# Capabilities

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Updated 2026-10-11

> **Release status**
>
> RightNow Agent, the terminal coding agent, is paused. Its guides stay online as reference.

**RightNow Agent** sends model inference to a configured provider and runs approved tools on the user's machine.

## Current surface

**[Interactive UI](https://www.rightnowai.co/docs/interactive)**

Starts when the invocation has no -p, --prompt-json, --prompt-file, or subcommand. -v, -V, --version, and the version subcommand print version information and exit before runtime startup.

**[One-shot mode](https://www.rightnowai.co/docs/headless)**

-p, --single, or --print sends one prompt and exits.

**[Model selection](https://www.rightnowai.co/docs/providers)**

-m or --model selects a configured model entry.

**[Structured output](https://www.rightnowai.co/docs/headless)**

--output-format selects the headless output form; --json-schema implies JSON output.

**[Workspace selection](https://www.rightnowai.co/docs/headless)**

--cwd <path> selects the working directory.

**[Files and terminal](https://www.rightnowai.co/docs/permissions)**

Compiled tools can read, search, edit, create, and run commands subject to permissions.

**[Web tools](https://www.rightnowai.co/docs/configuration)**

The shipped configuration enables search and fetch by default; calls can contact public sites.

**[MCP servers](https://www.rightnowai.co/docs/mcp)**

Configured servers add external tools.

**[Hooks](https://www.rightnowai.co/docs/hooks)**

Configured hooks run at lifecycle events.

**[Skills](https://www.rightnowai.co/docs/skills)**

Discovered skills provide reusable instructions.

**[Project rules](https://www.rightnowai.co/docs/project-rules)**

Loaded project rules add workspace instructions to the agent context.

**[Diagnostics](https://www.rightnowai.co/docs/troubleshooting)**

rightnow doctor, rightnow doctor --json, and the local unified JSONL log.

**[Receipts](https://www.rightnowai.co/docs/receipts)**

rightnow receipt verify <receipt> \[--workspace <dir>\] \[--json\] verifies current file state for a file receipt.

**[Update status](https://www.rightnowai.co/docs/install)**

rightnow update --check --json reports the current and latest versions, selected channel, installer, update availability, and any error without installing.

## What the shipped configuration enables

The shipped configuration enables named-file preload, a bounded first-turn workspace map, dynamic tools, eager tools, bounded prompt slimming, and one-call transactions. It keeps `act_first` and `context_packing` off.

## Denied or absent

> **Warning**
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> Image and video generation tools are denied by the shipped configuration and the binary's launch defaults. Local inference, local model downloads, and GPU scheduling are not product capabilities. Automatic-approval flags change the permission decision but do not create a sandbox.

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