CLI Commands Reference

Python dependency commands on this page use a PM-prepared source checkout. After a dependency change, reactivate the checkout and restart Tutou.

This page covers the terminal commands you run from your shell.

For in-chat slash commands, see Slash Commands Reference.

Global entrypoint

tutou [global-options] <command> [subcommand/options]

Global options

Option	Description
--version, -V	Show version and exit.
--profile <name>, -p <name>	Select which Tutou profile to use for this invocation. Overrides the sticky default set by tutou profile use.
--resume <session>, -r <session>	Resume a previous session by ID or title. The keyword latest resumes the most recent session (workspace-scoped, same lookup as -c).
--continue [name], -c [name]	Resume the most recent session, or the most recent session matching a title.
--in <dir>	Change into <dir> before starting or resuming. Scopes --resume latest / -c lookups to that directory's workspace and keeps the session there (skips the recorded-cwd restore).
--worktree, -w	Start in an isolated git worktree for parallel-agent workflows.
--yolo	Bypass dangerous-command approval prompts.
--pass-session-id	Include the session ID in the agent's system prompt.
--ignore-user-config	Ignore ~/.tutou/config.yaml and fall back to built-in defaults. Credentials in .env are still loaded.
--ignore-rules	Skip auto-injection of AGENTS.md, SOUL.md, .cursorrules, memory, and preloaded skills.
--tui	Launch the TUI instead of the classic CLI. Equivalent to TUTOU_TUI=1. Always wins over display.interface.
--cli	Force the classic prompt_toolkit REPL. Use this to override display.interface: tui for a single invocation.
--dev	With --tui: run the TypeScript sources directly via tsx instead of the prebuilt bundle (for TUI contributors).

tutou-agent (legacy single-query runner)

The install also ships tutou-agent, a minimal runner that sends one query and exits: tutou-agent --query "summarize README.md" (or tutou-agent "summarize README.md"). tutou-agent --help lists its options (--model, --base-url, --max-turns, --enabled-toolsets, --disabled-toolsets, --list-tools, --save-trajectories, …) and tutou-agent --version prints the version; neither starts the agent. Run with no query, it prints the same help and exits. For anything else use tutou (tutou -z <prompt> is the scripted one-shot).

Top-level commands

Command	Purpose
tutou chat	Interactive or one-shot chat with the agent.
tutou model	Interactively choose the default provider and model.
tutou moa	Configure named Mixture of Agents presets selectable from the model picker.
tutou fallback	Manage fallback providers tried when the primary model errors.
tutou gateway	Run or manage the messaging gateway service.
tutou proxy	Local OpenAI-compatible proxy that attaches OAuth provider credentials. See Subscription Proxy.
tutou egress	Outbound credential-injection firewall for remote terminal sandboxes (iron-proxy). Disabled by default. See Egress proxy.
tutou lsp	Manage Language Server Protocol integration (semantic diagnostics for write_file/patch).
tutou setup	Interactive setup wizard for all or part of the configuration.
tutou whatsapp	Configure and pair the WhatsApp bridge.
tutou whatsapp-cloud	Configure the official Meta WhatsApp Business Cloud API adapter (Business account + public webhook required). Distinct from tutou whatsapp (Baileys personal-account bridge).
tutou slack	Slack helpers (currently: generate the app manifest with every command as a native slash).
tutou auth	Manage credentials — add, list, remove, reset, status, logout. Handles OAuth flows for Codex/Nous/Anthropic.
tutou login / logout	Deprecated — use tutou auth instead.
tutou send	Send a one-shot message to a configured messaging platform (Telegram, Discord, Slack, Signal, SMS, …). Useful from shell scripts, cron jobs, CI hooks, and monitoring daemons — no agent loop, no LLM.
tutou peer	Register peer Tutou gateways on other machines and DM their agents' canonical Bot Chats (tutou peer dm <peer>[/<agent>] "…"). The transport behind cross-machine bot-to-bot messaging.
tutou secrets	Manage external secret sources (currently Bitwarden Secrets Manager) for pulling API keys at process startup instead of from ~/.tutou/.env.
tutou migrate	Diagnose and (optionally) rewrite config.yaml to replace references to retired models or deprecated settings (e.g. migrate xai).
tutou codex-runtime	Noninteractive counterpart of /codex-runtime: migrate [--dry-run] [--json] regenerates the Tutou-managed block in ~/.codex/config.toml for the selected profile. See Codex app-server runtime.
tutou status	Show agent, auth, and platform status.
tutou usage	Show the configured account's rate-limit windows (the /usage block) without a session; --json for scripts.
tutou cron	Inspect and tick the cron scheduler.
tutou pause / tutou resume	Global emergency stop: no new cron fires (built-in ticker, managed-cron webhook, misfire catch-up), kanban dispatch or gateway turns start until resumed; in-flight work is never killed.
tutou kanban	Multi-profile collaboration board (tasks, links, dispatcher).
tutou project	Manage named, multi-folder workspaces (projects). Anchors desktop session grouping and, when bound to a kanban board, gives tasks a deterministic worktree + branch convention. State is per-profile.
tutou webhook	Manage dynamic webhook subscriptions for event-driven activation.
tutou hooks	Inspect, approve, or remove shell-script hooks declared in config.yaml.
tutou doctor	Diagnose config and dependency issues.
tutou security audit	On-demand supply-chain audit (OSV.dev) for the venv, plugin requirements, and pinned MCP servers.
tutou approvals	Approval-prompt tools — mine approval history into allowlist proposals.
tutou dump	Copy-pasteable setup summary for support/debugging.
tutou prompt-size	Show a byte breakdown of the system prompt + tool schemas (skills index, memory, profile). Runs offline.
tutou debug	Debug tools — upload logs and system info for support.
tutou backup	Back up Tutou home directory to a zip file.
tutou checkpoints	Inspect / prune / clear ~/.tutou/checkpoints/ (the shadow store used by /rollback). Run with no args for a status overview.
tutou import	Restore a Tutou backup from a zip file.
tutou logs	View, tail, and filter agent/gateway/error log files.
tutou config	Show, edit, migrate, and query configuration files.
tutou skin	List, switch, and tweak display skins.
tutou console	Open the safe Tutou command console.
tutou pairing	Approve or revoke messaging pairing codes.
tutou skills	Browse, install, publish, audit, and configure skills.
tutou bundles	Group several skills under a single /<name> slash command. See Skill Bundles.
tutou curator	Background skill maintenance — status, run, pause, pin. See Curator.
tutou journey (aliases learning, memory-graph)	Timeline of learned skills + memories over time.
tutou memory	Configure external memory provider. Plugin-specific subcommands (e.g. tutou honcho) register automatically when their provider is active.
tutou acp	Run Tutou as an ACP server for editor integration.
tutou mcp	Manage MCP server configurations and run Tutou as an MCP server.
tutou plugins	Manage Tutou Agent plugins (install, enable, disable, remove).
tutou portal	Nous Portal status, subscription link, and Tool Gateway routing. See Tool Gateway.
tutou tools	Configure enabled tools per platform.
tutou computer-use	Install or check the Computer Use (cua-driver) backend (macOS/Windows/Linux).
tutou pets	Browse, install, and select petdex animated pets shown across the CLI, TUI, and desktop app. Subcommands: list, install, select, show, off, scale, remove, doctor.
tutou sessions	Browse, export, prune, rename, and delete sessions.
tutou insights	Show token/cost/activity analytics.
tutou claw	OpenClaw migration helpers.
tutou import-agent	Import a Claude Code (~/.claude) or Codex CLI (~/.codex) setup.
tutou dashboard	Launch the web dashboard for managing config, API keys, and sessions.
tutou serve	Start the Tutou backend server (headless; powers the desktop app and remote backends).
tutou desktop (alias gui)	Build and launch the native Electron desktop app.
tutou profile	Manage profiles — multiple isolated Tutou instances.
tutou completion	Print shell completion scripts (bash/zsh/fish).
tutou --version	Show version information.
tutou update	Pull latest code and reinstall dependencies. --check previews without installing; --backup takes a pre-pull TUTOU_HOME snapshot.
tutou uninstall	Remove Tutou from the system.

tutou chat

tutou chat [options]

Common options:

Option	Description
-q, --query "..."	Seed the session with a prompt. On a real TTY the prompt is submitted literally as the first turn of a normal interactive session (it is never parsed as a slash command or ! shell escape) and the session stays open — ideal for OS launchers and desktop integrations. With --oneshot, -Q, or non-TTY stdio it answers and exits.
--query-file PATH	Read the query from a file (- = stdin). Nothing is shell-interpreted, so quotes, $(...), and backticks arrive verbatim — use this for programmatic or untrusted message bodies (Bot Mode teammate DMs use it). Mutually exclusive with -q.
--oneshot	With -q/--query-file: answer the query and exit (the pre-0.21 single-query behavior) instead of seeding an interactive session. Implied on non-TTY stdio and by -Q.
-m, --model <model>	Override the model for this run.
-t, --toolsets <csv>	Enable a comma-separated set of toolsets.
--provider <provider>	Force a provider: auto, openrouter, nous, openai-codex (aliases chatgpt, chatgpt-codex), copilot-acp, copilot, anthropic, gemini, huggingface, novita (aliases novita-ai, novitaai), openai-api, zai, kimi-coding, kimi-coding-cn, minimax, minimax-cn, minimax-oauth, kilocode, xiaomi, arcee, gmi, upstage (alias solar), alibaba, alibaba-cn, alibaba-coding-plan (alias alibaba_coding), alibaba-coding-plan-cn, alibaba-token-plan, alibaba-token-plan-cn, deepseek, nvidia, ollama-cloud, xai (alias grok), xai-oauth (alias grok-oauth), qwen-oauth, bedrock, opencode-zen, opencode-go, commandcode, commandcode-anthropic, ai-gateway, azure-foundry, lmstudio, stepfun, tencent-tokenhub (alias tencent, tokenhub), router (aliases ramp-router, ramp), nebius-token-factory (aliases nebius, nebius-tf, tokenfactory), tencent-tokenplan (aliases tokenplan, tencent-lkeap).
-s, --skills <name>	Preload one or more skills for the session (can be repeated or comma-separated).
-v, --verbose	Verbose output.
-Q, --quiet	Programmatic mode: suppress banner/spinner/tool previews.
--format stream-json	Emit structured JSONL for a -q / --query invocation. Implies --quiet; cannot be combined with --tui.
--image <path>	Attach a local image to a single query.
--resume <session> / --continue [name]	Resume a session directly from chat.
--worktree	Create an isolated git worktree for this run.
--checkpoints	Enable filesystem checkpoints before destructive file changes.
--yolo	Skip approval prompts.
--pass-session-id	Pass the session ID into the system prompt.
--ignore-user-config	Ignore ~/.tutou/config.yaml and use built-in defaults. Credentials in .env are still loaded. Useful for isolated CI runs, reproducible bug reports, and third-party integrations.
--ignore-rules	Skip auto-injection of AGENTS.md, SOUL.md, .cursorrules, persistent memory, and preloaded skills. Combine with --ignore-user-config for a fully isolated run.
--safe-mode	Troubleshooting mode: disable ALL customizations — user config, rules/memory injection, plugins, shell hooks, and MCP servers (implies --ignore-user-config and --ignore-rules). Use to isolate whether a problem comes from your setup or from Tutou itself.
--source <tag>	Session source tag for filtering (default: cli; one-shot runs default to oneshot, which pickers hide). Use tool for third-party integrations that should not appear in user session lists. An explicit --source is always stored as given, even for a one-shot run launched from inside a TUI or Desktop session.
--max-turns <N>	Maximum tool-calling iterations per conversation turn (default: 500, or agent.max_turns in config).

Examples:

tutou
tutou chat -q "Summarize the latest PRs"          # seeds an interactive session
tutou chat --oneshot -q "Summarize the latest PRs"  # answer and exit
tutou chat --provider openrouter --model anthropic/claude-sonnet-4.6
tutou chat --toolsets web,terminal,skills
tutou chat --quiet -q "Return only JSON"
tutou chat -q "Inspect this repository" --format stream-json
tutou chat --worktree -q "Review this repo and open a PR"
tutou chat --ignore-user-config --ignore-rules -q "Repro without my personal setup"
tutou chat --safe-mode -q "Is this bug mine or Tutou'?"

--format stream-json — structured JSONL output

Use --format stream-json when a program needs to consume progress without scraping terminal output. It requires -q / --query (or --query-file), implies quiet non-interactive CLI mode, and rejects an explicit --tui request. Every stdout line is one JSON object; diagnostics and the session_id: line stay on stderr.

tutou chat -q "Summarize this repository" --format stream-json

Every event carries timestamp (Unix epoch milliseconds).

Event type	Fields
system	subtype: "init", model, session_id
text	text — a streamed assistant text delta
tool_use	name; input when the tool arguments are available
tool_result	name, output (capped at 5000 chars), duration_ms, is_error
result	session_id, exit_code, text, tokens (input, output, total, cache_read, cache_write), duration_ms; error when the turn failed

Once a conversation starts, its terminal record is always result — including exit_code: 130 when it is interrupted with Ctrl-C. Treat that record as the completion signal; the process exit code matches its exit_code.

Exit codes for one-shot runs

When chat answers and exits (-Q, chat --oneshot, or a query with non-TTY stdio) the process exit code reports the turn's outcome, on both the quiet and the non-quiet path: 0 the turn completed; 1 it failed, stopped partway (partial), hit the iteration budget, or never ran (credentials / agent init failed); 130 it was interrupted. A Kanban dispatcher-spawned worker (TUTOU_KANBAN_TASK set) whose turn failed only because the provider was rate-limited, overloaded, returning 5xx, timing out, or the account hit a billing/quota wall, exits 75 (EX_TEMPFAIL) so the dispatcher requeues the task without counting a failure. With --format stream-json the terminal result record carries the same exit_code.

Delegation in finite chat runs

When chat answers and exits (-Q, chat --oneshot, or a query with non-TTY stdio), delegate_task waits for its children and returns their results to the parent in the same turn. Batch children still run in parallel, subject to delegation.max_concurrent_children. The parent can use those results in its final response before the CLI exits.

• Automatic joining: no opt-in or background-mode override is needed. Interactive TTY chat and messaging sessions keep background delegation.
• Existing safeguards: delegation limits, timeouts, cancellation, and approvals.single_query_mode still apply. Joining does not auto-approve commands or guarantee successful child outcomes. Inspect results and verify artifacts.
• Terminal completions: this does not change background terminal notification behavior or the bounded terminal.oneshot_completion_wait_seconds exit wait. That setting is not a delegation timeout.

Delegation remains process-local. Interrupting or terminating the parent can cancel unfinished children. Use a durable scheduler for work that must survive the initiating process.

tutou -z <prompt> — scripted one-shot

For programmatic callers (shell scripts, CI, cron, parent processes piping in a prompt), tutou -z is the purest one-shot entry point: single prompt in, final response text out, nothing else on stdout or stderr. No banner, no spinner, no tool previews, no Session: line — just the agent's final reply as plain text.

tutou -z "What's the capital of France?"
# → Paris.

# Parent scripts can cleanly capture the response:
answer=$(tutou -z "summarize this" < /path/to/file.txt)

Per-run overrides (no mutation to ~/.tutou/config.yaml):

Flag	Equivalent env var	Purpose
-m / --model <model>	TUTOU_INFERENCE_MODEL	Override the model for this run
--provider <provider>	(none)	Override the provider for this run
--usage-file <path>	(none)	Write a JSON usage report after the run (see below)

tutou -z "…" --provider openrouter --model openai/gpt-5.5
# or:
TUTOU_INFERENCE_MODEL=anthropic/claude-sonnet-4.6 tutou -z "…"

Same agent, same tools, same skills — just strips every interactive / cosmetic layer. If you need tool output in the transcript too, use tutou chat --oneshot -q instead; -z is explicitly for "I only want the final answer".

Exit codes: 0 the turn completed; 2 it failed or stopped partway (partial, iteration budget, completed: false) — even when an explanation was printed; 130 it was interrupted; 1 a completed turn produced no text at all; 2 also for usage errors (bad flags) before the run starts. These codes intentionally differ from chat -q/-Q above (which exit 1 for failed/partial/budget and 0 for a completed turn with no text): -z reserves 1 for "answered nothing". Judge the run by the exit code (or the --usage-file flags), not by whether stdout is non-empty.

--usage-file — JSON usage report for pipelines

tutou -z "…" --usage-file /path/report.json writes a machine-readable usage report after the run: estimated_cost_usd, input_tokens / output_tokens / cache_read_tokens / cache_write_tokens / reasoning_tokens / total_tokens, api_calls, model, provider, session_id, service_tier, the completed / failed / partial / interrupted flags and turn_exit_reason (why completed is false, e.g. max_iterations_reached(3/3)). Those top-level counters cover the main agent loop only. Auxiliary LLM calls made on the same run (title generation, vision, context compression, web_extract, background review, …) are reported separately under auxiliary — the same totals plus a per-task by_task map — and total_including_auxiliary (estimated_cost_usd, total_tokens, api_calls) is the grand total to bill on. The report is written even when the run fails, so batch pipelines can always account for spend. It has no effect outside -z/--oneshot, and a broken usage write never masks the run's own outcome.

tutou -z "summarize this repo" --usage-file ~/.tutou/cache/scratch/usage.json
jq .total_including_auxiliary.estimated_cost_usd ~/.tutou/cache/scratch/usage.json
jq .auxiliary.by_task ~/.tutou/cache/scratch/usage.json      # what did title generation / vision cost?

tutou model

Interactive provider + model selector. This is the command for adding new providers, setting up API keys, and running OAuth flows. Run it from your terminal — not from inside an active Tutou chat session.

tutou model

Use this when you want to:

• add a new provider (OpenRouter, Anthropic, Copilot, DeepSeek, custom, etc.)
• log into OAuth-backed providers (Anthropic, Copilot, Codex, Nous Portal)
• enter or update API keys
• pick from provider-specific model lists
• configure a custom/self-hosted endpoint
• save the new default into config

tutou model vs /model — know the difference

tutou model (run from your terminal, outside any Tutou session) is the full provider setup wizard. It can add new providers, run OAuth flows, prompt for API keys, and configure endpoints.

/model (typed inside an active Tutou chat session) can only switch between providers and models you've already set up. It cannot add new providers, run OAuth, or prompt for API keys.

If you need to add a new provider: Exit your Tutou session first (Ctrl+C or /quit), then run tutou model from your terminal prompt.

/model slash command (mid-session)

Switch between already-configured models without leaving a session:

/model                              # Show current model and available options
/model claude-sonnet-4              # Switch model (auto-detects provider)
/model zai:glm-5                    # Switch provider and model
/model custom:qwen-2.5              # Use model on your custom endpoint
/model custom                       # Auto-detect model from custom endpoint
/model custom:local:qwen-2.5        # Use a named custom provider
/model openrouter:anthropic/claude-sonnet-4  # Switch back to cloud

By default, /model changes apply to the current session only. Add --global to persist the change to config.yaml (or set model.persist_switch_by_default: true to make every switch persist):

/model claude-sonnet-4 --global     # Switch and save as new default

What if I only see OpenRouter models?

If you've only configured OpenRouter, /model will only show OpenRouter models. To add another provider (Anthropic, DeepSeek, Copilot, etc.), exit your session and run tutou model from the terminal.

On a --global switch, provider and base URL changes are persisted to config.yaml alongside the model. When switching away from a custom endpoint, the stale base URL is cleared to prevent it leaking into other providers.

tutou gateway

tutou gateway <subcommand>

Subcommands:

Subcommand	Description
run	Run the gateway in the foreground. Recommended for WSL, Docker, and Termux.
start	Start the installed systemd/launchd background service.
stop	Stop the service (or foreground process).
restart	Restart the service.
status	Show service status.
list	List all profiles and whether each profile's gateway is currently running (with PID where available). Handy when you run multiple profiles side-by-side and want a single overview.
install	Install as a systemd (Linux) or launchd (macOS) background service.
uninstall	Remove the installed service.
setup	Interactive messaging-platform setup.
migrate	Fold per-profile standalone gateways onto the one host gateway (--multiplex, the only mode — tutou update runs it automatically unless a real boundary blocks it). Re-running it converges a half-migrated host; a manifest on disk is the resume record, never a rollback (there is no --standalone). Runs a preflight (duplicate bot tokens, secondary port-binders without a /p/<profile>/ ingress) and changes nothing when blocked. Flags: --dry-run, -y/--yes. See Migrating from per-profile gateways.
migrate-legacy	Remove legacy tutou.service units left over from pre-rename installs. Profile units (tutou-gateway-<profile>.service) and unrelated services are never touched. Flags: --dry-run, -y/--yes.
enroll	Experimental: enroll this gateway with a relay connector and save relay credentials for connector-backed platforms. See Tutou Relay.

Options:

Option	Description
--all	On start / restart / stop: act on every profile's gateway, not just the active TUTOU_HOME. Useful if you run multiple profiles side-by-side and want to restart them all after tutou update.
--no-supervise	On run: inside the s6-overlay Docker image, opt out of auto-supervision and use pre-s6 foreground semantics — gateway runs as the container's main process with no auto-restart. No-op outside the s6 image. Equivalent to setting TUTOU_GATEWAY_NO_SUPERVISE=1.
--external-supervisor	On run: declare that a wrapper-provided process manager owns the foreground gateway. Use this when sudo, env -i, or another wrapper strips launchd/systemd's native environment marker. In-chat restarts and updates exit back to that manager instead of spawning a detached replacement.

--external-supervisor is a restart-policy contract: an in-chat restart, tutou gateway restart, or service-restart update exits with status 75 (the CLI then waits for the supervisor's fresh PID instead of running a foreground gateway of its own), so the wrapper's supervisor must relaunch the gateway after that nonzero exit. For systemd, use Restart=on-failure or Restart=always and do not include 75 in RestartPreventExitStatus; for launchd, configure KeepAlive to relaunch after unsuccessful exits. Without that policy, a requested restart leaves the gateway stopped.

tutou gateway enroll accepts --token, --connector-url, --gateway-id, and --wake-url. It exchanges the enrollment token with the connector and writes the resulting GATEWAY_RELAY_ID, GATEWAY_RELAY_SECRET, GATEWAY_RELAY_DELIVERY_KEY, optional GATEWAY_RELAY_URL, and (when --wake-url is given) GATEWAY_RELAY_WAKE_URL values to the active profile's .env.

WSL users

Use tutou gateway run instead of tutou gateway start — WSL's systemd support is unreliable. Wrap it in tmux for persistence: tmux new -s tutou 'tutou gateway run'. See WSL FAQ for details.

tutou lsp

tutou lsp <subcommand>

Manage the Language Server Protocol integration. LSP runs real language servers (pyright, gopls, rust-analyzer, …) in the background and feeds their diagnostics into the post-write check used by write_file and patch. Gated on git workspace detection — LSP only runs when the cwd or edited file is inside a git worktree.

Subcommands:

Subcommand	Description
status	Show service state, configured servers, install status.
list	Print the registry of supported servers. Pass --installed-only to skip missing ones.
install <id>	Eagerly install one server's binary.
install-all	Install every server with a known auto-install recipe.
restart	Tear down running clients so the next edit re-spawns.
which <id>	Print the resolved binary path for one server.

See LSP — Semantic Diagnostics for the full guide, supported languages, and configuration knobs.

tutou setup

tutou setup [model|tts|terminal|gateway|tools|agent] [--non-interactive] [--reset] [--quick] [--reconfigure] [--portal]

Easiest path: tutou setup --portal — OAuth into Nous Portal and opt into the Tool Gateway in one shot.

First run: launches the first-time wizard.

Returning user (already configured): drops straight into the full reconfigure wizard — every prompt shows your current value as its default, press Enter to keep or type a new value. No menu.

Jump into one section instead of the full wizard:

Section	Description
model	Provider and model setup.
terminal	Terminal backend and sandbox setup.
gateway	Messaging platform setup.
tools	Enable/disable tools per platform.
agent	Agent behavior settings.

Options:

Option	Description
--quick	On returning-user runs: only prompt for items that are missing or unset. Skip items you already have configured.
--non-interactive	Use defaults / environment values without prompts.
--reset	Reset configuration to defaults before setup.
--reconfigure	Backwards-compat alias — bare tutou setup on an existing install now does this by default.
--portal	One-shot Nous Portal setup: log in via OAuth, set Nous as the inference provider, and opt into the Tool Gateway. Skips the rest of the wizard.

tutou portal

tutou portal [status|open|tools]

Inspect Nous Portal auth, Tool Gateway routing, and reach the subscription page. Subcommand-less invocation runs status.

Subcommand	Description
status (default)	Portal auth state + per-tool Tool Gateway routing summary. Also shown when no subcommand is given.
open	Open portal.nousresearch.com/manage-subscription in your default browser.
tools	List every Tool Gateway partner (Firecrawl, FAL, OpenAI TTS, Browser Use, Modal) and which are routed via Nous.

For configuration of the gateway itself, see Tool Gateway. For the one-shot setup path, see tutou setup --portal above.

tutou whatsapp

tutou whatsapp

Runs the WhatsApp pairing/setup flow, including mode selection and QR-code pairing.

tutou slack

tutou slack manifest              # print manifest to stdout
tutou slack manifest --write      # write to ~/.tutou/slack-manifest.json
tutou slack manifest --long-description-file AGENTS.md --write
tutou slack manifest --slashes-only  # just the features.slash_commands array

Generates a Slack app manifest that registers every gateway command in COMMAND_REGISTRY (/btw, /stop, /model, …) as a first-class Slack slash command — matching Discord and Telegram parity. Paste the output into your Slack app config at https://api.slack.com/apps → your app → Features → App Manifest → Edit, then Save. Slack prompts for reinstall if scopes or slash commands changed.

Flag	Default	Purpose
--write [PATH]	stdout	Write to a file instead of stdout. Bare --write writes $TUTOU_HOME/slack-manifest.json.
--name NAME	Tutou	Bot display name in Slack.
--description DESC	default blurb	Bot description shown in the Slack app directory.
--long-description TEXT	unset	Set display_information.long_description inline (175–4,000 characters). Incompatible with --slashes-only.
--long-description-file PATH	unset	Read the long description from a UTF-8 text file, preserving its contents exactly. Mutually exclusive with --long-description and incompatible with --slashes-only.
--slashes-only	off	Emit only features.slash_commands for merging into a manually-maintained manifest.

Run tutou slack manifest --write again after tutou update to pick up any new commands.

tutou send

tutou send --to <target> "message text"
tutou send --to <target> --file <path>
echo "message" | tutou send --to <target>
tutou send --list [platform]

Send a one-shot message to a configured messaging platform without spinning up an agent or gateway loop. Reuses the gateway's already-configured credentials (~/.tutou/.env + ~/.tutou/config.yaml) so ops scripts, cron jobs, CI hooks, and monitoring daemons can post status updates without reimplementing each platform's REST client.

For bot-token platforms (Telegram, Discord, Slack, Signal, SMS, WhatsApp-CloudAPI) no running gateway is required — tutou send talks directly to the platform's REST endpoint. Plugin platforms that need a persistent adapter still require a live gateway.

Option	Description
-t, --to <TARGET>	Delivery target. Formats: platform (uses home channel), platform:chat_id, platform:chat_id:thread_id, or platform:#channel-name. Examples: telegram, telegram:-1001234567890, discord:#ops, slack:C0123ABCD, signal:+15551234567.
-f, --file <PATH>	Read the message body from PATH (text files only — logs, reports, markdown). Pass - to force reading from stdin. To send an image or other binary file, use MEDIA:<path> (see below).
-s, --subject <LINE>	Prepend a subject/header line before the message body.
-l, --list [platform]	List configured targets across all platforms (or only the given platform).
-q, --quiet	Suppress stdout on success — useful in scripts (rely on exit code only).
--json	Emit raw JSON result instead of human-readable output.

If neither a positional message argument nor --file is provided, tutou send reads from stdin when it is not a TTY. Exit codes: 0 on success, 1 on delivery/backend failure, 2 on usage errors.

Sending images and other media

--file is for text bodies only. To deliver an image, document, video, or audio file as a native platform attachment, reference it inside the message text with the MEDIA:<local_path> directive:

tutou send --to telegram "MEDIA:~/.tutou/cache/scratch/screenshot.png"
tutou send --to telegram "Build chart for today MEDIA:~/.tutou/cache/scratch/chart.png"   # with caption
tutou send --to discord:#ops "MEDIA:~/.tutou/cache/scratch/report.pdf"

By default, image files are sent as photos (platforms like Telegram recompress these). Add [[as_document]] to the message to deliver them as uncompressed file attachments instead:

tutou send --to telegram "[[as_document]] MEDIA:~/.tutou/cache/scratch/screenshot.png"

Examples:

tutou send --to telegram "deploy finished"
echo "RAM 92%" | tutou send --to telegram:-1001234567890
tutou send --to discord:#ops --file ~/.tutou/cache/scratch/report.md
tutou send --to slack:#eng --subject "[CI]" --file build.log
tutou send --list                  # all platforms
tutou send --list telegram         # filter by platform

tutou peer

tutou peer add <name> --url http://host:port --key <API_SERVER_KEY>
tutou peer list
tutou peer dm <peer>[/<agent>] "message"
tutou peer run <peer>[/<agent>] --idempotency-key <key> "message"
tutou peer status <peer>[/<agent>] <run_id>
tutou peer stop <peer>[/<agent>] <run_id>
tutou peer remove <name>

Bot-to-bot DMs across machines. Register another Tutou gateway (any machine running the api_server platform) as a peer, then message its agents: tutou peer dm resolves the remote agent's canonical Bot Chat session over the peer's API server, runs one agent turn there, and prints the reply on stdout — the cross-machine twin of the local tutou -p <bot> chat --in ~ -c "Bot Chat" … bot-messaging command.

<peer> alone targets the peer gateway's main agent; <peer>/<agent> targets a named profile on a multiplexed peer (routed via its /p/<profile>/ mirror).

Subcommand	Description
add <name> --url <URL> [--key <KEY>] [--note TEXT]	Register or update a peer. The URL goes to config.yaml (bot_peers); the key is stored as TUTOU_PEER_<NAME>_KEY in ~/.tutou/.env.
list	List peers and whether each has a key configured.
dm <peer>[/<agent>] [message]	Message the peer agent's canonical Bot Chat and print the reply (--json for machine-readable output; message falls back to stdin).
run <peer>[/<agent>] [message]	Start a long canonical Bot Chat turn asynchronously and return its run_id, session ID, and idempotency key (--json supported). Reuse --idempotency-key when retrying the same request.
status <peer>[/<agent>] <run_id>	Poll an asynchronous peer run and print its final output when complete (--json supported).
stop <peer>[/<agent>] <run_id>	Stop the exact asynchronous peer run without targeting another turn (--json supported).
remove <name>	Remove a peer from the registry (the .env key entry is left in place).

When at least one peer is registered, the Bot Mode messaging protocol (agent.bot_mode_protocol) taught to every canonical Bot Chat automatically includes the peer roster and the tutou peer dm pattern, so agents discover cross-machine teammates without SOUL edits. See Bot Mode.

Exit codes: 0 on success, 1 on delivery/peer failure, 2 on usage errors.

tutou secrets

tutou secrets bitwarden <subcommand>
tutou secrets bw <subcommand>          # short alias

Pull API keys from an external secret manager at process startup instead of storing them in ~/.tutou/.env. Currently supports Bitwarden Secrets Manager. See the full guide: Bitwarden integration.

bitwarden (alias bw) subcommands:

Subcommand	Description
setup	Interactive wizard: install the pinned bws binary, store an access token, and pick a project. Accepts --project-id, --access-token, and --server-url for non-interactive use.
status	Show current config, binary path/version, and token validation status.
token	Rotate the access token: validates the new token against Bitwarden before storing it in .env (a rejected token changes nothing). Accepts --access-token for non-interactive use and --no-verify to skip the probe.
sync	Fetch secrets now and report what changed. Add --apply to actually export the secrets into the current shell's environment (default is dry-run).
install	Install or repair the PM-pinned bws binary. --force requests the same integrity check and repair, not an unconditional download.
disable	Turn off the Bitwarden integration.

tutou migrate

tutou migrate <type>

Diagnose and (optionally) rewrite the active config.yaml to replace references to retired models or deprecated settings. A timestamped backup of the original config.yaml is taken before any rewrite (skip with --no-backup).

Subcommand	Description
xai	Scan config.yaml for references to xAI models scheduled for retirement on May 15, 2026 and (with --apply) rewrite them in-place to the official replacements per the xAI migration guide. Defaults to dry-run.

Common flags for migration subcommands:

Flag	Description
--apply	Rewrite config.yaml in-place (default: dry-run, no writes).
--no-backup	Skip the timestamped backup of config.yaml when applying.

Not to be confused with tutou claw migrate (one-shot import of OpenClaw configuration into Tutou) — tutou migrate is the top-level config-rewrite command.

tutou codex-runtime

tutou codex-runtime migrate [--dry-run] [--json]

Runs the ~/.codex/config.toml migration that /codex-runtime codex_app_server triggers, without a chat session: Tutou' mcp_servers (plus installed codex plugins and the default_permissions default) are projected into the managed block for the selected profile (tutou -p <name> codex-runtime migrate). User text outside the block is kept verbatim; a user-owned [mcp_servers.<name>] with the same name as a Tutou server is preserved and the Tutou projection for that name skipped (reported as preserved_user_servers). The result is validated as TOML before an atomic write; exit code is 1 when the report contains errors.

Flag	Description
--dry-run	Compute and report the migration without writing config.toml.
--json	Print the full migration report as JSON (migrated, preserved_user_servers, skipped_keys_per_server, errors, target_path, written).

tutou proxy

tutou proxy <subcommand>

Run a local OpenAI-compatible HTTP server that forwards requests to an OAuth-authenticated upstream provider (e.g. Nous Portal, xAI). External apps can point at the proxy with any bearer token; the proxy attaches your real OAuth credentials on the way out. See Subscription Proxy for the full guide.

Subcommand	Description
start	Run the proxy in the foreground. Flags: --provider <nous|xai> (default nous), --host <addr> (default 127.0.0.1; use 0.0.0.0 to expose on LAN), --port <int> (default 8645).
status	Show which proxy upstreams are ready (credentials present, OAuth valid).
providers	List available proxy upstream providers.

tutou security

tutou security <subcommand>

On-demand vulnerability scan against OSV.dev. Covers the Tutou venv (installed PyPI distributions), Python dependencies declared by plugins under ~/.tutou/plugins/, and pinned npx/uvx MCP servers in config.yaml. Does NOT scan globally-installed packages or editor/browser extensions.

Subcommand	Description
audit	Run a one-shot supply-chain audit.

audit flags:

Flag	Default	Description
--json	off	Emit machine-readable JSON instead of human-readable text.
--fail-on <level>	critical	Exit non-zero when any finding meets this severity (low, moderate, high, critical).
--skip-venv	off	Skip scanning the Tutou Python venv.
--skip-plugins	off	Skip scanning plugin requirements files.
--skip-mcp	off	Skip scanning pinned MCP servers in config.yaml.

tutou login / tutou logout (Deprecated)

caution

tutou login has been removed. Use tutou auth to manage OAuth credentials, tutou model to select a provider, or tutou setup for full interactive setup.

tutou auth

Manage credential pools for same-provider key rotation. See Credential Pools for full documentation.

tutou auth                                              # Interactive wizard
tutou auth list                                         # Show all pools
tutou auth list openrouter                              # Show specific provider
tutou auth add openrouter --api-key sk-or-v1-xxx        # Add API key
tutou auth add openrouter --type oauth                  # Browser login (OpenRouter PKCE) mints a key for you
tutou auth add anthropic --type oauth                   # Add OAuth credential
tutou auth add openai-codex --type oauth --priority 0   # Add an account and try it first
tutou auth add openai-codex --browser                   # Codex: browser auth-code + PKCE on localhost:1455 instead of device code
tutou auth remove openrouter 2                          # Remove by index
tutou auth priority openrouter backup-key 0             # Move a credential to the front of fill_first order
tutou auth reset openrouter                             # Clear cooldowns
tutou auth reset openrouter 2                           # Clear the cooldown on one credential
tutou auth refresh openai-codex work                    # Refresh one OAuth credential and clear its cooldown
tutou auth status anthropic                             # Show auth status for a provider
tutou auth logout anthropic                             # Log out and clear stored auth state
tutou auth spotify                                      # Authenticate Tutou with Spotify via PKCE

Subcommands: add, list, remove, reset, priority, refresh, status, logout, spotify. When called with no subcommand, launches the interactive management wizard.

tutou usage

The account-limits block of the /usage slash command — Codex 5-hour / weekly windows, plan and banked resets; Anthropic OAuth windows; OpenRouter credits — without starting a session, so shell scripts and cron jobs can read it.

tutou usage                          # configured model provider, human-readable block
tutou usage --provider openai-codex  # a specific provider
tutou usage --json                   # one JSON document on stdout

Option	Description
--provider NAME	Provider to query (default: the configured model.provider). Supported: openai-codex, anthropic, openrouter.
--json	Print one JSON document instead of the human-readable block.

Credentials resolve exactly as they do for /usage in a session with no live agent (the auth store, then the credential pool); the command never adds or refreshes a credential it would not use for chat. Exit code 0 on success; 1 with a single stderr line when no credential is configured for the provider, the provider has no usage endpoint, or the fetch fails (stdout stays empty).

--json schema (keys are stable; new keys may be added):

{
  "provider": "openai-codex",
  "source": "usage_api",
  "title": "Account limits",
  "plan": "Plus",
  "fetched_at": "2026-09-19T07:58:55+00:00",
  "windows": [
    {"label": "Session", "used_percent": 37.0, "resets_at": "2026-09-19T21:00:00+00:00", "detail": null},
    {"label": "Weekly", "used_percent": 12.5, "resets_at": "2026-09-25T09:00:00+00:00", "detail": null}
  ],
  "details": ["You have 1 reset banked - use /usage reset to activate"],
  "unavailable_reason": null
}

used_percent is null when the provider did not report the window; resets_at is ISO-8601 UTC or null (some windows carry a free-text detail instead); plan is null when unknown.

tutou status

tutou status [--full] [--deep]

By default prints a one-screen summary: model, active provider, every provider with credentials (the same list the /model picker offers), gateway state, the messaging platforms the gateway would start, and scheduled jobs. No key values are printed.

Option	Description
--full	Print every section (API keys redacted, auth providers, terminal backend, sessions, ...). --all is an alias.
--deep	Run deeper checks that may take longer. Implies --full.

tutou cron

tutou cron <list|create|edit|pause|resume|run|remove|status|runs|incidents|doctor|tick>

Subcommand	Description
list	Show scheduled jobs.
create / add	Create a scheduled job from a prompt, optionally attaching one or more skills via repeated --skill. Supports a per-job reasoning pin via --reasoning-effort <none|minimal|low|medium|high|xhigh|max|ultra>.
edit	Update a job's schedule, prompt, name, delivery, repeat count, or attached skills. Supports --clear-skills, --add-skill, and --remove-skill, plus --reasoning-effort (empty string clears the pin).
pause	Pause a job without deleting it.
resume	Resume a paused job. A recurring slot that came due while paused stays due (one catch-up run or a logged skip on the next tick); otherwise the next future run is computed.
run	Trigger a job on the next scheduler tick.
remove	Delete a scheduled job.
status	Check whether the cron scheduler is running.
doctor	Read-only fleet health check: failed runs, failed deliveries, overdue/missing next_run_at, missing scripts or workdirs. Exits non-zero when issues are found.
tick	Run due jobs once and exit.

The cron trigger is pluggable via the cron.provider config key. Empty (the default) uses the built-in in-process ticker. Set it to chronos (the NAS-managed provider for scale-to-zero hosted gateways) — configured via the cron.chronos.* keys (portal_url, callback_url, expected_audience, nas_jwks_url) — or name a custom provider under plugins/cron/<name>/ or $TUTOU_HOME/plugins/<name>/. An unknown or unavailable provider falls back to the built-in, so cron is never left without a trigger. See the cron internals doc.

tutou kanban

tutou kanban [--board <slug>] <action> [options]

Multi-profile, multi-project collaboration board. Each install can host many boards (one per project, repo, or domain); each board is a standalone queue with its own SQLite DB and dispatcher scope. New installs start with one board called default, whose DB is ~/.tutou/kanban.db for back-compat; additional boards live at ~/.tutou/kanban/boards/<slug>/kanban.db. The gateway-embedded dispatcher sweeps every board per tick.

Global flags (apply to every action below):

Flag	Purpose
--board <slug>	Operate on a specific board. Defaults to the current board (set via tutou kanban boards switch, the TUTOU_KANBAN_BOARD env var, or default).

This is the human / scripting surface. Agent workers spawned by the dispatcher drive the board through a dedicated kanban_* toolset (kanban_show, kanban_complete, kanban_request_review, kanban_request_changes, kanban_block, kanban_create, kanban_link, kanban_comment, kanban_heartbeat; orchestrator profiles also get kanban_list and kanban_unblock) instead of shelling to tutou kanban. Workers have TUTOU_KANBAN_BOARD pinned in their env so they physically cannot see other boards.

Action	Purpose
init	Create kanban.db if missing. Idempotent.
boards list / boards ls	List all boards with task counts. --json, --all (include archived).
boards create <slug>	Create a new board. Flags: --name, --description, --icon, --color, --switch (make active). Slug is kebab-case, auto-downcased.
boards switch <slug> / boards use	Persist <slug> as the active board (writes ~/.tutou/kanban/current).
boards show / boards current	Print the currently-active board's name, DB path, and task counts.
boards rename <slug> "<name>"	Change a board's display name. Slug is immutable.
boards rm <slug>	Archive (default) or hard-delete a board. --delete skips the archive step. Archived boards move to boards/_archived/<slug>-<ts>/. Refused for default.
create "<title>"	Create a new task on the active board. Flags: --body, --assignee, --parent (repeatable), --workspace scratch|worktree|dir:<path>, --tenant, --priority, --triage, --idempotency-key, --max-runtime, --max-retries, --skill (repeatable).
list / ls	List tasks on the active board. Filter with --mine, --assignee, --status, --tenant, --archived, --json.
show <id>	Show a task with comments and events. --json for machine output.
assign <id> <profile>	Assign or reassign. Use none to unassign. Refused while task is running.
link <parent> <child>	Add a dependency. Cycle-detected. Both tasks must be on the same board.
unlink <parent> <child>	Remove a dependency.
claim <id>	Atomically claim a ready task. Prints resolved workspace path.
comment <id> "<text>"	Append a comment. The next worker that claims the task reads it as part of its kanban_show() response.
complete <id>	Mark task done. Flags: --result, --summary, --metadata.
block <id> "<reason>"	Mark task blocked for human input. Also appends the reason as a comment.
request-review <id>	Move a task to review with a reviewer handoff — NOT a block. Flags: --summary, --metadata, --reviewer (reassigns before review dispatch).
request-changes <id> <reason>	Reviewer verdict for an active review run: close the review attempt and route the task back to its original implementer.
reopen-review <id>...	Send review task(s) back for changes (review → ready/todo). Flag: --reason (appended as a comment).
schedule <id> "<reason>"	Park time-delay/follow-up work in scheduled so it is not shown as a human blocker.
unblock <id>	Restore a blocked task to its source phase (review or ready), or todo while dependencies remain open.
archive <id>	Hide from default list. gc will remove scratch workspaces.
tail <id>	Follow a task's event stream.
dispatch	One dispatcher pass on the active board. Flags: --dry-run, --max N, --failure-limit N, --json.
context <id>	Print the full context a worker would see (title + body + parent results + comments).
specify <id> / specify --all	Flesh out a triage-column task into a concrete spec (title + body with goal, approach, acceptance criteria) via the auxiliary LLM, then promote it to todo. Flags: --tenant (scope --all to one tenant), --author, --json. Configure the model under auxiliary.triage_specifier in config.yaml.
decompose <id> / decompose --all	Fan a triage-column task out into a graph of child tasks routed to specialist profiles by description. Falls back to specify-style single-task promotion when the LLM decides the task doesn't benefit from fan-out. Same flags as specify. Configure the decomposer model under auxiliary.kanban_decomposer in config.yaml; kanban.orchestrator_profile only controls who owns the root/orchestration task after fan-out. Also runs automatically every dispatcher tick when kanban.auto_decompose: true (the default). See Auto vs Manual orchestration.
gc	Remove scratch workspaces for archived tasks.

Examples:

# Create a second board and put a task on it without switching away.
tutou kanban boards create atm10-server --name "ATM10 Server" --icon 🎮
tutou kanban --board atm10-server create "Restart server" --assignee ops

# Switch the active board for subsequent calls.
tutou kanban boards switch atm10-server
tutou kanban list                  # shows atm10-server tasks

# Archive a board (recoverable) or hard-delete it.
tutou kanban boards rm atm10-server
tutou kanban boards rm atm10-server --delete

Board resolution order (highest precedence first): --board <slug> flag → TUTOU_KANBAN_BOARD env var → ~/.tutou/kanban/current file → default.

All actions are also available as a slash command in the gateway (/kanban …), with the same argument surface — including boards subcommands and the --board flag.

For the full design — comparison with Cline Kanban / Paperclip / NanoClaw / Gemini Enterprise, eight collaboration patterns, four user stories, concurrency correctness proof — see the Kanban user guide.

tutou egress

Outbound credential-injection firewall for remote terminal sandboxes. Wraps the iron-proxy daemon — a TLS-intercepting proxy that swaps opaque proxy tokens for real upstream API credentials at the network boundary, so sandboxes never hold real keys. Disabled by default; see the full Egress proxy page for setup + architecture.

tutou egress install                  # download the pinned iron-proxy binary
tutou egress install --force          # check and repair the managed copy

tutou egress setup                    # interactive wizard: CA, mappings, config
tutou egress setup --tunnel-port N    # override the tunnel listener port (default 9090)
tutou egress setup --from-bitwarden   # use Bitwarden Secrets Manager as credential source
tutou egress setup --no-bitwarden     # explicitly switch back to env-based credentials
tutou egress setup --rotate-tokens    # mint fresh proxy tokens (default preserves existing)

tutou egress start                    # spawn the managed proxy daemon
tutou egress stop                     # SIGTERM (then SIGKILL after 5s grace)
tutou egress restart                  # stop (if running) then start — needed for secret changes
tutou egress reload                   # hot-reload the ruleset in-place (no restart, no dropped
                                       #   connections) via the loopback management API

tutou egress status                   # binary + config + pid + listening + mappings
tutou egress status --show-tokens     # print proxy tokens in full (default: redacted)

tutou egress disable                  # flip proxy.enabled = false (does not stop a running proxy)
tutou egress config                   # print the path to proxy.yaml for inspection

Common flows

# First-time setup
export OPENROUTER_API_KEY=…
tutou egress setup && tutou egress start
tutou config set terminal.backend docker   # if not already

# Switching credential source after the fact
tutou egress setup --from-bitwarden       # env → bitwarden
tutou egress setup --no-bitwarden         # bitwarden → env
# (just `setup` without either flag preserves the existing mode)

# Rotating all tokens (e.g. after a suspected token leak)
tutou egress setup --rotate-tokens    # setup offers to restart the running daemon for you
# (running sandboxes still hold old tokens; restart them too)

# Adding a new upstream
# Edit ~/.tutou/config.yaml proxy.extra_allowed_hosts: [api.example.com]
tutou egress setup
tutou egress restart                  # one-command apply (stop + start)

Diagnostic shortcuts

tutou egress status                     # current state in one view
cat ~/.tutou/proxy/proxy.yaml           # the rendered iron-proxy config
tail -20 ~/.tutou/proxy/iron-proxy.log  # daemon-level diagnostics
tail -f ~/.tutou/proxy/iron-proxy.log | jq  # daemon + per-request log (line-delimited JSON; v0.39 combines both streams)

Common failure modes + recovery are covered in Egress proxy → Troubleshooting.

tutou project

tutou project <create|list|show|add-folder|remove-folder|rename|set-primary|use|archive|restore|bind-board>

Projects are human-named workspaces that can span multiple folders / repos. They anchor desktop session grouping and, when bound to a kanban board, give tasks a deterministic worktree + branch convention. State is per-profile.

Subcommand	Description
create	Create a new project.
list (alias ls)	List projects.
show	Show a project's details.
add-folder	Add a folder / repo to a project.
remove-folder	Remove a folder from a project.
rename	Rename a project.
set-primary	Set the primary folder.
use	Set the active project.
archive	Archive a project (recoverable).
restore	Restore an archived project.
bind-board	Bind a kanban board to this project.

tutou webhook

tutou webhook <subscribe|list|remove|test>

Manage dynamic webhook subscriptions for event-driven agent activation. Requires the webhook platform to be enabled in config — if not configured, prints setup instructions.

Subcommand	Description
subscribe / add	Create a webhook route. Returns the URL and HMAC secret to configure on your service.
list / ls	Show all agent-created subscriptions.
remove / rm	Delete a dynamic subscription. Static routes from config.yaml are not affected.
test	Send a test POST to verify a subscription is working.

tutou webhook subscribe

tutou webhook subscribe <name> [options]

Option	Description
--prompt	Prompt template with {dot.notation} payload references.
--events	Comma-separated event types to accept (e.g. issues,pull_request). Empty = all.
--description	Human-readable description.
--skills	Comma-separated skill names to load for the agent run.
--deliver	Delivery target: log (default), telegram, discord, slack, github_comment.
--deliver-chat-id	Target chat/channel ID for cross-platform delivery.
--secret	Custom HMAC secret. Auto-generated if omitted.
--deliver-only	Skip the agent — deliver the rendered --prompt as the literal message. Zero LLM cost, sub-second delivery. Requires --deliver to be a real target (not log).
--mirror-to-session	Also write each delivered message into the target chat's session, so replying to it in that chat has context. Off by default; only enable it for sources whose content you trust in your conversation.
--script	Filter/transform script under ~/.tutou/scripts/. The webhook payload is passed as JSON on stdin; JSON stdout replaces the payload, and empty stdout, [SILENT], or a nonzero exit code ignores the webhook. See Script Filters and Transforms.
--route-profile	Bind the route to a multiplexed profile: it is then reachable only at /p/<profile>/webhooks/<name> and the agent runs as that profile. Validated against existing profiles; kept on update when omitted. Not the same as the global -p/--profile, which selects the gateway whose subscriptions file is written. See Multi-profile gateways.

Subscriptions persist to ~/.tutou/webhook_subscriptions.json and are hot-reloaded by the webhook adapter without a gateway restart. Re-running subscribe for an existing name keeps its secret and profile binding unless you pass --secret / --route-profile.

tutou doctor

tutou doctor [--fix]

Option	Description
--fix	Attempt automatic repairs where possible.

Exit status: 0 when the report lists no unresolved problems, 1 when at least one remains (including problems --fix could not repair), so a health gate or CI step can trust tutou doctor as a check.

The API Connectivity section includes an IPv6 route check: it opens one short (2 s) IPv6 TCP connection to a known dual-stack host. A route that is advertised but only times out (a blackholed IPv6 prefix) is reported as a warning naming the remedy, network.force_ipv4: true. Having no IPv6 route at all is healthy and reported as OK; the check is skipped when force_ipv4 is already set.

Custom-endpoint config checks (both warn-only; --fix does not rewrite them):

• custom_providers that is not a YAML list (for example a string left by a bad config set) is reported as an error naming the key and the received type — the runtime ignores every custom endpoint until it is a list again.
• A legacy custom_providers list entry with no matching providers: entry (same endpoint URL) is reported with the move to make: such an entry is still served from the retired list store (the model picker and the Custom Endpoints page dual-read it) rather than the providers: map every other surface edits, and the one-shot v12 migration that moved the list into providers: does not run again.

Config Structure also flags any list/mapping setting stored as one quoted string (plugins.enabled: '["a","b"]', model_catalog.excluded_providers: '["openai-api"]' — the shape older config set versions wrote): every reader ignores such a string, so the plugins silently stay unmounted and the exclusion never applies. The finding names the key and the tutou config set <key> '<literal>' command that stores a real list; the same warning appears in the startup banner. --fix does not rewrite the file.

tutou dump

tutou dump [--show-keys]

Outputs a compact, plain-text summary of your entire Tutou setup. Designed to be copy-pasted into Discord, GitHub issues, or Telegram when asking for support — no ANSI colors, no special formatting, just data.

Option	Description
--show-keys	Show redacted API key prefixes (first and last 4 characters) instead of just set/not set.

What it includes

Section	Details
Header	Tutou version, release date, git commit hash
Environment	OS, Python version, OpenAI SDK version
Identity	Active profile name, TUTOU_HOME path
Model	Configured default model and provider
Terminal	Backend type (local, docker, ssh, etc.)
API keys	Presence check for all 22 provider/tool API keys
Features	Enabled toolsets, MCP server count, memory provider
Services	Gateway status, configured messaging platforms
Workload	Cron job counts, installed skill count
Config overrides	Any config values that differ from defaults. Credentials in them are redacted: a fallback_providers entry's api_key, and credentials in its base_url (userinfo, key/token query parameters, signed-URL signatures).

Example output

--- tutou dump ---
version:          0.8.0 (2026.4.8) [af4abd2f]
os:               Linux 6.14.0-37-generic x86_64
python:           3.11.14
openai_sdk:       2.24.0
profile:          default
tutou_home:      ~/.tutou
model:            anthropic/claude-opus-4.6
provider:         openrouter
terminal:         local

api_keys:
  openrouter           set
  openai               not set
  anthropic            set
  nous                 not set
  firecrawl            set
  ...

features:
  toolsets:           all
  mcp_servers:        0
  memory_provider:    built-in
  gateway:            running (systemd)
  platforms:          telegram, discord
  cron_jobs:          3 active / 5 total
  skills:             42

config_overrides:
  agent.max_turns: 250
  compression.threshold: 0.85
  display.streaming: True
--- end dump ---

When to use

• Reporting a bug on GitHub — paste the dump into your issue
• Asking for help in Discord — share it in a code block
• Comparing your setup to someone else's
• Quick sanity check when something isn't working

tip

tutou dump is specifically designed for sharing. For interactive diagnostics, use tutou doctor. For a visual overview, use tutou status.

tutou debug

tutou debug share [options]

Upload a debug report (system info + recent logs) to a paste service and get a shareable URL. Useful for quick support requests — includes everything a helper needs to diagnose your issue.

Option	Description
--lines <N>	Number of log lines to include per log file (default: 200).
--expire <days>	Paste expiry in days (default: 7).
--nous	Upload to Nous-internal diagnostics storage instead of a public paste service. Use this when Nous support asks for a private diagnostic bundle.
--local	Print the report locally instead of uploading.
--no-redact	Disable upload-time secret redaction. By default, uploads are redacted.

The report includes system info (OS, Python version, Tutou version), recent agent, gateway, GUI/dashboard, and desktop logs (512 KB limit per file), plus the update and Desktop update hand-off logs when present, and redacted API key status. By default, uploads are redacted so secrets are not included; this covers the system dump (including config values such as fallback_providers entries and credentials in their URLs) as well as the logs, and the gateway /debug report too.

Default uploads use public paste services tried in order: paste.rs, dpaste.com. --nous uploads the same debug bundle to private Nous diagnostics storage instead; the returned viewer link is for the Nous team and auto-deletes after 14 days.

Examples

tutou debug share              # Upload debug report, print URL
tutou debug share --lines 500  # Include more log lines
tutou debug share --expire 30  # Keep paste for 30 days
tutou debug share --nous       # Upload a private diagnostics bundle for Nous support
tutou debug share --local      # Print report to terminal (no upload)

tutou backup

tutou backup [options]

Create a zip archive of your Tutou configuration, skills, sessions, and data. The backup excludes the tutou-agent codebase itself, and it does not nest earlier backup artifacts (backups/, state-snapshots/) — each of those already contains its own copy of state.db.

Option	Description
-o, --output <path>	Output path for the zip file (default: ~/tutou-backup-<timestamp>.zip).
-q, --quick	Quick snapshot: only critical state files (config.yaml, state.db, .env, auth, cron jobs). Much faster than a full backup.
-l, --label <name>	Label for the snapshot (only used with --quick).
-k, --keep <N>	After a full backup, delete older tutou-backup-*.zip files in the output directory beyond the newest N (default 3; 0 keeps everything). Custom-named zips are never touched.

The backup uses SQLite's backup() API for safe copying, so it works correctly even when Tutou is running (WAL-mode safe).

Exit status: 0 only when every selected file landed in the archive. If some files could not be added (Backup incomplete: …), the zip is kept so the rest can still be restored, but the command exits 1 — a cron or systemd timer will not report a partial archive as success, and --keep pruning is skipped so older complete archives survive. 2 means another backup was already running.

What's excluded from the zip:

• *.db-wal, *.db-shm, *.db-journal — SQLite's WAL / shared-memory / journal sidecars. The *.db file already got a consistent snapshot via sqlite3.backup(); shipping the live sidecars alongside it would let a restore see a half-committed state.
• checkpoints/ — per-session trajectory caches. Hash-keyed and regenerated per session; wouldn't port cleanly to another install anyway.
• models/, runtimes/, node/ at the root of ~/.tutou (and of each profiles/<name>/) — regenerable runtime downloads, often tens of GB. Deeper directories with the same names (a skill's models/) are kept.
• Browser profiles: browser-profile/ (the real-profile snapshot — copied Cookies / Login Data), browser-profiles/ (live CDP profiles) at any depth, and browser_profiles/ (the Browser Use CLI backend's Chromium user-data dir, with its own Login Data / Cookies) at the root of ~/.tutou and of each profiles/<name>/. Credential stores that must never enter an archive; all are regenerated on the next launch.
• Regenerable entries of cache/ at those same roots — model/plugin catalogs, stamps, browser profiles, tool-output spill. Durable artifacts stay in: cache/images, cache/audio, cache/videos, cache/documents, cache/screenshots (media delivered to or received from you) and cache/citations (the grounded-citations ledger). A deeper cache/ (inside a skill) is kept whole.
• Unix sockets, devices, and symlinks — a zip cannot hold them; before they were excluded, a stray gateway.sock made every full backup report Backup incomplete.
• The tutou-agent code itself (this is a user-data backup, not a repo snapshot).

Examples

tutou backup                           # Full backup to ~/tutou-backup-*.zip
tutou backup -o ~/backups/tutou.zip   # Full backup to specific path
tutou backup --quick                   # Quick state-only snapshot
tutou backup --quick --label "pre-upgrade"  # Quick snapshot with label

tutou checkpoints

tutou checkpoints [COMMAND]

Inspect and manage the shadow git store at ~/.tutou/checkpoints/ — the storage layer behind the in-session /rollback command. Safe to run any time; does not require the agent to be running.

Subcommand	Description
status (default)	Show total size, project count, and per-project breakdown. Bare tutou checkpoints is equivalent.
list	Alias for status.
prune	Force a cleanup sweep — delete orphan and stale projects, GC the store, enforce the size cap. Ignores the 24h idempotency marker.
clear	Delete the entire checkpoint base. Irreversible; asks for confirmation unless -f.
clear-legacy	Delete only the legacy-<timestamp>/ archives produced by the v1→v2 migration. Exits 2 (after printing Could not delete N archive(s)) when any archive could not be removed, e.g. read-only git objects on Windows.

Options

Option	Subcommand	Description
--limit N	status, list	Max projects to list (default 20).
--retention-days N	prune	Drop projects whose last_touch is older than N days (default 7).
--max-size-mb N	prune	After the orphan/stale pass, drop the oldest commit per project until total store size ≤ N MB (default 500).
--keep-orphans	prune	Skip deleting projects whose working directory no longer exists.
-f, --force	clear, clear-legacy	Skip the confirmation prompt.

Examples

tutou checkpoints                                  # status overview
tutou checkpoints prune --retention-days 3         # aggressive cleanup
tutou checkpoints prune --max-size-mb 200          # tighten size cap once
tutou checkpoints clear-legacy -f                  # drop v1 archive dirs
tutou checkpoints clear -f                         # wipe everything

See Checkpoints and /rollback for the full architecture and the in-session commands.

tutou import

tutou import <zipfile> [options]

Restore a previously created Tutou backup into your Tutou home directory. All files in the archive overwrite existing files in your Tutou home; --force only skips the confirmation prompt that fires when the target already has a Tutou installation.

Option	Description
-f, --force	Skip the existing-installation confirmation prompt.

warning

Stop the gateway before importing to avoid conflicts with running processes.

Exit status: 1 when the archive is damaged — before anything is written, every member is decompressed once and its CRC checked; if any fail, the command prints Error: backup archive is damaged (N member(s) …) with the offending members and stops with the Tutou home untouched. Also 1 when any file from the archive could not be restored (listed under Warnings (N files skipped) and summarised as Import incomplete: …). The files that did land stay in place, but a script or the dashboard will not report a partial restore as success. Runtime files the import deliberately keeps from this machine (gateway.pid, gateway_state.json, …) and the older-backup session warning below do not change the exit status.

SQLite databases

.db members (state.db, kanban.db, response_store.db, …) are not published with a rename like ordinary files. Renaming would replace the file's inode while a gateway, dashboard, or WebUI process still holds the old one open: that process would keep reading pre-import pages and keep writing sessions nobody else can see, and those sessions would simply be absent from the database everyone opens next — with nothing logged. Instead the imported pages are written into the existing database file, the same way /snapshot restore does it, so every open connection converges on the imported data.

If the live database cannot be replaced safely — the page copy failed and another process still holds the file open — the import leaves that database untouched and lists it under Warnings (N files skipped). Stop the holding processes and re-run.

Importing an older backup over newer work is still allowed, but it is no longer silent. When the imported state.db holds fewer messages than the one it replaced, the summary reports it:

  ⚠ Session data replaced by older backup contents:
    state.db: 12 session(s) / 8912 message(s) -> 3 / 24
    Anything recorded after the backup was taken is not in it.
    Recover from a newer backup or snapshot: tutou snapshot list

Examples

tutou import ~/tutou-backup-20260423.zip           # Prompts before overwriting existing config
tutou import ~/tutou-backup-20260423.zip --force   # Overwrite without prompting

tutou logs

tutou logs [log_name] [options]

View, tail, and filter Tutou log files. All logs are stored in ~/.tutou/logs/ (or <profile>/logs/ for non-default profiles).

Log files

Name	File	What it captures
agent (default)	agent.log	All agent activity — API calls, tool dispatch, session lifecycle (INFO and above)
errors	errors.log	Warnings and errors only — a filtered subset of agent.log
gateway	gateway.log	Messaging gateway activity — platform connections, message dispatch, webhook events
gui	gui.log	Dashboard / TUI-gateway / PTY-bridge / websocket events
desktop	desktop.log	Electron desktop app — boot, backend spawn output, and recent Python tracebacks
mcp	mcp-stderr.log	stderr of every stdio MCP server, one starting MCP server banner per launch
update	update.log	Full stdout/stderr mirror of tutou update runs (append-only) — the root cause of update/dependency failures
handoff	desktop-update-handoff.log	Desktop-driven update hand-off stages, including the Desktop rebuild retry output

Options

Option	Description
log_name	Which log to view: agent (default), errors, gateway, gui, desktop, update, handoff, or list to show available files with sizes.
-n, --lines <N>	Number of lines to show (default: 50).
-f, --follow	Follow the log in real time, like tail -f. Press Ctrl+C to stop.
--level <LEVEL>	Minimum log level to show: DEBUG, INFO, WARNING, ERROR, CRITICAL.
--session <ID>	Filter lines containing a session ID substring.
--since <TIME>	Show lines from a relative time ago: 30m, 1h, 2d, etc. Supports s (seconds), m (minutes), h (hours), d (days).
--component <NAME>	Filter by component: gateway, agent, tools, cli, cron.

A line without its own timestamp, such as a traceback frame or the rest of a multi-line message, is shown or hidden together with the timestamped line above it.

Examples

# View the last 50 lines of agent.log (default)
tutou logs

# Follow agent.log in real time
tutou logs -f

# View the last 100 lines of gateway.log
tutou logs gateway -n 100

# Show only warnings and errors from the last hour
tutou logs --level WARNING --since 1h

# Filter by a specific session
tutou logs --session abc123

# Follow errors.log, starting from 30 minutes ago
tutou logs errors --since 30m -f

# List all log files with their sizes
tutou logs list

Filtering

Filters can be combined. When multiple filters are active, a log line must pass all of them to be shown:

# WARNING+ lines from the last 2 hours containing session "tg-12345"
tutou logs --level WARNING --since 2h --session tg-12345

Lines without a parseable timestamp are included when --since is active (they may be continuation lines from a multi-line log entry). Lines without a detectable level are included when --level is active.

Log rotation

Tutou uses Python's RotatingFileHandler. Old logs are rotated automatically — look for agent.log.1, agent.log.2, etc. The tutou logs list subcommand shows all log files including rotated ones.

tutou prompt-size

tutou prompt-size [--platform <name>] [--json]

Reports the fixed prompt budget for a fresh session — what gets sent on every API call before any conversation content. Useful when a downstream adapter or proxy has a tighter prompt budget than the model's context window, or when you want to see which block (skills index, memory, profile) dominates.

It builds the same system prompt the agent would, then breaks it down:

• System prompt total — full assembled prompt (identity, guidance, skills index, context files, memory, profile, timestamp).
• Skills index — the <available_skills> block. This is often the largest single block when many skills are installed.
• Memory and user profile — your MEMORY.md / USER.md snapshots.
• Prompt tiers — stable / context / volatile, matching how Tutou layers the prompt for cache-friendliness.
• Tool schemas — the JSON for all enabled tools (the other half of the fixed per-call payload).

Runs entirely offline — no API call, works with no credentials configured.

# Human-readable breakdown for the CLI platform (default)
tutou prompt-size

# Simulate a messaging platform's prompt (different platform hint)
tutou prompt-size --platform telegram

# Machine-readable output for scripts
tutou prompt-size --json

tip

The skills index and tool schemas scale with how many skills and tools you have enabled. To shrink the prompt, disable unused toolsets (tutou tools) or uninstall skills you don't need (tutou skills). Context files (AGENTS.md, .cursorrules) in your current directory also count toward the total.

tutou config

tutou config <subcommand>

Subcommands:

Subcommand	Description
show	Show current config values.
edit	Open config.yaml in your editor.
get <key> [--json] [--raw]	Print a single config value by dotted key (e.g. tutou config get model.default). --json emits machine-readable output. Credential-shaped values (api_key, *_TOKEN, *_SECRET, password, …) are masked (sk-o...7890) because the agent runs this from sessions whose transcripts persist; --raw prints the real value (or set security.redact_secrets: false). A nested key under a known section that the schema does not define (compression.compressor.enabled) still prints its file value, plus a stderr notice that Tutou may not read it; stdout and the exit code (0) are unchanged.
set <key> <value> [--force]	Set a config value. Dotted paths go to config.yaml; every UPPER_SNAKE name (OPENROUTER_API_KEY, DISCORD_HOME_CHANNEL, TELEGRAM_GROUP_ALLOWED_USERS, TUTOU_TIMEZONE, …) is an environment variable and goes to .env — the same file the platform setup flows and /sethome write, and the one every runtime reader resolves against. config set never writes an UPPER_SNAKE key into config.yaml, --force included; names on the env writer's denylist (TUTOU_YOLO_MODE, PATH, …) are refused outright; any other UPPER_SNAKE name is saved to .env as-is (plugins, skills and external tools read it from the process environment). A known key written under the wrong prefix (gateway.discord.foo, where discord.foo is itself a known key) is refused with a did-you-mean and nothing is written; any other unknown path under a known section (agent.max_turnz, or a runtime-read key that has no seeded default) is written with a did-you-mean notice, and an unknown lowercase top-level key is written with a notice (top-level scalars are bridged into the environment for skills). --force writes the refused wrong-prefix path too. Values are type-checked against the schema: a key that must hold a list or a mapping (custom_providers, model.aliases, display.platforms, plugins.enabled/plugins.disabled, model_catalog.excluded_providers, any key already holding one) refuses a plain string or a wrong-shaped literal, and a value that looks like a list/mapping but is not valid YAML/JSON is refused instead of being stored as a string — nothing is written and the error names the expected type. Pass a YAML/JSON literal (tutou config set custom_providers '[{name: x, base_url: https://...}]'); to store a string that merely starts with [ or {, quote it in YAML ("'[text'"). --force still replaces a whole mapping section; a non-list in a list slot has no override, except that a bare name for a list of names read leniently (agent.disabled_toolsets, skills.disabled) is stored as a one-item list.
unset <key>	Remove a config key, reverting it to the built-in default. For UPPER_SNAKE names this removes the .env entry and also drops a stale top-level config.yaml copy left by older config set runs (get reports such a copy as stale).
path	Print the config file path.
env-path	Print the .env file path.
check	Check for missing or stale config.
migrate	Add newly introduced options interactively.

config set model.provider <provider> keeps the model: block on one route: a model.base_url / model.api_mode left over from the previous provider is removed (and listed) when it is another provider's endpoint — otherwise the new provider's key would be posted to the old endpoint and fail with a credential error naming the wrong provider. A URL that is the new provider's own endpoint, a named custom_providers entry's endpoint, or any URL under custom/local aliases stays; an unrecognised host (a proxy, a LAN server) stays with a warning that it still applies.

Dots inside key names

tutou config set/get/unset use . as the nesting separator, but many real key names contain literal dots — model IDs (grok-4.6, glm-5.3-flash), Matrix room IDs (!room:example.org), versioned provider names. Two rules make these addressable:

• Existing keys just work. When navigating an existing mapping, an existing literal key that matches the dotted remainder is preferred over splitting. tutou config set providers.p.models.grok-4.6.supports_vision true updates the real grok-4.6 entry (and get/unset resolve the same way).
• Creating a new dotted key requires escaping. Escape literal dots with a backslash: tutou config set 'providers.p.models.grok-4\.7.context_length' 128000 creates the literal grok-4.7 key. (Quote the key so your shell keeps the backslash.)

If an unescaped write would create a nested mapping that shadows an existing dotted sibling (e.g. creating grok-4 next to an existing grok-4.6), the command fails with an error instead of silently writing a phantom entry the runtime would never read.

tutou pairing

tutou pairing <list|approve|revoke|clear-pending>

Subcommand	Description
list	Show pending and approved users.
approve <platform> <code>	Approve a pairing code.
revoke <platform> <user-id>	Revoke a user's access.
clear-pending	Clear pending pairing codes.

tutou skills

tutou skills <subcommand>

Subcommands:

Subcommand	Description
browse	Paginated browser for skill registries.
search	Search skill registries.
install	Install a skill.
inspect	Preview a skill without installing it.
list	List installed skills.
check	Check installed hub skills for upstream updates.
update	Reinstall hub skills with upstream changes when available.
audit	Re-scan installed hub skills.
uninstall	Remove a hub-installed skill.
reset	Un-stick a bundled skill flagged as user_modified by clearing its manifest entry. With --restore, also replaces the user copy with the bundled version.
opt-out	Stop bundled skills from being seeded into the active profile. Writes a .no-bundled-skills marker so the installer, tutou update, and any sync skip bundled-skill seeding. Safe by default — nothing on disk is touched. With --remove, also deletes already-present bundled skills that are unmodified (user-edited, hub-installed, and hand-written skills are never removed; previews and confirms first, --yes to skip).
opt-in	Undo opt-out by removing the .no-bundled-skills marker so bundled skills are seeded again on the next tutou update. With --sync, re-seed immediately.
publish	Publish a skill to a registry.
snapshot	Export/import skill configurations.
tap	Manage custom skill sources.
config	Interactive enable/disable configuration for skills by platform.

Common examples:

tutou skills browse
tutou skills browse --source official
tutou skills search react --source skills-sh
tutou skills search https://mintlify.com/docs --source well-known
tutou skills inspect official/security/1password
tutou skills inspect skills-sh/vercel-labs/json-render/json-render-react
tutou skills install official/migration/openclaw-migration
tutou skills install skills-sh/anthropics/skills/pdf --force
tutou skills install https://sharethis.chat/SKILL.md                     # Direct URL (+ referenced support files)
tutou skills install https://example.com/SKILL.md --name my-skill        # Override name when frontmatter has none
tutou skills check
tutou skills update
tutou skills config
tutou skills reset google-workspace
tutou skills reset google-workspace --restore --yes
tutou skills opt-out                  # stop future bundled-skill seeding (nothing deleted)
tutou skills opt-out --remove --yes   # also delete UNMODIFIED bundled skills
tutou skills opt-in --sync            # undo: remove marker and re-seed now

Notes:

• --force can override non-dangerous policy blocks for third-party/community skills.
• --force does not override a dangerous scan verdict.
• --source skills-sh searches the public skills.sh directory.
• --source well-known lets you point Tutou at a site exposing /.well-known/skills/index.json.
• --source browse-sh searches browse.sh's catalog of 200+ site-specific browser-automation skills. Identifiers look like browse-sh/airbnb.com/search-listings-ddgioa.
• Passing an http(s)://…/*.md URL installs SKILL.md plus explicitly referenced files under references/, templates/, scripts/, assets/, and examples/. When frontmatter has no name: and the URL slug isn't a valid identifier, an interactive terminal prompts for a name; non-interactive surfaces (/skills install inside the TUI, gateway platforms) require --name <x> instead.

tutou bundles

tutou bundles <subcommand>

Skill bundles group several skills under one /<bundle-name> slash command. Invoking the bundle loads every referenced skill into a single combined user message. Storage: ~/.tutou/skill-bundles/<slug>.yaml. See Skill Bundles for the YAML schema and behavior.

Subcommands:

Subcommand	Description
list	List installed bundles (default when no subcommand given)
show <name>	Show one bundle's name, description, skills, and file path
create <name>	Create a new bundle. Pass --skill <id> (repeat) or omit for interactive entry. --description, --instruction, --force available.
delete <name>	Remove a bundle file
reload	Re-scan ~/.tutou/skill-bundles/ and report added/removed bundles

Examples:

tutou bundles create backend-dev \
  --skill github-code-review \
  --skill test-driven-development \
  --skill github-pr-workflow \
  -d "Backend feature work"

tutou bundles list
tutou bundles show backend-dev
tutou bundles delete backend-dev

In a chat session, /bundles lists installed bundles and /<bundle-name> loads one.

tutou curator

tutou curator <subcommand>

The curator is an auxiliary-model background task that periodically reviews agent-created skills, prunes stale ones, consolidates overlaps, and archives obsolete skills. Bundled and hub-installed skills are never touched. Archives are recoverable; auto-deletion never happens.

Subcommand	Description
status	Show curator status and skill stats
run	Trigger a curator review now (blocks until the LLM pass finishes)
run --background	Start the LLM pass in a background thread and return immediately
run --dry-run	Preview only — produce the review report with no mutations
backup	Take a manual tar.gz snapshot of ~/.tutou/skills/ (curator also snapshots automatically before every real run)
rollback	Restore ~/.tutou/skills/ from a snapshot (defaults to newest)
rollback --list	List available snapshots
rollback --id <ts>	Restore a specific snapshot by id
rollback -y	Skip the confirmation prompt
pause	Pause the curator until resumed
resume	Resume a paused curator
pin <skill>	Pin a skill so the curator never auto-transitions it
unpin <skill>	Unpin a skill
restore <skill>	Restore an archived skill
archive <skill>	Archive a skill manually
prune	Manually prune skills the curator would normally clean up
list-archived	List archived skills (recoverable via restore)

On a fresh install the first scheduled pass is deferred by one full interval_hours (7 days by default) — the gateway will not curate immediately on the first tick after tutou update. Use tutou curator run --dry-run to preview before that happens.

See Curator for behavior and config.

tutou moa

Configure named Mixture of Agents presets. Presets appear as selectable models under a Mixture of Agents provider in every model picker; /moa <prompt> runs one prompt through the default preset.

tutou moa list
tutou moa configure [name]
tutou moa delete <name>

tutou moa configure reuses Tutou' provider → model picker for each reference model and the aggregator. A preset is an execution-mode configuration, not a primary model or provider.

tutou fallback

tutou fallback <subcommand>

Manage the fallback provider chain. Fallback providers are tried in order when the primary model fails with rate-limit, overload, or connection errors.

Subcommand	Description
list (alias: ls)	Show the current fallback chain (default when no subcommand)
add	Pick a provider + model (same picker as tutou model) and append to the chain
remove (alias: rm)	Pick an entry to delete from the chain
clear	Remove all fallback entries

See Fallback Providers.

tutou hooks

tutou hooks <subcommand>

Inspect shell-script hooks declared in ~/.tutou/config.yaml, test them against synthetic payloads, and manage the first-use consent allowlist at ~/.tutou/shell-hooks-allowlist.json.

Subcommand	Description
list (alias: ls)	List configured hooks with matcher, timeout, and consent status
test <event>	Fire every hook matching <event> against a synthetic payload
revoke (aliases: remove, rm)	Remove a command's allowlist entries (takes effect on next restart)
doctor	Check each configured hook: exec bit, allowlist, mtime drift, JSON validity, and synthetic run timing

See Hooks for event signatures and payload shapes.

tutou memory

tutou memory <subcommand>

Set up and manage external memory provider plugins. Bundled providers: openviking, mem0, holographic, retaindb, byterover; honcho, hindsight and supermemory (plugin catalog) after tutou plugins install <name> (tutou update does this automatically for a provider already named in memory.provider). Only one external provider can be active at a time. Built-in memory (MEMORY.md/USER.md) is always active.

Subcommands:

Subcommand	Description
setup	Interactive provider selection and configuration.
status	Show current memory provider config.
off	Disable external provider (built-in only).

Provider-specific subcommands

When an external memory provider is active, it may register its own top-level tutou <provider> command for provider-specific management (e.g. tutou honcho when Honcho is active). Inactive providers do not expose their subcommands. Run tutou --help to see what's currently wired in.

tutou acp

tutou acp

Starts Tutou as an ACP (Agent Client Protocol) stdio server for editor integration.

Related entrypoints:

tutou-acp
python -m acp_adapter

Install support first:

cd ~/.tutou/tutou-agent && python -c "import pm; pm.sync_venv(['acp'], explicit=True)"

See ACP Editor Integration and ACP Internals.

tutou mcp

tutou mcp <subcommand>

Manage MCP (Model Context Protocol) server configurations and run Tutou as an MCP server.

Subcommand	Description
(none) or picker	Interactive catalog picker — browse Nous-approved MCPs and install/enable/disable.
catalog	List Nous-approved MCPs (plain text, scriptable).
install <name>	Install a catalog entry (e.g. tutou mcp install deepwiki).
serve [-v|--verbose]	Run Tutou as an MCP server — expose conversations to other agents.
add <name> [--url URL] [--command CMD] [--auth oauth|header] [--args ...]	Add a custom MCP server with automatic tool discovery. --args passes the remaining argv to the stdio command, so put it last.
remove <name> (alias: rm)	Remove an MCP server from config.
list (alias: ls)	List configured MCP servers.
test <name>	Test connection to an MCP server.
configure <name> (alias: config)	Toggle tool selection for a server.
login <name>	Force re-authentication for an OAuth-based MCP server.

See MCP Config Reference, Use MCP with Tutou, and MCP Server Mode.

tutou plugins

tutou plugins [subcommand]

Unified plugin management — general plugins, memory providers, and context engines in one place. Running tutou plugins with no subcommand opens a composite interactive screen with two sections:

• General Plugins — multi-select checkboxes to enable/disable installed plugins
• Provider Plugins — single-select configuration for Memory Provider and Context Engine. Press ENTER on a category to open a radio picker.

Subcommand	Description
(none)	Composite interactive UI — general plugin toggles + provider plugin configuration.
install <identifier> [--force] [--ref COMMIT_SHA] [--allow-removed]	Install a plugin from the Tutou plugin catalog (bare entry name), a Git URL, or owner/repo shorthand. Catalog names resolve to the reviewed 40-hex commit SHA and show declared capabilities. Source, checked-out revision, and a nested catalog-provenance block are recorded in the installer's plugins/.install-metadata.json; the .tutou-catalog.json copy inside the plugin directory is only for convenience and is never trusted. Raw URLs are flagged as custom (unreviewed) sources. --ref selects a full-SHA custom pin and records the SHA actually checked out. --allow-removed (DANGEROUS) bypasses the removed-plugin blocklist at install and exempts that install from update, enable, and load-time kill-list checks.
search [term] [--json]	Search the Tutou plugin catalog (matches entry names, descriptions, and declared tools; omit term to list everything). The catalog is curated in-repo (plugin-catalog/), refreshed from the live repo with a 6-hour cache, and falls back to the in-tree copy offline. Cataloged ≠ audited — admission reviews the entry, not the code.
update <name>	Re-pin catalog installs to the reviewed catalog SHA, or update a custom Git install from its recorded source/feed. PM validates active-plugin dependencies before code publication. Explicit custom pins move only with install --force --ref <new-commit>.
remove <name> (aliases: rm, uninstall)	Remove an installed plugin.
enable <name>	Enable a disabled plugin.
disable <name>	Disable a plugin without removing it.
list (alias: ls)	List installed plugins with enabled/disabled status.
doctor [path-or-id] [--ci]	Validate a native plugin through the real manifest parser, loader, and registration path. --ci exits 1 on errors.
pack install <path-or-url> [--force]	Install a plugin pack (tutou-pack.yaml) — a declarative set of plugins each pinned to an exact 40-character commit SHA. Shows a mandatory review screen (every plugin, source, pinned ref, declared capabilities), asks one confirmation for the pack contents, then runs ordinary pinned installs. Each plugin's declared capabilities still go through the standard per-plugin consent — a pack never bulk-grants. Partial failures are reported per plugin; exits non-zero when any plugin failed. Interactive only (no --yes).
pack export [--enabled-only] [--name NAME]	Emit a pack YAML on stdout from the current install: repo + exact SHA of each git-installed plugin plus sanitized non-secret plugins.entries config. Local-only plugins (no git provenance) are listed as warning comments, never as installable entries. Secrets, capability grants, and allow_* gates are always stripped.
pack show <path-or-url>	Dry-run: parse, validate, and display a pack without installing anything.

Provider plugin selections are saved to config.yaml:

• memory.provider — active memory provider (empty = built-in only)
• context.engine — active context engine ("compressor" = built-in default)

General plugin disabled list is stored in config.yaml under plugins.disabled. Git installs also record only their canonical source, exact installed revision, and pin status in the profile-local plugins/.install-metadata.json sidecar. It does not contain plugin config, environment values, secrets, or capability grants.

See Plugins and Build a Tutou Plugin.

tutou tools

tutou tools [--summary]

Option	Description
--summary	Print the current enabled-tools summary and exit.

Without --summary, this launches the interactive per-platform tool configuration UI.

tutou computer-use

tutou computer-use <subcommand>

Subcommands:

Subcommand	Description
install	Run the upstream cua-driver installer (macOS, Windows, and Linux).
install --upgrade	Re-run the installer even if cua-driver is already on PATH. The upstream script always pulls the latest release, so this performs an in-place upgrade.
status	Print whether cua-driver is on $PATH and which version is installed.
doctor [--include CHECK] [--skip CHECK] [--json]	Run cua-driver's health report and show its platform checks.
permissions status [--json]	Report macOS Accessibility and Screen Recording grants.
permissions grant	Ask macOS to grant Accessibility and Screen Recording to Cua Driver.

tutou computer-use install is the stable entry point for installing the cua-driver binary used by the computer_use toolset. It runs the same upstream installer that tutou tools invokes when you first enable Computer Use, so it's safe to use for re-running the install if the toolset toggle didn't trigger it (for example, on returning-user setups).

If cua-driver is already present, Tutou checks its version and runtime manifest. A compatible 0.20.0 or newer installation is left in place. An old or incomplete standard installation is repaired with the current upstream installer. Tutou never replaces a custom binary selected through TUTOU_CUA_DRIVER_CMD; update that binary directly or remove the override. tutou computer-use status reports when repair is required.

The built-in computer_use toolset is the recommended Tutou integration. Registering raw Cua MCP tools is an alternative when you need Cua's low-level tool vocabulary. cua-driver skills install detects Tutou and links Cua's skill pack into the Tutou skills directory automatically.

Permission mode and capability-manifest approval belong to runtime launch. In bounded mode Tutou passes Cua's canonical --capability-manifest and --approve-capability-manifest flags. Every MCP transport owns a private lifecycle session inside its runtime. Public session names label cursor and session state; they do not own or share the runtime.

tutou update automatically re-runs the upstream installer at the end of the update if cua-driver is on PATH, so most users will not need to call --upgrade manually. Use it when upstream ships a fix you want right now without waiting for the next Tutou update.

tutou pets

tutou pets <list|install|select|show|off|scale|remove|doctor>

Petdex is a public gallery of animated sprite pets for coding agents. Install one and Tutou shows it reacting to agent activity across the CLI, TUI, and desktop app.

Subcommand	Description
list	Browse the petdex gallery.
install	Install a pet from the gallery.
select	Set the active pet (writes display.pet.*).
show	Animate the active pet in the terminal.
off	Disable the pet display.
scale	Resize the pet everywhere (display.pet.scale).
remove	Delete an installed pet.
doctor	Check pet setup + terminal graphics support.

You can also generate a brand-new pet from a text description with the /hatch slash command. See Pets.

tutou sessions

tutou sessions <subcommand>

Subcommands:

Subcommand	Description
list	List recent sessions.
browse	Interactive session picker with search and resume. Each row shows a lifecycle status tag (done / intr / err / empty, derived from the session's final message) and its message count. Press d on a highlighted row (while the search filter is empty) to delete that session after a y/N confirmation; while a filter is active, d types into the search instead.
export <output> [--session-id ID]	Export sessions to JSONL.
delete <session-id>	Delete one session.
prune	Delete sessions matching filters: time bounds --older-than/--newer-than/--before/--after (durations like 5h/2d, bare days, or ISO timestamps); attributes --source, --title, --model, --provider, --branch, --end-reason, --user, --chat-id, --chat-type, --cwd; numeric bounds --min/--max-messages, --min/--max-tokens, --min/--max-cost, --min/--max-tool-calls; plus --include-archived, --dry-run, --yes. Default: older than 90 days.
archive	Bulk-archive (soft-hide, no deletion) sessions matching the same filters as prune. Requires at least one filter.
stats	Show session-store statistics.
rename <session-id> <title>	Set or change a session title.
optimize	Reclaim disk space: merge FTS5 index segments + VACUUM. Non-destructive — no session data changes.
optimize-storage	Migrate the full-text search index to the compact v23 external-content layout; on large databases this reclaims a large fraction of state.db.
repair	Repair a malformed state.db schema (e.g. table messages_fts already exists) so hidden sessions reappear; a backup is made first.
repair-routing	Re-attach gateway conversations stranded in session rows that lost their routing identity (a chat "jumping back in time" after a restart). Dry-run by default; --apply performs the adoptions (stop the gateway first); --max-gap-seconds N tunes the contiguity window. Only unambiguous cases are repaired. See Sessions → Repair Stranded Gateway Sessions.
repair-prompts	Report stored system prompts provably degraded by the pre-#122822 maintenance-compaction bug. Report-only by default; --apply clears verified rows so the next turn rebuilds them, --json is machine-readable (and non-interactive when combined with --apply), and an explicit session_id is a destructive override that can clear even a healthy prompt. Rows without a readable tools[] pin, or with a memory-only pin, are reported as unverifiable and left unchanged by the scan (a resumed memory-only session re-pins its full tool surface, after which a scan can clear it). Restart a running gateway after --apply so repaired rows take effect. See Sessions → Repair Degraded Stored Prompts.
repair-profiles	Settle session, routing, Telegram-topic and voice-mode state that landed under the wrong profile (rows in another profile's store, labels disagreeing with the session key, parent links crossing profiles, index rows for deleted profiles). Dry-run by default; --apply performs the repairs after snapshotting every store (stop the gateway first); --legacy-main rekey|move decides what agent:main rows inside a named profile's store are; --json for automation. See Sessions → Repair State Crossed Between Profiles.
recover	Offline, non-destructive recovery of a damaged state.db into a separate clean database.
retitle-skills	Regenerate titles for sessions opened with a /skill, using what the user actually typed; lists changes unless --apply is passed.

tutou insights

tutou insights [--days N] [--source platform]

Option	Description
--days <n>	Analyze the last n days (default: 30).
--source <platform>	Filter by source such as cli, telegram, or discord.

tutou claw

tutou claw migrate [options]

Migrate your OpenClaw setup to Tutou. Reads from ~/.openclaw (or a custom path) and writes to ~/.tutou. Automatically detects legacy directory names (~/.clawdbot, ~/.moltbot) and config filenames (clawdbot.json, moltbot.json).

Option	Description
--dry-run	Preview what would be migrated without writing anything.
--preset <name>	Migration preset: full (all compatible settings) or user-data (excludes infrastructure config). Neither preset imports secrets — pass --migrate-secrets explicitly.
--overwrite	Overwrite existing Tutou files on conflicts (default: refuse to apply when the plan has conflicts).
--migrate-secrets	Include API keys in migration. Required even under --preset full.
--no-backup	Skip the pre-migration zip snapshot of ~/.tutou/ (by default a single restore-point archive is written to ~/.tutou/backups/pre-migration-*.zip before apply; restorable with tutou import).
--source <path>	Custom OpenClaw directory (default: ~/.openclaw).
--workspace-target <path>	Target directory for workspace instructions (AGENTS.md).
--skill-conflict <mode>	Handle skill name collisions: skip (default), overwrite, or rename.
--yes	Skip the confirmation prompt.

What gets migrated

The migration covers 30+ categories across persona, memory, skills, model providers, messaging platforms, agent behavior, session policies, MCP servers, TTS, and more. Items are either directly imported into Tutou equivalents or archived for manual review.

Directly imported: SOUL.md, MEMORY.md, USER.md, AGENTS.md, skills (4 source directories), default model, custom providers, MCP servers, messaging platform tokens and allowlists (Telegram, Discord, Slack, WhatsApp, Signal, Matrix, Mattermost), agent defaults (reasoning effort, compression, human delay, timezone, sandbox), approval rules, TTS config, browser settings, tool settings, exec timeout, command allowlist, gateway config, and API keys from 3 sources.

Archived for manual review: Cron jobs, plugins, hooks/webhooks, memory backend (QMD), skills registry config, UI/identity, logging, multi-agent setup, channel bindings, IDENTITY.md, TOOLS.md, HEARTBEAT.md, BOOTSTRAP.md.

API key resolution checks three sources in priority order: config values → ~/.openclaw/.env → auth-profiles.json. All token fields handle plain strings, env templates (${VAR}), and SecretRef objects.

For the complete config key mapping, SecretRef handling details, and post-migration checklist, see the full migration guide.

Examples

# Preview what would be migrated
tutou claw migrate --dry-run

# Full migration (all compatible settings, no secrets)
tutou claw migrate --preset full

# Full migration including API keys
tutou claw migrate --preset full --migrate-secrets

# Migrate user data only (no secrets), overwrite conflicts
tutou claw migrate --preset user-data --overwrite

# Migrate from a custom OpenClaw path
tutou claw migrate --source /home/user/old-openclaw

tutou import-agent

tutou import-agent [claude-code|codex] [options]

Import a Claude Code (~/.claude) or OpenAI Codex CLI (~/.codex) setup into Tutou. Maps CLAUDE.md/AGENTS.md instructions to memory entries, Bash(...) permission allow/deny rules to command_allowlist/approvals.deny, MCP servers to mcp_servers in config.yaml, and skill directories into ~/.tutou/skills/. Always previews before applying; API keys and credentials are never imported.

Option	Description
agent	claude-code or codex (default: auto-detect).
--source <path>	Custom source directory (default: ~/.claude or ~/.codex).
--dry-run	Preview only — write nothing.
--overwrite	Replace conflicting MCP servers / skills (default: skip).
--yes, -y	Skip confirmation prompts.
--sync	Re-import every previously imported source whose files changed since the last import. Prompt-free; combine with --dry-run to preview.

Every successful import registers its source in ~/.tutou/import-sync.json; tutou import-agent --sync then re-imports any registered source whose files changed (a cron-friendly way to keep an imported Claude Code / Codex setup current). See the import guide for the full mapping tables.

tutou serve

tutou serve [options]

Start the Tutou backend server — the JSON-RPC/WebSocket gateway the desktop app and remote clients connect to. It is the same server tutou dashboard runs, but headless: it never opens a browser UI. The desktop app launches its own tutou serve backend; use this command directly when you want a headless backend on a remote host. Accepts the same --host / --port / --insecure / --skip-build / --stop / --status options as tutou dashboard below (a non-loopback bind engages the same auth gate). Requires the [web] extra; the embedded Chat socket additionally needs [pty] on a POSIX host.

Port conflicts: if the requested port (default 9119) is already held by another process (e.g. a second tutou serve or the gateway), the command prints a machine-readable sentinel line BACKEND_PORT_IN_USE port=<port> to stdout, a human hint naming the likely holder, and exits with code 75 (EX_TEMPFAIL) instead of a generic error — so scripts and the desktop app can tell "port occupied" apart from "backend broken". Pass --port 0 to bind a free ephemeral port (the successful boot announces the chosen port via TUTOU_BACKEND_READY port=<port>).

tutou dashboard

tutou dashboard [options]

Launch the web dashboard to manage configuration, API keys, and sessions. For a headless backend, use tutou serve. FastAPI, Uvicorn, and the platform PTY helper are core dependencies. The web extra adds exact HTTP-stack constraints and is selected by standard PM setup through all. If dependencies are damaged, run tutou pm repair. The embedded Chat tab requires a POSIX PTY environment, such as Linux, macOS, or WSL2. See Web Dashboard.

Option	Default	Description
--port	9119	Port to run the web server on
--host	127.0.0.1	Bind address
--no-open	—	Don't auto-open the browser
--insecure	off	Deprecated / no-op. Formerly bypassed auth on a non-loopback bind. Since the June 2026 hardening a public bind always requires an auth provider (password or OAuth). Bind 127.0.0.1 and tunnel to keep it local.
--skip-build	off	Skip the web UI build step and serve the existing dist directly. Useful for non-interactive contexts (Windows Scheduled Tasks, CI) where npm isn't available. Pre-build with cd web && npm run build.
--isolated	off	When launched from a named profile (worker dashboard), run a dedicated per-profile server instead of routing to the machine dashboard.
--stop	—	Stop the running tutou dashboard / tutou serve backend of this Tutou home and exit (-p <profile> / TUTOU_HOME select which; backends of other profiles, other installs on the machine, and the shell you typed the command into are never touched — a backend whose owner cannot be read is left alone). SIGTERM, a 10s grace, then SIGKILL; a hosted Chat TUI that outlives its backend is stopped too (it would otherwise keep the deleted state.db-wal open and block the next start). Messaging-gateway bots started from the dashboard are not touched.
--status	—	List running tutou dashboard processes and exit.

tutou dashboard register

Register this install as a self-hosted dashboard with your Nous Portal account. Creates an OAuth client, writes TUTOU_DASHBOARD_OAUTH_CLIENT_ID into ~/.tutou/.env, and prints how to engage the login gate. Requires being logged in (tutou setup).

Option	Description
--name	Human-readable label for the dashboard (default: auto-generated).
--redirect-uri	Public HTTPS OAuth redirect URI (e.g. https://tutou.example.com/auth/callback). Omit for localhost-only use.
--portal-url	Override the Nous Portal base URL for registration (default: the portal you logged into). Also settable via TUTOU_DASHBOARD_PORTAL_URL.

# Default — opens browser to http://127.0.0.1:9119
tutou dashboard

# Custom port, no browser
tutou dashboard --port 8080 --no-open

# From a profile alias — routes to the machine dashboard with the
# profile preselected in the sidebar switcher (attach if running)
worker dashboard

tutou profile

tutou profile <subcommand>

Manage profiles — multiple isolated Tutou instances, each with its own config, sessions, skills, and home directory.

Subcommand	Description
list	List all profiles.
use <name>	Set a sticky default profile.
create <name> [--clone] [--clone-all] [--clone-from <source>] [--no-alias]	Create a new profile. --clone copies config, .env, SOUL.md, skills, and the curated MEMORY.md/USER.md memory files from the active profile. --clone-all copies all state. --clone-from specifies a source profile and implies config clone unless paired with --clone-all.
delete <name> [-y]	Delete a profile.
show <name>	Show profile details (home directory, config, etc.).
alias <name> [--remove] [--name NAME]	Manage wrapper scripts for quick profile access.
rename <old> <new>	Rename a profile.
export <name> [-o FILE]	Export a profile to a .tar.gz archive (local backup).
import <archive> [--name NAME]	Import a profile from a .tar.gz archive (local restore).
install <source> [--name N] [--alias] [--force] [-y]	Install a profile distribution from a git URL or local directory.
update <name> [--force-config] [-y]	Re-pull a distribution; preserves user data (memories, sessions, auth).
info <name>	Show a profile's distribution manifest (version, requirements, source).

Examples:

tutou profile list
tutou profile create work --clone
tutou profile create work --clone --sync-imports   # also carry over the import-agent sync manifest
tutou profile use work
tutou profile alias work --name h-work
tutou profile export work -o work-backup.tar.gz
tutou profile import work-backup.tar.gz --name restored
tutou profile install github.com/user/my-distro --alias
tutou profile update work
tutou -p work chat -q "Hello from work profile"

tutou completion

tutou completion [bash|zsh|fish]

Print a shell completion script to stdout. Source the output in your shell profile for tab-completion of Tutou commands, subcommands, and profile names.

Examples:

# Bash
tutou completion bash >> ~/.bashrc

# Zsh
tutou completion zsh >> ~/.zshrc

# Fish
tutou completion fish > ~/.config/fish/completions/tutou.fish

tutou pm

Manage pinned tools, Python dependency environments, and their diagnostics. This command does not update the Tutou application itself.

tutou pm --help
tutou pm doctor
tutou pm status
tutou pm repair
tutou pm install
tutou pm install chromium

For source development, run the setup script once, then activate the installed environment with source ./activate or PowerShell . .\activate.ps1. Use deactivate to restore the previous shell environment. See the developer workflow for preparation, daily commands, dependency refresh, and test environments.

See Package management for every subcommand, source-versus-bundle behavior, lazy-install policy, and maintainer commands.

tutou update

tutou update [--gateway] [--check] [--plan] [--no-backup] [--backup] [--yes]

Updates an admitted source checkout and prepares dependencies through PM. Use --check to compare with its configured source target without applying the update. Desktop bundles, Docker, Nix, and Termux packages retain their external update owner. See Updating & Uninstalling.

tutou update pulls the configured update branch (default: main). If your checkout is on another branch, Tutou may check out the update branch before pulling. Commit branch work before updating when you want to keep it outside the update autostash flow.

Option	Description
--install-id	Print this installation's identity and path, then exit.
--set-channel CHANNEL	Persist the update channel for this source installation without applying an update. main is the only valid source channel. Bundled applications have a fixed build channel and refuse channel changes.
--channel CHANNEL	Select a source channel for this invocation only (main is the only valid one).
--branch NAME	Select a source branch for this invocation; takes precedence over source channel selection.
--gateway	Internal mode used by the messaging /update command. Uses file-based IPC for prompts and progress streaming instead of reading from terminal stdin. Not a gateway restart flag.
--check	Check whether an update is available without pulling, installing dependencies, or restarting anything.
--plan	Print the update plan and exit without changing anything: install kind (git/Docker/Nix/apt), every running Tutou service across all profiles with its supervisor and running code version, and how each will be restarted. On image- or package-managed installs, reports the correct external update command instead. Read-only.
--no-backup	Skip all pre-update backups for this run (both the quick state snapshot and the full zip), regardless of updates.pre_update_backup.
--backup	Force a full pre-update backup for this run: the quick state snapshot plus a complete zip of TUTOU_HOME (config, auth, sessions, skills, pairing data). The default mode is quick — a lightweight state snapshot only. Set the permanent mode via `updates.pre_update_backup: quick
--yes, -y	Assume yes for interactive prompts such as config migration and stash restore. API-key entry is skipped; run tutou config migrate separately for those.

Additional behavior:

• Gateway restart. After a successful update, Tutou attempts to restart all running gateway profiles of the home being updated (its root and every profiles/<name> under it) automatically so they pick up the new code. Gateways and tutou-gateway* services that belong to a different TUTOU_HOME on the same machine — another install, or a scratch home running tutou update — are named in the output and left alone. Use tutou gateway restart when you want to restart a gateway without applying an update.
• Restart-phase recovery. If the in-process restart phase aborts while importing the freshly pulled tree, supervised gateway profiles are retried through a clean Python process. Only restarts independently confirmed by systemd (systemctl --user is-active) are reported as verified; a relaunch that merely exited 0 is recorded as relaunch_attempted and still fails the update conservatively. Manual gateways and serve/dashboard runtimes are never killed without a relaunch authority; they are recorded as skipped with a reason and remain in the incomplete-update report with the exact restart command.
• Update receipts + fleet version check. Every run writes a machine-readable receipt to ~/.tutou/logs/update_receipts/ (pre-update fleet plan, steps, skips with reasons, restart outcome; latest.json points at the newest). After the restart phase the updater verifies each live gateway's running code against the updated checkout and prints a per-profile version matrix; a gateway still on pre-update code fails the update (exit 1) with the exact restart command.
• Local source changes. For git installs, dirty tracked files and untracked files are auto-stashed before branch checkout or pull (git stash push --include-untracked). Interactive terminal updates ask before restoring the stash. Non-interactive updates restore it by default; set updates.non_interactive_local_changes: discard only on managed installs where local source edits should be thrown away after a successful pull. If stash restore conflicts or the pull fails, the stash is left in place for manual recovery.
• npm lockfile churn. Before stashing or switching branches, Tutou makes a best-effort cleanup of tracked package-lock.json diffs produced by npm install/build steps. Commit or manually stash intentional lockfile edits before running tutou update.
• Pairing data snapshot. Even when --backup is off, tutou update takes a lightweight snapshot of ~/.tutou/pairing/ and the Feishu comment rules before git pull. You can roll it back with tutou backup restore --state pre-update if a pull rewrites a file you were editing.
• Legacy tutou.service warning. If Tutou detects a pre-rename tutou.service systemd unit (instead of the current tutou-gateway.service), it prints a one-time migration hint so you can avoid flap-loop issues.
• Exit codes. 0 on success, 1 on pull/install/post-install errors, 2 on unexpected working-tree changes that block git pull.

Maintenance commands

Command	Description
tutou --version	Print version information.
tutou update	Pull latest changes and reinstall dependencies.

| tutou uninstall [--full] [--gui] [--data] [--dry-run] [--yes] | Remove owned source-install files. --gui selects source-built desktop removal; --full also removes data. --data removes user data without deleting package-owned code. Sealed installs use their package owner for application removal. --dry-run previews the scope; --yes skips confirmation. |

See also

• Slash Commands Reference
• CLI Interface
• Sessions
• Skills System
• Skins & Themes