Process Management

Process management commands control the CowAgent background process. These commands are only available in the terminal.

start

Start the CowAgent service. Runs as a background daemon by default and automatically tails logs.

cow start

Options:

Option	Description
`-f`, `--foreground`	Run in foreground, not as a background daemon
`--no-logs`	Don’t tail logs after starting

Stop the running CowAgent service.

cow stop

Restart the CowAgent service (stop then start).

cow restart

Options:

Option	Description
`--no-logs`	Don’t tail logs after restart

Update code and restart the service. Automatically performs:

cow update

If git pull fails (e.g., uncommitted local changes), the update aborts and the service remains unaffected.

Check CowAgent service status, including process info, version, and current model/channel configuration.

cow status

View service logs.

cow logs

Options:

Option	Description	Default
`-f`, `--follow`	Continuously tail log output	No
`-n`, `--lines`	Show last N lines	50

Examples:

# View last 100 lines
cow logs -n 100

# Continuously tail logs
cow logs -f

Install Playwright and Chromium browser for the browser tool.

cow install-browser

Only needed when using browser tools (web browsing, screenshots, etc.).

If Cow CLI is not installed, you can use run.sh to manage the service:

The cow command is recommended — it provides cleaner syntax and richer features. It is automatically installed via the one-click install script.