# Paseo (slim)

> Paseo is an open-source development environment that runs coding agents in parallel on your own machines, each in its own worktree, driven from desktop, iOS, Android, web or CLI, with voice control and no telemetry.

- Full: https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/paseo.md (~4,500 tokens) · this version ~880 tokens · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/paseo.json · canonical https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/paseo
- Index: https://www.anchorterminal.com/llms.txt · API: https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/index.json · MCP: https://www.anchorterminal.com/mcp · Updated: 2026-11-07 · pricing https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/paseo#pricing · reviews https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/paseo#reviews
- Licence: CC BY 4.0, credit Anchor Terminal and link this page (https://www.anchorterminal.com/terms/#data)

**B · 62.1/100 · rank #575 of 1486 · #14 in Agent harnesses · not agent-ready · confidence low**


Assessment: 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.

## Facts

- Kind: Agent harness · vendor: Mohamed Boudra · category: Agent harnesses · legal entity: Mohamed Boudra · provenance 53/100
- Auth: None · pricing: Free · x402: no · licence: Apache-2.0
- Benchmark probes: not run yet, so Performance is pending
- Surface graded: The open-source app and daemon, read from a clone of github.com/getpaseo/paseo on 7 November 2026. Nothing installed

- Scores: Reliability 50, Performance pending, Schema & documentation 65, Agent ergonomics 70, Security & auth 58, Payments & pricing 60, Task success pending, Maintenance & community 75, Transparency & trust 68 · total over the 7 assessed categories
- Why: Reliability, Local software. · Schema & documentation, Harness reading. · Agent ergonomics, Harness reading. · Security & auth, Harness reading. · Payments & pricing, Free self-hosted software with nothing to buy, so 0 for a protocol and 20 each for public pricing, a free tier and onboarding with no sign-u… · Maintenance & community, v0.15.3 and commits on 7 November 2026 (30). · Transparency & trust, Apache 2.0 for everything but third-party components (30).
- Sources: 2, open questions: 2, both in the full twin
- Capabilities: agent.harness, agent.multi-agent
- JSON: https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/paseo.json
- Verify (for the vendor): the badge `https://www.anchorterminal.com/badges/paseo.svg` or a link to https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/paseo from a page on paseo.sh or one of its subdomains, or the README at the root of github.com/getpaseo/paseo, then `POST https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/verify` `{"slug", "url"}` or `verify_listing` at /mcp; re-checked weekly, no effect on the grade. Snippets in the full twin.

## Before you call it

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

## Connect

```bash
Download from the releases page, or run the daemon with Docker or Nix
```

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| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
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