- a skill is now a .md file (front matter + instructions + an optional
steps fence): <data>/skills/ is read at every start, files win;
install from the CLI (anybot --install-skill <path|url>) or from the
phone (設定 › 整合 › 技能 › 從網址安裝), delete takes the file with it
- skillify (C8): long-press your own message in the chat → 教我做 —
the last turn that answered it becomes a replayable skill from the
oplog: only steps that succeeded, looking steps and numbered clicks
filtered (numbers die with their screenshot)
- a browser replay step that doesn't fit gets one fresh page read
before the bot takes over, same courtesy the screen steps had (C8)
- three example skills in skills/, the format guide in docs/skills.md
- the prompt lines that merges had eaten: menu_click/fill_form/wait_for
(C3), memory recall + search_documents (P6) — the tools were there,
the model just wasn't told about them
- store.rs grows a memories table + FTS5 (trigram) index: bot facts and
the person's shared lines (bot 0), no cap — state.json's 200-item list
stays the source that mirrors sync and the 設定 list; the index is its
searchable superset, best-effort as always
- queries answer in Chinese: phrase hits (FTS), then words inside lines —
CJK queries cut into two-character windows, lines scored by how many
they contain (「有没有靠窗」 finds 「我喜歡靠窗的座位」)
- every finished turn writes one event line (ask → answer) nobody's
asked to write: 「我上個月說的那個報表」 answers from months back
- the turn's prompt carries the 14 memories that answer *this* request
(no index yet: the list itself, the old behavior); remember/forget and
the UI's 忘記 keep the index in step with the list
- embedding (Ollama) and document indexing land on this same table next
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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The phone showed a bare 「刪除技能」 when 新 Bot deleted the test skill; save/use/delete skill,
remember and forget now carry the name or the fact.
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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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The phone page was bare: one row per bot, a chat listing every step, a menu with four lines.
- Home: the main bot large at the top with its model and last words, the other bots with times,
then its computers (own box and the account's, online or not, 看畫面), the newest pages and the
routines with their next run.
- Chat: the bot's name opens its settings — model (chat models only), computer, past conversations
(restore), regenerate, new chat. A turn's steps fold into 「已完成 N 個步驟」 when done (the newest
three stay while it works); copy and regenerate under replies; four ready starts in a new chat;
a jump back to the newest message.
- Menu: 外觀 (follow the phone, light, dark).
- API: api/state carries pages and models; each bot its model, computers, routines, past
conversations; POST api/bots/{id}/set | regenerate | restore. The home's last line skips errors.
Checked on a local copy of the brain's data (cut off from the account and Docker) at iPhone size.
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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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- 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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- 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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- 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
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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