Mohamed Boudra 4c9c59ea2b Let plugins put the cursor in any agent's composer (#9207)
* feat(plugins): let a plugin put the cursor in any agent's composer

A pill could insert text but left the cursor elsewhere, so the user had
to click the composer before typing. Plugins can address any agent's
composer, and an author cannot know where the user is, so focus() owns
revealing the agent as well as focusing it.

A running agent's composer holds one pending request and navigates to
the agent, completing when an input that can take the keyboard attaches.
Drafts and the New workspace composer have nothing to navigate to and
must not pull the user back, so they reject when off screen.

* fix(app): stop treating a covered New workspace composer as on screen

The screen passed isPaneFocused={true}, so with Settings pushed over it
the input still counted as revealed. focus() on a held composer resolved
on native with no visible cursor, and rejected with the wrong error on web.
The screen now reports its real route focus.

* fix(app): reach a compact subagent's composer and keep a focus selection

A compact sheet has no composer, so focus() on a subagent without a tab
opened a read-only sheet and timed out. It now promotes the sheet to a
tab, the same path as Open as tab.

A pending focus ran inside the effect that attached the input, before a
later effect in that commit applied a prompt set alongside it, so its
selection was clamped against the old text. It now runs after the commit.

* fix(app): show a compact subagent's tab when focus promotes its sheet

navigateToAgent stops at the sheet, so nothing closed an Explorer panel
covering the promoted tab and focus() timed out. The promoted tab now
goes through the same reveal as any other navigated tab.

* fix(app): open focus targets as tabs and focus Explorer composers on compact

Promoting a sheet after navigating could not reach an open deferred
until the workspace loaded, so the request now asks for a tab up front
with asTab, which travels with the deferred open. That removes the
post-navigation promotion.

A compact composer counted as covered whenever the panel target was not
the agent panel, so one hosted in the Explorer could never take focus.
Coverage now follows the composer's own host.

* fix(app): judge compact composer coverage by where it is hosted

The Explorer dock always reported its pane as focused, so a workspace sheet
over an Explorer composer still counted as on screen and focus() put the
cursor behind the sheet. It now suspends pane focus like the main panes do.

A composer on a screen with no panes counted as a main pane, so an Explorer
selection left over from the workspace marked New workspace as covered and
focus() rejected on a visible input. Only the agent list can cover those
screens, because the Explorer lives in the workspace.

* fix(app): close the composer's own sheets and menus when a plugin focuses it

focus() judged a composer on screen by its pane and panel alone, so a sheet
or menu the composer opened over itself, like the compact controls sheet
that hosts plugin Actions or a Subagents track page, stayed up while the
cursor went behind it. Navigation cannot close those, so focus() now closes
them itself.

Sheets and menus register with the nearest OverlayDismissalScope while open.
The composer opens one, and the agent panel opens one around its whole chat
because the tracks render outside the composer; a nested scope joins the
enclosing one.

* fix(app): close a composer's open picker when a plugin focuses it

The thinking, provider-option and plugin selectors render Combobox, which
never joined the composer's overlay dismissal scope. focus() left the
picker open, resolved on the textarea's brief focus, and the picker's
focus enforcement then took the cursor back. Combobox now registers its
close while open, like sheets and menus.

* fix(app): close a composer's modals before focus places the cursor

An image preview opened from the composer stayed over it after focus()
succeeded: the shared Modal never joined the overlay dismissal scope.
Modal now registers its onRequestClose while visible. Closing it then
exposed a second race: a web modal hands focus back to the button that
opened it in the commit that removes it, after the cursor was placed.
Dismissal now resolves once every closed overlay has unregistered, and
the composer places the cursor after that, waiting at most 1s so a
plugin modal that refuses to close cannot hold the promise forever.

A focus request replaced by a newer one resolved immediately, even when
the composer never came on screen. It now settles with the newer one.

* fix(app): close every composer sheet on focus and keep the latest request

The context usage sheet opens through the bottom sheet visibility hook
directly, so it stayed over the composer after focus(). Registration
moves to that hook, which every controlled bottom sheet uses;
AdaptiveModalSheet registers only its desktop dialog.

Two focus() calls in one turn overwrote each other's wait for an
overlay to close, so the older one resumed a second later and put its
selection back. Callers now share each overlay's close, and the latest
request places the cursor while earlier ones settle with it.

On native, focus() reported success when the input refused focus, as a
non-editable input does during dictation. It now checks isFocused().

* fix(app): let a focus call made while the input attaches decide the selection

A queued focus was dispatched in a microtask after the input attached, so a
focus() made in between (from a mounting item, for example) was overwritten
by the older selection. Each call now carries its sequence number; a queued
request that is no longer the latest settles with the newer one instead of
placing the cursor.

* fix(app): close a workspace sheet that focus dismisses before it animates open

A bottom sheet modal that unmounts after presenting but before its first
animation is still INITIAL, and the library's portal unmount returned early
for that status. Its portal stayed on the host and kept sliding open with no
owner, so composer.focus() removed the sheet from the workspace but left it
covering the input. The patch unmounts the portal in that case.

The compact Explorer focus test also waits for the phone layout before
focusing, since focus otherwise resolved against the wide layout.
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One interface for Claude Code, Codex, Copilot, OpenCode, Pi, Antigravity, and Muse Code agents.

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Paseo is an open source agentic development environment for desktop, mobile, web, and CLI. Open the desktop app and work: agents, editor, terminals, diffs, pull requests, and a browser in one window. Run many agents at once, each in its own worktree, on one machine or several. The mobile app is the full app, native on iOS and Android.

  • Parallel agents: Run many agents at once, each in its own worktree.
  • Built-in orchestration: Agents in Paseo can create worktrees, launch other agents, and talk to them, across providers.
  • Complete development workflow: Edit files, review diffs, open pull requests, and run terminals, in split panes you arrange how you want.
  • Self-hosted: Agents run on your machine with your full dev environment. Use your tools, your configs, and your skills.
  • Multi-provider: Claude Code, Codex, Copilot, OpenCode, Pi, Antigravity, and Muse Code through the same interface. Pick the right model for each job.
  • Voice control: Dictate tasks or talk through problems in voice mode. Hands-free when you need it.
  • Cross-device: iOS, Android, desktop, web, and CLI. Start work at your desk, check in from your phone, script it from the terminal.
  • Privacy-first: Paseo doesn't have any telemetry, tracking, or forced log-ins.

Run parallel tasks in Paseo: start agents in separate worktrees, review their diffs, run each app, and check it in the built-in browser.

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Plugins

Plugins run on the daemon and show up in every client you connect, with the same UI on desktop, web, iOS, and Android. Write a plugin once and it is on your phone.

  • UI: screens, sidebar items, workspace panels, Command Center items, slash commands, composer pills, attachment sources, timeline items, themes.
  • Agent lifecycle: change configuration, environment, and MCP servers, answer permissions, follow up when a turn ends.
  • Providers: add a coding agent as a provider.

Install from the registry with paseo plugin add owner/slug, or from Git or a local directory.

Browse plugins · Plugin docs

Plugins run with access to your daemon machine and inside connected clients; install only code you trust.

Getting Started

Paseo runs a local server called the daemon that manages your coding agents. Clients like the desktop app, mobile app, web app, and CLI connect to it.

Prerequisites

You need at least one agent CLI installed and configured with your credentials:

Download it from paseo.sh/download or the GitHub releases page. Open the app and the daemon starts automatically. Nothing else to install.

To connect from your phone, open Settings → your host → Pair Device.

Server

For a server, a VM, or any machine without the desktop app. Install the CLI and start the daemon:

npm install -g @getpaseo/cli
paseo

Paseo starts, then asks whether to enable the end-to-end encrypted relay for device pairing. If you decline, connect directly over TCP, Tailscale, or another VPN. The desktop, mobile, and web apps connect to this daemon like any other host.

For full setup and configuration, see:

Docker

Run the Paseo daemon and self-hosted web UI in Docker:

docker run -d --name paseo \
  -p 6767:6767 \
  -e PASEO_PASSWORD=change-me \
  -v "$PWD/paseo-home:/home/paseo" \
  -v "$PWD:/workspace" \
  ghcr.io/getpaseo/paseo:latest

Open http://localhost:6767 after it starts. Extend the base image with the agent CLIs you use, then provide credentials through environment variables or the persistent /home/paseo volume. See the Docker documentation for full setup details.

CLI

Everything you can do in the app, you can do from the terminal.

paseo run --provider claude/opus-4.6 "implement user authentication"
paseo run --provider codex/gpt-5.5 --worktree feature-x "implement feature X"

paseo ls                           # list running agents
paseo attach abc123                # stream live output
paseo send abc123 "also add tests" # follow-up task

# run on a remote daemon; --cwd is a path on that host
paseo run --host workstation.local:6767 --cwd /workspace "run the full test suite"

See the full CLI reference for more.

TypeScript SDK

Build issue integrations, dashboards, and orchestration services with @getpaseo/client:

import { createPaseoClient } from "@getpaseo/client";

const client = createPaseoClient({ url: "ws://127.0.0.1:6767/ws" });
await client.connect();

const agent = await client.agents.create({
  config: { provider: "codex/gpt-5.5" },
  cwd: "/Users/me/dev/storefront",
  prompt: "Review the current diff and name the riskiest change.",
});

const result = await agent.waitForFinish();
console.log(result.lastMessage);

await client.close();

See the SDK quickstart, recipes, and API reference.

Skills

Skills teach your agent to use Paseo to orchestrate other agents.

npx skills add getpaseo/paseo

Then use them in any agent conversation:

  • /paseo-handoff — hand off work between agents. I use this to plan with Claude and then handoff to Codex to implement.
  • /paseo-advisor — spin up a single agent as an advisor for a second opinion, without delegating the work itself.
  • /paseo-committee — form a committee of two contrasting agents to step back, do root cause analysis, and produce a plan.

Development

Quick monorepo package map:

  • packages/server: Paseo daemon (agent process orchestration, WebSocket API, MCP server)
  • packages/app: Expo client (iOS, Android, web)
  • packages/cli: paseo CLI for daemon and agent workflows
  • packages/desktop: Electron desktop app
  • packages/relay: Relay transport and encryption used by the daemon and clients
  • packages/website: Marketing site and documentation (paseo.sh)

Common commands:

# run all local dev services
npm run dev

# run individual surfaces
npm run dev:server
npm run dev:app
npm run dev:desktop
npm run dev:website

# build the server stack
npm run build:server

# repo-wide checks
npm run typecheck

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License

Apache-2.0

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