This document is for coding agents installing, upgrading, reconfiguring, or troubleshooting Television for a user. Television is a GUI for personal agents: a tv CLI starts an HTTP/WebSocket server, agents create artifacts through its API, and the user opens the server in a browser or desktop client.
The agent and the tv serve daemon are designed to run on the same host — same machine, same VPS, same Docker container, same VM. Only the browser client is meant to reach across a network. See Co-location requirement below.
The supported operating model for agents is simple: install the tv CLI, install the Television skills, install the persistent Television daemon, verify it with tv status, and tell the user the URL plus whether a token is required.
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