Know the robot first
It reads the team's code and parts list, and it will not write robot code until the team confirms the robot's setup.
FTC · Open source
AI help for FTC teams, with a source for every answer
Re
fract.
AI help for FTC teams that refuses to guess: every answer comes from a real source, and it won't write robot code until it knows the robot.
5
AI skills, each tied to a source
2
Languages: Python and Java
5
Coding tools it works in
0
Answers without a source
- Area
- FTC
- Status
- Open source
- Stack
- Python · Java · MCP · Claude Code
What it is
What it
What it
is.
Ask a general AI assistant an FTC question and it will answer confidently, even when it is wrong: a rule number that does not exist, or code for a robot part the team does not have.
Refract is a set of five AI skills for FTC teams that only answer from a real source: the game manual, parts specifications, or the team's own code. If it cannot find a source, it says so. It is open source.
How it works
How it
How it
works.
Answer rules from the manual
Rule questions are answered from a marked-up copy of the game manual, following its cross-references, with the rule cited.
Do the maths in code
Questions about motors and parts are worked out by a script from real specifications, not estimated in prose.
Try It
See it
See it
decide.
Pick a question a team might actually ask. This is the routing logic Refract applies before it answers anything.
The question
What Refract does
What I learned
What I
What I
learned.
Saying "I don't know" is a feature
The goal was never an assistant that knows more. It was one that will say what it cannot know. For a team facing inspection, a confident wrong answer is worse than no answer at all.
One rule can remove a whole kind of mistake
Making the team confirm the robot's setup before any code is written removed the entire category of code written for a robot that does not exist.