Not to undercut the open source nature of this, but what makes this "beautiful"? From a design standpoint, it's basic tailwind. Neutral grey tailwind at that, using Lucide icons. There's nothing wrong with these, but it'd be more apt to say that the design is unopinionated. It's the default choice when design intent is the afterthought and a focus is on functionality.
Again, not trying to undercut - looks like a solid agent interface, it just struck me as strange that beautiful was the adjective chosen when design seems to not be the objective here.
As noted above, I'm not the creator of Paseo, just a big fan. Beautiful is just ways to describe it (along with convenient, and powerful) since it has a very focused and clean UI. Especially compared to many open source projects, which often don't put in that much effort or are unabashedly vibe-coded.
Of course it is open source so I hope some of the designers/people who've commented on this post can maybe contribute ideas to improve it even more. I have noticed a few places where some common actions take 1 or 2 more clicks or taps than they should - things can always be a bit more convenient and beautiful.
But overall I'm incredibly impressed and you can see some examples of the focus on simplicity and a nice UI, and follow the creator here: https://x.com/moboudra
It's like people pulling their phones out while taking a piss standing, or having to pull their phones out when the traffic lights are red in a crossing.
Just, do one thing at a time, live a life.
Shipping code from your phone, whhhyy. Mates, this isn't a flex, it's depression.
It's very addictive when you're working on something cool and the agents are iterating nicely. Instead of browsing reddit / HN / instagram etc during downtime, I find it much more fun to build something.
I absolutely get that, but I've been working with Claude remote control on my phone as I bicycle every other day. (I have heart and mobility problems and I have to take it gentle with exercise.) I ride to a beautiful spot where there's a bench and sit and use Claude to write features or React components. I'm actually wanting to try this to see if I can rig up a voice-control flow so I can literally just ride my bike all day from park to café to wherever and still be getting code done.
This looks like something worth trying and I'm glad it's open source. I've been using https://github.com/openchamber/openchamber for a few months now and I'm pleased with its features. Their web based pwa and locally running cli is similar.
Gotta say: I love how mobile app works on my 13 years old Nexus 7 (2GB RAM). It was the sole reason I choose it, actually - other PWAs are too much for the little guy.
I am in love with Paseo. I really want to express my gratitude for building this and saving me so much time and energy. I have been a heavy user of conductor.build before switching off completely to Paseo.
So this is an alternative to using one coding agent with openrouter, changing the models between tasks? I am a neophite in these things, my ai use is more calling apis from scripts right now. Can somebody please explain the pros and cons (beyond to openrouter fees) of each?
Nice work. I've been building a token usage dashboard for Claude Code —
seeing how much each project actually costs.
Would be curious if Paseo surfaces any token/cost visibility too.
This looks awesome! I've been working on a fairly similar project but just for myself (definitely not production ready) and this format for interacting with code seems like it has a lot of potential. One thing I was considering as a value-add was that this type of interface enables is having support for MDX output or even embedded MCP UI apps in the middle of a chat. Typical CLI agents don't support that but a UI that lets your code embed Excalidraw diagrams and graphs could be great for things like data analysis on the go. Even embedding images in a chat would make using coding agents a lot nicer imo.
Maintainer here. Great points! Paseo already supports embedding images in the chat, but no MDX or chart rendering yet. I have been meaning to add Mermaid support but haven't got around to it yet.
I've tried Conductor, Superconductor, cmux, and a half-dozen other apps that all give you a similar interface. It'd be great if there was a comparison to at least some of those on Paseo's website.
Designer here, this is what finally unlocked multi-agent workflow for me. Each session comes with a script that runs a local server in a different port
I'm using Gitea itself as my coding agent interface. I simply tag @codex or @claude on an issue and ask it to open a pull request. Or ask it to reply back on a comment thread, etc.
The Gitea interface is already a pretty good interface that can be accessed from any browser on any device.
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Of course it is open source so I hope some of the designers/people who've commented on this post can maybe contribute ideas to improve it even more. I have noticed a few places where some common actions take 1 or 2 more clicks or taps than they should - things can always be a bit more convenient and beautiful.
But overall I'm incredibly impressed and you can see some examples of the focus on simplicity and a nice UI, and follow the creator here: https://x.com/moboudra
It's like people pulling their phones out while taking a piss standing, or having to pull their phones out when the traffic lights are red in a crossing.
Just, do one thing at a time, live a life.
Shipping code from your phone, whhhyy. Mates, this isn't a flex, it's depression.
That's the dream, right?
I'm around if anyone has questions about the project.
Antigravity does not yet support ACP, when they do, it will be added to Paseo
I am really hoping this to be merged soon: https://github.com/getpaseo/paseo/pull/1296
please keep on doing such awesome work.
I've tried Conductor, Superconductor, cmux, and a half-dozen other apps that all give you a similar interface. It'd be great if there was a comparison to at least some of those on Paseo's website.
We're all converging on similar interfaces, but there are differences. The main ones right now are:
- FOSS
- Local-first and self-hostable
- No telemetry or forced login
- macOS, Windows and Linux
- Available as a desktop app, web app, native mobile app and PWA
- Daemon/client architecture, run the daemon anywhere you want and connect with any client
- Support for popular agents like Claude Code, Codex, OpenCode and Pi. Plus native ACP support which allows it to support most other agents
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Paseo supports terminal multiplexing, like Cmux, but I'd consider them completely different product categories.
The Gitea interface is already a pretty good interface that can be accessed from any browser on any device.