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Rho

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Velocity6.3

an agent-native desktop workbench for R

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Rho is building an agentic R IDE in public, one signed prerelease at a time.

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◆Current state
Rho ships only development prereleases — a Windows build stamp in July, then two 0.4.0 candidates in August. The 0.4.0-dev.39 notes are the first to describe the product rather than the build: provider-first model settings with capability-based routing, project-scoped agent conversations with bounded concurrency and per-file Apply/Undo, and AGPL-3.0-only licensing. Release engineering gets as much text as features — signing, notarization, checksums, and an actor-bound acceptance record.
◆Where it's heading
The direction is an R IDE where a model-driven agent edits files under explicit user control, with the provider left open rather than bundled. Each release tightens the evidence chain around the binaries at least as hard as it tightens the feature set, and the notes name exactly which human checks were skipped and why. Nothing in the feed is presented as production-ready.
◆Prediction
Expect the 0.4.0 line to keep iterating as dev builds until a Windows device and an enabled-Gatekeeper Mac clear the two outstanding human checks; a stable tag looks unlikely before that.

◆Recent moves

  1. 19h ago

    Agent conversations and provider-routed models land in Rho

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    The first release notes that describe Rho as a product rather than a build: capability-based model routing across providers, durable project-scoped agent conversations, and per-file Apply/Undo. It arrives as a conditional prerelease with two human verification steps openly marked unrun.

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  2. 5d ago

    Cross-platform candidate build awaiting acceptance evidence

    A build-stamp release: an immutable cross-platform candidate pinned to a commit, held pending separate acceptance evidence. It carries no user-visible change of its own and is the staging step for the 0.4.0-dev.39 notes.

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  3. 20d ago

    Windows installer build stamp for 0.2.0-dev.12

    A Windows-only installer record — ref, commit, filename and SHA-256, and nothing else. It marks the stretch where the release pipeline was running well ahead of any published feature notes.

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