para tracks what you owe and who you wait on. It keeps bounded goals, areas for ongoing responsibilities, tasks with dependencies, blockers with reasons, and people, in vaults of markdown. Plans and docs stay where they live, and para links to them.
It is not a documentation system, a pager, a calendar, or a sync tool. You direct the work, agents act through MCP, and you approve what goes out of the vault.
Needs Go 1.26 or later, and pnpm for the web UI.
make install # builds the UI and para into ~/.local/bin
para init life ~/para/life
para vault set-default life
para # prints the agenda
para help claude # setup for Claude Code: MCP servers, skill, tracked asks, /para loop, status
para help dun # the same for dun (also: para mcp --help-claude, --help-dun)
para skill install
para mcp --help-raglit
para --actor claude --why "reason" <command> # an agent with only a shell
para vault config list
para vault config set goals.active_limit 5
para serve
para serve login # sign this browser in to every vault for 30 days; it renews while used
para serve sessions # list login keys; para serve logout revokes them
para guide # use cases and where things go
bin/t runs tests. bin/dev runs the stack. See AGENTS.md.