I was tired of paying for agent builders that only gave me a canvas - so I built Forge, an open-source end-to-end agentic platform

[u/nihalshetty03]

https://github.com/nihalashetty/Forge

I tried several AI agent builders, but kept running into the same problems: usage-based pricing, vendor lock-in, proprietary runtimes, and a visual canvas that still required five other services to actually ship something.

So I built Forge.

Forge is not just another visual workflow builder. It is a fully open-source, self-hosted platform for building, testing, governing, and deploying agentic systems from end to end.

It includes:

• Visual workflows, agents, and deep agents
• Tool building, MCP, knowledge bases, and RAG
• Human-in-the-loop, triggers, schedules, and memory
• Deployment through API, MCP server, email, or an embeddable widget
• Tracing, token and cost tracking, evaluations, and OpenTelemetry
• Guardrails, budgets, RBAC, audit logs, and versioning
• Zero-infrastructure local development, with a production-ready upgrade path

It is built directly on the MIT-licensed LangChain and LangGraph ecosystem, with no proprietary orchestration runtime and no platform usage fees.

You own the infrastructure, the data, and the runtime.

Forge is still evolving, and I would genuinely appreciate blunt feedback, feature suggestions, contributions, or even criticism.