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These pages cover setting up and running a fleet seat: an agent harness (Claude Code, Cursor or Codex) wired to the robot-council bridge, enrolled, and joined to a Robot Council fleet. They describe robot-council/cli v0.4.29 unless a page says otherwise, and every claim links the issue or pull request that established it.

This wiki is the source of truth for the command line's documentation (#318): setting a machine up, wiring each harness, the stop hook, and running a seat once it is set up. The README is an overview that links here. What a test has to read stays in the repository: the stop-hook script is resources/stop-hook/robot-council-stop-hook, and The stop hook links it at a tag.

Setting up

• Installing and upgrading: the side-by-side install behind a launcher, robot-council upgrade, moving from a single-directory install, and why not composer global require.
• Creating a fleet and enrolling a machine: robot-council new, enrolling a harness on a machine, and the secrets the service needs.
• Wiring the bridge into a harness: the MCP configuration for Claude Code, Cursor, Codex and Solo, and what the bridge refuses.
• Joining the fleet and naming a project: join and --auto-join, roles, --capacity, and how a session names its repository and work location.
• The stop hook: handing fleet events to an agent at a turn boundary, the script every harness runs, and the Codex and Solo arrangements.
• Keeping an idle session warm: --keep-warm and --keep-warm-for under Claude Code, and what counts as activity.
• The stop hook under Claude Code and under Cursor: each harness's hook configuration, and the measurements behind it.

Running a seat

• Adding a Cursor seat: the six steps from enrollment to a joined Cursor session, and what a Cursor seat cannot do.
• Starting a seat so it can be woken: the Claude Code invocation that lets the fleet wake an idle agent, and how to confirm it took.
• What a seat receives, and when: which fleet events reach an agent, and how a channel notice and the stop hook divide the work.
• Restarting a seat: what a restart ends, what it releases, and the traps in resuming a conversation.
• Checking a seat is healthy: one check per link in the chain, with the command or log line that shows it.
• Harness differences: what applies to Claude Code only, and what applies to Cursor and Codex too.

Server-side behavior (the feed, tasks, roles, and who may see what) belongs to robot-council/core's wiki, tracked in robot-council/core#326.