Forgejo Deployment

This skill should be used when installing or debugging a self-hosted Forgejo (Gitea fork) git server as a native binary + systemd service — not Docker. Covers the three required secrets (SECRET_KEY/INTERNAL_TOKEN/JWT_SECRET) and the permission-denied crash-loop from a locked-down config file, unattended install without exposing the web setup wizard, why Forgejo's built-in git-SSH server needs firewall-level scoping instead of an app-level bind address, a non-obvious API scope requirement for repo deletion, and Vultr Block Storage's region-locking. Trigger phrases include "forgejo install", "forgejo systemd", "forgejo app.ini", "JWT_SECRET failed loading", "save oauth2.JWT_SECRET failed", "forgejo not supposed to be run as root", "forgejo admin user create", "forgejo random-password", "forgejo generate secret", "forgejo INSTALL_LOCK", "forgejo git-ssh port", "forgejo delete repo API 403", "write:user scope forgejo", "vultr block storage wrong region", "no active instances available in this region", "vultr NVMe block storage not available".

mkdir -p ~/.claude/skills/forgejo-deployment
curl -L https://claudskills.com/skills/forgejo-deployment/SKILL.md \
  -o ~/.claude/skills/forgejo-deployment/SKILL.md

@misc{forgejo-deployment-2026,
  author    = {jackson2w},
  title     = {Forgejo Deployment [Claude Code skill]},
  year      = {2026},
  publisher = {ClaudSkills},
  url       = {https://claudskills.com/skills/forgejo-deployment/}
}