RouterOS Syntax Inspection

Overview

RouterOS exposes its own parser over the REST API: /console/inspect classifies every byte of console input (highlight), proposes continuations (completion), returns structured help (syntax), and enumerates the command tree (child); the :parse scripting command returns the intermediate language (IL) the engine actually executes. Together these are the ground truth for "is this valid RouterOS?" — version-exact, package-exact, and even runtime-state-exact, which no static grammar can be.

This skill is a probe-selection and wire-format guide: which surface answers which question, how to read each response, and which claims the responses do and do not support. It is grounded in full-corpus captures (913 scripts × multiple RouterOS versions) published in tikoci/lsp-routeros-ts — the docs/ references there carry the full evidence [^1].