forge for compatibility.
1. Download a runtime
Open the latest release and download theforge-* archive matching your operating system, architecture, libc, and CPU baseline.
Extract it and place forge or forge.exe on your PATH.
2. Connect a provider
claude auth login first. Provider commands display the current interactive authentication options.
3. Run a session
--model provider/model, --agent, --variant, --file, or --format json as needed.