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Agent Tick is a least-permission approval layer for coding agents. Your local agent can send progress, ask a bounded question, or wait for approval without giving the phone, hosted app, or Agent Tick server a shell.
Use Agent Tick for three things:
- Status Updates — one-way progress from an agent.
- Steering — choose from bounded options supplied by the agent.
- Sanctions — approve or deny one specific risky action before the agent continues locally.
Agent Tick routes requests and returns bounded responses. It does not execute commands remotely.
Start here
- Quick Start — connect the app, send a Test Request, then connect your first Agent Connection.
- Core Concepts — understand Requests, Sessions, Agent Connections, Approval Devices, and Workspaces.
- Prompt agents to use Agent Tick — make agents call the Agent Tick tool instead of just replying in chat.
Common paths
| I want to… | Read |
|---|---|
| Connect my first machine | Quick Start |
| Understand the app screens | Native App and Personal Console |
| Understand Private Requests and private Status Updates | Private encryption |
| Configure Claude Code, Codex, Pi, or other tools | Coding-agent integrations |
| Try Agent Tick from a terminal | CLI |
| Use Agent Tick with a team | Workspaces |
| Run my own server | Self-hosting Quick Start |
| Build a custom integration | API and SDK |
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