rodeo

Danger

Don’t use rodeo unless you know what you’re doing. It deliberately circumvents Roblox Studio’s sandbox to give your scripts host system access: spawning processes, reading and writing files, running shell commands, etc. A malicious or buggy script becomes a full machine compromise vector. Only run scripts you wrote or fully trust.

The plan is to replace the way the runtime APIs are exposed with a more secure model once the APIs are more finalized.

What rodeo is

rodeo, in contrast to Lune, extends Roblox Studio’s own Luau runtime with a canonical standard library, so the code is written and executed inside the actual Studio VMs. Lune runs Luau as a separate runtime and provides APIs to interface with Roblox files from the outside.

The CLI is a workflow tool built around that runtime. It launches Studio, lets you orchestrate Studio and its modes, and runs scripts in different VMs with full host system access as a typical language runtime, giving you headless-like Studio workflows.

Where to go next

• Installation
• CLI usage
• Client usage
• Runtime usage
• Remote usage
• CLI reference
• Luau API
• @rodeo runtime