Agent Profile Daemon

Agent Profile Daemon provisions “ephemeral agent profiles”: a home directory plus environment variables that a command runs with. The window title is RobOS Ephemeral Profile Manager.

What provisioning does

For a name such as reviewer, the daemon creates a profile my-agent-reviewer and:

• creates a home directory under ~/.config/robos/profiled/homes/ (or /home when run as root). Only when run as root does it mount a tmpfs there (mount -t tmpfs, default size 2G). As a normal user the directory is an ordinary folder and the profile is flagged as a mock mount;
• copies files from /etc/skel and writes a baseline .bashrc and .profile;
• sets up display variables (DISPLAY, WAYLAND_DISPLAY, XAUTHORITY) in the profile, and forwards the SSH agent socket, your git identity and the ANTHROPIC_API_KEY, OPENAI_API_KEY, GEMINI_API_KEY and GITHUB_TOKEN values from your environment (a placeholder string is used when a key is not set);
• records a random UID, a scope name, group names (video, render, audio, kvm) and a memory value.

The UID, groups and scope are stored in the profile record only. The code does not run useradd, add the groups, or create a cgroup. Commands run as your own user with HOME and a few ROBOS_* variables changed.

On termination it removes the forwarded links, unmounts (as root) and deletes the home directory. State is in ~/.config/robos/profiled/profiles.json.

Use it

In the window, + Provision Profile asks for a name, a role (Code Reviewer, Implementation Agent, Test Fabric Runner) and a model name, and Spawn 4x Swarm creates swarm-1 to swarm-4. To open the window, run electron . --no-sandbox in packages/robos-profiled; there is no .desktop launcher.

While the app is open it listens on ~/.config/robos/profiled/profiled.sock. Two scripts in the package use that socket and need python3:

robos-profile create reviewer --role "Code Reviewer"
robos-profile list
robos-profile inspect my-agent-reviewer
robos-profile terminate my-agent-reviewer

robos-run-as --agent worker-1 --autoclean npm test

robos-run-as creates the profile if needed, runs the command with the profile’s HOME and environment, and with --autoclean terminates the profile when the command exits.