Requirements

Runtime requirements

• Linux. Gopherbot is developed and tested as a Linux-first tool.
• A shell account where you can run long-lived processes and keep a working directory for each robot.
• git and ssh if you want bootstrap, update, or repository handoff workflows.
• A team-chat platform or local connector setup appropriate for your robot.

Build requirements

If you are building from source instead of using a release archive:

• Go 1.24 or newer
• make
• standard build utilities such as tar and gzip if you want packaged archives

What you do not need for the default v3 workflow

• A dev container just to write plugins
• An extra wrapper script just to start a development robot
• External interpreters for every language up front

You can still use Bash, Python, or Ruby extensions, but the modern path is to start with the built-in interpreters and Go support already included in the engine.