Shopify/roast

Health v2 · maintenance only

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1210 stars · 74 forks observed · 2026-08-28

What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-30, confidence not recorded

Roast is a Ruby-based domain-specific language for building structured AI workflows from composable building blocks called cogs. It orchestrates LLM calls, local coding agents, shell commands, and Ruby code with control flow like conditionals, iteration, and parallel map operations.

Use cases

• orchestrate multi-step LLM workflows in Ruby
• run coding agents locally to review changed files
• chain AI steps where output flows to the next step
• process collections with AI in serial or parallel
• automate codebase analysis and summarization
• build reusable parameterized AI workflow components

When to choose

• you want a declarative Ruby DSL for AI automation pipelines
• you need to mix LLM calls, shell commands, and custom code in one workflow
• you want to run local coding agents like Claude Code or Pi CLI with filesystem access
• you're a Ruby team integrating AI into developer tooling

When to avoid

• your stack is Python or JavaScript and you prefer native SDKs
• you need a visual workflow builder or GUI
• you only need simple single-prompt LLM calls
• you require non-Ruby runtime environments

Facets

framework · maturity active

agent-framework llm-inference workflow-automation sdk artificial-intelligence large-language-models developer-tools ruby cli cross-platform dsl ai-workflows llm-orchestration coding-agents ruby-gem ai-agents automation

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