ROBOT interop¶

Strixonomy v0.19.0 wraps the ROBOT CLI for validate, merge, and report workflows. ROBOT runs as an external Java process — Strixonomy does not embed a JVM.

Canonical capability matrix: What ships today.

Prerequisites¶

Requirement	Notes
Java	ROBOT requires a JRE on the agent or developer machine
`robot` on PATH	Or set an explicit path (see below)
Strixonomy 0.19.0+	`strixonomy robot` subcommand or LSP `strixonomy/runRobot`

Install ROBOT from robot.obolibrary.org.

CLI¶

# Validate
strixonomy robot validate path/to/ontology.owl

# Merge
strixonomy robot merge --inputs a.owl --inputs b.owl --output merged.owl

# Report
strixonomy robot report path/to/ontology.owl --report report.tsv

Override the executable:

strixonomy robot validate demo.obo --robot-path /opt/robot/robot.jar

Full flag reference: CLI reference.

VS Code¶

Set strixonomy.robotPath in settings to the robot executable or JAR when it is not on PATH. Trusted workspaces only (ignored in Restricted Mode).

LSP clients can call strixonomy/runRobot — see LSP API.

CI recipe¶

- name: Install Strixonomy
  run: cargo install strixonomy-cli --locked --version 0.27.0

- name: Strixonomy validate
  run: strixonomy validate ./ontologies

- name: ROBOT validate
  run: strixonomy robot validate ./ontologies/core.owl

Example with OBO fixtures: examples/obo-workflow/.

Security note¶

ROBOT spawns a child process with user-supplied arguments. Run in trusted CI agents only; do not expose runRobot over an unauthenticated network LSP bridge.