Your own server and scheduled tasks

What you need

• An x86-64 server with Ubuntu 22.04+ or Debian 12+ and systemd, with SSH access as root or with sudo.
• A public IPv4 address and a free inbound TCP port 443, open both in the server firewall and at the hosting provider. Outbound HTTPS.
• Memory: 2 GB of RAM or more is recommended. With 1 GB the server works only with at least 2 GB of swap and one active agent turn.
• Liho Cowork on your computer and a Liho LLM account. No domain and no Docker are needed.

Steps

1. Copy the install command

   In Cowork, open settings → “Servers” → “Add server” and click “Copy installation command”. It is the same command for every server:

   Install Liho ServerCopy

   curl -fsSL https://dl-cowork.liho.dev/server/install.sh | sudo bash

2. Run it on the server

   Connect to the server over SSH and run the command. The bootstrap checks the installer’s checksum before running it. The installer detects the IP address, creates the service and certificate, and installs the agent engine and a browser. It asks nothing about models, folders or domains. It prints five stages: Check server, Install Liho Server, Start and verify services, Authorize with Liho, Link Cowork.

3. Confirm the server in the browser

   At the authorization stage the terminal prints an HTTPS link. Open it on your computer, sign in to the same Liho account you use in Cowork, compare the IP address and the certificate fingerprint, and click “Connect server”. Keep the terminal open until the installation finishes.

   The server gets its own Liho LLM key; the app’s key is never sent to the server. If the link expired or the installation was interrupted, run sudo liho-server enroll on the server.

4. Choose the server for a task

   The server appears under “Servers” in Cowork for the same account. In a new task, open “Execution location” and pick it instead of “This computer”. If you open a local project folder, Cowork copies it to the server once, after you confirm, and from then on the project lives there.

5. Create a scheduled task

   Go to “Scheduled” → “New task”. Fill in “Name” and “What to do”, choose the server as the execution location, the model and the tools. Under “When to run” pick “On an interval”, “Every day”, “Weekdays”, “Every week” or “Manually”, set the time and time zone, and click “Create task”.

   Example: “What to do”Copy

   Open the pages listed in sources.txt, write prices and availability into prices.csv, add a column with the change since last week and briefly list what changed.

   Use the “Auto” approval mode for schedules: if the agent waits for an approval, a run without you may never finish.

6. Check the first run

   “Run now” starts the task at once. Every run opens a new chat, and the results stay in the project folder on the server. You can download single files or a copy of the whole project from Cowork; the local original is never overwritten. Questions the agent asked while you were away wait under “Decisions”.

7. Maintain the server

   Liho Server updates itself and postpones updates while work is running. For maintenance there are these commands:

   Liho Server commandsCopy

   sudo liho-server status      # service status
   sudo liho-server connection  # connection details
   sudo liho-server enroll      # repeat the browser confirmation
   sudo liho-server restart     # restart the services
   sudo liho-server uninstall   # remove, keeping the projects

What you get

• A server under “Servers” in Cowork, available for new tasks.
• A task that runs on schedule on the server, even when Cowork is closed and your computer is off.
• A separate chat and files in the server project folder for every run.

Next

• Where tasks run
• Liho Cowork
• Collect data from documents into a table
• Security and access