Open Forge
cloud:awstool:k8s
Automate self-hosting of open-source apps on cloud infrastructure the user owns. Use when the user asks to "self-host", "deploy to my own cloud", "install X on AWS / Lightsail / EC2 / Azure / Hetzner / DigitalOcean / GCP / Oracle Cloud / Hostinger / Raspberry Pi / Kubernetes / Fly.io / Render / Railway / Northflank / exe.dev", "set up my own Ghost blog / Mastodon / WordPress / Nextcloud", wants to deploy the self-hosted personal AI agent **OpenClaw** (openclaw.ai — NOT the Captain Claw platformer game) or **Hermes-Agent** (Nous Research's self-improving AI agent at github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent), wants to run **Ollama** (local-LLM inference server at ollama.com — pairs with every AI agent / chat UI as an OpenAI-compatible provider), wants to run **Open WebUI** (feature-rich self-hosted ChatGPT-like UI at github.com/open-webui/open-webui — pairs natively with Ollama and any OpenAI-compatible backend; adds RAG, web search, image gen, voice, multi-user), wants to run **Stable Diffusion WebUI** / **Automatic1111** / **A1111** (the most-popular open-source AI image generator at github.com/AUTOMATIC1111/stable-diffusion-webui — text-to-image, img2img, inpainting, ControlNet, LoRA; pairs with Open WebUI as an image-gen backend), wants to run **ComfyUI** (node-based AI image / video generation at github.com/comfyanonymous/ComfyUI — power-user alternative to A1111 with workflow graphs; same models, different UX; pairs with Open WebUI as image-gen backend), wants to deploy **Dify** (open-source LLMOps + AI app builder at github.com/langgenius/dify — visual workflow builder, RAG, multi-tenant; the "build a SaaS-grade AI app" platform, different category from chat UIs), wants to deploy **LibreChat** (multi-provider chat UI with deep enterprise plumbing at github.com/danny-avila/LibreChat — alternative to Open WebUI for teams; multi-user with social logins, per-user balance + transactions, agents + MCP, dedicated rag_api), wants to deploy **AnythingLLM** (RAG-focused workspace + agent platform at github.com/Mintplex-Labs/anything-llm — drop-in PDFs + URLs + GitHub repos, ask questions over them; built-in LanceDB; Desktop App + Docker + 8 cloud one-clicks), wants to install **Aider** (AI pair-programming CLI at github.com/Aider-AI/aider — runs in the terminal next to a git repo, edits files via diffs, auto-commits; pairs with any LLM provider including Ollama for local), wants to deploy **vLLM** (production-grade LLM inference server at github.com/vllm-project/vllm — high-throughput multi-tenant serving with PagedAttention + tensor parallelism + prefix caching; NVIDIA / AMD / Intel / CPU; Docker / Kubernetes / Helm / PaaS), wants to deploy **Langfuse** (open-source LLM engineering platform at github.com/langfuse/langfuse — observability, evals, prompt management, datasets, scoring; v3 six-service architecture with Postgres + ClickHouse + Redis + S3; Docker Compose, Kubernetes Helm chart, first-party Terraform modules for AWS / GCP / Azure, Railway one-click), or names any combination of an open-source app and a cloud provider. Walks the user through provisioning, DNS, TLS, outbound email (SMTP), and inbound email, in phases that are resumable across sessions via a state file at `~/.open-forge/deployments/<name>.yaml`. Supported today: Ghost on AWS Lightsail (Bitnami blueprint); OpenClaw via every upstream-blessed path documented at docs.openclaw.ai/install/* — AWS Lightsail blueprint, Docker Compose, Podman, Kubernetes (Kustomize), native installers (install.sh / install-cli.sh / install.ps1), ClawDock, Ansible, Nix, Bun, plus per-host adapters for AWS EC2 / Azure / Hetzner / DigitalOcean / GCP / Oracle Cloud / Hostinger / Raspberry Pi / macOS-VM (Lume) / BYO Linux server / localhost / Fly.io / Render / Railway / Northflank / exe.dev. More projects and infras added under `references/projects/` and `references/infra/`.
What this skill does
Open Forge is a production-ready Claude Code skill (quality score 70/100) in the image-design sub-category. It ships as a SKILL.md file that Claude Code auto-discovers under ~/.claude/skills/open-forge/ and loads when your prompt matches the skill's trigger.
When to invoke it: Use when the user asks to "self-host", "deploy to my own cloud", "install X on AWS / Lightsail / EC2 / Azure / Hetzner / DigitalOcean / GCP / Oracle Cloud / Hostinger / Raspberry Pi / Kubernetes / Fly.io / Render / Railway / Northflank / exe.
Who uses this skill
The Open Forge skill is built for content creators, marketers, copywriters, SEO professionals, and editorial teams. It is part of the open ClaudSkills registry, a community-curated catalog of 15,000+ capabilities you can install for Claude Code — the Claude CLI agent.
How to install
Free
Manual install (2 steps)
mkdir -p ~/.claude/skills/open-forge
curl -L https://claudskills.com/skills/open-forge/SKILL.md \
-o ~/.claude/skills/open-forge/SKILL.md
Or just download SKILL.md directly and drop it into ~/.claude/skills/open-forge/. Claude Code auto-discovers it on next session.
Skills live at ~/.claude/skills/open-forge/SKILL.md on macOS/Linux, or %USERPROFILE%\.claude\skills\open-forge\SKILL.md on Windows. See the full install guide for step-by-step instructions.
Pro
One-click install via the desktop app
The ClaudSkills desktop app installs any skill directly into ~/.claude/skills/ with one click — no terminal required. Pro starts at $9/mo or $149 lifetime.
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