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Thanks for the explanation, official repo doesn't make it clear enough for me.

So, did I understand correctly, that Pico installs both an agent on the remote machine and a commit hook on the local machine? Why didn't they minimize the overhead by just making the remote machine a Git remote and do all the work there when you push a specific branch to that remote?

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You’re confusing things, there is only the remote, the local machine doesn’t need anything. We do have a simple CLI you can run locally, but all it does is ssh remote <command> to scale up/down workers, change settings, etc.

Thanks for clarifying!

piku installs an agent on the remote machine (piku.py) which itself also provides the support for making that machine a git remote.

There is no commit hook on the local machine. On the local machine, you simply have a shim named "piku" which is essentially running "ssh remote /path/to/piku.py $@" to control the remote machine.

Thanks for clarifying!

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