CEO Agent

Deprecated — the legacy orchestration runtime. It keeps working. This page documents a command group that drives the frozen legacy runtime (also called: orchestration, warm pool, instance pool, Hermes, sidecar, container runtime, hosted runtime, runtime.pool). It keeps working for existing configs and accepts no new capabilities. Nothing here is disabled, refused or gated, and no route or CLI command on this page has been removed.Since 2026-08 each command on this page also prints a one-line banner on stderr and attaches a machine-readable deprecation object to the JSON envelope on stdout, which stays JSON.parse-able. There is no sunset date: the surface is frozen, not scheduled for removal.New work declares a team({ lead, agents }) on runtime.durable() and submits work with naive teams submit. The per-subcommand replacement is in the table directly below.

Replacement

naive ceo drives the legacy orchestration runtime’s lead agent, which is frozen.

Instead of	Use
`naive ceo run` / `naive ceo message`	`naive teams say <team> --tenant <tu>`
`naive ceo status`	`naive teams show <team> --tenant <tu>`
`naive ceo sessions`	`naive teams runs <team> --tenant <tu>`
`naive ceo stream <runId>`	`naive teams watch <team> --run <id> --tenant <tu>`

The banner id is dep.ceo. It is the one string that identifies this deprecation across the CLI banner, the JSON envelope and the API’s response headers, so grep for that rather than for the wording.

Overview

Command	Description	Cost
`naive ceo run <prompt>`	Start a new CEO run with a prompt	Credits (based on work)
`naive ceo message <text>`	Send a message to an active CEO session	Free
`naive ceo status`	Get the CEO’s current state	Free
`naive ceo sessions`	List all CEO sessions	Free
`naive ceo stream <runId>`	Stream real-time output from a CEO run (SSE)	Free
`naive ceo team-approve`	Approve a CEO-proposed team and provision agents	—

How It Works

The CEO is a persistent Hermes gateway process that runs continuously in your company container. When you send it a prompt via naive ceo run, it:

Interprets the prompt and identifies objectives
Proposes a team composition and task breakdown
After user approves in chat, hires employees and creates tasks via CLI
Workers are spawned automatically per task by the kanban dispatcher
Reports back with results

You can steer the CEO mid-run with naive ceo message or watch output live with naive ceo stream. All LLM calls from the CEO are proxied through the API (the container only holds the nv_sk_* token, never raw provider keys) and charged against your credit balance.

Run a Prompt

naive ceo run "Analyze our competitors and draft a strategy"

Output

{
  "success": true,
  "action": "ceo.run",
  "result": {
    "run_id": "run-abc-123",
    "pid": 12345,
    "status": "started"
  },
  "next_steps": [
    { "command": "naive ceo stream run-abc-123", "description": "Stream real-time output from this run" },
    { "command": "naive ceo status", "description": "Check the CEO's current status" },
    { "command": "naive tasks list", "description": "See tasks the CEO has created" }
  ],
  "hints": [
    "CEO run started (id: run-abc-123)",
    "The CEO is now decomposing your prompt into actionable tasks",
    "Use 'naive ceo stream' to watch progress in real-time"
  ]
}

Send a Message

Sends a real-time message to the active CEO session. Use to steer priorities or request updates.

naive ceo message "Focus on the marketing tasks first"

Check Status

naive ceo status

Output

{
  "success": true,
  "action": "ceo.status",
  "result": {
    "state": "running",
    "active_run_id": "run-abc-123",
    "profileName": "ceo",
    "lastHeartbeat": "2025-01-15T10:30:00Z"
  },
  "hints": ["CEO is currently: running"]
}

Possible states: idle, running, error, stopped.

List Sessions

naive ceo sessions

Returns a list of all CEO sessions (past and current) including run IDs, prompts, statuses, and timestamps.

Stream Output (SSE)

Opens a Server-Sent Events connection to stream the CEO’s real-time output.

naive ceo stream <runId>

Events include:

thought — CEO’s reasoning steps
task_created — new task dispatched
task_completed — employee finished a task
message — CEO status updates
done — run completed
error — something went wrong

Press Ctrl+C to stop streaming (the run continues in the background).

Typical Workflow

# 1. Start a CEO run
naive ceo run "Launch a new product line"

# 2. Watch output live
naive ceo stream <runId>

# 3. CEO proposes a team — approve via message
naive ceo message "Looks good, go ahead and hire them"

# 4. Steer mid-run
naive ceo message "Prioritize the SEO analysis"

# 5. Check status later
naive ceo status

# 6. Review sessions
naive ceo sessions

CLI Reference

Durable runtime

Multi-tenant

Legacy orchestration (deprecated)

Primitives

Replacement

Overview

How It Works

Run a Prompt

Output

Send a Message

Check Status

Output

List Sessions

Stream Output (SSE)

Typical Workflow

​Replacement

​Overview

​How It Works

​Run a Prompt

​Output

​Send a Message

​Check Status

​Output

​List Sessions

​Stream Output (SSE)

​Typical Workflow

Replacement

Overview

How It Works

Run a Prompt

Output

Send a Message

Check Status

Output

List Sessions

Stream Output (SSE)

Typical Workflow