open-forge
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/herm
Why this score
This repo hosts 3 skills, so its 96 stars are split between them (about 32 each) for scoring.
Popularity score: 57/100 from public GitHub signals only. It shows how widely used and maintained this is, not how well it works. Not included yet: the fake-star check. The security scan is shown separately and doesn't change the score. How we rank
Security
Scanned Oct 20, 2026 at commit b56a1dc51de1, first 300 source files (it's a large repo), with Cisco's open-source skill-scanner.
What its code does:
- Runs shell commands Common for dev tools. Read the commands it runs.references/infra/paas/fly.md:5, references/projects/aider.md:1, references/projects/alist.md:2 and 27 more
A scan lists patterns in the code. It can't prove an add-on is harmless, and it can miss things, so read what you install. How we scan
Alternatives
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| Name | Score | Stars | Context | Updated |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| This oneopen-forge zhangqi444/open-forge · Skill | 57 | ★ 96 | ≈153 always | 5mo ago |
| agent-forge AlekseiUL/agentforge-openclaw · Skill Both about forge and claw | 56 | ★ 44 | ≈84 always | 5mo ago |
| post-forge-feature tailcallhq/forgecode · Skill Both about forge | 79 | ★ 7.6k | ≈65 always | 16d ago |
| geekx-app-forge geekjourneyx/geekx-skills · Skill Both about forge | 52 | ★ 23 | ≈34 always | 2mo ago |
| agent-surface-forge OutlineDriven/outline-driven-development · Skill Both about forge | 48 | ★ 53 | ≈55 always | 1mo ago |
| capsule-forge unicity-aos/aos-ce · Skill Both about forge and host | 74 | ★ 8.5k | ≈105 always | 20d ago |