Zashiki Warashi — localhost control plane for macOS

Zashiki Warashi: indigo noren parted to reveal the app keeping localhost projects tidy

Zashiki Warashi

座敷童子 — a house spirit that looks after the place.

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What it keeps

A machine-local catalog of your projects, one-button start/stop via your login shell, Compose/DB peek, and deep-links into Cursor, Finder, and Compass. Glue for tools you already have — not a Docker GUI, not Portainer, not a folder bookmark.

Scheduled jobs too: scripts run on launchd with the app closed, wait for Wi-Fi after wake, and keep logs and run history.

How it works

  1. Add a folder or scan roots.
  2. Select a project → Start / Stop / Restart.
  3. Peek the Stack, copy a URI, open Compass for mongo.

What you need

macOS. Docker Desktop or OrbStack for Compose stacks. Builds are unsigned for now — first open may need right-click → Open, or xattr -dr com.apple.quarantine on the app.

座敷童子

Named after the house spirit that looks after the place. Observe existing repos. Keep overrides in app data. Do not require per-repo YAML.

More rooms

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