tota up

If tota is already running, tota up just confirms it and shows the PID. If the service isn't installed yet, it installs it first, then starts the daemon.

Start (background daemon)

tota start

Starts tota as a background daemon by default. Telegram becomes your primary interface. Logs go to ~/.tota/daemon.log. Stale PID files are auto-cleaned. Includes crash recovery with exponential backoff.

Foreground (interactive)

tota start --foreground

Runs tota attached to your terminal with a readline prompt. Press Ctrl+C to exit. All conversation happens in your terminal with real-time text streaming and markdown rendering. Shorthand: tota start -f.

When running in background mode, you can stop it with:

tota stop

Verbose logging

Add --verbose to any start command to see debug logs on stderr:

tota start --verbose