Hands-On Review: Paseo Agent Daemon Impresses but Carries Hidden Costs

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Paseo is a local agent daemon that runs on a user's machine and connects AI providers like Claude, Codex, and OpenCode through a single interface listening on 127.0.0.1:6767. A developer who builds a competing tool conducted a terminal-based review of Paseo, finding it functional and well-designed beyond its README claims. The tool's standout feature is a relay system that forwards agent permission requests to a paired mobile device, allowing users to approve or deny actions like file writes remotely without being tied to their desk. However, the reviewer flagged two notable gotchas: the default AI model is Claude Opus, which caused a single-word prompt to cost $0.29, and every run creates a new workspace by default, which can clutter workspace history if not managed manually. Beyond permission relay, Paseo also offers iterative loops, cron scheduling, agent chat rooms, git worktree isolation, and remote terminal control, making it a more fully featured product than a simple wrapper.

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