RightNow Agent is a Rust terminal coding agent forked from xAI's grok-build. It can inspect and edit files, run terminal commands, use web tools, manage sessions, and call configured integrations.
The shipped profile sends OpenAI-compatible model requests to RunInfra at https://api.runinfra.ai/v1, reads RIGHTNOW_API_KEY from the environment, and selects qwen3-8-flash-next.
RightNow runs approved tools on your machine and supports both an interactive terminal UI and one-shot headless tasks. Prompts and relevant tool results go to the selected model provider.
The warm-daemon and dynamic-tools figures are dated observations from the repository's September 1, 2026 Windows measurements, not performance guarantees. The one-call-transaction and turn-cap cards describe shipped configuration; the turn caps were raised on September 2, 2026.
With the cloud profile and a reused daemon, session open measured 105 to 115 ms instead of 631 to 728 ms. The daemon reuses the client process and parsed runtime state, not model weights.
Across three headless create-file runs per setting, the prompt measured 1,976 tokens instead of 9,676, and the model call was about 35 percent faster. Every measured run produced the requested file.
A bounded create, edit, or named-test transaction can finish from the typed tool result and an objective postcondition without a second model call used only for narration.
The shipped profile caps a turn at 24 base model calls, 600 seconds, and 5,000,000 microcents of provider-reported spend. The spend value is a runaway guard, not a pricing promise.
RightNow does not install or run a local model, require a GPU, or expose image or video generation tools in the shipped profile. It also does not require Python for its standard build or launch path.