Docs

How Shinbo works.

Setup, capabilities and operating limits, with fresh app screenshots. Example data; current source may differ from the published release.

Guides

Run the coding-agent CLIs you already have installed inside a Shinbo thread, and hand their results to each other.

Hand work to a subagent that finishes and folds back, or a sub thread that stays, and steer or stop either while it runs.

A plan is a dependency graph in Markdown; every step whose inputs are ready runs at the same time.

One OpenRouter key gets you started; after that, any provider, subscription, CLI sign-in or local model can drive each role.

Shinbo can try an ordered list of free OpenRouter models when one is unavailable. Provider availability and limits still apply.

Pick one of four permission modes to decide what a turn may do without asking you.

Ask Shinbo from the notch, and work in a terminal, a browser, your voice or an artifact.

Shinbo saves what it learns as Markdown notes in an Obsidian vault or plain folder you own.

Save a prompt with a cron trigger and Shinbo runs it as a thread while the app is open.

See which model keeps failing, ask Shinbo what to change, and prove the change on a replay bench before keeping it.

Shinbo adds 27 tools of its own to the harness, seven of which ask before they act, and can write new ones mid-conversation.