dotshot for ROCm

Profiler tables, not paraphrases, for the agent on your ROCm box.

Kernel summaries, rocm-smi output, and HIP build errors are easier to show than to describe. dotshot sends a capture from your Mac to your Radeon or Instinct machine, and your agent reads the real table.

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Free and open source · Notarized by Apple · macOS 14+
A stylized ROCm workstation with two GPUs, labeled rocm, ROCm cluster, 2× Radeon AI PRO R9700, codex

What people send

What to send to it

Profiler output

rocprofv3 kernel tables, omniperf views, and traces go to the agent working on the kernel.

Build and runtime errors

HIP compiler errors and stack traces from a browser or remote desktop, as images.

Serving dashboards

Throughput and latency panels from your inference server while the agent tunes it.

Trace files

Drop exported JSON traces or logs on the nub; they arrive next to the code.

Set it up

Five minutes, nothing to install over there.

  1. Install dotshot on your Mac

    Download the notarized DMG from GitHub Releases and allow Screen Recording in its setup. Nothing gets installed on the other machine.

  2. Make sure this Mac can reach it with a key

    ssh -o BatchMode=yes dev@rocm-box true && echo ready

    No key there yet? Run ssh-copy-id dev@rocm-box once. Tailscale names and ~/.ssh/config aliases (including ones with a ProxyCommand) work, because dotshot uses your SSH configuration.

  3. Add it as a destination

    In setup, or from Terminal (or let your agent do it with the setup skill):

    DS=/Applications/dotshot.app/Contents/Resources/dotshot-capture.sh
"$DS" add rocm dev@rocm-box '~/inbound'
"$DS" check rocm

    check creates a private folder, verifies the key and SFTP, and saves the absolute path your agent will see.

  4. Capture

    Press ⌃⌥⌘S and drag, or ⌃⌥⌘V to record. The file lands on the machine and its absolute path is on your clipboard.

  • Works the same for Radeon workstations and Instinct servers: dotshot never touches the GPU stack.
  • Agents on ROCm boxes often run with broad permissions. Treat captures of untrusted pages as untrusted input.
  • Behind a bastion? Put the ProxyJump in ~/.ssh/config and use that alias.

Also works with

One shortcut for the whole fleet.

Every guide uses the same app: add each machine once, then switch from the pill, a drop tile, or a dotshot:// link.

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