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Matt Kane

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Matt Kane

I've found agents are really bad at managing long-running processes like dev servers, so I made a bgproc, a little tool to help them. Start and stop them, find open ports, get logs, avoid duplicates. github.com/ascorbic/bgp...

# Start a process
bgproc start -n myserver -- npm run dev

bgproc status myserver
# {"name":"myserver","pid":12345,"running":true,"port":3000,...}

bgproc logs myserver

bgproc list

bgproc stop myserver
January 28, 2026 at 9:25 PM UTC