Features

This section documents Mecatl capabilities by the task they help you complete. Most features belong to the shared agent/server core; deployment pages explain how mecated, mecak8s, and mecatui expose that core in different operating environments.

Feature pages

• Capability and deployment matrix explains the operational differences among the server and terminal deployment surfaces.

• Start and resume sessions covers creating, selecting, and continuing sessions.

• Choose models and providers covers provider, model, and reasoning-effort selection.

• Define named agents covers agent definitions and specialist delegation.

• Use mecatui covers the terminal UI, keymaps, panels, and interactive workflows.

• Permissions and posture covers permission modes, trust, guardrails, and autonomous operation.

• Skills, commands, and soul covers the reusable instructions and persona that shape a run.

• Multimodal input covers image and other content blocks supported by the selected provider.

• Scheduled tasks covers recurring and one-shot runs.

• Learning covers evidence-backed learning, reflection, and learned-skill admission.

• Dreaming and memory consolidation covers periodic consolidation and manual review.

• MCP OAuth and credentials covers OAuth profiles and credential storage.

• Caller identity and OIDC covers authenticated caller identity and ownership separation.

• Execution environments covers workspaces, shells, forks, and environment persistence. Background Shell is documented in Core tools.

• Session continuity covers persistence, recovery, retention, and maintenance.

• Context windows covers model context-window resolution and overrides.

• Project instructions and rules covers trusted project guidance and .claude/rules.

Page template

Each feature page should answer these questions in order:

1. What does the feature help you do?
2. Which deployment shapes support it?
3. How do you enable or use it?
4. What configuration and permissions does it require?
5. What limitations or deployment gaps apply?
6. What should you read or do next?