overmind-dev

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SKILL.md

Overmind for Development

Overmind is a tmux-based process manager. Key advantage over Foreman: daemon mode, individual process restart, and interactive debugging via overmind connect.

Requires tmux (installed automatically by brew install overmind on macOS).

Setup Checklist

  1. Procfile.dev at project root — one service per line (name: command)
  2. bin/dev — bash wrapper with subcommands (start, stop, restart, status, logs, help)
  3. .overmind.env — socket path + recommended settings
  4. tmp/.keep — tracked by git; .gitignore has /tmp/* + !/tmp/.keep

.overmind.env — Recommended Settings

OVERMIND_SOCKET=tmp/overmind.sock
OVERMIND_NO_PORT=1
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