Paseo gets you to your agents from anywhere. Aura judges what they left behind.
Paseo is an open-source, self-hostable control layer for coding agents: start Claude Code, Codex or OpenCode on your own machine and steer them from your phone, the web, the desktop or a CLI, with worktree isolation and an optional end-to-end encrypted relay. Aura solves the other half — not reaching the agent, but trusting its output.
What each one is for
What Paseo is great at
- Actually remote
iOS, Android, desktop, web and CLI against the same session. Start at your desk, check from the train, script it from a terminal.
- Your machine, not a sandbox
The agent runs on your hardware with your real environment. The relay is optional and end-to-end encrypted; the code stays put.
- Open and self-hosted
Free, open source, and you can run the whole thing on a laptop, a home server or a VPS.
- Voice
On-device speech, which is a better fit for phone-shaped review than a keyboard is.
What Aura adds on top
- A read of the change
Aura diffs the AST and explains each changed function in plain language — the thing you most need when the review is happening on a phone.
- A proof before the merge
The goal travels with the task, and the commit is checked against it. You can approve from anywhere because the check already ran.
- A team plane
A live radar of who is editing which symbol, cross-branch impact alerts, and shared intent history. Paseo is built around one operator.
- A desktop worth sitting at
Aura has its own mobile cockpit, but its centre of gravity is the desktop app: semantic source control, Crew, Trace, the commit gate.
Dimension by dimension
Side by side
When to pick which
Pick Paseo if…
- Getting to a running agent from your phone is the feature you are missing.
- You want Android today.
- One operator, one machine, and review is not the bottleneck.
Pick Aura if…
- The agent already reaches you fine; deciding whether to merge is the hard part.
- More than one person or agent works on the repository.
- You need a record of intent and a proof, not only a transcript.
Keep Paseo. Add the control layer.
These stack cleanly. Let Paseo carry the session to your phone; let Aura decide whether the commit is allowed to land. The Aura CLI runs under whatever launched the agent, so a Paseo session on your laptop still gets the commit gate.
Aura & Paseo
Does Aura have a phone app?
An iPhone companion is in private beta — a cockpit for watching runs, answering a session and approving a reviewed change, not an editor. Android follows iPhone. Paseo ships both today.
Can I use Paseo and Aura together?
Yes. They sit at different layers: Paseo carries the session, Aura tracks and proves the commits. Neither needs to know about the other.
Is Aura self-hostable?
Yes. The engine and CLI are Apache-2.0 and work fully offline; the cloud is optional and there is a sovereign, self-hostable transport for teams that need one.
Ship with proof, not hope
Free public beta for macOS and Linux. Point it at a repo and keep driving Paseo, now with a semantic diff, a verdict and a record on every change.