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RowboatX – CLI Tool for Background Agents
- ✨ Create background agents with full shell access
- E.g. “Generate a NotebookLM-style podcast from my saved articles every morning”
- 🔧 Connect any MCP server to add capabilities
- Add MCP servers and RowboatX handles the integration
- 🎯 Let RowboatX control and monitor your background agents
- Easily inspect state on the filesystem
Inspired by Claude Code, RowboatX brings the same shell-native power to background automations.
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Set your LLM API key. Supports OpenAI, Anthropic, Gemini, OpenRouter, LiteLLM, Ollama, and more.
export OPENAI_API_KEY=your-openai-api-key -
Install RowboatX
npx @rowboatlabs/rowboatx
Add and Manage MCP servers
$ rowboatx
- Add MCP: ‘Add this MCP server config:
‘ - Explore tools: ‘What tools are there in
‘
$ rowboatx
- ‘Create agent to do X.’
- ‘… Attach the correct tools from
to the agent’ - ‘… Allow the agent to run shell commands including ffmpeg’
Schedule and monitor agents
$ rowboatx
- ‘Make agent
run every day at 10 AM’ - ‘What agents do I have scheduled to run and at what times’
- ‘When was
last run’ - ‘Are any agents waiting for my input or confirmation’
Run background agents manually
rowboatx --agent=<agent-name> --input="xyz" --no-interactive=true
rowboatx --agent=<agent-name> --run_id=<run_id> # resume from a previous run
To use Rowboat Classic UI (not RowboatX), refer to Classic.
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