Rho

Records ​

Episodes, acceptance records and earlier plans, kept with their observations, failures and limits. A record says what happened on a date; it is not a requirement.

  • 2026-11-06 Connecting your own Agent with one prompt — Date: 2026-11-06. Source changes after Rho 0.5.5; package publication and installation are separate.
  • 2026-11-06 External conversations in the project — A person changed a volcano plot's palette in DeepSeek Harness, then opened the same project in Rho.
  • 2026-11-05 Third-party packages and the sclet consumer — Observed on 2026-11-05, macOS arm64, Node 22.22.3, Chrome, R 4.5.2.
  • 2026-11-04 Documentation site — Before this pass Rho had no online documentation: the only published surface was the downloads page at https://yulab-smu.top/Rho/, and the 49 documents in docs/ were…
  • 2026-11-04 How variables relate in a script and in the Notebook — The shipped PA14 project, in a real browser, with R 4.5.2 in the shared session.
  • 2026-11-04 Layout checks in a real browser — Eight untracked probe scripts sat in the checkout root.
  • 2026-11-03 Python environments in the Notebook — scripts/python-env-episode.mjs builds a project named "plant growth": data/growth.csv (40 plants: light, water, growth) and a README.
  • 2026-11-02 0.5.2 on Windows — c3dbeca passes format, Clippy, 79 regressions and the example with MSVC Build Tools 2022 and Rust 1.97.0.
  • 2026-11-02 CI on three systems and npm — components.json selects the Core commit (6f83226, then 8bed8ef after the sixth run) and the Plugins commit (491c440, then 0b17877 and 90e68cf after the third and fourt…
  • 2026-11-02 Literature reproduction as an application test — Five real analyses from the 97 fully-open papers of the clusterprofiler-articles corpus, reproduced through Rho 0.5.2 in one local service: the Agent wrote and ran R i…
  • 2026-11-02 Returning to a stopped P3 analysis — This pass tests whether a person can find a real conversation after closing its tab and continue after Claude Code reaches its per-message turn limit.
  • 2026-11-01 0.5.2 on macOS and Linux — A package should carry each platform's Core from one Core commit.
  • 2026-11-01 Packing 0.5.2 without the Agent clients — The accepted 0.5.1 stage held 676 MB of production dependencies.
  • 2026-11-01 The project Rho ships with — local. Rho now starts with one finished research project, so a person who opens it sees what a project looks like when the work is done instead of an empty list.
  • 2026-11-01 Timeline events and the Notebook's name — Observed. That conversation began on 2026-10-27, before Rho told its Agents about the Notebook (2026-10-30).
  • 2026-10-31 dsh analysis, Rho results and a selected-row question — The current 0.1.4 local bundle matches tools and the launcher to each conversation's project; see project matching.
  • 2026-10-31 Live sessions on a server — The request (2026-10-31): much of the computing happens on a remote server; add support for it and the components to work with it.
  • 2026-10-31 Project sidebar and Agent canvas — Later the same day the user asked for the canvas and the workspace to be one page.
  • 2026-10-31 Project skills — The request (2026-10-31): from a team discussion, a skills module.
  • 2026-10-29 An Agent's edit beside unsaved text — The user asked which plugin should be the first to declare its own Agent pieces (a skill, a hook) and agreed to start with Documents by observing what the Agent does t…
  • 2026-10-29 Code, Markdown and runs in a project — The user asked to put Python scripts and a Markdown report into the test project and see how Rho shows code, runs it and renders Markdown, then chose to work in three…
  • 2026-10-29 Native tools, with Core selected when needed — The comparison retained its measurements and original protocol.
  • 2026-10-29 Result review and retained evidence — The 2026-10-29 implementation follows the selected sequence: baseline, immutable capture, result review, historical Graph, macOS preview delivery and a separately chec…
  • 2026-10-29 Simulated analysis projects — On 2026-10-29, Rho was started from source and two disposable projects built from rho-bio-eval capsules, bix-18 and bix-41, were run through it, giving the screens rea…
  • 2026-10-29 What Rho-core earns on a real research task — Rho's managed action path uses Core's public CLI and registers one executor (R) and one action (r.execute, which runs a user-supplied script).
  • 2026-10-28 Agents and conversations — The user asked to improve the Agent settings and the conversation management, and gave four screens from another application as references: one row per Agent with its…
  • 2026-10-28 magpie's frontend, studied — A deep reading of yetone/magpie for the parts Rho can learn from.
  • 2026-10-28 One workspace and the Graph — After the drag pass the user said the Agent canvas and the workspace should be one page: the person and the Agent can share a context only if they work in the same place.
  • 2026-10-28 The Agent panel — The user found the Agent panel's conversation window too primitive, "as if an intern made it", and gave ten screens of other Agent applications as references (work/cha…
  • 2026-10-27 Agent panel live activity — The user asked on 2026-10-27 to make the Agent UI show the Agent's work as it happens: streaming replies, every action visible while it runs, and a distinct treatment…
  • 2026-10-27 Claude ACP episode — The user's 2026-10-27 request was to put ACP in the Agent plugin, connect Claude first, and exercise real multi-turn conversation, cancellation and recovery using West…
  • 2026-10-27 Claude, Codex and external ACP sessions — The 2026-10-27 request extended the first shared-workspace loop with a second Agent, external ACP sessions and fresh installation acceptance.
  • 2026-10-27 Home, projects and empty project — The user supplied three reference screens (home with recent projects, the new-project sheet over a blurred page, an empty project page) and asked to optimize Rho's hom…
  • 2026-10-25 Base-R collaboration episode — This episode exercises an ordinary R project: select a result row, ask about its method, let a real external Agent edit and execute the analysis, compare both outputs,…
  • 2026-10-16 Headless collaboration acceptance — Observed: 2026-10-16. Result: headless collaboration accepted.
  • 2026-10-16 Independent plugin backend acceptance — Eight independent capability packages own Documents, Files, R, Requirements, Tables, Media, Charts and Agent.
  • 2026-10-16 Reusable backend extraction acceptance — Version 0.2 removes the fixed paired analysis from the base catalog, resource semantics, application routing and npm inventory.
  • 2026-10-16 Rho backend acceptance 0.1 — BP-01–BP-06 passed for the selected macOS arm64 composition.
  • 2026-10-16 Rho 首版后端实施计划 — 先交付可独立调用、测试和安装的本地后端，再由 UI 消费相同公共接口。 后端完成的标准是外部 Agent 和无界面测试客户端能走通真实分析、共同编辑、续接和组合描述， 前端无需重新实现执行、文档、资源或状态判断。UI 开发与验收随后独立开展。
  • 2026-10-16 可复用插件边界与后端解耦 — Rho 的基础插件提供可复用系统能力。具体分析的问题、数据、设计公式、contrast、步骤和 领域判断属于项目脚本或 recipe；Real R analysis: paired dexamethasone response 是验收样例，不是插件目录中的功能单元。插件能力与可选 UI entry 的完整定义由 Rho-plugin…
  • Contract and call-boundary acceptance — What was actually executed for the contract, type and call-boundary work, on which identities, and what it does not establish.
  • Conversation episode — This is the historical per-message CLI episode.
  • macOS arm64 preview 0.5.1 — This is candidate 2 of the unsigned local npm tarball and WebUI.
  • Plugin boundary review 0.4 — The follow-up review found three cross-owner dependencies and removed them: central format schemas in Contracts, execution availability applied to all R entries, and a…

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