugin marketplace add ani1797/forge
copilot plugin install engineering@forge
Domains
| Domain | Description |
|---|
engineering | Full-spectrum engineering — code review, TDD, data science, frontend/UI, backend, SRE, and project management, with 6 specialist agents and language conventions |
design | System design, visual design, and architecture — with Archie providing software architecture oversight, design guidance, and decisioning; and ADR conventions |
writing | Technical writing, copywriting, personal knowledge base (raw/ + wiki/) — with editor and knowledge-researcher agents and style guide |
legal-and-compliance | Contract review, policy checking — with compliance auditor and guidelines |
sales | Proposal writing, outreach — with sales strategist and messaging rules |
hf-cli | HuggingFace CLI skills (external — from [huggingface/skills][hfskills]) |
The Crew Model
Forge's engineering agents work as an integrated crew — not isolated tools. Archie designs, Morgan orchestrates, specialists build, Sherlock verifies. Full model, roles, and delegation protocol: plugins/engineering/rules/crew-model.md.
See the crew-kickoff skill in the design plugin for the full initiative sequence.
Agents
| Agent | Plugin | Role |
|---|
archie | design | Technical architect — produces all buildable artefacts |
morgan | engineering | Delivery lead / orchestrator |
sherlock | engineering | Code reviewer + phase-boundary conformance |
ada | engineering | Data scientist — EDA, modelling, ML pipelines |
nova | engineering | Frontend / UI/UX — components, a11y, Playwright e2e |
atlas | engineering | Backend owner — APIs, DB, auth, queues |
hawke | engineering | SRE / Platform — infra, observability, incidents |
ed | writing | Edits and polishes prose |
dewey | writing | Ingests raw sources into the knowledge wiki |
norm | legal-and-compliance | Compliance and policy auditing |
jerry | sales | Sales strategy and deal planning |
Full crew table with build-against artefacts: plugins/engineering/rules/crew-model.md.
MCP Servers
The engineering, design, and writing plugins ship MCP servers pre-configured in each plugin's .mcp.json. Both CLIs (Claude Code and Copilot CLI) load .mcp.json from the plugin root automatically on install and expand ${VAR} references from your environment at launch.
engineering plugin:
| MCP | Package / Endpoint | Used by | Secret (env var) |
|---|
| playwright | @playwright/mcp | Nova (e2e + a11y), Hawke (synthetic monitoring) | — |
| context7 | @upstash/context7-mcp | Morgan, Atlas, Ada (live library docs) | CONTEXT7_API_KEY (optional — higher rate limits) |
| kubernetes | mcp-server-kubernetes | Hawke (live cluster inspection) | — (uses active kubeconfig) |
| postgres | @henkey/postgres-mcp-server | Atlas, Ada (schema introspection, EDA) | DATABASE_URL (required for use) |
Morgan, Sherlock, and Hawke's github/* tools come from the remote GitHub MCP (https://api.githubcopilot.com/mcp/), wired up natively by each CLI — not declared in .mcp.json.
design plugin:
| MCP | Package | Used by | Secret (env var) |
|---|
| excalidraw | mcp-excalidraw-server | Archie (open Mermaid diagrams on a live, editable Excalidraw canvas, refine per element, export committable .excalidraw artifacts) | — |
writing plugin:
| MCP | Package | Used by | Secret (env var) |
|---|
| workiq | @microsoft/workiq | Ed, Dewey | — |
Required environment variables
No secrets are hardcoded — every credential is read from the environment via ${VAR} expansion. Export what you need before launching your CLI:
# Required for the remote GitHub MCP endpoint.
# Reuse the gh CLI token if you already run `gh auth login`:
export GITHUB_TOKEN="$(gh auth token)"
# Required only if you use the postgres MCP (Atlas/Ada). Unset = server starts
# but has no database to query; it will not crash.
export DATABASE_URL="postgresql://user:pass@host:5432/dbname"
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