FORGE

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One installer. Nothing to fetch yourself.

A local AI agent that owns nothing of yours. No Python, no toolkit, no container required. Chat, models, images, video and tools run locally without a Google or FORGE account.

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FORGE 2.6.4 makes GitHub browser sign-in setup clear: add your public OAuth client ID in Connections, or use the CLI and token fallbacks. FORGE 2.6.3 also made in-app upgrades reliable: the verified Tauri installer now updates in place, even with spaces or non-ASCII paths. Existing models, sessions and settings are kept.

Windows 10 or 11 · ~20 MB installer · free to use

Windows will say “Windows protected your PC” — FORGE is not code-signed yet. Choose More info → Run anyway. The SHA-256 above is the real check, and Security explains why.

What the installer does

01

Installs a real desktop app

Its own window and taskbar entry. No browser, no address bar.

02

Brings everything it needs with it

The Python backend is compiled in. There is no runtime for you to install and no version to match. WebView2 is fetched automatically if your Windows does not already have it.

03

Adds FORGE to your PATH

forge works from a terminal. The uninstaller takes the entry back out.

04

On first launch, matches your GPU

Detects your card and downloads the matching inference engine: about 35 MB for Vulkan, ~500 MB for CUDA. A resumable download with a progress bar, rather than 500 MB inside the installer. Then you type a model name — qwen3:4b — and it works out which repository publishes it and which quantisation fits your hardware.

05

Suggests a setup that fits

The Suggestions tab reads your hardware locally and gives reviewable presets for context, KV cache, Flash Attention, GPU layers and MoE. Nothing is applied or downloaded until you choose it.

06

Ships a local creative studio

ForgeWorks searches image and video models, filters by use and resolution, keeps generation history, and lets an agent prepare a request before you press Generate. No Google or FORGE account is required.

Verify what you downloaded

Every release publishes a SHA-256 for each file. Hash your copy and compare:

Get-FileHash .\ForgeSetup-x.y.z.exe -Algorithm SHA256

Compare it against the SHA-256 published in the release's manifest.json.

Not code-signed yet

SmartScreen will show “Windows protected your PC”. Click More info → Run anyway. Checking the hash above is the real verification.

Uninstalling

Normal Windows uninstall. It asks before deleting your data — models can be many gigabytes, and a reinstall should find them where you left them.

Updating an older install

The in-app Update and restart action uses the safe in-place path. If Windows shows an older-install page for a manual run, choose Do not uninstall; the installer will replace the app files and keep your data.

What about the source?

FORGE is a commercial product and its source is not public. The installer above is the only supported way to run it. Versions 2.0.0 to 2.1.1 were published under Apache-2.0 and that grant still stands for those releases.