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.

Get oriented

• Capability and deployment matrix explains the operational differences among the server and terminal deployment surfaces.
• Use mecatui covers the terminal UI, keymaps, panels, and interactive workflows.

Run and maintain sessions

• Start and resume sessions covers creating, selecting, and continuing sessions.
• Choose models and providers covers provider, model, and reasoning-effort selection.
• Multimodal input covers image and other content blocks supported by the selected provider.
• Context windows covers model context-window resolution and overrides.
• Session continuity covers persistence, recovery, retention, and maintenance.
• Scheduled tasks covers recurring and one-shot runs.

Configure agent behavior

• Define named agents covers agent definitions and specialist delegation.
• Skills, commands, and soul covers the reusable instructions and persona that shape a run.
• Project instructions and rules covers trusted project guidance and .claude/rules.
• Learning covers evidence-backed learning, reflection, and learned-skill admission.
• Dreaming and memory consolidation covers periodic consolidation and manual review.

Secure connections and execution

• Permissions and posture covers permission modes, trust, guardrails, and autonomous operation.
• Caller identity and OIDC covers authenticated caller identity and ownership separation.
• MCP OAuth and credentials covers OAuth profiles and credential storage.
• Execution environments covers workspaces, shells, forks, and environment persistence. Background Shell is documented in Core tools.