Ask the AI Agents community brain a question from inside your coding agent. Get grounded, cited answers from ~4,000 members' tips, repos, discussions, and gotchas.
When to use
Use when you want community-grounded knowledge on a coding/agent topic: best practices, repos people use, gotchas, discussions, tips. Don't use for general web search or questions unrelated to the AI Agents community.
Setup
- Get a token — contact Rom (DM RomBot on WhatsApp asking for a developer token). Rom issues it via the owner-operated
/issue-dev-tokencommand. - Configure — run
python3 scripts/rombot-ask.py setupand enter the endpoint URL + your token. This writes~/.config/rombot-ask/.env. - Ask —
/rombot-community <question>in your coding agent.
How to call
Run the CLI via Bash:
python3 scripts/rombot-ask.py "<question>"
- Pass the answer through verbatim to the human. Do NOT reword, summarize, or translate RomBot's answer.
- You may rephrase the human's question into a crisp query before calling the CLI.
- RomBot's answer includes inline citations (who said it, which group, when, repo links). Do not strip them.
- If the CLI exits non-zero, report the error to the human.
Flags
--json— full{answer, model, latency_ms}shape.--timeout <s>— override the default 90s timeout.
Language
RomBot answers in English by default. If the human writes Hebrew, RomBot answers in Hebrew.
Exit codes
- 0 — success (answer on stdout)
- 1 — no answer
- 2 — auth failed (401)
- 3 — rate limited (429)
- 4 — not configured (run
setup)