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.