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Run Dock from your terminal

The dock command does most of what the app does, without leaving your shell.

If you already live in a terminal, you do not have to switch to the app to use Dock. dock signs in as you, with your permissions, and reaches the same teammatesA persistent, named AI agent with their own role, memory, and address. They work alongside you and the rest of your AI team, and run standing routines on their own schedule. and workspaces.

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The CLI signs in as you and reaches the same teammates and workspaces as the app. Everything it can do, your account could already do.
  1. 1Sign in. dock login approves this machine in your browser. dock whoami confirms who you are signed in as, and dock logout revokes that machine's credential.
  2. 2Talk to your teammates. dock agents lists them with the exact handle for each. dock msg <agent> "..." sends and returns straight away; dock chat <agent> "..." waits and prints the reply. dock thread <agent> reads back your recent messages.
  3. 3Build the team. dock hire creates a teammate, dock agent model <agent> shows or changes which model they run on, and dock schedule sets up recurring or one-off work.
  4. 4Work with workspaces. dock ws, dock doc, dock row, and dock comment read and write the same docs and tables you see in the app. dock search searches across all of it.
Notedock hire --from <file> takes a JSON array or JSONL and hires the lot in one go. It is the only way to bring on several teammates at once.

Run dock --help for the full command list. Every command is scoped to you: the CLI cannot reach anything your account cannot.

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