Privacy
Last updated 1 November 2026. This describes Forge as it works today, during the free beta.
The short version
- Your work stays on your computer until it goes into the shared document.
- Your source code isn't uploaded. Forge reads your Git repository on your computer.
- Only members of a project can read that project.
- This site has no analytics and sets no cookies. Forge doesn't send crash reports on its own.
On your computer
Forge keeps these in its data folder:
- Your projects: systems, work items, history, notes, checks and decisions.
- The folder each project is linked to, and which agents have connected.
- An activity log with passwords and tokens removed, and crash reports with paths, names and emails removed. They leave your computer only if you copy a support report and send it yourself.
- Your sign-in, encrypted by your operating system.
Signing out removes only your sign-in. Your projects stay on your computer until you delete them, and deleting moves a project to an archive inside the data folder.
In the cloud
When you share a project, or you are invited to one, the following is stored in Supabase:
| What | Who can read it | How long |
|---|---|---|
| Your account: email, name and picture from your sign-in | Members of projects you share. Emails are visible to maintainers only. | Until your account is deleted |
| Organizations, projects, members and roles | Members of the project | Until the member is removed or the project is deleted |
| Shared versions of the document, with who shared each one | Members of the project | For the life of the project |
| Invitations: email, role and a hash of the code | Maintainers | Accepted invitations are kept as the record of who joined |
| Who is working on which system, and who is reading which chapter | Members of the project | Hidden as soon as it expires, within about two minutes |
| What you have already read | Only you | Until your membership ends |
Services Forge uses
- Supabase stores the shared data above and handles sign-in.
- Google signs you in if you choose Continue with Google.
- GitHub hosts the installers. Installed copies check it for updates when they start and every 4 hours.
- Vercel hosts this site.
- Google Fonts serves the fonts on this site.
Your coding agent is your own. It talks to Forge on your computer, and what it does with your project is covered by your agent provider's terms.
Export and delete
- You can export any version of a document from History.
- The owner of a project can delete it from Projects, and a project on your computer alone can be deleted there too.
- To delete your account, contact us below. There's no button for it yet.
Contact
Open an issue on GitHub and say you'd like us to contact you. Issues are public, so please leave out anything private.
Changes
If this page changes in a way that matters, we'll say so in the app before it takes effect.