Who is Robert?
Robert has been using FreeBSD since the early 2000s, and the first release he installed was 4.4-RELEASE. He is an expert at reading and searching manual pages, and sometimes he can read files.
What is Robert?
Robert is Artificial Intelligence packaged as a native, 2MB FreeBSD binary. It currently requires DeepSeek because it is almost free to use but it could also work with other providers.
Boot
The boot screen runs fortune freebsd-tips
Similar to the default FreeBSD default ${HOME}/.profile.
First turn
Simple greeting.
Second turn
Question answered from the FreeBSD man pages.
Tool confirmation
No confirmation required to read, or search man pages.
Confirmation required to read files.
Screencast
See a live demo at asciinema.org
GitHub builds a binary from the repository's source code and it is run every time a commit is pushed to the repository. The binary is roughly 1.78MB in size, and it can be downloaded here.
This project belongs to the llm.rb family of projects. The mruby-llm runtime is a port of llm.rb to mruby, and it was used to build this project.
0BSD. See LICENSE.