DDEV Operations

Why: DDEV is the local stack behind most PHP agency sites, and it fails quietly: a default that moved under an unpinned project, a key it silently ignores, one developer's setting committed for the whole team.

Versions verified 2026-10-05 against DDEV v1.25.4. Fast-moving facts (defaults, PHP and Node.js end-of-life floors, built-in command names) live once in assets/ddev-facts.json; scripts/check-ddev-facts.py --offline fails if this skill's prose and that file disagree, and --live (weekly) fails when DDEV moves.

Start here

1. Read the project before changing it: .ddev/config.yaml, any config.*.yaml, ls -a .ddev/, then ddev describe (URLs, ports, services) and ddev version.
2. Audit it. From the skill folder (the launcher finds a working Python 3.8+, which matters on Windows where python3 is often a Store stub):