composes/paseo/README.md

paseo

Paseo — self-hosted daemon and web UI for running coding agents. Built from a local Dockerfile that adds gh, glab, Go, Python, a C toolchain, and shell tooling to the official image, which ships none of it. The agent CLIs are not baked in — install them into $HOME yourself, see Agents.

Setup

1. Set the variables from .env.example in Coolify or Dokploy.

2. Point the domain at port 6767 and deploy.

3. Open the domain. At the pairing screen enter the host with the port, then the PASEO_PASSWORD value:

   paseo.example.com:443
   

4. In a terminal inside Paseo, install and log in to the agents you use — see Agents — plus gh auth login and glab auth login.

The port must be typed by hand. The UI rejects a bare hostname, and the auto-connect hint does not help: the daemon builds it from the Host header, browsers drop the default :443, and the UI discards a hint with no port. What you see instead is its localhost:6767 placeholder, which in a browser means your own machine.

If it stays on localhost:6767 after you enter the address, clear site data — the old entry is cached in localStorage.

Environment

Variable	Purpose
PASEO_PASSWORD	Web UI and API login, and the paseo user's sudo password. Generate with openssl rand -base64 24.
PASEO_HOSTNAMES	Domains allowed to reach the daemon, comma-separated. Your domain must be listed.
PASEO_TRUSTED_PROXIES	Set to uniquelocal, or the UI loads but never connects.
PASEO_LABEL	Container hostname, shown as the host label in the UI. Without it the label is a random container ID.
GIT_NAME / GIT_EMAIL	Git author and committer identity for agents and terminals.
TZ	Timezone for logs and agent shells.
SHELL	Shell for Paseo's terminals. Paseo reads $SHELL and falls back to /bin/sh, ignoring the login shell, so chsh has no effect.

PASEO_TRUSTED_PROXIES matches the proxy's source IP, so hostnames are rejected. The daemon trusts X-Forwarded-Proto from loopback only, but Coolify's Traefik reaches it from the Docker bridge network — so it reads the request as plain HTTP, tells the UI to use ws:// on an https:// page, and the browser blocks that as mixed content. uniquelocal covers the private ranges Docker uses. An exact CIDR works too, but Coolify assigns a fresh subnet per project.

Networking

Listens on 6767, published nowhere — the platform maps the domain to it, so localhost:6767 on the host refuses connections. See the root README for why.

Agents

The image installs none of them. Run each vendor's own installer once, in a terminal inside Paseo, as the paseo user — never with sudo:

Agent	Command	Install with	Log in with
Claude Code	claude	curl -fsSL https://claude.ai/install.sh | bash	claude
Codex	codex	curl -fsSL https://chatgpt.com/codex/install.sh | sh	codex login
opencode	opencode	curl -fsSL https://opencode.ai/install | bash	opencode auth login
Copilot CLI	copilot	curl -fsSL https://gh.io/copilot-install | bash	/login inside copilot
Oh My Pi	omp	curl -fsSL https://omp.sh/install | sh	omp
Pi	pi	curl -fsSL https://pi.dev/install.sh | sh	pi

Each lands in $HOME — ~/.local/bin for most, ~/.opencode/bin for opencode — and appends that directory to your shell rc, so open a new terminal afterwards. $HOME is the paseo-home volume, so both the binaries and the logins survive a redeploy.

The installers pull in any runtime they need, into $HOME as well. omp is the one to know about: it is Bun-compiled, and with no Bun on PATH its installer takes the prebuilt binary. Ask for the source build (--source) and it installs Bun to ~/.bun first.

Why not bake them into the image: paseo cannot write /usr/local, so a preinstalled CLI can never apply its own update. Every one of these ships an updater (claude update, codex update, omp update, …) that expects to rewrite its own binary, and under /usr/local it fails on permissions — Claude Code nags about it at startup. Installed in $HOME they update themselves, and you are never waiting on an image rebuild for a release that shipped that morning.

Run the installers unprivileged. Under sudo they target root's home and land outside the volume; Claude Code's refuses outright.

Pi and Oh My Pi are separate projects sharing an ancestor; their commands do not collide.

Storage

Volume	Mount	Holds
paseo-home	/home/paseo	Daemon state, agent configs, credentials (.claude, .codex, .config/*)
paseo-workspace	/workspace	Code the agents work on

The agent CLIs, gh and glab all keep their config under /home/paseo, so every login survives a redeploy — the base image points CLAUDE_CONFIG_DIR, CODEX_HOME and the XDG_* variables into it. The agent binaries live there too, since you install them yourself. Dotfiles as well, so a .zshrc or oh-my-zsh install persists. Anything written outside $HOME (chsh, apt install) is lost on rebuild.

Image

Tool	Source	Why not apt
gh	GitHub's signed apt repo	Debian does not package it
glab (GLAB_VERSION)	The .deb on GitLab's releases page	Debian does not package it, and GitLab runs no apt repo
Go (GO_VERSION)	Official go.dev tarball	Debian 12 ships 1.19
Python (PYTHON_VERSION)	uv python install	Debian 12 ships 3.11
less nano jq unzip zip lsof psmisc ugrep bfs zsh sudo	apt	—
build-essential	apt	—

Bump a pinned version with a build arg, e.g. --build-arg GO_VERSION=1.27.1. uv itself is installed too. GLAB_VERSION is pinned rather than tracking the latest because GitLab's download URL carries the version in the path.

The Dockerfile itself only says what each layer installs. The reasoning is all here:

• $HOME is /home/paseo, a volume that masks anything the build writes there. Hence /opt/python and /usr/local/go rather than the defaults.
• Do not add agent CLIs here, or a runtime only they need. Under /usr/local they cannot self-update; in $HOME they can, and they persist anyway. Bun used to be here for omp and went the same way. See Agents.
• One concern per layer, cheapest and least-changing first, so bumping a version rebuilds as little as possible.
• build-essential is the C toolchain the language layers assume but do not ship: cgo, npm's node-gyp addons and Python C extensions all shell out to gcc and make. It rides along in the apt layer so there is one apt-get update.
• git and curl are already in the base image. sudo is not, despite Debian's base-passwd shipping an empty sudo group, so the apt layer adds it and puts paseo in the group.
• The image stays root: the entrypoint chowns the volumes, then drops to the paseo user (uid 1000) with gosu.
• entrypoint.sh sets the paseo password from PASEO_PASSWORD on every start, while still root. /etc/shadow is not on a volume, so it reverts on each recreate. An empty PASEO_PASSWORD leaves the account locked and sudo unusable.
• sudo resets PATH to its secure_path, which excludes /usr/local/go/bin. Use sudo env PATH="$PATH" go ... or the full path.