watchfire daemon

Manage the Watchfire daemon (watchfired).

Usage

watchfire daemon <subcommand>

Subcommands

daemon start

Start the daemon process.

watchfire daemon start

Starts watchfired if it's not already running. This is usually not needed — the daemon is started automatically when you run any project-scoped command.

daemon status

Show daemon status information.

watchfire daemon status

Displays the daemon's host, port, PID, uptime, and number of active agent sessions.

daemon stop

Stop the daemon.

watchfire daemon stop

Sends a SIGTERM to the daemon process, gracefully shutting it down. All active agent sessions will be terminated.

Notes

• The daemon starts automatically when you run commands like watchfire run, watchfire wildfire, or launch the TUI
• Multiple CLI/TUI instances can connect to the same daemon simultaneously
• If the daemon shuts down, all connected CLI/TUI instances will close
• The daemon manages all projects registered in ~/.watchfire/projects.yaml

Examples

# Check if the daemon is running
watchfire daemon status

# Manually start the daemon
watchfire daemon start

# Stop the daemon
watchfire daemon stop