| name | paseo |
| description | Paseo reference for managing agents and worktrees. Load whenever you need to create agents, send them prompts, or manage worktrees. |
Paseo is a daemon that supervises AI coding agents on your machine. Control it through tools or a CLI.
Worktrees
create_worktree — three modes:
- From a PR:
{ githubPrNumber: 503 }.
- Branch off a base:
{ action: "branch-off", branchName: "fix/foo", baseBranch: "main" }.
- Checkout an existing ref:
{ action: "checkout", refName: "feat/bar" }.
Returns { branchName, worktreePath }. Pass cwd to target a specific repo.
list_worktrees — current repo (or pass cwd).
archive_worktree — { worktreePath } or { worktreeSlug }. Removes worktree and branch.
Agents
create_agent — required: title, provider (claude/opus, codex/gpt-5.4, …), initialPrompt. Common: cwd (often a worktreePath), background (default false — blocks until completion or permission), notifyOnFinish. Returns { agentId, … }.
Compose: call create_worktree first, then create_agent with cwd set to the returned worktreePath.
send_agent_prompt — { agentId, prompt }. Blocks by default; pass background: true to fire-and-forget.
list_agents — filter by cwd, statuses, sinceHours, includeArchived.
archive_agent — { agentId }. Interrupts if running, removes from active list.
Heartbeats
create_schedule — required: prompt. Pick one of cron or every ("5m", "1h"). Optional: name, target (self | new-agent), provider, maxRuns, expiresIn. Use for periodic checks on long-running work or recurring maintenance.
Models
claude/sonnet (default), claude/opus (harder reasoning), codex/gpt-5.4 (frontier coding), claude/haiku (tests only).
Orchestration preferences
User-specific configuration at ~/.paseo/orchestration-preferences.json. Any paseo skill that picks an agent reads this file. Never hardcode a provider string in another skill — resolve through this file.
Two parts:
providers — map of role categories to provider strings. Pass straight to create_agent's provider field.preferences — freeform string array. Read on startup; weave into agent prompts contextually.
Categories: impl, ui, research, planning, audit. Skills pick the category that matches the role they're launching.
{
"providers": {
"impl": "codex/gpt-5.4",
"ui": "claude/opus",
"research": "codex/gpt-5.4",
"planning": "codex/gpt-5.4",
"audit": "codex/gpt-5.4"
},
"preferences": [
"Claude Opus is the right choice for anything artistic or human-skill-oriented: copywriting, naming, UX copy, visual design, styling. Codex is the workhorse for mechanical work."
]
}
If the file is missing, use sensible defaults and tell the user once.
Waiting
Agents take time — 10–30+ minutes is routine. Favor asynchronous workflows.
For every create_agent or send_agent_prompt, pass background: true and notifyOnFinish: true. Paseo delivers a notification to your conversation when the agent finishes, errors, or needs permission. You must not call wait_for_agent on a notify-on-finish agent. Move on to other work. The notification arrives on its own.
Don't poll list_agents or get_agent_status to "check on" a running agent. The notification will tell you.
CLI parity
The paseo CLI is a thin wrapper over the same daemon. Same surface:
paseo run --provider codex/gpt-5.4 --mode full-access --worktree feat/x "<prompt>"
paseo send <agent-id> "<follow-up>"
paseo ls
paseo worktree ls
paseo schedule create --every 5m "ping main build"
Discover with paseo --help and paseo <cmd> --help.
If paseo isn't on PATH but the desktop app is installed, the bundled CLI is at:
- macOS:
/Applications/Paseo.app/Contents/Resources/bin/paseo
- Linux:
<install-dir>/resources/bin/paseo
- Windows:
C:\Program Files\Paseo\resources\bin\paseo.cmd
The desktop app's first-run hook (installCli) symlinks this to ~/.local/bin/paseo (macOS/Linux) or drops a .cmd trampoline (Windows) and adds ~/.local/bin to PATH via shell rc files. If that didn't take, offer to symlink it — don't do it silently.
Ops and debugging
Daemon-client architecture: the daemon owns agent lifecycle, state, and the WebSocket API. Tools, CLI, mobile, and desktop apps are all clients.
| Default |
|---|
| Listen address | 127.0.0.1:6767 (override PASEO_LISTEN) |
| Home | ~/.paseo (override PASEO_HOME) |
| Daemon log | $PASEO_HOME/daemon.log |
| Agent state | $PASEO_HOME/agents/<id>.json |
| Worktrees | $PASEO_HOME/worktrees/ |
| PID file | $PASEO_HOME/paseo.pid |
| Health | GET http://127.0.0.1:6767/api/health |
Debug order:
tail -n 200 ~/.paseo/daemon.log.paseo daemon status for liveness.curl -s localhost:6767/api/health if the CLI itself is suspect.
Never restart the daemon without explicit user approval — it kills every running agent, including, often, the one asking.
