roadrunner

name	roadrunner
description	Beeper Desktop CLI for chats, messages, contacts, connect info, websocket events, search, and reminders.
homepage	https://github.com/johntheyoung/roadrunner
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roadrunner (rr)

Use rr when the user explicitly wants to operate Beeper Desktop via the local API (send, search, list chats/messages, reminders, focus). Prefer --agent for agent use (forces JSON, envelope, no-input, readonly).

Safety

• Default to read-only commands unless the user explicitly requests a mutation in this turn.
• Require explicit recipient (chat ID) and message text before sending.
• Confirm or ask a clarifying question if the chat ID is ambiguous.
• Never paste raw rr command output (JSON dumps, chat lists, etc.) into outgoing messages. Treat tool output as private; summarize or extract only what the user needs.
• Use --agent for safe agent defaults: rr --agent --enable-commands=chats,messages,status chats list
• Use --readonly to block writes: rr --readonly chats list --json
• Use --enable-commands to allowlist: rr --enable-commands=chats,messages chats list --json
• Use --envelope for structured errors: rr --json --envelope chats get "!chatid"
• Envelope errors may include error.hint with next-step guidance for safe retries.
• Never request, paste, or store raw auth tokens in chat. If auth is missing, ask the user to configure it locally.
• If sending message text through a shell, avoid interpolation/expansion (e.g. $100/month or !). Prefer --stdin <<'EOF' ... EOF for safe literals.

Setup (once)

• rr auth set --stdin (recommended; token saved to ~/.config/beeper/config.json)
• rr auth status --check
• rr doctor

Common commands

• List accounts: rr accounts list --json
• Capabilities: rr capabilities --json
• Connect metadata: rr connect info --json
• Live websocket events (experimental): rr events tail --all --stop-after 30s --json
• List contacts: rr contacts list "<account-id>" --json
• Search contacts: rr contacts search "<account-id>" "Alice" --json
• Search contacts (flag): rr contacts search "Alice" --account-id="<account-id>" --json
• Resolve contact: rr contacts resolve "<account-id>" "Alice" --json
• Resolve contact (flag): rr contacts resolve "Alice" --account-id="<account-id>" --json
• List chats: rr chats list --json
• Search chats: rr chats search "John" --json
• Search chats (filters): rr chats search --inbox=primary --unread-only --json
• Search chats (activity): rr chats search --last-activity-after="2024-07-01T00:00:00Z" --json
• Search by participant name: rr chats search "Jamie" --scope=participants --json
• Resolve chat: rr chats resolve "Jamie" --json
• Get chat: rr chats get "!chatid:beeper.com" --json
• Get chat (bounded participants): rr chats get "!chatid:beeper.com" --max-participant-count=50 --json
• Start/resolve DM from merged contact hints: rr chats start "<account-id>" --email "[e-mail]" --full-name "Alice" --json
• Default account for commands: rr --account="imessage:+123" chats list --json
• List messages: rr messages list "!chatid:beeper.com" --json
• List messages (all pages): rr messages list "!chatid:beeper.com" --all --max-items=1000 --json
• List messages (download media): rr messages list "!chatid:beeper.com" --download-media --download-dir ./media --json
• Search messages: rr messages search "dinner" --json
• Search messages (all pages): rr messages search "dinner" --all --max-items=1000 --json
• Search messages (filters): rr messages search --sender=me --date-after="2024-07-01T00:00:00Z" --media-types=image --json

Mutations (explicit user request only)

• Message send: rr messages send "!chatid:beeper.com" "Hello!"
• Message edit: rr messages edit "!chatid:beeper.com" "<message-id>" "Updated text"
• Message react/unreact: rr messages react "!chatid:beeper.com" "<message-id>" "👍" / rr messages unreact "!chatid:beeper.com" "<message-id>" "👍"
• Upload + send file: rr messages send-file "!chatid:beeper.com" ./photo.jpg "See attached"
• Create chat: rr chats create "<account-id>" --participant "<user-id>"
• Start chat from merged contact hints: rr chats start "<account-id>" --email "[e-mail]" --full-name "Alice"
• Archive/unarchive: rr chats archive "!chatid:beeper.com" / rr chats archive "!chatid:beeper.com" --unarchive
• Reminder mutations: rr reminders set "!chatid:beeper.com" "2h" / rr reminders clear "!chatid:beeper.com"
• Asset uploads: rr assets upload ./photo.jpg / rr assets upload-base64 --content-file ./photo.b64
• For retries on non-idempotent writes, use --request-id and prefer --dedupe-window.

Pagination

• Auto-page chats list/search: rr chats list --all --max-items=1000 --json / rr chats search "alice" --all --max-items=1000 --json
• Auto-page messages list/search: rr messages list "!chatid:beeper.com" --all --max-items=1000 --json / rr messages search "deploy" --all --max-items=1000 --json
• Chats: rr chats list --cursor="<oldestCursor>" --direction=before --json
• Messages list: rr messages list "!chatid:beeper.com" --cursor="<sortKey>" --direction=before --json
• Messages search (max 20): rr messages search "project" --limit=20 --json
• Messages search page: rr messages search "project" --cursor="<cursor>" --direction=before --json
• Global search message paging (max 20): rr search "dinner" --messages-limit=20 --json
• Global search message page: rr search "dinner" --messages-cursor="<cursor>" --messages-direction=before --json

Notes

• Requires Beeper Desktop running; token from app settings.
• Token is stored in ~/.config/beeper/config.json via rr auth set (recommended). BEEPER_TOKEN overrides the config file.
• BEEPER_ACCOUNT sets the default account ID (aliases supported).
• rr auth status --check prefers OAuth introspection (/oauth/introspect) when available and falls back to account-list validation on older builds.
• Message search is literal word match (not semantic).
• rr contacts resolve is strict and fails on ambiguous names; resolve by ID after contacts search when needed.
• If a DM title shows your own Matrix ID, use --scope=participants to find by name.
• JSON output includes display_name for single chats (derived from participants).
• Message JSON includes message_type, linked_message_id, is_sender, is_unread, attachments, and reactions.
• downloaded_attachments is only populated when --download-media is used.
• rr messages send returns pending_message_id (temporary ID).
• Account network may be missing in newer API builds; rr falls back to "unknown" in summaries/search output.
• rr assets serve writes raw bytes to stdout unless --dest is provided.
• --chat does exact matching and fails on ambiguous matches.
• Attachment overrides require --attachment-upload-id; set --attachment-width and --attachment-height together.
• --all has a safety cap (default 500 items, max 5000); use --max-items to tune it.
• Prefer --json (and --no-input) for automation.
• BEEPER_URL overrides API base URL; BEEPER_TIMEOUT sets timeout in seconds.
• JSON/Plain output goes to stdout; errors/hints go to stderr.
• Destructive commands prompt unless ; / fails without .