# Controlling the Monty agent live with \`tbp.teleop\` **URL:** https://forum.thousandbrains.org/t/controlling-the-monty-agent-live-with-tbp-teleop/1151 **Category:** Projects **Created:** [July 1, 2026, 11:19pm UTC](https://forum.thousandbrains.org/t/controlling-the-monty-agent-live-with-tbp-teleop/1151 "2026-07-01T23:19:23Z") **Posts on this page:** 1 **Page:** 1
### Author: ![rmounir](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forum.thousandbrains.org/rmounir/32/268_2.png) [@rmounir](https://forum.thousandbrains.org/u/rmounir) #### Post date: [July 1, 2026, 11:19pm UTC](https://forum.thousandbrains.org/t/controlling-the-monty-agent-live-with-tbp-teleop/1151/1 "2026-07-01T23:19:23Z")
Hi everyone! Sharing another companion tool for Monty: `tbp.teleop`. It lets you watch a training or inference experiment run live, and if you want, take over and drive the sensor around the object yourself. ![teleop](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/uploads/thousandbrains/original/2X/3/35ae854fab43ef0577687307d2952dff87014ce8.gif) `tbp.plot` is for visualizing the logs after a run. This one is for watching the run happen live and controlling the agent actions. It is attached as an experiment step hook. Two hooks are provided as a Hydra hooks config group: - `monitor`: just watch and set the experiment speed. - `interactive`: watch and teleoperate, choosing the agent’s action at each step. Add one to your experiment’s defaults (`/hooks: [monitor|interactive]`), or pick it at run time as a Hydra override: ```zsh python run.py -cd src/tbp/teleop/conf experiment=example +hooks=interactive # or +hooks=monitor ``` In monitor mode there’s a speed slider. In interactive mode you get a little D-pad around the patch instead (WASD or arrow keys for the four headings, space to jump when the model offers one, delete to end the episode), plus a slider to control the action step size. Repo: [GitHub - thousandbrainsproject/tbp.teleop: Visualize and teleoperate a Monty experiment in real-time · GitHub](https://github.com/thousandbrainsproject/tbp.teleop) Give it a try and let me know what you think. Ideas for improvements and PRs are very welcome!