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Summon Your Daemons

A devilishly good process manager for developers

Raise the Dead

Start daemons only if they're not already running. No more duplicate processes haunting your system.

Automatic restarts on failure with configurable retry limits and exponential backoff. Your daemons will rise again.

Smart ready checks via delay, output patterns, HTTP endpoints, TCP ports, or custom commands. Know when your daemon is truly alive.

Auto-start daemons when entering a project directory, auto-stop when leaving. Seamless possession.

Declare daemon dependencies for automatic topological start ordering and parallel execution within each level.

Auto-restart daemons when source files change. Glob patterns with debouncing keep your dev loop tight.

Cron-style scheduling for periodic tasks with configurable retrigger modes (finish, always, success, fail).

Peer into the abyss with a terminal TUI or web dashboard. Vim keybindings for the devoted, browser for the casual summoner.

Built-in MCP server lets AI assistants (Claude, Cursor) manage your daemons — start, stop, restart, and read logs.

Enforce memory and CPU limits per daemon. Transient spike protection with consecutive-sample thresholds.

Run as PID 1 inside Docker with zombie reaping and graceful signal forwarding. Production-grade container entrypoint.

Run commands on ready, fail, retry, stop, and exit events. Fire-and-forget with environment variable injection.