Forge
Terminal MCP server for AI coding agents. Spawn, manage, and monitor real PTY sessions via the Model Context Protocol.
Why
AI coding agents (Claude Code, Codex, etc.) typically run one command at a time. Forge gives them persistent terminals — run your React frontend, Java API, and Postgres migrations in parallel, monitor all three, and only read what changed. Full-stack work without the bottleneck.
Works with any MCP-compatible client — Claude Code, Codex, Gemini CLI, or your own agent.
Key differentiators:
- Real PTY via
node-pty(same lib as VS Code terminal) — interactive programs, colors, TUI apps all work - Incremental reads — ring buffer with per-consumer cursors means each
read_terminalonly returns NEW output, saving context window tokens - Clean screen reads —
@xterm/headlessrenders the terminal server-side, soread_screenreturns exactly what a human would see (no ANSI escape codes) - Multi-agent orchestration — spawn Claude, Codex, and Gemini sub-agents, session groups, output multiplexing, event subscriptions, and templates for managing multiple concurrent sessions
- Web dashboard — real-time Preact-based browser UI to watch what your agents are doing across all terminals, browse past chat sessions, and monitor activity
- Zero config — single
npxcommand or HTTP MCP endpoint
