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Bed of Roses runs real shell commands on your Mac. That’s how it installs dependencies, runs builds and tests, starts dev servers, converts files in bulk, and drives any command-line tool you have.

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What you see

Every command streams into a terminal card in the thought bubble: the $ prompt with the command, live stdout and stderr, the working directory, and the exit status. You watch it run, exactly as if you’d typed it.

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How it behaves

  • A real shell. Pipes, redirects, globs, &&, cd, environment variables — everything works.
  • Never hangs the conversation. A command gets up to 60 seconds in the foreground; if it’s still going, it keeps running in the background and BOR checks back on it, showing you a countdown card while it waits.
  • Dev servers stay up. Long-runners like npm run dev are started in the background — BOR grabs the startup output (including the localhost URL), leaves the server running, and can open it in the browser to verify.
  • Long output is paged. Output is captured and BOR pages through it rather than dumping walls of text at you.

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Safety

Commands pass a validator before running: catastrophic patterns (rm -rf /, fork bombs, piping the network to a shell, writing to raw disks) and commands that would kill BOR itself are refused outright. Everything that runs is recorded in the audit log.

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What to say

  • “Install and run my project.”
  • “Run the tests and fix whatever fails.”
  • “Convert every PNG in this folder to WebP.”
  • “What’s using port 3000? Kill it.”
  • “Set up a Python virtualenv and install the requirements.”