// Paseo reference for managing agents and worktrees. Load whenever you need to create agents, send them prompts, or manage worktrees.
Cut a beta release of Paseo. Use when the user says "release beta", "cut a beta", "ship a beta", "beta release", or "/release-beta". Betas are silent release candidates — no changelog, no website move.
Cut a stable release of Paseo (fresh patch or promote from beta). Use when the user says "release stable", "ship stable", "promote", "release:patch", "release:promote", or "/release-stable".
Spin up a single agent as an advisor — second opinion on the current task. Use when the user says "advisor", "second opinion", "what does X think", or wants an outside take without delegating the work itself.
Heavy-ceremony orchestration for big work — research, planning, adversarial review, phased implementation, audit, delivery. Use when the user says "epic", "long task", "build this end to end", or wants a feature that runs all night.
Form a committee of two high-reasoning agents to step back, do root cause analysis, and produce a plan. Use when stuck, looping, tunnel-visioning, or facing a hard planning problem.
Hand off the current task to another agent with full context. Use when the user says "handoff", "hand off", "hand this to", or wants to pass work to another agent.
| 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.
create_worktree — three modes:
{ githubPrNumber: 503 }.{ action: "branch-off", branchName: "fix/foo", baseBranch: "main" }.{ 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.
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, settings. Returns { agentId, … }.
Initial runtime settings live under settings: modeId, thinkingOptionId, and provider-specific features. For Codex fast mode, pass settings: { features: { "fast_mode": true } } when creating the agent.
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.
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.
archive_agent — { agentId }. Interrupts if running, removes from active list.
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.
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.
claude/sonnet (default), claude/opus (harder reasoning), codex/gpt-5.4 (frontier coding), claude/haiku (tests only).
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.
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.
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:
/Applications/Paseo.app/Contents/Resources/bin/paseo<install-dir>/resources/bin/paseoC:\Program Files\Paseo\resources\bin\paseo.cmdThe 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.
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.