Ometh Abeyrathne
Email ometha12@gmail.com

Home/AI/RIGEL Runtime

RIGEL Runtime

A zsh environment with RIGEL built in: ask questions, run multi-step tasks, speak and transcribe, all from the command line.

When
2025
Built with
zsh, D-Bus, RIGEL
RIGEL Runtime in a terminal.

RIGEL Runtime puts the RIGEL engine into the shell. It is a set of zsh functions that talk to the engine over D-Bus, so the assistant is a command like any other and its answers can be piped.

  • rigel_query asks a question.
  • rigel_memory does the same, keeping the conversation across sessions.
  • rigel_tools hands over a task and lets the engine use its tools to do it.
  • rigel_speak and rigel_transcribe turn text into speech and audio into text.
  • rigel_status and rigel_debug say whether the engine is reachable, and why not.

It is experimental and says so. It is the third shell assistant I've written: the first two are Runtime and Runtime Shell.