paseo

Paseo is a remote daemon that manages coding agents, terminals. Control it through MCP tools or the CLI.

Connected hosts

Call list_hosts to discover the calling daemon (self) and its registered destinations (hosts). Use a destination's serverId for tool calls; labels are display names.

create_workspace, list_workspaces, create_agent, send_agent_prompt, get_agent_status, get_agent_activity, and list_agents accept serverId. Omit it for the calling daemon. Other MCP tools operate on the calling daemon.

Keep an agent's { serverId, agentId } together. For example, call send_agent_prompt with:

{ "serverId": "srv_build", "agentId": "agent_123", "prompt": "Continue", "notifyOnFinish": true }

Remote paths and workspace IDs belong to the destination. Remote list_agents has no caller-directory default; pass cwd to filter it.

Manage registrations through the CLI; use the returned registrationId for updates and removal:

paseo --host localhost:6768 host add localhost:6779 --label build
paseo --host localhost:6768 host ls --json

Projects

Manage the daemon's project registry through the CLI:

paseo project create [path]
paseo project ls
paseo project rename <project-id> <name>
paseo project rename <project-id> --reset
paseo project delete <project-id>

For a local daemon, project create defaults to the current directory and resolves relative paths on the CLI machine. With --host or PASEO_HOST, always provide a path; the target daemon interprets it on its own machine. Deleting a project archives its active workspaces and removes the project from Paseo without deleting the project directory.

Workspaces

create_workspace — create a workspace independently of any agent. Required: isolation (local or worktree). Worktree isolation supports mode: "branch-off" | "checkout-branch" | "checkout-pr": use branchName/baseBranch for a new branch, branch for an existing branch, or prNumber plus optional forge for a change request. Use path for a local directory or source checkout and projectId for the owning project; when no path is supplied, a worktree may resolve its source from projectId. worktreeSlug controls the managed path. Returns the workspace descriptor centered on workspaceId.

background: true hides a workspace from default lists and the sidebar while its contents remain durable and accessible; omit background to inherit your current workspace’s value (false without a caller), and override it only when the user explicitly asks.

Choose baseBranch explicitly: origin/main selects the remote-tracking branch; refs/heads/main selects local main. Bare main prefers local main when it exists, otherwise origin/main. Paseo retains the resolved ref for workspace comparisons, even after rebasing the branch or changing its PR target.

list_workspaces — list active workspaces, excluding background workspaces unless includeBackground: true.

archive_workspace — { workspaceId }. Archives the workspace, its agents, and its terminals. Local directories remain; Paseo removes an owned worktree only after its final active workspace reference is archived.

rename_workspace — { workspaceId, name }. Rename workspace.

Workspace scripts

Configured paseo.json scripts use the same supervised lifecycle from tools and the CLI.

list_workspace_scripts — { workspaceId }. Lists configured scripts with lifecycle, service port, proxy URLs, health, exit code, and terminal ID.

start_workspace_script — { workspaceId, scriptName }. Starts one configured script through Paseo's managed workspace-script launcher and returns its status metadata.

stop_workspace_script — { workspaceId, scriptName }. Stops a running script through its supervised terminal and returns the stopped status metadata.

The matching CLI surface accepts either an explicit workspace ID or resolves the current directory:

paseo script ls [--cwd <path> | --workspace <workspace-id>]
paseo script start <name> [--cwd <path> | --workspace <workspace-id>]
paseo script stop <name> [--cwd <path> | --workspace <workspace-id>]

Agents

create_agent — required: title, provider (claude/opus, codex/gpt-5.4, …), initialPrompt. Optional: workspaceId, notifyOnFinish, settings, labels. Returns { agentId, workspaceId, … }.

Initial runtime settings live under settings: modeId, thinkingOptionId, and provider-specific features. Agent profiles are the preferred source for these values. For Codex fast mode, pass settings: { features: { "fast_mode": true } } when creating the agent.

Agent-scoped creation always creates your subagent. On your own host, omit workspaceId to use your current workspace. On another host, first list or create a workspace with that serverId, then pass its workspaceId and the same serverId to create_agent. Placement never changes parentage.

Detach is an explicit user action in the subagents track, not an agent tool. A cross-workspace child remains your subagent even though it also appears as a normal tab in its workspace.

Agent-scoped create_agent defaults notifyOnFinish to true. Set it to false when you want explicit reporting or no completion callback.

send_agent_prompt — { agentId, prompt, activeTurnBehavior? }. Use for follow-ups to an existing agent. Agent-scoped calls default to steer; top-level calls default to interrupt. Set activeTurnBehavior to steer or interrupt to override the default. Steering falls back to interruption when unavailable. CLI agent sends use the same defaults and accept --behavior steer|interrupt. Agent-scoped calls return a queued receipt immediately; messages to each recipient deliver after two quiet seconds. Top-level calls return after dispatch acknowledgement. Agent-scoped calls default notifyOnFinish to true; top-level calls have no parent callback.

update_agent — { agentId, name?, labels?, settings? }. Use settings for runtime changes on an existing agent: modeId, model, thinkingOptionId, and provider-specific features. For Codex fast mode, pass settings: { features: { "fast_mode": true } }.

list_agents — filter by cwd, statuses, sinceHours, includeArchived; set includeBackground: true to include agents in background workspaces.

archive_agent — { agentId }. Interrupts if running, removes from active list.

Agent profiles and provider discovery

list_profiles — named launch bundles configured by the human. Before choosing how to launch a delegated agent, call this tool and read every profile's notes. Pick a named profile the user requested, or the profile whose notes best match the work.

There is no profile parameter on create_agent. Materialize the selected profile into the call:

• combine provider and model as the provider/model value for create_agent.provider
• copy modeId to settings.modeId
• copy thinkingOptionId to settings.thinkingOptionId
• copy featureValues to settings.features

Omit absent values. Do not remember a selected profile or infer drift later; a profile is only launch configuration.

If no profile fits, or no profiles are configured, use the provider discovery tools below rather than guessing. Tell the user when you fall back because no configured profile fits.

list_providers — compact provider availability and modes.

list_models — full model list for one provider. Use only when you need model IDs or thinking options; the list can be large.

inspect_provider — compact provider capability and feature inspection. Required: provider; pass cwd when you are not in an agent-scoped session. Optional: settings with draft model, modeId, thinkingOptionId, and features.

Only set feature IDs returned by inspect_provider. For Codex fast mode, look for fast_mode and pass settings: { features: { "fast_mode": true } } to create_agent or update_agent.

Schedules and heartbeats

create_schedule — starts a new agent on a cron cadence. Required: prompt, cron, provider. Optional: timezone, name, cwd, maxRuns, expiresIn. Use when the recurring work should live in fresh agents.

create_heartbeat — sends you a prompt on a cron cadence. Required: prompt, cron. Optional: timezone, name, maxRuns, expiresIn. Use for reminders, PR/build babysitting, and status checks that should return to this conversation.

delete_heartbeat stops it. MCP intentionally exposes no heartbeat update tool; delete and recreate when its task or cadence changes.

Schedules have the full list/inspect/update/pause/resume/run-once/log/delete surface. Heartbeats deliberately do not.

Waiting

When you create or prompt a subagent, notifyOnFinish defaults to true and reports completion, errors, or permission requests, including across hosts. Finish your turn and wait for that notification instead of polling. If you want an explicit reply with send_agent_prompt, have the sender check list_hosts for the recipient’s server before setting notifyOnFinish: false.

CLI semantics

The CLI and tools use the same ownership semantics even where their syntax differs:

paseo workspace create --isolation worktree --mode branch-off --new-branch fix-x --base origin/main
paseo workspace create --isolation worktree --mode checkout-branch --branch existing-work
paseo workspace create --isolation worktree --mode checkout-pr --pr-number 42
paseo run --provider codex/gpt-5.4 --mode full-access --workspace <workspace-id> "<prompt>"
paseo run --provider codex/gpt-5.4 --mode full-access --new-workspace worktree --worktree-mode branch-off --new-branch fix-x --base origin/main "<prompt>"
paseo send <agent-id> "<follow-up>"
paseo ls
paseo schedule create --cron "*/15 * * * *" "ping main build"
paseo heartbeat create --cron "*/15 * * * *" "check the build"

Discover with paseo --help and paseo <cmd> --help.

For product questions, setup, logs, version problems, or troubleshooting, use the paseo-help skill.