port-daddy-cli

Authoritative port management daemon for multi-agent development. Provides atomic port assignment, pub/sub messaging, distributed locks, and agent registry — all backed by SQLite on localhost:9876.

| myapp:api:main | Main API server for myapp | | myapp:frontend:feature-auth | Frontend on feature branch | | myapp:worker | Background worker (2-part is valid) | | blog | Simple project name (1-part is valid) |

Pattern queries work with globs: myapp: matches all services for myapp.

Manage local dev server ports, coordinate multi-agent workflows with pub/sub messaging, distributed locks, and agent registry via Port Daddy daemon. Use when claiming ports, resolving port conflicts, coordinating agents, or setting up project port configs. Activate on "port conflict", "claim port", "get-port", "port-daddy", "agent coordination", "distributed lock", "pub/sub", "dev server port". NOT for production deployment, Docker networking, cloud infrastructure, or CI/CD pipelines. Source: curiositech/port-daddy.