shep

shep is a process manager written in Rust. One binary runs a daemon called the

shepherd, which keeps a flock of your long-running processes alive, restarts them

when they die, captures what they print, and says plainly when something is wrong.

It also restarts on file changes, on a cron schedule, or over a memory limit, ships

a terminal dashboard, and can alert a webhook when a process misbehaves.

Three things it will not do on Windows. `shep startup` is not built, because

boot-time supervision there means a Service Control Manager service rather than

another unit template. There is nothing SIGTERM-shaped that can be delivered to an

arbitrary process, so `shep stop` waits out the process's whole kill_timeout unless

the app opts into the shepherd channel. The user and group Flockfile fields refuse

permanently.

Only shep.exe is linked onto PATH. The archive also carries shep-runtime.exe and

shep-dev.exe, which are container entrypoint aliases with no desktop use case.