RightNow AI is a YC-backed GPU research lab and software company. Its product is RightNow Agent, the fastest coding agent harness in the world.

What is RightNow Agent?

RightNow Agent is the fastest coding agent harness in the world, a Rust terminal CLI built for one thing: speed. On the measured Windows path, a warm daemon opens a session in 105 to 115 ms. The conditions are documented at /docs/measured-evidence.

How do I install RightNow Agent?

Use the hosted PowerShell installer documented at /docs/install on Windows 10 or 11, x64. It verifies the package SHA-256, adds the install directory to your user PATH and runs rightnow doctor.

How much does RightNow Agent cost?

RightNow Agent has three plans. Free is 0 a month with 20,000,000 tokens. Starter is 10 a month with 200,000,000 tokens. Pro is 29 a month with 600,000,000 tokens. Yearly billing is 2 months free. Every plan includes every model, and past the allowance requests keep working at best effort speed with no charge above the plan price.

Which platforms support RightNow Agent?

Windows 10 or 11, x64 only, using Windows PowerShell 5.1 or PowerShell 7. macOS and Linux are not available yet. Install with the hosted PowerShell installer documented at /docs/install.

Troubleshooting

RightNow Agent provides a doctor command and a local unified log for first-line diagnosis. Remove credentials and customer data before sharing diagnostics.

Run Doctor first

powershell

rightnow doctor
rightnow doctor --json

Also inspect ~/.rightnow/logs/unified.jsonl.

RIGHTNOW_API_KEY is missing

powershell

$env:RIGHTNOW_API_KEY = "<your key>"

The shipped config stores env_key = "RIGHTNOW_API_KEY", not the credential value.

Authentication or connection failure

powershell

rightnow auth status
rightnow auth status --json
rightnow auth logout <provider>

auth status shows the active provider and credential source, and --json emits one JSON object for scripts. auth logout removes a stored key, and /connect replaces one from inside a session. A provider environment variable stays active after the stored key is removed.

Confirm that the active config contains the RunInfra provider and model entries, including the /v1 suffix on https://api.runinfra.ai/v1. Headless backend unavailability returns exit code 23. A malformed config or startup failure outside the headless outcome mapping returns 1.

Config sync reports a warning

A current version with missing template keys is left untouched. Compare it with config/rightnow.toml and add required keys deliberately.
A user version newer than the template is left untouched.
A concurrent modification aborts replacement and leaves the timestamped backup.
Removed local-runtime keys are ignored and reported as unknown fields. Back up the config before removing them.

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rightnow config sync --config <path> --template <path>

Installation or PATH failure

Use Windows 10 or 11, x64, with Windows PowerShell 5.1 or PowerShell 7. Open a new terminal after installation so the user PATH includes %LOCALAPPDATA%\Programs\RightNow or your custom install directory.

irm https://releases.rightnowai.co/cli/install.ps1 | iex

If the installer cannot fetch the manifest or reports a SHA-256 mismatch, stop and retry when the hosted release is available. Do not bypass checksum verification. Missing version, date or zip information on this site means release metadata is unavailable, not that a guessed package is safe to install.

The hosted installer is the distribution path. An older binary may still report that its built-in update check has no channel. See Install for channel, version and directory options.

Source changes seem ignored

A running warm daemon can serve new clients after source or binary changes. Stop it, rebuild, and start a new invocation.

powershell

rightnow daemon status
rightnow daemon stop

protoc is missing

Do not install protoc solely for this repository. The build checks PROTOC, the repository wrapper, and PATH, then falls back to the vendored executable. If PROTOC is set explicitly, verify that the file exists and answers --version.

Windows-specific behavior

File-path completion currently returns no suggestions on Windows. This is explicit behavior, not an installation failure.
The dated operational record identifies a quoting defect in the shared cmd /C path for commands containing a double quote. Use a wrapper executable or a command shape without embedded double quotes until requalified.

The system prompt is unexpected

The launch path does not pass --system-prompt-override. Inspect the active config and direct CLI flags. --rules appends text inside <human_rules>.

Troubleshooting

RightNow Agent provides a doctor command and a local unified log for first-line diagnosis. Remove credentials and customer data before sharing diagnostics.

Run Doctor first

powershell

rightnow doctor
rightnow doctor --json

Also inspect ~/.rightnow/logs/unified.jsonl.

RIGHTNOW_API_KEY is missing

powershell

$env:RIGHTNOW_API_KEY = "<your key>"

The shipped config stores env_key = "RIGHTNOW_API_KEY", not the credential value.

Authentication or connection failure

powershell

rightnow auth status
rightnow auth status --json
rightnow auth logout <provider>

Config sync reports a warning

A current version with missing template keys is left untouched. Compare it with config/rightnow.toml and add required keys deliberately.
A user version newer than the template is left untouched.
A concurrent modification aborts replacement and leaves the timestamped backup.
Removed local-runtime keys are ignored and reported as unknown fields. Back up the config before removing them.

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rightnow config sync --config <path> --template <path>

Installation or PATH failure

irm https://releases.rightnowai.co/cli/install.ps1 | iex

The hosted installer is the distribution path. An older binary may still report that its built-in update check has no channel. See Install for channel, version and directory options.

Source changes seem ignored

A running warm daemon can serve new clients after source or binary changes. Stop it, rebuild, and start a new invocation.

powershell

rightnow daemon status
rightnow daemon stop

protoc is missing

Windows-specific behavior

File-path completion currently returns no suggestions on Windows. This is explicit behavior, not an installation failure.
The dated operational record identifies a quoting defect in the shared cmd /C path for commands containing a double quote. Use a wrapper executable or a command shape without embedded double quotes until requalified.

The system prompt is unexpected

The launch path does not pass --system-prompt-override. Inspect the active config and direct CLI flags. --rules appends text inside <human_rules>.