Forge Organism Registry
A Forge Instance (“organism”) is one real deployment: the composition of
Forge Core with one or more Forge Domains, plus everything true of that
deployment alone (FORGE-101 Part 5; FORGE-200 Part 3). An instance is
declared by a single forge-instance.json manifest — declaration
only: configuration, selection, branding, and policy values, no logic
(FORGE-201 Part 3).
As of Capability 7B (FORGE-201) and Capability 7C (FORGE-202), every organism lives in its own repository: its declaration, its vendored copy of the engine, its publications, and its frontend. This directory no longer holds instance declarations itself — Project Forge is the engine, not a host for any organism’s runtime state. It exists as the registry recording which organisms have been created and where they live.
Registered organisms:
| Organism | Institution | Repository | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mjolnir | University of Copenhagen | forge-mjolnir | First Forge Organism |
Creating a new organism follows FORGE-201 Part 4 exactly (declare, vendor, compose, publish, house) and adds one row here — never a directory under this one, and never a change to the engine.