Commands
tares factory help prints the same list in your terminal.
Plan and build
| Command | What it does |
|---|---|
tares factory spec "<idea>" | Plan a project with Claude Code and hand it to the crew. Run it in the repo it builds on, or a folder of its repos. |
tares factory spec "<project>" | On a project someone else leads: answer their questions about your repos. |
tares factory session [<project> | [--new] "<idea>"] | Work on a project in your own Claude Code session, or plan a small one and build it there. Takes a project over from the crew on your yes. |
tares factory projects | Every project handed to the crew: progress, the milestone it is on, its builders and repos. |
tares factory finish <project> ["<words>"] | Mark a project done yourself. |
The crew
| Command | What it does |
|---|---|
tares factory crew up [--yes] [--no-watch] | Start the crew and the watch. The first run asks the crew settings. |
tares factory crew attach <role|station> | Open a station in this terminal. Answer the crew in the orchestrator. |
tares factory crew status | The stations, the questions for you, and a line per project. |
tares factory crew desk | The questions waiting for you, each in full. |
tares factory crew logs <role|station> | A station’s recent output. |
tares factory crew watch [--once] | Bring back stations that stopped. crew up runs it in the background. |
tares factory crew update [--wait <seconds>] | Move every station onto the Claude Code installed now, each when it is idle. |
tares factory crew restart [--wait <seconds>] | The same, for stations that already run it too. |
tares factory crew halt ["<reason>"] | Stop merges, pushes and new sessions on every station. |
tares factory crew resume | Lift a halt. |
tares factory crew freeze | Keep the crew on today’s plugin. The watch moves no station onto a newer one. |
tares factory crew unfreeze | Lift the freeze. |
tares factory crew down | Stop the watch and every station. Tares keeps the projects, tickets and answers. |
Stations
| Command | What it does |
|---|---|
tares factory restart <role|station> [--fresh] | Restart one station with fresh settings, in the same conversation, or a new one with --fresh. |
tares factory retire <station> | End a station. |
tares factory settings <station> [<role>] | Print the settings a station starts with. |
tares factory context <role|station> | Read how full a station’s context is, for the Crew page. |
tares factory plan | Read your Claude plan’s limits, for the Crew page. The watch does it every 10 minutes. |
tares factory doctor | Check everything the crew needs. Troubleshooting |
Environment
| Variable | Default | What it sets |
|---|---|---|
TARESD_URL | the workspace tares login saved, else http://127.0.0.1:8787 | The Tares the crew uses. |
TARES_AUTH_TOKEN | the saved login’s key | The key the crew uses on a Tares with auth on. |
TARES_FACTORY_MCP_URL | http://127.0.0.1:8788/mcp for a local Tares, else TARESD_URL plus /mcp | The endpoint every crew session shares. |
FACTORY_CREW_HOME | ~/factory | The crew’s own folder. |
FACTORY_CREW_NAME | crew | The crew’s name, saved as crew_name in crew.json on the first start. |
The other tares commands, such as tares up, tares login and tares mcp, are in the
CLI reference.
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