Personas

Which RobOS apps to open first for four common jobs on an engineering team. This is a grouping, not a permission system: any user can open any app.

RobOS does not assign roles to users. The role text that Group Manager can store in ~/.config/robos/identity.json is shown on its identity badge and is read by no other app. Use the tables below to find the app for the job you are doing. Each app name links to its page, which says what works today.

Tech lead or reviewer

App	Use it to
Agent Code Review Platform	Review pull requests, including ones written by agents, in the staged PR Review Theater. See PR Review Theater.
Knowledge Graph Explorer	Browse the graph of services and contracts, and compare main with a branch. See Knowledge graph.
Dev Central	See your tasks, pull requests and sprint board in one window.
Agents Manager	Check which agent CLIs are installed and signed in, and which one is active. See Agent tiers.

Developer

App	Use it to
Git Projects	Keep a list of repositories, clone and pull them, and open them in an IDE.
Workspace Manager	Find local workspaces and open them in an IDE.
Issue Manager and Task Board	Work through GitHub issues, and view work items as a board or a list.
Task Implementer	Hand a task from a task server to an agent.
App Wizard	Scaffold a new project, or register an existing folder. See New app wizard.
Relational DB Manager, NoSQL DB Manager, REST API Client, gRPC Client, GraphQL Client	Query databases and call APIs while you work on a change.
Skills Manager	Browse skills and copy their commands. See Skills.

Platform or DevOps engineer

App	Use it to
CI Monitor	List recent GitHub Actions runs and Buildkite builds, read failed-job logs, and re-run GitHub workflows.
Pass Manager	Browse, add and copy entries in the pass password store. Task Servers and Group Manager point at pass paths.
MCP Manager	List the Model Context Protocol servers in ~/.config/robos/mcp/servers.json and call their tools.
Task Servers	Store the connection details for Jira, GitHub Issues and other trackers.

Engineering manager or product owner

App	Use it to
Dev Central	Watch sprint, pull request and blocker status.
Task Planner	Explore, plan and create tasks across projects and task servers. Its launcher name is RobOS Task Explorer.
Group Manager	Record teams as groups, with their repositories, onboarding steps and members.
People Directory	Keep a local list of people with contact and org fields.

To set these apps up for a team, see Company setup and New company. For the full list of apps, see Apps.