foxglovelisted
Install: claude install-skill robium-ai/robium-plugin
# foxglove
The remote/web visualization tool for robium: `foxglove_bridge` exposes a
live ROS 2 graph over a WebSocket, and the Foxglove app (desktop or
`app.foxglove.dev` in a browser) connects to it or opens a recorded MCAP
file — the answer `environments` and `gazebo` route to whenever a robot or
sim runs headless/remote and RViz2's local-display requirement doesn't fit.
Two things changed over time and matter for how this skill is used: the
bridge itself (`foxglove_bridge`, MIT-licensed, open source) moved its
active development from `foxglove/ros-foxglove-bridge` (now ROS 1-only,
maintenance mode) to the `foxglove/foxglove-sdk` monorepo, and the *app*
that used to be free/open-source "Foxglove Studio" was discontinued in
February 2024 (last open-source release v1.87.0, MPL-2.0) in favor of the
current closed-source, commercial "Foxglove" 2.x app — which does still
ship a free tier the product page states is "free forever" for local/live
visualization, separate from its paid Data Platform/cloud features. The
bridge migration was confirmed via direct fetch of the
`foxglove/ros-foxglove-bridge` and `foxglove/foxglove-sdk` GitHub repos this
session; the free-tier claim was confirmed via direct fetch of
`foxglove.dev`'s pricing page, while the Studio-to-2.x licensing history was
reconstructed via search-synthesis after the source blog post 404'd on
direct fetch (see References) — re-verify before repeating either claim,
since licensing terms are exactly the kind of thing tha