# treadiehq/port-kill

Port Kill helps you find and free ports and caches blocking your dev work.

Repository: https://github.com/treadiehq/port-kill
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/port-kill
Homepage: https://portkill.com
Language: Rust
License: NOASSERTION
License Family: other
Last push: 2026-04-03T22:59:37+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 62/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-03T02:39:23.370411+00:00)
- activity 75, release rhythm 65, longevity 26
- inputs: {"age_days": 374, "days_push": 152, "days_rel": 152, "gap_med": 0.0, "n_releases_24m": 97}
- flags: no_license
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 2036, forks 55 (observed 2026-08-28T04:06:08.111844+00:00)

## What it is
Port Kill is a Rust-based CLI and macOS status bar app that finds and kills processes blocking development ports, and also manages dev caches and orchestrates services. It works across macOS, Linux, and Windows, locally or over SSH.

## Use cases
- kill the process blocking port 3000
- find which process is using a port
- clear stale build caches from my dev machine
- restart a dev server automatically after killing its port
- manage multiple dev services with a config file
- monitor dev ports in a macOS menu bar

## When to choose
- you frequently hit 'port already in use' errors during development
- you want a cross-platform CLI plus a macOS status bar app
- you need simple multi-service orchestration and cache cleanup in one tool

## When to avoid
- you need production-grade process management or init systems like systemd
- you only need a one-off kill command already covered by lsof/kill
- you require a GUI on Linux or Windows

## Facets
- artifact type: cli-tool
- maturity: active
- function: cli, developer-tools, monitoring, workflow-automation
- domain: developer-tools
- platform: windows, cli
- tags: port-management, process-killer, cache-cleanup, status-bar, service-orchestration, rust, command-line, devops, macos, linux

## Member repositories
- treadiehq/port-kill (main) score 62

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:06:08.111844+00:00.
- Health v2: computed from the inputs above; adoption is never an input.
- Inferred fields (summary, facets, guidance): AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, on 2026-08-30T02:59:20.674220+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/treadiehq/port-kill (fetched 2026-08-28T04:06:08.111844+00:00, sha 08c62d08c2d1)
  - homepage: https://portkill.com (fetched 2026-08-29T10:38:59.551386+00:00, sha 52a888d0705d)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.