What lpm does, from dev servers to Claude Code and Codex

• Automatic service detection

  Add a folder or clone a repo and lpm reads its files to set up start commands, working folders, and ports. It knows Node, Python, Rails, Laravel, Phoenix, Spring, .NET, Go, Rust, Docker Compose, Procfiles, and Make or just tasks, monorepo workspaces included.

  Rule-based and offline. Runs when you add or clone a local project.

• One-click start and stop

  One button starts or stops every dev server in a project, or just a saved profile like “backend only”. lpm checks for busy ports first, and the sidebar dot turns green while it runs.

  The project sidebar
• Action buttons

  Turn tests, builds, deploys, migrations, and log tails into one-click buttons in the project header or terminal footer. A three-step wizard covers what it does, how it looks, and how it runs.

  Configuration docs

More in Projects & services

• Four ways to add a project

  Add a local folder, clone a Git repository (optionally a single branch), connect an SSH host, or start from a template.

• Project templates

  Scaffold a new project from a template that gives Claude Code, Codex, Gemini CLI, or OpenCode a prompt, or runs a setup command. A Next.js template is built in, and you can add your own.

• Services keep running after you quit

  Quit or update lpm and your dev servers stay up. Reopen it and lpm finds them again.

  In-app terminals end on quit, and nothing survives a reboot.

• Profiles

  Save named groups of services and start exactly that set. Start remembers the profile you used last.

• Toggle single services

  Start or stop any one service while the rest keep running. Services it depends on start first, in order.

• Live output with real ports

  Each service gets its own read-only output tab showing the ports it is actually listening on. The All tab shows every service side by side.

• Port conflicts, explained

  When a port is taken, lpm names the holder, whether another lpm project or a process and its PID, and can stop it and start yours in one click.

  lpm checks ports. It doesn't assign or isolate them.

• Open in the browser

  Open localhost on the port a running service is really listening on, from the sidebar, the service tab, or Activity.

• Four ways to run an action

  In a new or reused terminal, once with the output in a pop-up, typed into the current terminal, or in the background with a live card you can cancel or copy.

• Suggested actions

  Start from templates or from suggestions found in your project: package.json scripts, Makefile targets, just recipes, and Cargo, Go, and Python test commands.

• Inputs and confirmations

  An action can ask for values before it runs, such as free text, a choice, or a hidden secret, and ask you to confirm risky commands like deploys.

• Shortcuts, menus, and colors

  Give any action its own keyboard shortcut, drag actions into split buttons or dropdown menus, and style them with an emoji and a color.

• AI-drafted config and actions

  Let Claude Code, Codex, Gemini CLI, or OpenCode inspect a project and draft its services, actions, and profiles, or describe an action in plain words. Nothing is saved until you review it.

• Form or source editor

  Edit a project in a form, or switch to the source with autocomplete, inline validation, and ⌘S to save. Edits made outside lpm show up right away.

• Personal, team, and global setups

  Keep settings just for you, share them with everyone who clones the repo through a checked-in config file, or add actions and terminals to every project.

• Open in your editor

  Open a project in Cursor, VS Code, Windsurf, Zed, Xcode, WebStorm, Sublime Text, Terminal, iTerm, Ghostty, Warp, or Finder. Only apps you have installed are listed.

• Folders and work statuses

  Group projects into collapsible sidebar folders, drag to reorder, and tag projects In progress, Blocked, Review, Done, or your own emoji status.

• Fast switching

  Shortcut:⌘1–9⌃Tab⌘B

  Jump straight to a project, flip between recent ones like switching apps, and hide or resize the sidebar.

• Shortcut:⌘I

  A composer under every terminal

  Write with normal text editing and undo, press Enter to send and Shift+Enter for a new line. Hide it with ⌘I and a slim bar keeps the agent's status in view.

• @ mentions

  Reference files, folders, changed files, branches, other projects and their copies, another tab's output, a running service's logs, or saved memory sessions.

• Slash commands with hints

  Type / to see the agent's commands, your custom commands, and skills, with the expected argument shown as a gray hint once you pick one.

  Claude Code + Codex

More in Prompt composer

• Images and files

  Paste screenshots or drop files into the composer. They show as thumbnails you can preview, and become file paths the agent can read.

• Switch model and effort

  Move a running session to another model or reasoning effort from the menu next to Send, without restarting it.

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• Refine with AI

  Rewrite a prompt before sending: improve it, make it concise, fix grammar, add acceptance criteria, plan first, or use your own rewrites, with up to five versions to pick from.

  Runs through your own agent CLI and plan.

• Copy the last answer

  Copy the agent's last answer as clean text straight from the conversation, tables and markdown intact, or pick one of the 20 most recent.

  Claude Code + Codex

• Prompt tabs and drafts

  Shortcut:⌘⇧T⌘⇧W

  Keep several drafts per terminal as prompt tabs. Unsent text survives quitting, and Save as draft files a prompt away for later.

• History and favorites

  Shortcut:↑

  Press ↑ to recall earlier prompts, or search past prompts across projects, star favorites, and file them into folders.

• Send to another tab

  Send what you're writing to any other open tab, even one on a paired Mac, to run right away or wait in that tab's composer.

• Voice dictation

  Tap the mic to dictate a prompt instead of typing it.

  Uses the separate, free VoiceToText Mac app.

• Your toolbar, your way

  Choose which composer tools sit on the toolbar and which live in the More menu, or reset to the default.

• Shortcut:⌘⇧R

  Review every change

  All uncommitted changes as one scrolling diff stack beside a tree of changed files, split or unified. Edit and save in the diff, and lpm won't overwrite a file an agent changed meanwhile.

  Review changes
• AI commit messages

  Pick files, then let your installed agent CLI write a conventional-commit message from the diff. Auto Commit does it all in one click, and can push too.

  Uses Claude Code, Codex, Gemini CLI, or OpenCode on your Mac.

  Git in lpm
• Auto Create PR

  Go from uncommitted work to an open pull request in one step: a new AI-named branch if you're on the default one, a commit, a push, and a written title and description.

  GitHub + gh CLI

More in Review, Git & files

• Commit dialog

  Shortcut:⌘↩

  Tick files or whole folders, see each diff inline, discard what you don't want, then commit or commit and push.

  Whole files only; there's no line-level staging.

• Pull request dialog

  Pick a base branch, see the commits it will include, and have AI write the title and description.

  GitHub + gh CLI

• PR status in the footer

  When your branch has a pull request, the footer shows PR #N colored by state. Click it to open the PR.

  GitHub + gh CLI

• Branch switcher

  Search local and remote branches by age, check one out from the keyboard, rename or delete one, or create a branch with an AI-suggested name.

• Merge with AI conflict help

  Pick a branch to merge in. When Git reports conflicts, Resolve with AI clears the conflict markers and stages the files for your review; the commit stays yours.

• Sync, publish, pull, push

  Ahead and behind counts in the footer, one-click Publish and sync, and saved defaults like rebase on pull or force-with-lease on push.

• Your rules for AI git text

  Tell lpm how to write commit messages, PR titles and descriptions, and branch names, for every project or just one.

• Git from the sidebar

  Right-click any project to pull, push, fetch, switch branch, commit, create a PR, or discard changes without opening it.

• Files tab

  Shortcut:⌘⇧E⌘P

  A file tree with Git status colors beside a code editor with syntax highlighting. Jump to any file by name and save with ⌘S.

  A lightweight editor, not an IDE.

• Markdown, image, and video preview

  Markdown renders the way GitHub shows it, images open with zoom, and videos play inline.

• Open at the exact line

  Send a file to Cursor, VS Code, Windsurf, Zed, Sublime Text, or WebStorm at the same line and column.

• Always current

  Branch, counts, changed files, and diffs refresh on their own as you or an agent edit, commit, or switch branches.

• Multiple Claude Code accounts

  Add work, personal, or client Claude accounts, sign each in, and pin one per project so its sessions use the right subscription.

  Automations use your default Claude login.

  Claude Code onlyMultiple accounts
• Status line designer

  Build the line under Claude Code from presets or drag-and-drop items like model, branch, context left, and usage meters, and pick Codex's footer fields the same way.

  Claude Code + CodexStatus lines
• Shortcut:⌘⇧K

  Skills & tools inspector

  See the MCP servers, skills, plugins, subagents, commands, instruction files, and hooks an agent will load in a folder, with clashes flagged and a context-size estimate.

  Claude Code + CodexSkills & tools

More in Accounts, skills & memory

• Write agent skills

  Create, edit, or delete skills in a form, or describe one and let AI draft it for you to review.

  Skill authoring

• Shared session memory

  Shortcut:⌘⇧M

  Agents save named work sessions with a goal, current state, and timeline, and any agent or a later session can pick one up by name.

  Needs lpm's agent skills installed.

  Install the agent skills

• Encrypted project notes

  Shortcut:⌘⇧N

  A private notes space per project, organized as chats with attachments and search, encrypted on disk with the key in your Keychain. Agents don't read them.

• Live terminals

  Open any terminal running on your Mac and watch it live with 10,000 lines of scrollback. Tap to type into it, with extra keys for Esc, Tab, Ctrl-C, and the arrows.

• Push notifications

  Get a push when an agent waits for you, finishes, or errors, and optionally when automations run. Content is encrypted on your Mac and only your phone can read it.

  Agent alerts come from Claude Code and Codex.

• A real prompt composer

  Multi-line prompts land as one message, with photos, files, / commands, and @ mentions. Drafts sync with the same terminal on your Mac.

More in lpm link for iPhone

• Agent status and Activity

  See each project's agents as Needs you, Working, Done, or Problem, and one Activity list of agents, automations, and running services.

• Start, stop, and run actions

  Start a project or a profile, toggle single services, read service logs, and run actions with their inputs and confirmations.

• Review and ship

  Review uncommitted diffs, commit chosen files with an AI-written message, pull, push, switch branches, and open a GitHub pull request.

• Ask an agent about a diff

  From any changed file, send an instruction plus that file's diff to an agent terminal.

• Copies from your phone

  Make 1 to 50 folder copies with an optional task in each, or hold down Send to fan one prompt out 2 to 10 ways.

• Automations on the go

  Create, edit, run, pause, and reply to automations, and read each run as a conversation.

• Usage, stats, notes, memory

  Check Claude and Codex plan limits and token stats, and read or write project notes and memory sessions.

• Easy pairing

  Scan a QR code, tap a nearby Mac and match a code, or type the details in. Pair several Macs and Linux servers and switch between them.

• Home and away

  Keep a home address and a Tailscale address for each machine; the app connects to whichever answers.

  Your Mac has to be awake.

• Manage terminal tabs

  Open a new terminal, and rename, pin, reorder, or close tabs from your phone.

  Needs the lpm window open on your Mac.

• iPhone and iPad

  Runs on iPhone and iPad in portrait or landscape, with eight terminal themes and adjustable font size.

• Try the demo

  Explore sample projects, terminals, agents, and diffs before pairing anything.

• Free and open source

  MIT-licensed, with the source and every release on GitHub. No account, no sign-up, no paid tier.

• No telemetry in the apps

  The Mac app, the CLI, and the iPhone app include no analytics or crash reporting. The Mac app checks GitHub for updates; otherwise the apps go online only for features you turn on and things you start.

  Paired-iPhone pushes pass through lpm's relay, encrypted.

• Signed and notarized

  Each macOS release is Developer ID signed and notarized by Apple, in one build for Apple Silicon and one for Intel.

More in Privacy, platform & updates

• One-click updates

  lpm checks for a new version at launch and daily. Click Update and it relaunches in place while your services keep running.

• Clean uninstall

  Remove app stops your projects, removes the CLI, skills, and agent hooks it added, and moves lpm to the Trash. Your project folders are left alone.

• Backup and transfer

  Export your projects and settings and import them on another Mac, and back up the key that encrypts your notes.

• Searchable settings

  Find any setting by name, choose Light, Dark, or System, and set a default folder for new projects.

• Rebindable shortcuts

  Shortcut:⌘⇧A⌘⌥←⌘⌥→

  Rebind the Activity and tab-switching shortcuts. lpm refuses combinations that are already taken.

• Zoom any viewer

  Shortcut:⌘+⌘−⌘0

  Make text bigger in the file viewer, diffs, review screens, Memory, and Automations. Each one remembers its own zoom.

• Close to the Dock

  Closing the window hides lpm so terminals and agent status keep going. The Dock menu lists every project and whether it's running.

• Crash recovery

  If the interface ever crashes, a recovery screen reloads it and can copy diagnostics to your clipboard. Nothing is uploaded.

• Support and feedback

  A guided form opens a pre-filled GitHub issue with your version attached. Nothing is sent until you submit it.

A Mac

macOS 12 or later; pick the Apple Silicon or the Intel download.

AI coding agents

Claude Code, Codex, Gemini CLI, or OpenCode, installed and signed in by you. lpm doesn't bundle them, and they run under your own accounts.

Git and GitHub

Git for review and commits. Pull request features also need the GitHub CLI (gh), signed in.

iPhone or iPad

The free lpm link app, paired with a Mac or Linux host that is awake and running lpm.

Linux host

An x86_64 server on Ubuntu 22.04 or newer, reachable over key-based SSH as root or a user with passwordless sudo.

Away from home

Tailscale on both devices, or another network route you set up. lpm has no cloud relay for terminals.