Your first Forge project

The eleven Forge apps share one shape: a project saved in your Obsidian vault, background jobs that survive leaving the page, and a model picker that offers only the families this install can run. This guide walks that shape once, with R-Forge, it needs one free key and produces something you can read in two minutes.

1. One key

Add TAVILY_API_KEY in Settings → Secrets (1,000 free credits a month at tavily.com). See Add an API key. Any model engine you already have will do for the reasoning.

2. Open R-Forge and make a project

Sidebar → Forge → R-Forge (/r-forge). Click New project top-right and name it. Projects are folders: R-Forge/<Tool>/<project>/ in your vault.

3. Pick the model and the source

Above the form, choose the model, a concrete tier, e.g. Claude → Sonnet or Kimi → K2.6, and the web source: Tavily here. Each shows its credit cost. The picker lists only what this install can run; a family switched off in the Model Manager is not offered.

4. Run

On the Research tab type a question and pick a depth, Quick (~1 credit), Report (~3) or Deep (~6). Press run. The job badge in the top bar counts it; you can leave for another app and come back, the run continues.

5. Find the result

The report lands in the app with its citations, and as Markdown in the vault under R-Forge/Research/<project>/. Open Memory and search a phrase from it to see it indexed; generated media from other Forges appear in the Media Library the same way.

The same shape elsewhere

P-Forge, a deck or a narrated course; free local voices.
M-Forge, thumbnails, music, dubbing, in-browser ffmpeg.
VC-Forge, a whole project from a vibe, with a terminal.
D-Forge, flipbooks, PDF translation, Markdown, skills.