Rosebud Labs
Rosebud Labs builds small developer and productivity tools. Its flagship rostr product gives coding-agent sessions memorable names from user-defined rosters, keeps track of what each session is doing, and works across local machines and cloud environments.
At a Glance
- Individual developers using Claude Code or Codex
- Teams running multiple AI coding agents in parallel
- Developers using terminal multiplexers or agent dashboards
- Cloud-development and remote-agent users
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AI Tools by Rosebud Labs
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rostr
Agent Session Naming CLI
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Latest News
Rostr v1.0.2 released with a fix preventing rostr task from incorrectly ending an agent turn, plus security and site improvements.
Rostr v1.0.0 released with new themed rosters, a security policy, expanded tool support, and CLI improvements.
Rostr v0.1.15 released with site-fetched pre-built rosters and more agent-driven setup/cloud defaults.
Rostr v0.1.13 announced Codex thread summaries and Codex app hooks; the release also moved site analytics to Cloudflare Web Analytics.
Products & Services
An MIT-licensed macOS/Linux CLI that assembles named agent rosters, automatically drafts names for sessions, puts names and short task summaries in session titles, tracks work, and benches names when sessions end. It supports local SQLite storage and an optional cloud API mode.
The hosted service at api.getrostr.sh that synchronizes rosters and draft state across machines and cloud environments. Tasks and repository names are encrypted client-side; the service is used by the CLI's cloud mode.
An Anki extension and accompanying web service operated by Rosebud Labs LLC that uses AI to generate flashcard text, text-to-speech audio, and images from card fields and prompts.
Market Position
Rostr positions itself as a small, open-source coordination and identity layer for coding agents rather than a general-purpose coding agent or project-management suite. Its differentiators are memorable roster-based identities, automatic session/task titles, bench/draft lifecycle management, repository-specific rosters, and a local-first design with optional end-to-end-encrypted synchronization.
Leadership
Founders
Michael Piazza
Creator of rostr and the person named in Rosebud Labs' site footer; his public GitHub profile identifies him as Michael Piazza, currently exploring, with previous experience at AudiusProject and Amazon, and studies/background in Swarthmore computer science and CalArts animation.
Executive Team
Michael Piazza
Founder and creator
Creator of rostr; public GitHub profile lists prior experience at AudiusProject and Amazon and a Swarthmore CS/CalArts Animation background.
Founding Story
Michael Piazza described rostr as a simple idea built and polished rapidly: every coding agent should have a memorable, scannable name and know its own identity when communicating across Slack, GitHub, email, or other surfaces. The motivation was reducing the cognitive load of tracking many asynchronous agent sessions and making notifications and workstreams easier to triage.
Business Model
Revenue Model
Rostr's hosted Service is offered free of charge; the CLI is open source under the MIT License. Smart Notes, a separate Rosebud Labs product, uses subscriptions or a free trial and processes payments through Stripe.
Pricing Tiers
The rostr Terms of Service state that the Service is free; local mode runs on the user's machine and cloud mode uses the hosted API.
Target Markets
- Individual developers using Claude Code or Codex
- Teams running multiple AI coding agents in parallel
- Developers using terminal multiplexers or agent dashboards
- Cloud-development and remote-agent users
- Anki learners and students using AI-generated study cards through Smart Notes
- Managing multiple asynchronous coding-agent sessions
- Quickly identifying which agent is working on which task
- Tracing agent-originated Slack, GitHub, email, and other external messages
- Coordinating agents across repositories, worktrees, machines, and cloud environments
- Running AI-assisted flashcard generation in Anki through Smart Notes