Forge 3.1 is a desktop prompt workshop presented as a focused chat application. Describe a goal, receive a complete ready-to-run system prompt, then keep revising the same draft through normal conversation.

This release replaces the terminal interface with a native desktop window and a saved-chat rail. The Forge drafting engine remains the mouth behind the UI.

The latest release contains:

SHA-256 checksums are published as SHA256SUMS.txt beside every release.

• Removed local-model and Ollama choices from model and provider settings
• Replaced retired OpenRouter x-ai/grok-4-fast with live x-ai/grok-4.6
• Interleaved fallback models so one broken endpoint cannot consume every retry
• Routed every hosted provider through the operating-system certificate store
• Added frozen Linux Qt backend verification before publication

• Full chat layout with streaming responses and Markdown rendering
• Saved workshop threads with rename, search, reopen, and delete
• Model picker covering verified hosted providers
• Separate Forge configuration and encrypted local chat history
• Stronger PURPOSE / ROLE / TASK / OUTPUT prompt compilation
• Refusal recovery and document-continuation retry rails
• Native Windows, Linux, Apple Silicon macOS, and Intel macOS builds

The release builds require no Python installation. Download the executable for your platform from the latest release and run it directly.

For a source checkout, forge.bat creates .venv and installs dependencies on its first run. When Python is absent, it downloads the checksummed Windows build from the latest GitHub release instead.

git clone https://github.com/twaai/forge.git
cd forge

Windows:

.\forge.bat

Linux / macOS:

.venv/bin/python -m pip install -r requirements.txt
./forge.sh

On Linux, the requirements install QtPy, PyQt6, and QtWebEngine. The release binary freezes that complete Qt backend and verifies it before publication.

Forge stores chats, model selection, and generated history keys under ~/.forge-3. Provider API keys are read from the shared local FORGE 3.1 key directory or environment variables. Credentials and chat history are never stored in this repository.

python -m pytest forge3/tests -q
python -m ruff check --select E9,F63,F7,F82 .
pyinstaller --clean --noconfirm forge.spec

Cross-platform builds are produced by .github/workflows/release.yml from a version tag. CI tests the same chat engine on Windows, Linux, and macOS.

Created and maintained by twaai, with help from JusDeFruis.

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