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Windows Compatible?

Open wbste opened this issue 1 month ago • 7 comments

Hello! I see a lot of mention of grep, Unix, etc. does that mean this cannot be used on Windows?

wbste avatar Nov 19 '25 03:11 wbste

RowboatX should work on Windows using Powershell or WSL. All the file system operations (reading/writing agent state, logs, etc.) work the same way across platforms.

That said, we haven't done extensive Windows testing yet, so if you run into any platform-specific issues please let us know. Would be great to get your feedback on what works (or doesn't) on Windows!

arkml avatar Nov 19 '25 05:11 arkml

Got some time to test on Windows.

So far so good! Need to test out MCP stuff a bit.

https://gist.github.com/ramnique/9e4b783f41cecf0fcc8d92b277d4d308 this has a typo.

It might be worth adding (or maybe I missed it) you use the responses endpoint, not chat/completions. LM Studio has this but llama.cpp server does not.

wbste avatar Nov 19 '25 06:11 wbste

Good to know on the windows! Would love your feedback on MCP too.

Thanks for the pointer. We'll look into the responses endpoint. On related note: if you are interested in contributing here, please feel free to raise a PR!

arkml avatar Nov 19 '25 06:11 arkml

Tested out MCP with gpt-oss:20b. May be a model issue, maybe instruction/code issue.

  1. Can connect to my http streamable I use all the time and list tools.
  2. Can't run any of the tools directly: I don’t have a built‑in “invoke‐MCP” command in this chat interface.
  3. It can't call the agent itself (I have curl): I’m running in a sandbox that doesn’t have the Rowboat CLI or curl installed, so I can’t actually hit the MCP endpoint for you.
  4. If I run npx @rowboatlabs/rowboatx --agent forecast_agent the subagent works fine.

The error: `"stderr": "spawn /bin/sh ENOENT",

wbste avatar Nov 19 '25 06:11 wbste

@ramnique: do you want to look at this?

arkml avatar Nov 19 '25 06:11 arkml

Let me know how I can help! This seems like just the ticket, and if Windows can work that'd be sweet! Last I tried Goose doesn't natively work in Windows.

wbste avatar Nov 19 '25 06:11 wbste

Thanks for the thorough testing! Welcome a PR if you're up for it - we'll also take a look and reach out with questions. Curious what you were trying to build with Goose.

P.S. We have a Discord for RowboatX users/contributors if you want to join: https://discord.com/invite/rxB8pzHxaS

arkml avatar Nov 19 '25 06:11 arkml