- One lasting docker exec takes the desktop as a JPEG inside the box and sends a picture only
when it changed (quicker while it changes, slower while still). Viewers ask for the picture
after the one they have and get it at once. It was one exec per picture (a 1 MB PNG decoded
and encoded again on the brain) and a fixed 0.7 s / 1 s pause: about one picture a second.
Measured on the Mac's box: first picture 45 ms, ~90 KB (was ~1.1 MB), 9–19 pictures a second
while it changes; viewers take at most ~8 a second over the network.
- The loop in the box ends the one before it, ends itself when a write fails ("0" lines while
still) and is ended when nobody watched for 10 s (ending docker exec on this side left it
running in the box).
- The person's clicks and keys go through one lasting shell in the box (text as base64), not a
docker exec each.
- Answers over the lasting connection keep their headers (the relay dropped them): a picture's
number reaches the app. JPEG/PNG/PDF/zip bodies are no longer deflated again.
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- New icon: the bot's cloud body and slanted eyes (as in the app's avatars) on a dark tile —
the Mac/Linux app, browser tabs, iPhone home screen (PNG: it ignores SVG), Android and
notifications. The web had its own ring-and-dot.
- anybot --write-icon out.png size [file.svg] draws any SVG (for the web PNGs).
- Phone: lists that reach the bottom keep their last row above the home bar and Safari's
toolbar (it looked cut off); bots show their shape, colour and eyes instead of a letter.
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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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- 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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- 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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- 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
- install.sh (curl | sh): app, hands, server and deps modes; installs system packages
(right names per release, e.g. libasound2t64 on Ubuntu 24.04), Rust via rustup (1.95+),
Docker for the server; limits parallel compiles on small machines
- Server Docker image: add the ALSA build/runtime packages (the build failed), cache the
cargo registry and target between rebuilds, JOBS build arg
- 加一台電腦 now gives a line that installs AnyBot on a blank computer before joining it
- Makefile: make deps installs Rust too, make doctor, clear message when Rust is missing/old
- README rewritten: one line per use, getting started, update/remove, troubleshooting,
deployment options; docs/install.md and multi-device.md follow it
- Tested on fresh ubuntu:24.04 (app) and debian:12 (curl | sh hands) containers
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Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01Uirha3oEtWeHh58zA7ErHa
- 加一台電腦 (phone menu and the app's 大腦 card) gives a ten-minute,
one-time code and the line to run: anybot setup <address> <code>. The
new computer joins as hands for that brain with no password and nothing
to answer, starts with the computer and checks the brain sees it.
- anybot setup without arguments is one screen: address and code (a pasted
line fills both), or the account and password instead. No role, name or
confirm questions; a brain is asked only when there are several.
- Hands computers are no longer offered as brains.
- The server setup asks only the domain, account and password.
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Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01Uirha3oEtWeHh58zA7ErHa
- 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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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