Credits

Forge is a commercial product of Ironpine Labs LLC. It is built on top of hundreds of open-source projects. We gratefully acknowledge the authors and contributors whose work makes Forge possible.

Key upstream projects

tree-sitter MIT

Incremental AST parsing for all 5 supported languages

ed25519-dalek BSD-2-Clause

Ed25519 signature verification for offline license validation

Tantivy MIT

Full-text search engine — keyword search + BM25 ranking

LanceDB Apache-2.0

Columnar vector store — semantic similarity search

Tokio MIT

Async runtime — concurrent MCP tool execution

Rust standard library MIT / Apache-2.0

Language runtime and standard library

Serde MIT / Apache-2.0

Serialization and deserialization for JSON, TOML, and binary formats

SQLite (via rusqlite) Public Domain

Embedded database for the dependency graph and symbol index

Protocol

Forge implements the Model Context Protocol (MCP), published by Anthropic under the MIT license. Forge is not affiliated with or endorsed by Anthropic — we are an independent MCP implementation. "Model Context Protocol" and "MCP" refer to the open protocol specification, not to Anthropic's products or services.

Full attribution

Forge depends on approximately 200+ crates licensed under MIT, Apache-2.0, BSD-2-Clause, BSD-3-Clause, ISC, MPL-2.0, and similar permissive licenses. For the complete attribution file covering every dependency, its version, and the full license text:

Thanks

Forge stands on decades of open-source work. The languages, parsers, search engines, async runtimes, and cryptographic primitives that Forge depends on represent millions of hours of careful engineering contributed freely to the community. If you have contributed to any of the projects listed in LICENSES.html — thank you. Your work makes tools like Forge possible.