Quick Start

Quick Start

Forge is UnleashWP's AI tool + plugin platform for WordPress; it ships with one plugin today, the Changelog Generator. This guide installs Forge and uses that first plugin — from nothing to a WordPress release changelog in about a minute.

1. Install

npm install -g @unleashwp/ai-forge

This puts the ai-forge command on your PATH (uwp and forge are aliases). The CLI is plain Node ≥ 18 with zero runtime dependencies; the browser UI ships pre-built.

2. Generate a changelog

ai-forge changelog --since 2026-07-15 --until 2026-07-22 --milestone 7.1 --post

That prints a ready-to-edit release-post template: a headline, a count line, the two canonical source links, a highlights placeholder, and the grouped changelog as raw material.

• Drop --post for the full technical report.
• Add --json for structured data.
• Run ai-forge -h for every command.

That's it — no account, no token, no cookie required. Forge reads everything it needs from public GitHub data. A GitHub token and a wordpress.org cookie are optional and only unlock higher rate limits and deep mode — see Connectors.

Prefer clicking?

ai-forge serve

Opens a browser UI at http://localhost:4321 with a date-range picker and Copy buttons.

Prefer asking an AI?

Register Forge once as an MCP server, then just ask Claude Code or Codex:

claude mcp add forge -- npx -y @unleashwp/ai-forge@latest mcp

"Give me the WordPress 7.1 release changelog for July 15–22, as a post."

The agent calls Forge's tools and drafts the post grounded in the real PRs and tickets. See Using Forge from Claude & Codex.

Next steps

• Connectors — raise the GitHub limit to 5,000/h and turn on deep mode.
• The Changelog Tool — all the flags and how the counts are derived.
• Installation — the Claude Desktop one-click bundle and the dev setup.