RobOS CLI Tools

Four shell scripts for scripts and agents: send a notification, set the active task, append to the work journal, and emit or read events.

packages/robos-cli

The scripts in packages/robos-cli let scripts, cron jobs and agents talk to other RobOS apps without an API. Each is a bash script that calls python3 for JSON handling. They are listed under bin in package.json.

robos-notify

Sends a notification and stores it in ~/.config/robos/notifications.json, which the Toast Daemon reads. The file keeps the newest 500 entries.

robos-notify "Build passed" --title "CI" --category ci_cd --tier info
echo '{"title":"Deploy","message":"v1.3.1","category":"ci_cd","tier":"info"}' | robos-notify --json

Categories are pr_review, ci_cd, task, agent and system (default). Tiers are critical, warning and info (default). --silent records the notification without showing a toast. Without --silent it also calls notify-send if installed, and sends a message to /run/user/<uid>/robos-dm.sock if that socket exists. --action CMD is accepted and parsed but the script does not store or run it.

robos-active-task

Reads or writes the file ~/.config/robos/active-issue.

robos-active-task set JIRA-42
robos-active-task get      # prints the id, or "No active task" and exits 1
robos-active-task clear

robos-journal-append

Appends a timestamped bullet to today’s journal file at daily/<YYYY-MM-DD>.md in a git repository, then commits and tries to push.

robos-journal-append "Discussed API design with Bob"
robos-journal-append --section Tasks --type decision "Switching to proto reflection"

The default section is Notes; a new daily file starts with the sections Tasks, Notes and Projects. The repository is ~/source/github.com/<org>/<repo> for the journal_repo value in ~/.config/robos/settings.json if that folder exists, otherwise ~/.config/robos/journal (initialized with git init). Options are --section, --date YYYY-MM-DD and --type.

robos-event

An append-only event log at ~/.config/robos/events/event-log.jsonl.

robos-event emit ci_completed --payload '{"runId":789,"status":"failure"}'
robos-event listen --category ci_cd
robos-event history --last 50 --since 1h

listen follows the file with tail -f. --category filters by a fixed mapping from category to event type names (for example ci_cd matches ci_started, ci_completed and deploy). --since takes values like 30m, 1h or 1d. The /run/user/<uid>/robos-events.sock path is defined in the script but not used.

The console window

Open RobOS CLI Console to run each script from a form (title, message, category and tier for robos-notify; a task id for robos-active-task; entry, section and type for robos-journal-append; event type and JSON payload for robos-event) and see the output in a terminal pane. The package has no .desktop launcher; run it with electron . in packages/robos-cli.

The folder also holds robos-voice, the command-line client for RobOS Voice. It is not in the bin list.

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