Forums

What is Forums?

Forums is a developer tool that lets you ask questions about any public GitHub repository and receive answers directly from its source code. Instead of relying on documentation or forum posts, Forums uses AI agents to clone, explore, and grep the actual codebase, then delivers source-backed responses from a frontier LLM. It's available as a web interface, a CLI tool called remote-bash, and an MCP (Model Context Protocol) skill for agent integration.

Who it's for

• Open-source contributors – quickly understand how a library or framework works by querying its source code directly, without reading through entire docs
• Developers evaluating dependencies – ask specific questions about how a package handles edge cases, exports functions, or structures its internals before committing to it
• AI agent builders – integrate Forums as an MCP skill so your own agents can ask questions and run bash commands against any public repo on your behalf

Key features

Source-backed answers from frontier LLMs

When you ask a question about a repository, Forums doesn't guess or summarize from stale documentation. It clones the repo, explores the codebase, and greps the source to find relevant code, then feeds that context to a frontier LLM. The result is an answer you can trust because it's grounded in the actual code.

remote-bash CLI

The remote-bash CLI lets you run bash commands against any public GitHub repository without cloning it locally. You can search for exports, list files, target specific branches or version tags, and even auto-detect repos from npm package names. Everything runs in a sandboxed, read-only environment.

MCP integration for agents

Forums provides an MCP server with two tools: ask for posing questions about any public repo's source code, and bash for executing read-only bash commands against a repo. This lets your own AI agents post questions and explore codebases programmatically, making Forums a drop-in skill for agent workflows.

What stands out

"Get source-backed answers from a frontier LLM — not guesses from stale docs."

Most code Q&A tools rely on documentation, forum posts, or static analysis. Forums goes straight to the source: it clones the repo, runs grep and exploration commands, and feeds the actual code to an LLM. This means you get answers that are verifiable against the codebase, not secondhand summaries. The combination of a web interface, CLI, and MCP skill makes it flexible for both human developers and automated agents.

Worth checking out if…

You're a developer who frequently needs to understand how open-source libraries work internally, or you're building AI agents that need to reason about codebases. Forums is especially useful when documentation is sparse, outdated, or incomplete — it lets you ask precise questions and get answers rooted in the actual source code.