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One-Shot Query

The simplest way to use Robota SDK programmatically.

import { createQuery } from '@robota-sdk/agent-framework';
import { AnthropicProvider } from '@robota-sdk/agent-provider/anthropic';
 
const provider = new AnthropicProvider({ apiKey: process.env.ANTHROPIC_API_KEY! });
const query = createQuery({ provider });
 
const response = await query('What files are in this project?');
console.log(response);

With Options

const query = createQuery({
  provider,
  cwd: '/path/to/project',
  permissionMode: 'acceptEdits',
  maxTurns: 5,
});
 
const response = await query('Refactor the error handling in src/utils.ts');

In Scripts

#!/usr/bin/env tsx
import { createQuery } from '@robota-sdk/agent-framework';
import { AnthropicProvider } from '@robota-sdk/agent-provider/anthropic';
 
const provider = new AnthropicProvider({ apiKey: process.env.ANTHROPIC_API_KEY! });
const query = createQuery({ provider, permissionMode: 'bypassPermissions', maxTurns: 20 });
 
const task = process.argv[2];
if (!task) {
  console.error('Usage: script.ts "task description"');
  process.exit(1);
}
 
const response = await query(task);
console.log(response);

createQuery() returns a reusable function pre-configured with a provider. It handles config loading, context discovery, session creation, and cleanup automatically. For multi-turn conversations, use InteractiveSession instead.