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forge-cli.

The open-source compiler for the FLUID standard. Apache 2.0.
One contract in. Validated, planned, applied data products out — in 30 seconds.

forge-cli on GitHub → See the standard

Validate. Plan. Apply. Done.

forge.fish 
$ pip install data-product-forge
Successfully installed data-product-forge-0.7.3

$ fluid validate contract.fluid.yaml
✓ schema  ✓ semantics  ✓ policy

$ fluid plan contract.fluid.yaml
Plan: 4 to add, 2 to change, 0 to destroy. plan-binding: 7f8a...

$ fluid apply contract.fluid.yaml
Bound. Applied. Verified. Published. Done in 28s.
“ The robot starves. Or worse, it makes dangerous mistakes — because it's operating on unreliable information.
— FLUID Enterprises, ch. 4 · The Tale of Two Delis

Don't write the contract.
Forge it with AI.

forge-cli ships an AI copilot. Describe your data in plain words — it interviews you, infers the schema, models the data product, and writes the governed contract for you.

forge — ai
$ fluid forge
◆ Forge · agentic authoring run a1f3c2
AI What are we building?
› A churn-risk product for the telco retention team
AI 3 sources found — customer_events is the spine. 14 fields, grain customer_id. Confirm?
› :auto
modelling · inferring joins · self-healing schema
✓ contract.fluid.yaml — 18 fields, SLO + owner set
✓ emitted FLUID · ODCS · ODPS
✓ validate schema · semantics · policy

It interviews you

An adaptive interview that infers before it asks — worked examples in every prompt, and :auto whenever you'd rather it just decide.

It models the product

A modeller agent infers schema, join keys and grain — productType-first. Every draft is validated and self-healed before it reaches you.

It emits open specs

One model, many outputs — the FLUID contract, ODCS and the Open Data Product Spec. It imports legacy contracts the same way.

One model — emitted in every standard

FLUID Native contract.fluid.yaml
ODCS Open Data Contract Standard
ODPS Open Data Product Spec

Fluent in every cloud.

Write the contract once. Forge compiles it to native services on whichever cloud you choose — then publishes it to every catalog that matters.

Snowflake native

Databases · Schemas · Tables · Views · Tasks · Procedures · Shares · Dynamic masking & RBAC

AWS native

Glue · Redshift · Athena · S3 · IAM · EventBridge

Google Cloud native

BigQuery · Dataplex · Pub/Sub · IAM

DuckDB / local native

DuckDB-backed local builds — the identical contract on your laptop and in CI

Native to the cloud you run on today. Portable to the one you run on next.

Then publish it — to every catalog at once

Data Mesh Manager Mesh catalog, ownership & lineage
DataHub Open-source metadata & discovery
ODCS Open Data Contract Standard
FLUID Command Center Marketplace, governance & runtime
Cloud-native catalogs Glue Data Catalog · Dataplex · Snowflake Horizon

Eleven stages. Cryptographically bound.

fluid generate ci emits a parameterised pipeline for any CI system. Apply refuses tampered plans.

  1. bundle

    Snapshot the contract + dependencies.

  2. validate

    Schema, semantics, policy gate.

  3. generate-artifacts

    DDL, dbt, IAM, policy.

  4. validate-artifacts

    Each artifact passes its native check.

  5. diff

    Resource-by-resource delta vs current state.

  6. plan

    Deterministic plan with crypto plan-binding.

    🔒 plan-binding

  7. apply

    Mode-aware execution. Refuses tampered plans.

    🔒 plan-binding

  8. policy-apply

    Native IAM bindings emitted.

  9. verify

    Quality + freshness contracts asserted.

  10. publish

    Catalog publish; consumers notified.

  11. schedule-sync

    DAG push to the chosen scheduler.

Forge them with the CLI.
Run them in the Command Center.

FLUID Command Center Early access

The runtime companion to forge-cli. Where deployed data products live, get discovered, get governed, and get observed.

Marketplace

Browse industry-tested blueprints. Install with one command. Forge yours from the same template.

Catalog

Live inventory of every data product running in your enterprise — with lineage, quality metrics, and SLAs.

Governance

Declarative agentPolicy gates, access bindings, and compliance trails — applied at runtime, not at audit time.

Analytics

Per-product, per-domain, per-agent. Know what every product costs and what every agent consumes.

You're in — we'll be in touch.

forge-cli, answered.

What is forge-cli?

forge-cli is the open-source compiler for the FLUID standard. It takes one data-product contract and validates, plans and applies it into governed, deployed data products — in about thirty seconds.

What is a data contract?

A data contract is a declarative, version-controlled file that specifies a data product's schema, semantics, quality rules, ownership and access policy. forge-cli compiles that contract into real, native infrastructure.

Which clouds does forge-cli support?

One FLUID contract compiles natively to Snowflake, AWS, Google Cloud and DuckDB or local — and publishes to catalogs including DataHub, Data Mesh Manager and the FLUID Command Center.

Can AI write the data contract for me?

Yes. forge-cli ships an AI copilot — describe your data in plain words and it interviews you, infers the schema and writes the governed contract, emitting FLUID, ODCS and ODPS.

Is forge-cli free?

forge-cli is fully open source under the Apache 2.0 licence. There is no paid tier required to compile, validate or apply data products.

Forge your first
data product.

Install forge-cli, point it at your data, and compile in 30 seconds.

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