daemon

A command for managing the PAI background service, including starting, checking, restarting, installing, removing, and viewing logs.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to serve or migrate the daemon, check its status, restart it, install or uninstall its launch service, and read its logs.
Why use it?
It puts common daemon operations in one interface and shows whether the service is running.

Command

Install

Getting it into your agent

One page per mod, every tool's command on it. A separate URL per tool would split the same page into five that compete with each other.

agentmods
npx agentmods add commands/mnott/pai/daemon
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/mnott/PAI
Per session 0 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 727 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.
Token cost

What it costs to keep this loaded

Counted locally with the o200k_base tokenizer, which is exact for GPT models; Claude uses its own tokenizer and its counts differ. Treat this as one consistent yardstick across the catalogue rather than a bill. Prices are per million input tokens.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5 $0.00000 $0.00727
Opus 5 $0.00000 $0.00364
Sonnet 5 $0.00000 $0.00145
Haiku 4.5 $0.00000 $0.00073

Measured 2d ago against content hash 42c3346cc61f, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

daemon scanned grade A with 0 findings against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured 2d ago.

A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.

Nothing flagged

None of the 26 patterns this scan looks for appear in this file: no shell pipes, no recursive deletes, no credential paths, no hidden text, no instruction-override or anti-refusal phrasing, no agent-config snooping. That is not a guarantee, it is the absence of the things that are checkable.

docs/commands/daemon.md · 79 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 79 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

pai daemon

PAI daemon management: serve, status, restart, install, uninstall, logs

Synopsis

pai daemon <subcommand> [options]

Subcommands

Command Description
pai daemon serve Start the PAI daemon in the foreground
pai daemon migrate Migrate federation data from SQLite to PostgreSQL
pai daemon status Query the running daemon status
pai daemon restart Send SIGTERM to the running daemon (launchd will restart it)
pai daemon install Install daemon as a launchd service and update ~/.claude.json to use the shim
pai daemon uninstall Remove the launchd service and revert to direct MCP
pai daemon logs Tail the daemon log (/tmp/pai-daemon.log)

pai daemon serve

Start the PAI daemon in the foreground

pai daemon migrate

Migrate federation data from SQLite to PostgreSQL

Options

Option Description Default
--connection-string <url> Postgres connection string (default: from config or postgresql://pai:pai@localhost:5432/pai)

pai daemon status

Query the running daemon status

pai daemon restart

Send SIGTERM to the running daemon (launchd will restart it)

pai daemon install

Install daemon as a launchd service and update ~/.claude.json to use the shim

pai daemon uninstall

Remove the launchd service and revert to direct MCP

pai daemon logs

Tail the daemon log (/tmp/pai-daemon.log)

Options

Option Description Default
-n, --lines <n> Number of lines to show 50
-f, --follow Follow log output (like tail -f)

See also

pai backup · pai clear-names · pai db · pai end · pai help · pai identity · pai kg · pai mcp · pai memory · pai notify · pai observation · pai obsidian · pai pause · pai project · pai projects · pai registry · pai restore · pai session · pai sessions · pai setup · pai shell-init · pai skill · pai task · pai topic · pai update · pai zettel

Read the full file on GitHub · 79 lines

Changes

What this file has done since we first saw it

Hashed on every crawl. A supply-chain change to an agent config is a question of when, not whether, so the history is kept rather than the latest state alone.

  1. 2d ago First seen · 79 lines · 0 tokens per session scan A 42c3346cc61f

Subscribe to this mod's changes

daemon is a command published in the GitHub repository mnott/PAI (45 stars, last pushed 8d ago), licensed MIT. It costs nothing until one of its globs matches a file; then it loads 727 tokens. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-30.