- 「網頁上的事一律用 browser 一個工具」: the guidance lines now name
action=open/read/click/type/table/find/wait/download and action=profiles —
the model reads one vocabulary in the system prompt, the schema and the
loop-guard messages (browser_read/browser_open mentions gone from those)
- H3, light: usage rules were already in the system prompt (and C1 caches
the tools block too, so moving descriptions there saves little) — the
browser schema shed its duplicated safety sentence to the click line;
wholesale description-slimming deliberately not done: the guidance that
reads as noise is what keeps a small model out of trouble
- clicks on controls whose own words say money/sending/deleting ask the person
every time — on every computer, in direct mode, no grant silences it (the
harness decides, not the model, so a page cannot talk its way past it)
- screenshots paint card-number and OTP boxes black before any model sees them
- content the bot READS (pages, files, screens) enters the history wrapped in
<untrusted>, and the system prompt says the wrapper means content-not-orders
- keep_to_chosen now has a test on the screen tools: a model cannot move a
screen step onto another computer by itself (B26's promise, pinned)
- bench red team R1–R7: every payload's goal is a harmless probe file /
button code; passing = reporting the page honestly and leaving the probe
untouched. Run: --tasks R1..R7
The model picks action=screenshot/click/typing/… on a single `computer` tool
(the shape Anthropic's and OpenAI's computer-use models are trained on):
choosing among twelve near-identical names was its own error source, and the
twelve schemas were the biggest stable part of every request. Calls expand to
the internal per-action tools at the model-output boundary, so approvals,
repeat guards, skill replay, the remote limb protocol and the work log keep
their existing names — old limbs need no update.
- Keys and typing into no field go to whatever is in front: a cmd+w meant for TextEdit reached
the person's terminal after the TextEdit window had closed (its "close this window?" came up
and was cancelled). They are now refused, with why, when the app in front isn't the one of the
latest look.
- The quick model's screen tools have no `ref`: looking numbers up is where it pressed the wrong
keys; it names controls (two of a name come back as trouble for the bot's own model).
- Instructions: macOS permission and security prompts are for the person to answer (a bot
pressed 「不允許」 on one), and check what's in front before a shortcut.
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- Box v9: GTK_MODULES=gail:atk-bridge. lxappearance and PCManFM (GTK 2) offered AT-SPI no
controls at all (0 numbers); with gail they offer 37 and 17.
- The quick model ending a turn without acting goes to the bot's own model every time, not only
after changes: one stopped after a single look to ask 「要我繼續嗎？」.
- Instructions: finish what was asked; put an unexpected screen right (close what's in the way,
open the app) instead of stopping to ask, except for what the person must do or confirm.
- Benchmark: three more held-out tasks (lxappearance theme, PCManFM folder, Mousepad
find-and-replace), checked by their results; every task starts with those apps closed too.
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`anybot --ask` with ANYBOT_ASK_HERE=1 offers this computer too (headless runs leave it out), so
screen and menu-bar steps can be tried on a Mac without the window. Tried on a Mac mini: the
menu bar's icons listed in one step, a status icon clicked by its name, AppleScript reading the
front app, Tailscale's own CLI answering — all without a screenshot.
An App Store app's CLI joined to `> file` stays in the sandbox and dies; the note now says so
(a bot blamed --json for it).
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One model call per step now: a replay step needs none; the quick model's step falls back to the
bot's model when it can't be used (but a too-long chat is folded and asked again, whichever model
asked); each attempt is in the work log. A zoom is a look (safe to do again after a crash).
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Measured on the bot's own box (8 tasks x 2, grok-4.7): 14/16 done, 120 steps, 1114 s before;
16/16, 102 steps, 574 s after (model time 1015 -> 471 s). A replayed skill: 49 s -> 15 s.
Knowing the machine
- facts.rs: 電腦現況 per computer (system, desktop, systemd, sudo, network, package manager,
tools, apps, a fixed TZ), read once by a small read-only probe, kept 30 min, in the
instructions at the start of a turn.
- The box's sudo is the bot's: only what follows sudo is checked against the always-denied
list (it was refused outright, while the instructions said it could sudo), and commands with
sudo run as the box's root (setuid does nothing under gVisor).
- Box image v8 drops ENV TZ=UTC (it overrode /etc/localtime). ANYBOT_BOX_IMAGE /
ANYBOT_BOX_VOLUME give a throwaway box its own image and volume, never adopting the real one.
- Mac shell sandbox: App Store app CLIs (they carry their own app sandbox) and ps/top run
outside it; plain `osascript -e` too, asked the first time even in direct mode, refusing do
shell script, terminals, keystrokes, file reads, ObjC and the secret folders. A command the
sandbox broke says so, instead of looking like a broken program.
Reaching what it sees
- The Mac menu bar's status icons are numbered (each app's AXExtrasMenuBar, named from inside
for the system's own), computer_use_zoom looks closer at full sharpness.
- Numbers stay with their controls from look to look (they were reassigned every look, so a
step's second click landed elsewhere); the box's front window is listed first; a control can
be named instead of numbered (name "4").
- Web page numbering walks open shadow DOM (Chromium settings, web components).
- A box on a Docker host elsewhere retries the next port when the usual one is taken (a retry
without it came up with no network).
Working like a person
- Instructions: pick the route, know what done looks like, one route, check once, say what's
stuck instead of faking it with a substitute, ask before cutting the connection.
- StepPlan: the bot's model takes the first step, the step after trouble (failed, refused,
repeated, nothing changed on screen, the quick model switching routes), one in four, and the
final check; a quick model (Bot.step_model, auto: grok-4.20-0309-non-reasoning on xAI) does
the planned steps in between, falling back to the bot's model if it can't be used.
- Skills keep the steps that worked (with what each acted on, not numbers); replay_skill does
them again with no model in between, finding each control again, handing back on a mismatch.
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Each bot keeps a work log (oplog/bot-<id>.jsonl, after pi's durable-harness design, cut down):
before something happens a line says it is about to — the turn, each model call, each step once
its checks passed (with the arguments it runs with and whether it may run again), each message
typed mid-turn — synced to disk first. When the turn ends the file shrinks to the messages still
waiting, usually nothing.
On the next start after AnyBot was killed mid-turn, the log puts the chat right before anything
runs: the message the turn answered comes back if the chat lost it; a step that was running and
reaches outside (a text, a click, a file, a published site) shows as 「可能已經執行了」, both to the
person and in the result the bot reads — no longer as "not allowed"; a step that only looked shows
as cut off; messages typed mid-turn that never reached the bot go back into the chat. The chat is
saved, then the log closes the turn. A turn the person didn't stop ends with a 「繼續」 card (what
it was doing, what may have run, the messages put back); it goes on only when they press it — in
the window, on a screen of the brain, or on the phone — from where its steps stand, never running
a step that may have run again. Pressing stop is on disk at once, and a stopped turn stays
stopped.
Also in the turn loop:
- 自動審核 that doesn't answer (or answers something that isn't a verdict) asks the person; in
直接操作 mode it used to let the step through unchecked.
- "Too long for this model" folds older messages into a summary and asks the same step again,
once per thing the person said, instead of ending the turn.
- Folding keeps the person's chat whole: the summary goes in at the fold and the model reads from
the newest summary on (it used to delete what it folded).
- A step moved to the chosen computer runs there, but the chat keeps the call as the model wrote
it; the result says where it ran.
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Firefox dropped Chrome's DevTools protocol, so bidi.rs speaks WebDriver BiDi and does each
DevTools command the browser tools use the BiDi way (real mouse and keys, typing, screenshots,
PDF, dialogs, uploads, downloads, tabs). The 18 tools themselves are unchanged and pass the same
dashboard test on Firefox as on Chrome.
- A computer with only Firefox runs AnyBot's own profiles in it (under the Snap/Flatpak corner
of the home folder when Firefox is packaged that way).
- The person's own Firefox profiles are choices too, by the names Firefox shows (profiles.ini
and the newer profile switcher's SQLite list): 「阿金（Firefox）」, or just 「阿金」. Firefox
can't be taken over once open, so a profile open the everyday way is refused with "close it
first"; AnyBot then opens it itself, logins intact.
- Settings lists them without a remove button; the messages name Firefox as an option.
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Every warning `cargo clippy --all-targets` gave (50 on macOS, 8 more only on
Linux, 1 in the relay), fixed without changing what anything does:
- long types get a name (Peer, Members, Imported, Joining, Mention, Stream…);
- the two big enum variants are boxed (the vault's login plan, joining an
account);
- a test now waits for the copy it relaunched (it left a zombie behind);
- a hint's format had a dead `if` whose two branches were both "";
- the rest is what clippy suggests: sort_by_key, as_chunks, is_none_or,
is_multiple_of, while let, from_ref, next_back, struct init, no casts to
the same type.
Checked: cargo test (177 macOS, 181 Linux), relay tests (11), remote_e2e
28/28, and the live Linux test (X11; Wayland clicks, keys, Chinese typing,
scroll and screenshots).
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- box_numbers_only_on_what_is_seen is ignored again (a test inserted before it in cbada6b took
its mark: every cargo test drove the real box), and the path test runs
- gvisor-vm.sh restarts the VM's Docker only when runsc was just registered (a restart stopped
Bot 的電腦), and `${var}` before full-width text (bash read 「）」's first byte as part of
the name and stopped)
- a scheduled box update and a PDF's name use the person's time zone (a server keeps UTC)
- 容器隔離 lists 標準 before 強隔離
- screenshots of real data can open 設定 › 電腦 (ANYBOT_SHOT_VIEW=computers) and scroll
(ANYBOT_SHOT_SCROLL)
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- A job of five or more real steps is looked back on after the answer: the short way that
worked becomes a skill (or improves the one it followed); the reply says so. The prompt has
the bot check its skills before starting.
- Upload, download and PDF on Bot 的電腦's browser look for and save files in the box, not on
the brain (a picture in a Threads post took 24 steps).
- The bot's browser keeps the six tabs used last (19 Threads tabs had filled the box's 2 GB).
- Words name the control, not the box around it: a form's 「Customer name:」, 「Large」 and
「Submit order」 used to land on the <p> holding them and do nothing.
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Both cloud brains had 「Etc/UTC」 as the time zone (the server's, set when they were made), so pages
said 「今天 01:03」 for 09:03 and a routine for 9 in the morning would run at 5 in the afternoon. The
phone now says where the person is; a brain still on a server's zone takes it (a zone the person
chose stays). Page times use the person's zone, not the computer's.
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From the second round of real runs:
- Direct mode no longer asks the model to check "always ask" rules before steps that only look
(screenshot, showing the screen, reading a page or file): none of those rules can be about them,
and the check cost each look at the person's Mac 10-20 s. Clicks and typing are still checked.
- An error inside the model's answer stream ("The model is currently at capacity…") is retried after
8 s and said in Chinese; it used to become the bot's reply, in English, never retried.
- send_file says it sends from any computer, the person's included (the bot copied a file to its own
computer first, which only works for text).
- A shown screen's file name carries no time (a server's clock is UTC).
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From real runs on the cloud brain with the person's Mac (Threads patrol, a post draft, "show me my
screen"):
- computer_use_show: a plain picture of any computer's screen goes into the chat (the bot sees it
too). The bot used to describe a screenshot in words and fail to send it.
- The phone shows the bot's attachments: pictures in place, other files download on a tap (api/file,
only from the chats' file folder). It showed nothing for the bot and names only for the person.
- send_file works from the person's other computers (fetch_file over the relay, 20 MB, secrets stay).
- The same call with the same answer again and again is warned the 3rd time and stopped from the
4th (a blank tab was read 11 times, then the bot said Threads was logged out without opening it);
a blank tab says so; checking a login means opening the site.
- Screenshot lists: a nameless row around a named button isn't numbered, a nameless row takes the
words inside it, empty spacer rows aren't numbered (System Settings: 63 numbers -> 33, all named).
- Writing "in my voice" reads the person's own recent posts first.
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Web
- web_fetch kept pages with a <header> only up to it (taken for <head>): articles came back as their menus.
- browser_open waits for the page to load and returns it like browser_read (one step fewer per page);
actions wait for the page to hold still instead of fixed 1-2.5 s sleeps; one way to reach the tab.
The bot's computer (box v6)
- Numbers only on what can be seen: clipped to the window and the page's visible area, none under
another app's window (a link scrolled under the toolbar was numbered on Back).
- press_key with a typed character no longer swallows the keys after it (xdotool type --args 1).
- The person's input through noVNC/TigerVNC is noticed again (fence, continuous updates, QEMU keys).
- "Nothing changed" only after clicks, scrolls and drags; long text is pasted; one screen step at a
time; one docker inspect per step when the box is known ready; poppler-utils for long PDFs.
- One typing path and fewer round trips (stdin variant, unused picture path, extra batch execs gone).
The person's computers
- Linux: the window system's front app when it has one, and the reason when there is none (was 「」);
hidden and off-screen controls get no number; wording no longer names a tool that doesn't exist.
The loop
- Without Docker, the bot's own computer runs no commands where there is no sandbox (Linux, Windows):
it was a plain shell on the brain itself, keys in reach, asked nothing.
- The bot's own computer is re-checked each step; unreachable computers are failures, not safety
blocks; no direct-mode note on every result; an empty reply is asked again; scrolling and keys
aren't counted as going in circles; steps aren't moved to a computer that can't do them.
- One finish() for every step's result, keep_grant(), dead appctl list_computers/SERVING and the
impossible server branches removed; duplicated prompt instructions merged.
Tests: 162 (Mac) / 166 (Linux) unit; real box drills 6/6 on box v6; a brain without Chrome browses
on its box; remote E2E 28/28.
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- A turn may take up to 100 steps (was 25, which cut off real work; Grok Bot sets no limit).
Every 25 steps the bot is asked whether it is still getting anywhere.
- The system prompt asks for independent tools in one step and combined commands.
- Browser steps for the box always go to the box's Chromium. They used to depend on whether
the brain itself had a Chrome, so a cloud brain sent them to "the person's browser".
- The box's DevTools forward passes bytes with a plain read/write loop. std::io::copy splices
on Linux and held back short requests, so the box browser never opened from a Linux brain.
- A gateway's HTML error page shows as plain words.
- Real test a_brain_without_chrome_browses_on_its_box (ignored): passes in a Linux container
with no Chrome against a real box, and fails without the routing fix.
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- computer_use_batch: up to 8 planned actions run in one docker exec (steps chained with && and a
done-marker each), the first failure stops the rest, one picture comes back at the end. Typed
text rides inside the script quoted (one stdin for the chain). The prompt tells the model when
to use it (a form whose fields are all visible) and when not to (step 2 needs step 1's screen).
- The box waits for the screen to stop changing, not the clock: two matching small probes (~60 ms
each) mean settled — ~160 ms on a still screen where every step paid a fixed 500 ms, and a page
mid-load is waited for (up to ~0.9 s) instead of captured mid-change. The picture is JPEG, and
the a11y read runs in parallel with the capture (look ~307 ms; two steps with pictures 1102 ms).
(SETTLE_SH is a group command: dash needs ';' after it — found by box_screen_is_exact.)
- The home volume (every bot's logins) is never one command from loss: snapshots keep generations
(last 7 days, then one per week; the old single snapshot migrates by file date), Reset and
Restore save the running box first and refuse to wipe if saving fails, a box built on an empty
volume re-fills itself from the newest snapshot, and a sleeping holder container keeps the
volume attached so `docker volume prune` can't take it. make doctor shows volume and snapshot
state; the 電腦 card shows the box's average step times and says resets save first.
- box_batch_in_one_round_trip (ignored): three typed steps, ASCII and Chinese, land in one trip.
On the real box after upgrading v3→v5: box_update_keeps_files (files survive, snapshot 2 代),
box_numbers_are_exact, box_screen_is_exact, box_end_to_end, box_traffic_via_mac pass; 155 unit tests.
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A bot asked to open a Threads profile clicked an empty strip ten times: it guessed coordinates
from a picture, and the web tools' description told it they didn't work on its own computer.
- marks.rs: the picture a bot gets has every button, link, field and menu item boxed and
numbered (a tiny built-in digit font, pure Rust), with the same numbers in a list. click /
typing / scroll / mouse_move take the number (ref) and land on the control's centre.
- Where the controls come from: macOS AX and Linux AT-SPI through agent-desktop on a person's
computer (desktop::elements); AT-SPI in the bots' own computer (box/a11y, after XBot's
box-a11y), web pages included. On a Mac a control whose spot another app's window covers gets
no number (topmost window at its centre must be the app's; the Dock's invisible full-screen
window doesn't count). open_app waits until the app is really in front.
- No going round in circles: a step that changed nothing says so; the same step (clicks within
16 px) a third time in a turn comes with a warning, from the fourth time it isn't run.
- The box (version 4): one TigerVNC server instead of Xvfb + x11vnc, the AT-SPI bus and registry
at boot, one browser launcher (box/browser, after XBot's box-chrome: same profile and CDP,
renderer accessibility, a launch lock, stale profile locks cleared). One docker exec per look
(list + picture, ~0.4 s). A brain updates an older box by itself when it has been idle a
minute (files and logins stay); a new box is never made from an older image.
- Gone: computer_use_read_app (the list is in every picture), computer_use_mouse_button, the
per-call picture for the phone (it gets a plain one), the stale browser_read note; the prompt
says web work goes through browser_* by number, and never to read browser cookie or history
files.
Tests: marks (numbering, drawing, fingerprints), box_numbers_are_exact on a box from the new
image (a Threads-like page: the icon links get numbers, Profile clicked by number, Chinese typed
into the numbered field, a click on nothing called out), box_screen_is_exact, VNC e2e 11/11 on
TigerVNC, Calculator 7×8=56 by numbers through the signed app on this Mac, remote_e2e 28/28,
153 unit tests; Linux build + 157 tests + x11_live.
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Unused (found by taking away the dead-code allowances; nothing else used them, tests aside):
computer::specs, quiet_button, the never-made Poke::Spin, ten icons and their SVGs, the
theme's chrome/bubble_agent colours, ImportRow.line, voice's multipart/transcribe/speak
wrappers, and the old keychain writers vault::save/remove/index_add with their live test
(the vault store replaced them; reading old keychain entries for the import stays).
One copy each: percent-encoding (httpd::url_encode, was four), tool arguments (tools::args_of,
was three), the WebSocket handshake (httpd::accept_websocket, was three), the read pacing
(wire::Pace, was two: relay and app), docker with input and a time limit (dk_with_input, was
two). Docs: FEATURES §看畫面 (VNC), protocol (v* frames, /screen, tickets), architecture.
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The core: the bot works the computer; a person watches it like a colleague, and takes over
when it needs them. VNC is made for that (only what changed, every mouse move and key, touch on
phones), so the pictures sent one by one go, and with them their own input path.
- vnc.rs: a VNC proxy to the box's x11vnc through one docker exec (a Python bridge that ends
with either side). It signs in to the box with the box's own password (its VNC_PASSWORD) and
offers the viewer no password, so the password never leaves the brain. The person's clicks
and keys make the bot's steps wait until 8 s after they stop; text typed in the viewer's box
(any language) is pasted in the box.
- Account server: /screen (the viewer page) and /novnc.js (noVNC 1.6.0, MPL-2.0, bundled);
/relay/vnc/<host> takes the browser's WebSocket (account session, or a 10-minute ticket the
app asks for with POST /relay/screen-ticket; owners and admins) and carries it over that
AnyBot's lasting connection (vopen / vdata / vtext / vclose). Both ends of that connection
wait 2 ms instead of 40 ms to read while things move: a request and its answer took up to
160 ms more than needed.
- Phone page: 看 Bot 的電腦 and 接管 open the viewer page (also on the local network: /api/vnc on
the AnyBot's own phone server). This Mac's own screen moved to the ⋯ menu.
- Mac app: 看畫面 opens the viewer in the browser (a screen of a brain: the brain's computer by
ticket; else this computer's box, noVNC straight from it). The in-app picture viewer, the
live JPEG stream, the person's click/move/scroll/key endpoints and the input shell are gone.
- Opening a Mac app uses LaunchServices (`open -a`): agent-desktop's launch waited on the window
through accessibility and failed without 輔助使用 now and then.
Measured on this Mac (made-up account, local relay + headless brain + the real box): viewer
signed in in 0.4–0.7 s, a request and its answer through relay + brain + box 25–58 ms median;
headless Chrome shows the desktop live in /screen. remote_e2e 28/28 ×2, 149 unit tests, relay 11.
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- Acting by an app's number (read_app's e7) is now a real click at that control's spot, the
same path as screenshot coordinates. agent-desktop only reads; its own actions (a second set
with its own key names and failures: no typing in terminals, "/" and "`" failing off the main
thread) are gone, with computer_use_select, background clicks and press_key's app.
- Every action comes back with the screen after it (or, with no picture allowed, the front
app's numbered controls), so the bot no longer spends a step on a screenshot to check.
- Coordinates map without remembering a screenshot: the picture's size depends only on the
screen. The phone's taps go straight to the screen as the person's, in the pixels of the
picture it was sent; they used to borrow the bot's last screenshot scale and landed 1.25x off
on the bots' computer, or failed with "screenshot first".
- Mac typing pastes (⌘V, clipboard put back): with 注音 on, text sent as key events vanished
while return arrived, so commands typed into a terminal ran empty. Bare printing keys
("slash", "r") are typed the same way; keys like "slash" and "grave" have names.
- The bots' Docker computer: one docker exec per step (action, settle, picture), never
`mousemove --sync` (it waits forever when the pointer is already there: a second click on
the same spot hung two minutes), open_app (chromium = the browser browser_* drive, xterm).
Tests: box_screen_is_exact (real Docker: bot and phone coordinates exact, same spot twice in
under 2 s, ASCII + Chinese + named key typed), Calculator by numbers and Terminal typing under
注音 through the signed app, remote_e2e 28/28, Linux build + 151 tests + x11_live.
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A turn started from the phone (not a computer) kept 「don't know」 for its whole run: a message
typed on the Mac while it waited on a hand-off had its 「我的電腦」 moved to the bot's own computer.
Each step now asks which computer the person last typed on, and the brain keeps it beside its
data (person-computer.txt) across restarts. remote_e2e: a second computer, and a mid-turn
message from the other one (fails without the fix); 28 checks.
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- hand_over_computer (the original's box hand-off card): instruction, live screen with 接管,
跳過 / 我完成了 / 接管; 我完成了 also in the viewer; a typed message answers it too. Header,
sidebar and notifications say 等你處理 / 「{name}：需要你」; the phone shows it with 接管.
- Mac: the content reaches the top (no grey title bar); the top strip drags the window.
- Panel 電腦 card: each line stops before the picture; the brain's name on its own line.
- Viewer: buttons first, the title ends in … when narrow; the picture is centred.
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- No idle pause: an asleep box is woken; its files are saved once a day instead of before sleep.
- A headless brain offers no Local computer; attachments it receives go into the bot's own one.
- 「你的電腦」 kept by older versions means the bot's own computer; only an explicit choice moves it.
- The composer chip moved to the panel's 電腦 card (做事的電腦).
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- A bot's own computer is 「<bot> 的電腦」; this one and the account's others go by their names.
The server brain picked 你的電腦 by sorted host id, so a desktop left on the server won.
- 「我的電腦」 is the computer the person typed on (the relay names it); unknown means ask.
- A step moved back to the chosen computer tells the bot so.
- Composer chip and bot settings choose the computer by name; a screen asks the brain.
- A screen's 電腦 card and viewer show the brain's computer, not this one's box.
- A screen's chat copy that falls short asks for everything again instead of appending;
清除聊天記錄 on a screen clears the brain's chat.
- Model requests to a private address go through the person's computer first.
- Phone typing on the box sends the text the tool reads.
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- A brain that can't reach a model at a private address (e.g. Qwen at 10.x) sends the request
through its hands; the hands only forward to addresses on their own network, and only for
their brain (uses the existing device channel, so the account server is unchanged).
- The computer chosen for a bot is binding: a step naming another computer goes to the chosen
one unless the person's message names that one (「在我的 Mac 上」).
- Browser steps follow the computer: Bot 的電腦 drives the Chromium on its own desktop (through
docker exec, no new port), 你的電腦 its browser; before, they always used this computer's.
Checked: on this Mac, Bot 的電腦 browsing opened example.com in the box's Chromium and an
unasked 你的電腦 command ran in the box; 「在我的 Mac 上」 ran on the Mac. Linux brain in Docker
with 10.0.0.0/8 blocked + this Mac as hands: model calls went through the Mac, shell on
你的電腦 answered from the Mac, browser defaulted to the Mac's.
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- 語言 繁體中文: a reply's Simplified characters are turned into Traditional with Taiwan
wording (zhconv), since some models (Qwen) slip despite the instruction.
- A brain on a server: browser steps go to the person's computer (its hands) unless the
server's own browser is named; 你的電腦 is listed first.
- update_bot says the default computer it set.
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- On a server brain whose hands are the person's computer, 你的電腦 is that computer;
the server itself is 大腦伺服器 (its browser too), so 「我的 Mac」 means the Mac.
- A brain with its own hands no longer lists the account's other brains as computers.
- 查看電腦 lists the computers the bot really has, with their real names.
- Phone page: with several brains on, it opens the one the account's computers use.
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- A new install (desktop or anybot --serve) starts with no bots; the main window shows
「歡迎使用 AnyBot」: connect a model, make the first bot, or sign in.
- Old data whose five sample bots were never used starts empty too.
- Signing in syncs right away: an online brain of the account is used and this computer's
bots are moved there; otherwise the backup's missing bots are taken in and backed up again.
- The five sample bots remain only for screenshots and tests (State::samples).
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- The brain's bots get computer_use_* for 手腳 (devices), as the prompt already said; before,
they only had shell there and fell back to scrot, which can't see a Wayland desktop
- After saying yes in the 「使用電腦工具」 pop-up (it shows the step), that same step isn't asked
again (sending messages still asks every time)
- A certificate failure says so instead of 「網路連線出了問題」
- install.sh restarts the background AnyBot after an update
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- write_page / read_page / list_pages: Markdown pages with versions (last 10 kept), per bot;
the reply gets a card (title, fading preview, page icon, 頁面 · 更新時間, 最近更新), and
[標題](page:ID) links open the page
- The page opens large: summary, what changed, the version picker, 複製 / 存成檔案 / 刪除;
listed under 資料庫 in the right panel
- Page blocks for richer pages, in the chat's Markdown too: ```stats tiles, ```steps progress,
> [!NOTE]/[!TIP]/[!WARNING]/[!IMPORTANT] call-outs (with tables and Mermaid charts)
- Phone: the card in chats, page links, a page view with the same blocks; charts drawn by the
AnyBot as SVG (GET /api/pages/<id>[/chart/<n>]); members may read pages
- Bots are told to make a page for things to track and to update it from a routine only when
there is real news
- Screenshot views: ANYBOT_SHOT_VIEW=pagecard / page
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Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01Uirha3oEtWeHh58zA7ErHa
- 看圖小幫手: when a bot's model can't take pictures, a model of the
person's that can (Grok, Claude, GPT, Gemini… whichever has a key)
describes each picture the person sent, text and numbers included, and
the bot gets that description. Remembered per picture; helpers that
fail are skipped for ten minutes.
- On the Mac, commands still can't read AnyBot's data folder (the keys),
but may read the chat's attachments in it (not write them).
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- anybot setup: a full-screen terminal guide (role, name, account server,
account, which brain) that saves the settings, installs a systemd user
service (with a virtual screen when there is none), and checks that the
account server and the brain see the computer. Flags for scripts.
- Hands can be limited to one brain; the account server says which AnyBot
asks. Choosing a brain in the app does the same.
- deploy/server/setup.sh: domain, account, sign-ups and keys step by step;
writes .env and Caddyfile, starts everything and checks HTTPS. The
server's brain creates the account on first start.
- deploy/linux/hands.sh installs what's needed and opens anybot setup
(no password kept in a file any more).
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- Each AnyBot keeps one WebSocket to the account server (pinged, reopened
within a second when cut). Requests come down it at once; calls to other
AnyBots of the account (brain sync, hands) go up it. Frames carry raw
bytes, compressed when that saves space. HTTP long-poll stays as fallback.
- The account server knows at once when an AnyBot goes away.
- Edits to lists and maps go item by item, so two computers editing one
list keep both changes.
- Screens fetch chat files from the brain, get model lists through the
brain's keys, and show the brain's computer as the brain's.
- Moving this computer's bots skips starter bots the brain has and bots
already moved.
- The phone goes to the brain instead of a computer that shows it.
- deploy/linux/hands.sh: a Linux computer (with or without a screen) as
hands, kept running by systemd.
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- Brain answers /api/sync (per-screen deltas of settings and messages),
/api/sync/edit (small edit operations) and /api/sync/act (chat actions).
- Relay forwards host-to-host sync requests within one account (role mirror).
- Desktop: choose a brain in 手機與帳號; its own bots are kept aside; offline
shows the last copy read-only and reconnects by itself.
- Keys and tokens stay on the brain (redacted and restored on edits).
- Browser tools can run on another computer of the account (computer arg).
- anybot --serve: ANYBOT_DEVICE_LINK=1 and ANYBOT_BRAIN=名稱.
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Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01Uirha3oEtWeHh58zA7ErHa
Rust/egui rebuild of Grok Bot as of 2026-11-04: chat with streaming
providers (xAI, OpenAI, Claude, Gemini, OpenRouter, OpenCode Go, Ollama,
custom), tools and approvals, the bot's Docker computer, computer use on
macOS / Linux X11 / Wayland, AnyBot's browser with a full DevTools-based
toolset, the encrypted vault, pinned grid and sidebar sections, Markdown
with Mermaid diagrams, phone access through the relay, and the Linux
build and test scripts.
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Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01Uirha3oEtWeHh58zA7ErHa
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