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+I haven't found anything on this, is there a way to do local pairing without starting the assistant (ideally from the CLI)?
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+The assistant is pretty heavy, does lots of stuff automatically I might not want it to in many situations (commit, sync) and a GUI is often more cumbersome than a CLI in my experience.
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+The main use-case would be for headless systems where I might want to give a user/machine access to an annex repo without granting them full access to the system.