Runs without a terminal.

Background Daemon

A POSIX daemon (Linux/macOS) that runs persistent services, cron-scheduled jobs, and one-shot AI tasks without requiring an open terminal. It handles process lifecycle with crash recovery, atomic state writes, PID file management, and log rotation. Schedule recurring AI tasks like dependency audits, test runs, or report generation.

See it in action

How it works

1. 1

   The daemon forks into the background on 'kognisant daemon start'. It maintains a PID file and responds to SIGTERM for clean shutdown.

2. 2

   Jobs are defined with type (one-shot, scheduled, persistent) and execution config. Scheduled jobs use standard cron syntax.

3. 3

   State is written atomically (write to temp file → rename) to prevent corruption on crash. Recovery restores the last known good state.

4. 4

   Logs are rotated automatically. Each job gets its own log file with configurable retention.

Key capabilities

Use cases

• Run dependency audits weekly
• Execute test suites on every git push
• Generate daily reports from project data
• Monitor external APIs for uptime
• Run lint checks on a schedule

Commands