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steerAgent

Steer Agent

Amend a QUEUED or RUNNING agent session in flight: add an instruction to a lane instead of stopping it and firing a fresh one.

write

Ask Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor or any AI connected to The Cloud "tell the agent to also…", and it calls steerAgent.

Example call

The MCP tools/call params, with the required arguments only.

{
  "arguments": {
    "conversationId": "<conversationId>",
    "instruction": "<instruction>"
  },
  "name": "steerAgent"
}

Arguments

• conversationIdstringrequiredThe agent session to steer: the conversationId from runAgent or listAgentSessions.
• instructionstringrequiredThe addendum: the extra instruction to give the lane, written as a self-contained paragraph the agent can act on. It is APPENDED to the task, not a replacement, so say what to add or change rather than restating the whole spec.

Returns

The registry does not declare a return shape.

Declared limits

• instruction: minimum length 1

Ask for it

The Cloud routes these requests to this verb.

• tell the agent to also…
• add to that agent's instructions
• amend the spec on that run
• redirect the agent
• steer it toward X

Pair it with

The verbs that finish the job.

• listAgentSessions
• runAgent
• stopAgent
• readAgentOutput

Questions

• What does steerAgent do?

  Amend a QUEUED or RUNNING agent session in flight: add an instruction to a lane instead of stopping it and firing a fresh one. It is one of the tools The Cloud MCP server gives every connected AI.

• How do I use steerAgent 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 "tell the agent to also…", and it calls steerAgent.

• Is steerAgent safe to let an AI call?

  steerAgent 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.