rf-robotcode

rf-robotcode is a skill for Claude Code from manykarim/robotframework-agentskills. It costs 30 tokens per session (2,392 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A guide to the robotcode command-line tool for Robot Framework, an automated testing framework. It covers project profiles, test discovery, debugging, an interactive prompt, result analysis, and static checks.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to discover tests, run configured profiles, debug failing steps, try keywords, inspect results, and analyze Robot Framework code.
Why use it?
It gives projects using robot.toml one consistent way to run, inspect, debug, and check tests from the command line.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin.

Part of the rf-agentskills plugin — 12 skills, 4 agents, 4 hooks shipped together

Good fit Use it to discover tests, run configured profiles, debug failing steps, try keywords, inspect results, and analyze Robot Framework code.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/manykarim/robotframework-agentskills/rf-robotcode
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Any agent
npx skills add manykarim/robotframework-agentskills --skill rf-robotcode
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/manykarim/robotframework-agentskills

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install rf-agentskills, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 12 skills, 4 agents, 4 hooks.

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Per session 30 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,392 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe.
Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.
Token cost

What it costs to keep this loaded

Counted locally with the o200k_base tokenizer, which is exact for GPT models; Claude uses its own tokenizer and its counts differ. Treat this as one consistent yardstick across the catalogue rather than a bill. Prices are per million input tokens.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5.1 $0.00030 $0.02392
Opus 5.5 $0.00012 $0.00957
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00006 $0.00478
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00239

Measured 11d ago against content hash 71d607780d41, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

rf-robotcode scanned grade A with 0 findings against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured 11d ago.

A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.

Nothing flagged

None of the 26 patterns this scan looks for appear in this file: no shell pipes, no recursive deletes, no credential paths, no hidden text, no instruction-override or anti-refusal phrasing, no agent-config snooping. That is not a guarantee, it is the absence of the things that are checkable.

plugins/rf-agentskills/skills/rf-robotcode/SKILL.md · 143 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 143 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

robotcode CLI Skill

When to use

Load this skill first, before reading robot.toml or exploring the tests, when a Robot Framework project uses the robotcode CLI or a robot.toml:

  • run suites with robot.toml profiles, discover tests and tags without running them;
  • debug a failing test step by step with robot-debug, or try keywords in a non-interactive REPL;
  • keyword docs (robotcode libdoc), result summaries, failures and diffs of output.xml (robotcode results), static checks (robotcode analyze code).

Not this skill: settings of the RobotCode VS Code extension. Without robotcode, use rf-results for output.xml and rf-libdoc for keyword docs.

Quick Reference

robotcode is the CLI of the RobotCode project (the same engine as the VS Code extension). It wraps robot, libdoc, rebot and testdoc with the project's robot.toml configuration, and adds discovery, a REPL, a CLI debugger, result analysis and static analysis. Every command reads the same robot.toml and profiles.

Verified against robotcode 2.7.0, Robot Framework 7.5.

Is robotcode available?

Check once per session, from the project root:

robotcode --version          # or, in a uv project: uv run robotcode --version
robotcode discover info      # which Python / RF / robotcode will actually be used
  • Available → use the commands below.
  • Not installed → use the script-based skills instead (see Companion Skills), or, if the user agrees, install it into the project environment: uv add --dev "robotcode[all]" (or pip install "robotcode[all]" in the active venv).
  • Run robotcode from the project's environment (uv run robotcode … or the activated venv). A global install sees the wrong library versions.

⚠️ Agent safety rule: never run the REPL or debugger interactively

robotcode repl and robotcode robot-debug are interactive. In scripts and agent terminals:

  • Pipe the input in (printf '…' | robotcode repl or robotcode repl < steps.robotrepl), or pass --plain.
  • End piped REPL input with .exit.
  • In a real terminal (PTY) without agent detection, piped lines become one pasted block and the REPL hangs. robotcode detects agent terminals (CLAUDECODE, AI_AGENT, …) and switches to the plain backend. ROBOTCODE_FORCE_AI_AGENT=1 forces this on. See references/agent-mode.md.
  • If stdin ends (EOF) while the debugger is paused, the run resumes and finishes. It does not hang.

Read the full file on GitHub · 143 lines

Changes

What this file has done since we first saw it

Hashed on every crawl. A supply-chain change to an agent config is a question of when, not whether, so the history is kept rather than the latest state alone.

  1. 11d ago Changed · -4 tokens per session 71d607780d41
  2. 17d ago First seen · 143 lines · 34 tokens per session scan A 2031852c8d68

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rf-robotcode is a skill published in the GitHub repository manykarim/robotframework-agentskills (38 stars, last pushed 5d ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 30 tokens to every session and 2,392 once invoked, about $0.0001 per session on Opus 5.5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-10-01.

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