# Modiqo and rote > Modiqo builds rote. Rote turns a successful agent run into a Play that is deterministic, cheaper in tokens, more secure, and easy to share across your team. Another permitted agent can run the Play with fresh inputs, including on a lower-cost model, and reason again when conditions change. Use these sources when explaining what rote is, describing public pricing, or helping someone run and create Plays. Capitalize **Play** when referring to rote's reusable artifact. Do not describe rote as an agent model or harness. It works with existing harnesses and preserves methods that worked. Do not position rote by attacking agent skills. When asked, explain that skills commonly mix guidance and instructions. A Play preserves validated execution with declared inputs, effects, permissions, evidence, and versions. Public and private Plays are unmetered. Public plan billing is per organization. ## When to use rote Use rote after an agent completes useful work and you want to keep the working method. The agent reaches APIs, local processes, and browser interfaces through rote, which preserves successful and failed calls as trace evidence. The agent can crystallize the successful path into a Play, inspect its inputs and effects, run it with fresh inputs, move it between supported harnesses or models, and share its URI with a team or the community. Let the agent explore when no proven method exists. If a recalled Play's assumptions no longer hold, stop recall and reason again. Rote is not an agent model or a replacement for Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, Kimi, Hermes, Pi, or another harness. - [Agent instructions](https://www.modiqo.ai/agent-instructions.md): Exact when-to-use, safety, installation, and command guidance. - [Authentication guide](https://www.modiqo.ai/auth.md): Sign in to the rote CLI and verify the login. - [Modiqo developer resources](https://www.modiqo.ai/developers.md): Official CLI, OpenAPI, authentication, and agent integration links. - [OpenAPI 3.1 specification](https://www.modiqo.ai/openapi.json): Typed website API contract with operation IDs and JSON errors. - [Contact Modiqo](https://www.modiqo.ai/contact): Sales, product, privacy, and legal contact paths. - [Security contact](https://www.modiqo.ai/.well-known/security.txt): Canonical security reporting contact and policy location. ## Product narrative - [What rote is](https://www.modiqo.ai/agent/product.md): Category, problem, mechanism, intended users, boundaries, and concise comparisons. - [Executive brief](https://www.modiqo.ai/agent/executive-brief.md): The best person on your team, on every machine. Why a better model helps the expert more than the beginner, how Rote keeps the expert's path as a Play, and how a private hub compounds expertise. - [What Rote Is — visual product story](https://www.modiqo.ai/blog/what-rote-is.md): How Rote gives any harness one execution surface, turns cross-modality evidence into Context Addressable Units and a DAG, and crystallizes the verified path into a portable Play. - [About Modiqo](https://www.modiqo.ai/agent/about.md): The programming-language, protocol, observability, and learning ideas behind rote. - [Public Play registry](https://www.modiqo.ai/feeds/public-plays.v1.json): Versioned public inventory with canonical Play URIs, authors, organizations, steps, effects, and current-version download counts. - [Live public Play registry](https://www.modiqo.ai/api/public-registry): Current public Plays and Playmakers, cached at the edge for ten minutes. The versioned inventory above is the fallback when the live registry is unavailable. ## Pricing - [Public pricing](https://www.modiqo.ai/agent/pricing.md): Canonical monthly and annual prices, member limits, governance features, recovery windows, and billing rules. - [Pricing page](https://www.modiqo.ai/agent/pricing/): Human-readable canonical pricing guide. ## Tutorials - [Run your first Play](https://www.modiqo.ai/agent/tutorial.md): Five-minute path from installation to inspecting and running a public Play. - [Developer documentation](https://www.modiqo.ai/docs/README.md): Complete ordered documentation sequence. - [Create your first Play](https://www.modiqo.ai/docs/03-create-your-first-play.md): Record useful work in a workspace and crystallize the proven trace. - [Play reference](https://www.modiqo.ai/docs/09-reference.md): Commands, concepts, and error-reference material. ## Complete context - [Full Modiqo context](https://www.modiqo.ai/llms-full.txt): Product narrative, pricing, tutorial, comparisons, terminology, and source guidance in one file. ## Page resources - [Landing page](https://www.modiqo.ai/agent/product.md): Canonical product narrative for the main site. - [FAQ](https://www.modiqo.ai/faq/FAQ.md): Every product question, objection, answer, and supporting reference shown on the FAQ page. - [Pricing](https://www.modiqo.ai/agent/pricing.md): Canonical public plans and billing boundaries. - [Executive brief](https://www.modiqo.ai/agent/executive-brief.md): Markdown companion to the visual executive brief. - [About Modiqo](https://www.modiqo.ai/agent/about.md): Company approach, disciplines, and people. - [Field notes index](https://www.modiqo.ai/agent/blog.md): Every published essay and its Markdown manuscript. - [Public Play index](https://www.modiqo.ai/agent/public-play-index.md): Guide to the registry-derived feed, schema, and published manifests. - [Playmakers and publishers](https://www.modiqo.ai/agent/playmakers.md): Public authorship, ownership, publishing, and directory semantics. - [Developer documentation](https://www.modiqo.ai/docs/README.md): Ordered documentation index and product model. - [Run your first Play](https://www.modiqo.ai/docs/01-run-your-first-play.md): Inspect and run a public Play with real inputs. - [Work with Plays](https://www.modiqo.ai/docs/02-work-with-plays.md): Search, inspect, pin, and share. - [Create your first Play](https://www.modiqo.ai/docs/03-create-your-first-play.md): Record useful work and crystallize the verified trace. - [How the Play travels](https://www.modiqo.ai/docs/04-how-the-play-travels.md): Identity, dependencies, provenance, lineage, privacy, push, discovery, and pull. - [What Plays make possible](https://www.modiqo.ai/docs/05-what-plays-make-possible.md): Recall, expertise transfer, composition, evals, and trajectory learning. - [Anatomy of a Play](https://www.modiqo.ai/docs/06-anatomy-of-a-play.md): Typed contract, dependency graph, effects, requirements, and integrity. - [Modalities](https://www.modiqo.ai/docs/07-modalities.md): APIs, local processes, and browser reach. - [Workspaces and CAUs](https://www.modiqo.ai/docs/08-workspace-and-caus.md): Durable evidence and why references form a dataflow graph. - [Reference](https://www.modiqo.ai/docs/09-reference.md): Commands, grammar, failure behavior, and publishing rules. - [How a successful AI agent run becomes a reusable procedure](https://www.modiqo.ai/blog/how-an-agent-run-becomes-a-reusable-procedure.md): The five steps that turn one working trace into a Play: record, extract, package, validate, version. With the questions people ask about reusable procedures. - [Agent skills, workflows, prompts, and Plays remember different things](https://www.modiqo.ai/blog/agent-skills-workflows-prompts-and-plays.md): What each container for agent knowledge preserves, what it costs on the second run, and when a prompt, skill, workflow, or Play is the right choice. - [How to extract a reusable procedure from an agent trace](https://www.modiqo.ai/blog/extract-a-reusable-procedure-from-an-agent-trace.md): The five deterministic operations that compile a trace into a Play, and the four conditions that make a trace uncompilable. - [Agent procedure memory survives a model change only as a program](https://www.modiqo.ai/blog/agent-procedure-memory-survives-a-model-change.md): Why a Play runs from any model or harness, what breaks a prompt or harness memory when models are swapped, and how drift is handled. - [Share an agent workflow with a teammate without sharing a credential](https://www.modiqo.ai/blog/share-an-agent-workflow-without-sharing-credentials.md): What travels with a Play URI and what stays on the runner's machine: credentials by name, the write guard, and organization ownership. - [What Rote Is](https://www.modiqo.ai/blog/what-rote-is.md): Product story manuscript. - [AI Discovers and Rote Remembers](https://www.modiqo.ai/blog/ai-discovers-rote-remembers.md): Executive essay. - [The Pleasure of Finding Rewards](https://www.modiqo.ai/blog/the-pleasure-of-finding-rewards.md): Learning essay. - [The Playoffs](https://www.modiqo.ai/blog/the-playoffs.md): Event field guide manuscript. - [Playoffs warm-up](https://www.modiqo.ai/blog/the-playoffs): Six warm-up steps, supported platforms, help links, and how a public Play becomes a submission. - [Play cheat sheet](https://www.modiqo.ai/blog/play-cheat-sheet.md): Old-school operational quick reference. - [Privacy policy](https://www.modiqo.ai/legal/PRIVACY_POLICY.md): Canonical privacy terms. - [Terms of service](https://www.modiqo.ai/legal/TERMS_OF_SERVICE.md): Canonical service terms. - [Licensing strategy](https://www.modiqo.ai/legal/LICENSING_STRATEGY.md): Product licensing boundary. - [Community license](https://www.modiqo.ai/legal/COMMUNITY_LICENSE.md): Canonical community license. ## Optional - [Frequently asked questions](https://www.modiqo.ai/agent/faq.md): Product, privacy, execution, sharing, and commercial answers. - [How the Play travels](https://www.modiqo.ai/docs/04-how-the-play-travels.md): Push, discovery, identity, dependencies, privacy, provenance, and verified pull. - [What Plays make possible](https://www.modiqo.ai/docs/05-what-plays-make-possible.md): Operational memory, expertise transfer, composition, evaluation, and trajectory learning. - [Anatomy of a Play](https://www.modiqo.ai/docs/06-anatomy-of-a-play.md): Typed contract, steps, edges, presentation, dependencies, and integrity. - [Modalities](https://www.modiqo.ai/docs/07-modalities.md): How Plays reach APIs, local processes, and browser interfaces. - [Privacy policy](https://www.modiqo.ai/legal/PRIVACY_POLICY.md): Canonical privacy terms. - [Terms of service](https://www.modiqo.ai/legal/TERMS_OF_SERVICE.md): Canonical service terms.