A curated development environment optimized for AI-powered coding with Claude Code. CodeForge comes pre-configured with language servers, code intelligence tools, and official Anthropic plugins to streamline your development workflow.
Add CodeForge to any project:
npx codeforge-devThis copies the .devcontainer/ directory to your project. Then open in VS Code and select "Reopen in Container".
npx codeforge-dev --force # Overwrite existing .devcontainer directory
npx codeforge-dev -f # Short form# Install globally
npm install -g codeforge-dev
codeforge-dev
# Run specific version
npx codeforge-dev@1.2.3- Docker Desktop (or compatible container runtime like Podman)
- VS Code with the Dev Containers extension, or GitHub Codespaces
- Claude Code authentication — run
claudeon first start to authenticate
Python 3.14, Node.js LTS, TypeScript, Go
uv, npm, pip / pipx
gh (GitHub CLI), docker, git, jq, curl, tmux, biome, agent-browser
tree-sitter (JS/TS/Python), ast-grep, Pyright, TypeScript LSP
claude, cc (wrapper), ccusage, ccburn, ccstatusline, claude-monitor
tmux, agent-browser, claude-monitor, ccusage, ccburn, ccstatusline, ast-grep, tree-sitter, lsp-servers, biome, notify-hook, mcp-qdrant, mcp-reasoner, splitrail
The code-directive plugin includes specialized agents (architect, explorer, test-writer, security-auditor, etc.) and domain-specific coding reference skills (fastapi, svelte5, docker, testing, etc.).
- Install:
npx codeforge-dev - Open in Container: "Reopen in Container" in VS Code, or create a Codespace
- Authenticate: Run
claudeand follow prompts - Start coding: Run
cc
For full usage documentation — authentication, configuration, tools, agents, and keybindings — see .devcontainer/README.md.
git clone https://github.com/AnExiledDev/CodeForge.git
cd CodeForge
npm test# Bump version in package.json, then:
npm publish