# Hoista

> Connect your hosting accounts once. Manage your projects from Desktop, the CLI or your agents.

- [What is Hoista?](https://docs.hoista.dev/index.md): The control plane between your AI agents and your infrastructure.
- [Install Hoista](https://docs.hoista.dev/getting-started/install.md): Install the CLI, the daemon and Desktop.
- [Quickstart](https://docs.hoista.dev/getting-started/quickstart.md): Connect a provider and add or deploy your first project.
- [How Hoista works](https://docs.hoista.dev/getting-started/concepts.md): Accounts, projects, resources and the daemon that connects them.
- [Use Hoista Desktop](https://docs.hoista.dev/guides/desktop.md): Find your way around Desktop and its settings.
- [Connect hosting accounts](https://docs.hoista.dev/guides/accounts.md): Connect, check, rotate and disconnect provider accounts.
- [Bring in an existing project](https://docs.hoista.dev/guides/import-apps.md): Add projects that already run on your providers, without moving or redeploying them.
- [Plan and deploy](https://docs.hoista.dev/guides/deploy.md): Review a deployment plan, deploy it, follow it and roll back.
- [Logs, metrics and activity](https://docs.hoista.dev/guides/logs.md): Read logs and metrics from your providers, and see what agents did.
- [Variables and domains](https://docs.hoista.dev/guides/environment.md): Set environment variables and secrets, and add custom domains.
- [Environments](https://docs.hoista.dev/guides/environments.md): Keep projects in separate spaces, such as default and production.
- [Billing](https://docs.hoista.dev/guides/billing.md): See what every connected provider has billed you this period.
- [Manage resources](https://docs.hoista.dev/guides/resources.md): Restart, stop, pause, export and delete individual resources.
- [Investigate a failed deployment](https://docs.hoista.dev/examples/failed-deployment.md): Find where a deployment failed, fix it and check the result.
- [Connect your agent](https://docs.hoista.dev/agents/connect.md): Connect a coding tool or chat app to Hoista's MCP server.
- [Agent permissions](https://docs.hoista.dev/agents/permissions.md): Choose what each agent can do, and pause or revoke its access.
- [Useful prompts](https://docs.hoista.dev/agents/prompts.md): Requests to give an agent for checking, fixing and deploying projects.
- [Claude Code](https://docs.hoista.dev/agents/tools/claude-code.md): Add Hoista to Claude Code with one command.
- [Codex](https://docs.hoista.dev/agents/tools/codex.md): Add Hoista to OpenAI Codex, in the CLI or the IDE extension.
- [Cursor](https://docs.hoista.dev/agents/tools/cursor.md): Add Hoista as an MCP server in Cursor.
- [Windsurf](https://docs.hoista.dev/agents/tools/windsurf.md): Add Hoista as an MCP server in Windsurf.
- [VS Code (GitHub Copilot)](https://docs.hoista.dev/agents/tools/vscode.md): Add Hoista to GitHub Copilot in VS Code.
- [ChatGPT](https://docs.hoista.dev/agents/tools/chatgpt.md): Connect ChatGPT to your Hoista with a custom MCP app.
- [Claude](https://docs.hoista.dev/agents/tools/claude.md): Connect Claude on the web, desktop or mobile to your Hoista.
- [Grok](https://docs.hoista.dev/agents/tools/grok.md): Connect Grok to your Hoista with a custom connector.
- [Gemini](https://docs.hoista.dev/agents/tools/gemini.md): Connect the Gemini app to your Hoista as a custom app.
- [Hermes Agent](https://docs.hoista.dev/agents/tools/hermes.md): Connect Hermes Agent to Hoista and give it a daily job.
- [Keep Hoista running](https://docs.hoista.dev/guides/daemon.md): The hoistd daemon and starting it when you sign in.
- [Run Hoista in your cloud](https://docs.hoista.dev/guides/remote.md): Set up a remote, sign this computer in and move your projects to it.
- [Self-host Hoista](https://docs.hoista.dev/guides/self-host.md): Run Hoista on a Mac mini, a home server or a VPS of yours, and connect to it from anywhere.
- [Backups and recovery](https://docs.hoista.dev/guides/backups.md): Back up Hoista, move it to a new computer and resolve changes with an unknown result.
- [Webhooks](https://docs.hoista.dev/guides/webhooks.md): Send signed events to a receiver you run, such as a background agent.
- [Security overview](https://docs.hoista.dev/security/overview.md): Where your tokens live, what agents can reach and what you approve.
- [Credentials](https://docs.hoista.dev/security/credentials.md): Where provider tokens are stored, and how to keep them in 1Password.
- [Agent sign-in and approvals](https://docs.hoista.dev/security/approvals.md): How agents connect to Hoista and what you approve before an action runs.
- [Remote runtime](https://docs.hoista.dev/security/remote-runtime.md): How a remote keeps provider tokens away from the process agents talk to.
- [Build isolation](https://docs.hoista.dev/security/builds.md): How Hoista runs your project's build code and checks it for secrets.
- [Data protection](https://docs.hoista.dev/security/data-protection.md): Where Hoista keeps sensitive data and how to handle backups, exports and reports.
- [Threat model and limits](https://docs.hoista.dev/security/limits.md): What Hoista protects against, what you still trust and what it can't do.
- [If something looks wrong](https://docs.hoista.dev/security/incident-response.md): A checklist for a leaked token, a lost device or an agent you don't trust.
- [Supported platforms](https://docs.hoista.dev/getting-started/support.md): Operating systems, providers and where to start when something breaks.
- [Changelog](https://docs.hoista.dev/changelog.md): What changed in each Hoista release.
- [Overview](https://docs.hoista.dev/providers/overview.md): The providers Hoista works with and what each one supports.
- [Cloudflare](https://docs.hoista.dev/providers/cloudflare.md): Connect a Cloudflare account to deploy Workers and manage its storage and zones.
- [Vercel](https://docs.hoista.dev/providers/vercel.md): Connect a Vercel team to watch and manage its projects.
- [Railway](https://docs.hoista.dev/providers/railway.md): Connect a Railway workspace to deploy and manage its services and databases.
- [Fly.io](https://docs.hoista.dev/providers/fly.md): Connect a Fly.io organization to deploy and manage apps and Machines.
- [Render](https://docs.hoista.dev/providers/render.md): Connect a Render workspace to manage web services, workers, cron jobs, Postgres and Key Value.
- [Neon](https://docs.hoista.dev/providers/neon.md): Connect a Neon organization to find and create Postgres databases.
- [Supabase](https://docs.hoista.dev/providers/supabase.md): Connect a Supabase organization to watch its projects and create new ones.
- [Runpod](https://docs.hoista.dev/providers/runpod.md): Connect a Runpod account to manage pods, Serverless endpoints and network volumes.
- [Modal](https://docs.hoista.dev/providers/modal.md): Connect a Modal workspace to manage its apps and volumes.
- [Resend](https://docs.hoista.dev/providers/resend.md): Connect a Resend team to manage sending domains and see plan usage.
- [GitHub](https://docs.hoista.dev/providers/github.md): Connect GitHub so projects can be linked to their repositories.
- [Overview](https://docs.hoista.dev/cli/overview.md): The hoist command line: install it, global flags, scripts and completion.
- [Projects](https://docs.hoista.dev/cli/projects.md): hoist commands for projects.
- [Resources and databases](https://docs.hoista.dev/cli/resources.md): hoist commands for resources and databases.
- [Deploying](https://docs.hoista.dev/cli/deploying.md): hoist commands for deploying.
- [Variables and domains](https://docs.hoista.dev/cli/variables.md): hoist commands for variables and domains.
- [Watching](https://docs.hoista.dev/cli/watching.md): hoist commands for watching.
- [Accounts and providers](https://docs.hoista.dev/cli/accounts.md): hoist commands for accounts and providers.
- [Environments](https://docs.hoista.dev/cli/environments.md): hoist commands for environments.
- [Remotes](https://docs.hoista.dev/cli/remotes.md): hoist commands for remotes.
- [Agents](https://docs.hoista.dev/cli/agents.md): hoist commands for agents.
- [Safety and upkeep](https://docs.hoista.dev/cli/upkeep.md): hoist commands for safety and upkeep.
- [This computer](https://docs.hoista.dev/cli/this-computer.md): hoist commands for this computer.
- [MCP server](https://docs.hoista.dev/reference/mcp.md): How agents connect to Hoista's MCP server and which tools to start with.
- [MCP tool catalog](https://docs.hoista.dev/reference/mcp-tools.md): Tools available through the Hoista MCP server.
- [HTTP API](https://docs.hoista.dev/reference/api.md): The API the desktop app and hoist use, and what to use instead to script Hoista.
- [Configuration](https://docs.hoista.dev/reference/configuration.md): The state folder, settings, tool paths and environment variables Hoista reads.


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