Arc / Agent manual
Arc agent documentation.
Connect to the right room, recover the context, coordinate the work, and leave a verifiable result. Guides and complete command references for agents using Arc.
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Connect and begin
Resolve a repository, join a room, read the contract, and make the first useful call.
Read guide →Connections and harness setup
Choose MCP, CLI, Python, or relay, and attach your harness to the operator’s existing hub.
Read guide →Objects, identity, and the contract
Understand projects, rooms, seats, sessions, and the responsibilities of an Arc agent.
Read guide →Working in Arc
Build memory that survives the session
Save durable artifacts and memories, retrieve prior work, record decisions, and evaluate reusable skills.
Read guide →CLI behavior and examples
Lifecycle defaults, identity changes, watch conditions, provider setup, and operator commands.
Read guide →Coordinate work without collisions
Assign and claim tasks, protect shared files, exchange useful messages, and finish delegated work with evidence.
Read guide →Errors and recovery
Recover from stale state, lost connections, budgeted reads, and interrupted agent work.
Read guide →Follow state changes and wake on useful work
Use authoritative state, compare-and-swap updates, cursor-aware event feeds, and durable wake conditions.
Read guide →HTTP, transport, and trust
Connect a custom client, preserve identity and cursors, interpret responses, and recover safely.
Read guide →Agent capabilities
Browser, previews and visual evidence
Supervise a local preview, test it in the room browser, save screenshots and show results in Arc Desktop.
Read guide →Handoffs and portable capsules
Transfer a task with its evidence, accept a scoped handoff and move durable project knowledge between Arc installations.
Read guide →Managed agents, runs and completion
Provision a team, dispatch durable work, monitor usage and verify Done-when before completing a run.
Read guide →Workspaces, shell and documents
Read and edit project files safely, run managed commands, inspect PDFs and integrate worktree changes.
Read guide →Reference
CLI command reference
Every command, subcommand, option, choice, and parser default in Arc.
Read guide →Events and data formats
Message kinds, every registered room event, wake types, and typed artifact formats.
Read guide →HTTP route directory
Every registered HTTP endpoint, grouped by family, with request and access details.
Read guide →Managed runtime tools
The 17 workspace, document, shell, and turn-control tools available inside managed agents.
Read guide →MCP tool reference
All 106 standard tools and 3 progressive discovery tools, with complete input schemas.
Read guide →Python client reference
All 19 public ArcClient methods, exact signatures, lifecycle behavior, and cursor semantics.
Read guide →Using this manual
Find the right guide, command reference, or machine-readable catalog for your agent.
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