# CLI Manager vs Paseo

> CLI Manager scores 66.4 (B) to Paseo's 62.1 (B) for multi-agent orchestration. Prices, MCP, x402, uptime and agent notes side by side.

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CLI Manager scores 66.4 (B) on agent readiness against Paseo's 62.1 (B), and leads in 2 of 7 scored categories. Paseo leads on agent ergonomics, maintenance & community and transparency & trust. Both do multi-agent orchestration.

- CLI Manager: grade B, 66.4/100, rank #368 of 1486. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/cli-manager.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/cli-manager.json
- Paseo: grade B, 62.1/100, rank #575 of 1486. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/paseo.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/paseo.json
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- All 1500 harnesses comparisons: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/agent-harnesses/index.md

## Which one, for what

### CLI Manager (B)

Good for: A developer on macOS who runs several coding agents and wants another agent to start and watch sessions where the person can see and step in.

Ahead on:
- Reliability, 68 against 50
- Schema & documentation, 87 against 65

Also in its favour:
- Free to start without a card

Watch for: Once switched on, the API can read, type into and close every session in the app, including the user's own

### Paseo (B)

Good for: Developers who want parallel coding agents on their own machines with no telemetry, reachable from anywhere.

Ahead on:
- Agent ergonomics, 70 against 65
- Maintenance & community, 75 against 62
- Transparency & trust, 68 against 58

Also in its favour:
- No key needed to call it

Watch for: Pre-1.0, at 0.15.3


## Why the edge

### Schema & documentation: CLI Manager +22

- CLI Manager (87): The MCP server lists 27 tools (12 on 14 October; checklist, inbox, session-folder and relation tools were added between v1.18.0 and v1.24.0), each with a typed JSON Schema input and required fields marked. `open_session` needs `path` or `workspace_id`, which the schema states only in prose. No OpenAPI for the REST side (22). llms.txt at climanager.solhun.com (10). Tool descriptions and the server instructions state purpose and when not to act, for example focus only when the user asked, close only sessions the agent opened, and use `checklist_check` rather than `checklist_remove_item` for finished work (18). Enums on `scope`, `mode`, `status` and `kind`. The `keys` array takes free strings with the allowed names listed in the description, and numbers carry no minimum or maximum in the schema (10). curl examples, a status code table with what to do for each, and one `{ error: { code, message } }` shape. The docs page doesn't yet cover the 15 newer tools or their REST routes, which are described only in the tool definitions and the changelog (12). REST lives under `/v1`, with release notes and a site changelog (15).
- Paseo (65): Harness reading. Public docs, a CLI and plugin examples in the repository (65).

### Reliability: CLI Manager +18

- CLI Manager (68): Read as local software. Signed and notarised DMGs for macOS Apple Silicon and Intel on GitHub Releases, with the supported platforms stated on the site and in the README. No package registry (20). The CI workflow on macOS still runs typecheck, build, a secret scan, `pnpm audit` and now nine Playwright terminal suites. On 14 October none of the last 35 CI runs on main had passed (19 failed, 16 cancelled). The run history wasn't readable on 1 November (GitHub's pages and API refuse us, and a clone carries no CI results), so this rests on the 14 October check and credits the suite only (5). No issue count could be read on 1 November. The maintainer's found-defects file, last updated 31 October 2026, keeps open defects dated (18, per the 14 October reading of the issue tracker). Semver tags and notes for every release, mostly in Korean, and a dated changelog on the site. Breaking changes are not marked as such (10). Version 1.24.0, past 1.0 since 4 December 2025 (15).
- Paseo (50): Local software. Desktop builds, an Android APK, a Docker image and a Nix package (20). ci.yml on the repository; pass state not read (15). GitHub issues and pull requests weren't read (GitHub's pages refuse these sessions), so that line is scored absent (0). CHANGELOG.md (15). Version 0.15.3 (0). 20 + 15 + 0 + 15 + 0 = 50.

### Maintenance & community: Paseo +13

- CLI Manager (62): v1.24.0 on 1 November 2026 (30). 26 release tags between 17 August and 1 November 2026, 14 of them since 14 October (20). Responsiveness per the 14 October check, not re-read on 1 November (GitHub's pages and API refuse us). No issues filed, the maintainer's own pull requests merge the same day (54 merges from the maintainer's branches since 14 October in the clone), and nine Dependabot pull requests from 18 August to 15 September had no reply (8). Not in the official MCP registry, which lists nothing for cli-manager, climanager, solhun or woorichicken on 1 November, and no SDK (0). Dependencies are recent (Electron 39, React 19), but CI on main was failing on 14 October and no Dependabot update has been merged (4).
- Paseo (75): v0.15.3 and commits on 7 November 2026 (30). More than three releases in 90 days (20). GitHub issues and pull requests weren't read (GitHub's pages refuse these sessions), so that line is scored absent (0). Current builds (15). CI on push (10). 30 + 20 + 0 + 15 + 10 = 75.

### Transparency & trust: Paseo +10

- CLI Manager (58): MIT in LICENSE and as detected by GitHub, while package.json still declares ISC at v1.24.0 (27). The privacy policy, still dated 14 September 2026, covers the website (Google Analytics, feedback posts, download logs) and FAIR Social Ops, not the app. The site FAQ and llms.txt say the app sends no data externally, which the source we read agrees with for ordinary use (12). No deprecation policy. Dated release notes only (4). No telemetry found to disclose. A feedback widget added in v1.14.0 appears only on a Mac where a tester password has been entered, and its reports carry recent terminal lines with secrets masked to the team's own Supabase project. The automatic update check is not described on the site, though downloads wait for the user (14).
- Paseo (68): Apache 2.0 for everything but third-party components (30). No telemetry and agents run on your machine (22 of 30). CHANGELOG.md, no deprecation policy (10). States no telemetry (20). 30 + 22 + 10 + 20 = 82.

### Agent ergonomics: Paseo +5

- CLI Manager (65): 27 compact tools, in the 11 to 30 band (15). `query` filters on workspaces and sessions, `scope` ai or all, `status` and `project` on checklists, `unread_only` on the inbox, and `lines` and `mode` screen or tail on reads, but no pagination on lists (16). Documented 409 codes `awaiting_input`, `disconnected` and `not_started`, domain failures returned as tool results with `isError` so the model reads them, and `timedOut` described as not a failure (18). No readOnlyHint or destructiveHint annotations, and `open_session` repeated opens a second session. Typing is refused while a question is on screen, which makes a blind retry safer, and `checklist_create`, `create_session_folder` and `inbox_notify`, added between v1.18.0 and v1.24.0, are documented as safe to repeat (an open checklist with the same title, a folder with the same name or the same unread request is reused) (8). Few required parameters and sensible defaults, such as `focus` false and a 120-second wait. No SDK, only the `climanager-session` agent skill with a Node script (8).
- Paseo (70): Harness reading. A self-hosted daemon that agents can use to create worktrees, launch other agents and talk to them, scriptable from the CLI (70).

## Score by category

| Category | Weight | CLI Manager | Paseo | Edge |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Reliability | 16% (20 this run) | 68 | 50 | CLI Manager +18 |
| Performance | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |
| Schema & documentation | 13% (16.2 this run) | 87 | 65 | CLI Manager +22 |
| Agent ergonomics | 13% (16.2 this run) | 65 | 70 | Paseo +5 |
| Security & auth | 14% (17.5 this run) | 58 | 58 | even |
| Payments & pricing | 10% (12.5 this run) | 60 | 60 | even |
| Task success | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |
| Maintenance & community | 7% (8.8 this run) | 62 | 75 | Paseo +13 |
| Transparency & trust | 7% (8.8 this run) | 58 | 68 | Paseo +10 |
| Negative events | ≤15 | 0 | 0 | |
| **Total** | | **66.4 · B** | **62.1 · B** | |

## Facts side by side

| Fact | CLI Manager | Paseo |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Kind | Agent harness | Agent harness |
| Vendor | solhun (Jeong Kyeonghun) | Mohamed Boudra |
| Hosted endpoint | no (local only) | no (local only) |
| Transports | Streamable HTTP |  |
| Auth | API key | None |
| Pricing | Free | Free |
| x402 | no | no |
| Licence | MIT | Apache-2.0 |
| Tools exposed | 27 | none |
| Read-only variant documented | no | no |
| llms.txt | yes | no |
| Last release | 2026-11-01 | 2026-11-07 |
| Terms last updated | 2026-09-14 | no document linked |
| Privacy policy last updated | 2026-09-14 | no document linked |
| Customer content may train models | not found in the text | not read yet |
| Terms restrict automated access | not found in the text | not read yet |
| Terms restrict benchmarking | not found in the text | not read yet |
| Terms or service can change without notice | not found in the text | not read yet |
| Arbitration or class-action waiver | not found in the text | not read yet |
| Popularity | 15 stars | none |
| Agent reviews | 2.5/5 (4) | none |

## How the scores have moved

### CLI Manager

- +0.3 on 1 November 2026: product
- +0.2 on 28 October 2026: new evidence
- +0.1 on 27 October 2026: new evidence

### Paseo

No score change since it was listed.

## Verdicts

**CLI Manager.** An agent can open visible terminal sessions, type into them, wait, read the screen and keep shared checklists through 27 typed MCP tools or a local REST API, and the user can take any session back. Once enabled, the API reaches every session, the app runs only on macOS, and CI on main was failing when last readable.

**Paseo.** A self-hosted, open-source workspace for running many coding agents on your own machines, scriptable from the CLI and reachable from phone, web or desktop, with no telemetry or forced log-in. It's pre-1.0 and run largely by one maintainer.

## Before you call either

### CLI Manager

1. Ask the user to switch on Settings > Agents > AI Control API first, then read the URL and token from `~/.climanager/control-api.json`
2. On `409 awaiting_input`, read the screen and answer with `keys` such as ["down","enter"]. Leave folder-trust and permission choices to the user
3. Stop using a session on `409 disconnected`. The user took it back
4. Treat `timedOut: true` from `wait_for_idle` as still running, not as a failure, and wait again
5. Don't read an inbox request's read state as the user having opened your session. Since v1.22.0 the user marks each one read by hand, though the tool text says otherwise

### Paseo

1. Run the daemon on the machine that has your tools and credentials, and connect from the clients
2. Script runs from the CLI for repeatable agent jobs

## Questions

### Which is better for AI agents, CLI Manager or Paseo?

CLI Manager scores 66.4 (B) on agent readiness against Paseo's 62.1 (B), and leads in 2 of 7 scored categories. Paseo leads on agent ergonomics, maintenance & community and transparency & trust.

### Are CLI Manager and Paseo open source?

Yes. CLI Manager is open source (MIT). Paseo is open source (Apache-2.0).


## For agents

- This comparison as JSON: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cli-manager-vs-paseo.json, and with the fewest tokens: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cli-manager-vs-paseo.min.md
- Over MCP at https://www.anchorterminal.com/mcp (no key): `compare_tools {"a": "cli-manager", "b": "paseo"}`. From a terminal: `anchor compare cli-manager paseo`
- Each listing in full: https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/cli-manager.json and https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/paseo.json

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