Getting Started
Get started with Forge
Getting Started with Forge
Sign up
Visit Forge and create an account. Choose whether to start fresh or import from an existing platform.
Connect your repositories
Forge works by scanning your code and CI systems. Set it up:
- Click Connect Git provider
- Authorize GitHub, GitLab, or Bitbucket
- Select repositories (or allow Forge to scan all)
Forge auto-discovers services from your repo structure, Dockerfile, and deployment config.
Explore the service catalog
Visit the Service catalog to see all discovered services:
- Each service shows ownership, deploy status, and links to repos
- Forge automatically pulls in README, codeowners, and CI config
- You can manually add services that weren't auto-discovered
Generate documentation scaffolds
For any service, click Generate docs. Forge creates skeletons for:
- Overview
- Architecture diagram
- API reference
- Deployment guide
- Runbooks
Engineers fill in the context; the structure is already there.
Set up team pages
Organize knowledge by team:
- Go to Teams
- Create a team and add members
- Link services and documentation to the team
- Set up a team-specific knowledge base
New engineers onboarding to a team start with the team page.
Onboard new engineers
When someone joins:
- Go to Onboarding
- Create an onboarding checklist for their role
- Forge auto-populates: repos to clone, services to understand, people to meet
- Share the checklist with the new person
They have a clear first-week roadmap.