gob – command-line process manager

gob is a command-line process manager designed for developers and AI coding agents to run, monitor, and control background processes through a shared interface.

It combines a daemon-backed CLI with an interactive terminal interface. Processes are organised by project directory, while logs, status information, listening ports, and execution history remain accessible to both humans and coding agents.

This is free and open source software.

Key Features

• Run commands synchronously or launch them as background jobs.
• Interactive full-screen terminal interface with real-time job status.
• Stream standard output and error logs in real time.
• Start, stop, restart, remove, or send signals to processes.
• Share a consistent view of processes with AI coding agents.
• Scope jobs to individual project directories.
• Inspect listening ports across a job’s process tree.
• Store persistent job state and execution history using SQLite.
• Detect potentially stuck jobs without terminating them.
• Prevent agents from running commands marked as blocked.
• Automatically launch project jobs defined in a Gobfile.
• Generate shell completions for Bash, Zsh, and Fish.
• Cross-platform support – runs under Linux and macOS on AMD64 and ARM64 systems.

Website: github.com/juanibiapina/gob
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Developer: Juan Ibiapina
License: MIT License

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