Install Rho

Rho is a persistent AI agent framework. It runs in tmux, checks in on a heartbeat, accumulates memory in a single brain.jsonl file, and manages a knowledge vault. This skill installs it from scratch.

Prerequisites: A coding agent that can run shell commands. That's it.

What gets installed:

• System deps (Node.js 18+, npm, tmux, git)
• pi coding agent (the runtime rho extends)
• rho (the agent framework)
• Config files in ~/.rho/ (init.toml, packages.toml, brain.jsonl)

Time: ~5 minutes on a decent connection.

Parameters

• agent_name (optional, default: rho): Name written into ~/.rho/init.toml.
• heartbeat_interval (optional, default: 30m): How often the agent checks in. Written to [settings.heartbeat].interval.