Turn AI-assisted development into a repeatable engineering process.
Progress Forge is an agentic software development life cycle (SDLC) harness that orchestrates AI coding agents, project context, tools, workflow rules, and human oversight. It provides a structured, repeatable framework for guiding work, reviewing results, and maintaining traceability across development, documentation, security, planning, and support workflows — while letting teams customize the process to their needs.
Forge does not replace your coding agent. Your agent executes the work; Forge supplies the surrounding structure and controls.
| Product page | https://www.telerik.com/forge |
| Documentation | https://www.telerik.com/forge/documentation |
| Free trial | https://www.telerik.com/try/forge |
| Releases | https://github.com/telerik/forge/releases |
This public repository distributes Progress Forge releases. The source code is maintained separately.
Forge connects a request to an agent through a sequence of controlled stages:
- Discovers project context — the applicable project, toolchain, agent, and workflow configuration, plus work-item context such as an issue, pull request, or ticket.
- Builds the command surface — utility capabilities combined with built-in and project-defined workflow targets.
- Composes the work request — the selected operation with role instructions, task prompts, project metadata, relevant files, and configured model or agent choices.
- Invokes the selected agent — streaming agent activity and managing sessions while work is in progress.
- Checks the result — prerequisite checks, output validation, tests, builds, file checks, and retries determine whether a workflow proceeds, retries, pauses, or takes a failure path.
- Keeps people in control — approval gates let a person review a plan, code review, or delivery decision before the next stage continues.
- Records the outcome — artifacts, traces, state transitions, and execution metadata are preserved so work can be inspected, resumed, or audited later.
Choose your onboarding experience:
| Interface | Best for |
|---|---|
| Forge Desktop App | Guided setup for repositories, agents, and issue trackers, with visual workflow monitoring and approvals |
frg CLI |
Direct control, terminal automation, scripting, CI/CD integration, and workflow recovery |
Both expose the same core Forge concepts and share one session and license key.
Follow the getting started documentation.
You can also browse the documentation source under user-docs/src/, starting with the Quick Start
GitHub Releases contain the Forge binaries,
installers, and more. Installer
asset names are stable across releases, and frg update upgrades an existing installation.
Forge requires a valid Telerik license to run agent-backed workflow commands.
Use of Progress Forge is governed by the Progress Forge License Agreement — see LICENSE.md. Third-party component notices are listed in NOTICE.txt.
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