Castforge runs a team of AI coding agents in real roles: a Lead who plans, Coders who build, a Tester and a Reviewer who keep it honest. They plan, code, test, and review together on a live board while you steer. Free during early access, start with a GitHub Copilot sign-in, bring your Claude or ChatGPT subscription when you want more, or add your own API key.
Connect up to 17 AI coding agents, five with a free or subscription sign-in.
Connect the AI you already have and the services your app runs on, all from one screen. Sign in with a subscription, paste an API key, or start free with a GitHub Copilot sign-in. No per-token bills, and everything stays on your machine.
Castforge runs each project as a real team. A Lead breaks the work into a plan. Coders build it. A Tester and a Reviewer check it. A Designer guards the look. You assign which agent fills each role, and pick the model per seat.
Watch your app render live as the team works. Frame it for desktop, tablet, or phone. Step back through changes with Time Machine and pick up from any point.
The Lead drafts a phase board for each project. Cards move as the team works, and dependencies are enforced, so nothing starts before the work it needs is done.
Castforge keeps a living summary of every project: the stack, what's built and wired, the key decisions and invariants, and the current focus. Every fresh agent reads it before touching the work, so context survives a new card, a crash, or a restart with no lost ground.
Pick how much checking each project gets with a quality tier, and the tier decides which review gates run: the Lead's plan-check before any code is written, and a goal-backward verification of the finished work against its acceptance criteria.
Auth, a database, payments, email, file storage, scheduled jobs, tests. Each one is a short guided setup instead of an afternoon of boilerplate.
Castforge drafts code signing, custom domains, screenshots, and store-listing drafts, you review, then publish your web app. Web publishing is coming soon, with mobile and desktop targets to follow.
Sign in free with GitHub Copilot, bring a subscription you already pay for (Claude Pro, ChatGPT Plus), or add your own API key. Castforge launches each agent's own secure login, so we never see your password. Requests go from your machine straight to your chosen provider.
Open an existing project or start fresh. The Lead suggests a team and drafts a plan you can adjust before anything runs.
Watch the board, preview live, approve or redirect. You are always in control, at any point in the work.
Castforge is a reviewed team of agents from every major provider, running in parallel in one Windows app, on the subscriptions you already pay for.
| Capability | CastforgeWindows workspace | First-party agent appsClaude Code, Codex, Gemini CLI | AI coding IDEsCursor, Copilot, Windsurf, Devin | Open-source orchestratorsOpenCode, Conductor, Aider |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Every major coding agent in one app | Claude, Codex, Gemini, Copilot, and more | Its own models only | One or two, its way | Varies by tool |
| A reviewed team that plans, builds, tests, and checks each other | Built in, a reviewer on every card | You assemble it | Not offered | Parallel, you review |
| Parallel agents on isolated branches | Parallel lanes, each in its own worktree | Some now fan out | Recently added | Varies |
| Remembers your project across restarts | Written to disk, reloadable | Session-bound | Session-bound | Per run |
| Step back to any earlier point | Snapshots that survive resets | Session checkpoints | ||
| Live preview of the app as it builds | In app, feeds the Designer | Partial | ||
| Uses the AI accounts you already pay for | Your sign-ins or your keys | Its own subscription | Billed by the tool | Your keys |
| Native Windows desktop app | First-class | Yes | Yes | Some are Mac-first |
| Guided for developers who avoid the terminal | Board, roles, one click | Improving | Editor-first | Power-user tools |
| Provision and deploy your own backend | In preview, with a safety gate | Not built in | Not built in | Not built in |
Comparison reflects each category's typical product as of July 2026. Castforge parallel lanes and publish are rolling out across beta builds.
These are not live yet. Here is what we are building next.
Ship your project straight from the board. A deploy pipeline runs behind a review gate before anything goes live.
Shared setups and org controls for larger teams. Join the waitlist to hear first.
macOS and Linux builds, and a mobile companion to answer your team's approval prompts from your phone.
Castforge is free while it is in early access. Connect the AI you already have, a free GitHub Copilot sign-in, a subscription you already pay for, or your own API key, and just start coding. Each provider bills you directly for model usage, and Castforge never marks it up. We may add paid plans later; if we do, we will say so clearly first.
Download Castforge and sign in free with GitHub Copilot, then watch a real team plan, build, test, and review on a live board, or bring a subscription or your own key.