Opening a terminal profile whose command is not installed left a tab that could never be closed. Two problems sat on the same path. A terminal that dies during creation was resurrected by its own create. The worker sends terminalCreated, the createTerminal response and terminalExit in the same tick, so the parent drains all three before the awaiting create continuation resumes; that continuation called registerRecord a second time and put back a terminal the exit had just removed. Removal is owned solely by the terminalExit event and that event never comes twice, so the record outlived every close attempt: getTerminals kept listing it, capture returned nothing, kill was a silent no-op that still reported success, and only a daemon restart cleared it. The parent now tracks the ids with a create in flight and keeps the finished record when an exit removes one of them, so the create continuation returns the exited session instead of registering a live one. Removal still happens exactly once, in the terminalExit path. With the stuck tab gone, a missing command produced nothing at all: no tab and no message. node-pty spawns directly through execve on POSIX, with no shell, so a command that does not exist fails inside the spawn helper and surfaces as exit code 1 with no output -- exactly what `false` produces, so the exit carries no usable signal. createTerminal now resolves the command before spawning and fails the create when it cannot be found, so the daemon answers create_terminal with a null terminal and "<command>: command not found", which the app already renders. A command that starts and then exits non-zero still opens its tab. That resolution has to match what execve will do in the child, or a working profile is refused: it uses the terminal's own environment, built first so the check sees the per-cwd registered PATH and the entries buildTerminalEnvironment prepends, and it resolves a command containing a separator against the terminal's cwd rather than through PATH. Windows keeps resolving inside resolveTerminalSpawnCommand, which has its own shim handling and fallback.
Paseo
One interface for Claude Code, Codex, Copilot, OpenCode, and Pi agents.
Run agents in parallel on your own machines. Ship from your phone or your desk.
- 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, and Pi 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.
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:
Desktop app (recommended)
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.
CLI / headless
Install the CLI and start Paseo:
npm install -g @getpaseo/cli
paseo
Paseo starts locally, 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. This path is useful for servers and remote machines.
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
paseo --host workstation.local:6767 run "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:paseoCLI for daemon and agent workflowspackages/desktop: Electron desktop apppackages/relay: Relay transport and encryption used by the daemon and clientspackages/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
Related projects
- getpaseo/paseo-relay — official distributed relay, written in Elixir
- paseo-skins — community themes and a zero-patch desktop theme loader with an Agent Skill
- paseo-vscode — VS Code extension
License
AGPL-3.0

