ForgeCode
- About
- Open-source AI coding agent for the terminal. Open-source alternative to Claude Code and OpenAI Codex.
- Catalogue
- No. 102
- Category
- AI
- GitHub stars
- ★ 0

Overview
ForgeCode is an open-source AI coding agent that integrates with your terminal. It works as an interactive terminal app, as one-shot commands, or through a Zsh plugin that lets you send prompts with a colon prefix, and it supports many model providers.
What it does well
ForgeCode handles conversations, file attachments, Git integration and shell commands from the terminal, and can customise agent behaviour per project. It includes semantic search over your workspace and works with a range of AI providers you configure. The company behind it also offers a hosted service that runs coding work from GitHub issues, Slack threads or alerts.
Why it’s in the collection
ForgeCode fits naturally into a terminal-first workflow, especially for Zsh users, and isn't tied to one model provider. It is written in Rust and licensed under Apache 2.0.
On GitHub
- Stars
- 0
- Forks
- 0
- Commits
- 0
- Repository
- tailcallhq/forgecode
Languages
- Rust 94.5%
- Shell 3.3%
- HTML 1%
- Other 1.2%
Compared with
Claude CodeAnthropic's terminal coding agent, which works with Claude models.
OpenAI CodexOpenAI's coding agent, which works with OpenAI models.
OpenCodeNo. 078Open-source AI coding agent for the terminal.
See every open-source alternative to Claude Code and OpenAI Codex in the collection.



