---
title: Hub
description: The layer above your daemons. Register them, give them capabilities, and share them with your team.
nav: Overview
order: 60
category: Hub
---

# Hub

A daemon runs agents on one machine, for you. Paseo Hub is the layer above your daemons. You register your daemons with it, and it gives them capabilities they do not have on their own.

```text
             Hub
    ┌─────────┼─────────┐
    ▼         ▼         ▼
 laptop    devbox    build server
```

What that gives you today:

- Agents that start on their own, from activity in GitHub, Slack, and Discord.
- Configuration that lives in a repository and deploys when you push.
- A record of everything that arrived, what it matched, and what ran.
- One place for your team to see all of it.

Your daemons keep running agents where they always did. Hub decides when to ask them to.

## What lives in your repository

`paseo hub init` creates a project resource file for environments and agents, plus a safe starter workflow:

```text
.paseo/
├── hub.yml
└── workflows/
    ├── slack-help.yml
    └── partials/
        └── answer.md
```

Deploy the bundle, mention the bot, and an agent starts on your machine. [Quickstart](/docs/hub/quickstart) runs the guided setup; [Workflows](/docs/hub/workflows) covers routing and provider-specific replies.

## Reading order

1. [Quickstart](/docs/hub/quickstart)
2. [How it works](/docs/hub/concepts)
3. [Daemons](/docs/hub/daemons)
4. [Triggers](/docs/hub/triggers)
5. [Workflows](/docs/hub/workflows)
6. [GitHub access](/docs/hub/github)
7. [Configuration](/docs/hub/configuration)
8. [Security](/docs/hub/security)

If a workflow accepts requests from GitHub, Slack, Discord, or the API, read [Hub security](/docs/hub/security) before giving an agent access to a working directory or output capability.

## Run Hub yourself

Start on your machine with the embedded database, then add PostgreSQL or a public deployment only when you need them. [Self-hosting](/docs/hub/self-hosting) covers each step.

[Hosted Hub](/docs/hub/hosted) uses the same projects, workflows, daemons, and activity model. New account registration is currently closed.