Agents & Machines
kickDaemon
Kick Daemon
Restart, roll back, or install a release of the MachineSync daemon on one of your machines, out of band through that box's watchdog (so.thecloud.watchdog), a second tiny process that keeps beating…
Ask Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor or any AI connected to The Cloud "kick the daemon", and it calls kickDaemon.
Example call
The MCP tools/call params, with the required arguments only.
{
"arguments": {
"machineId": "<machineId>"
},
"name": "kickDaemon"
}Arguments
actionstringoptionalWhat the watchdog does: "restart" (default), "rollback" to the previous binary, or "install" the named release.machineIdstringrequiredWhich machine's daemon to kick (machineId from listMachines).releasestringoptionalThe release tag to install, e.g. "daemon-v0.1.182". Only with action "install".
Returns
The registry does not declare a return shape.
Ask for it
The Cloud routes these requests to this verb.
- kick the daemon
- revive the mini
- roll the daemon back
- install daemon-v0.1.182 on the mini
- the machine is offline but the watchdog is alive
Pair it with
The verbs that finish the job.
Questions
What does kickDaemon do?
Restart, roll back, or install a release of the MachineSync daemon on one of your machines, out of band through that box's watchdog (so.thecloud.watchdog), a second tiny process that keeps beating… It is one of the tools The Cloud MCP server gives every connected AI.
How do I use kickDaemon from Claude or ChatGPT?
Connect your AI to The Cloud at https://mcp.thecloud.so/mcp and sign in once. Then ask Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor or any AI connected to The Cloud "kick the daemon", and it calls kickDaemon.
Is kickDaemon safe to let an AI call?
kickDaemon changes your workspace. What an AI creates is Private until you share it.
Connect
One endpoint gives your AI this tool and every other one: connect Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor or Gemini, read what The Cloud is, or see pricing.