Image: Grove
Why it mattersA team stops finding two dev servers on the same port because the agent and the developer now share one list of running processes with the same logs and the same stop button.
Grove launched on Product Hunt today: a macOS menu bar app, CLI and MCP server that share one list of terminal processes between the developer and any AI coding agent connected to the machine. The problem it names is the one that appears as a port collision or an old process a person has to search through terminal tabs to find, because the agent started a dev server the developer already had running.
One list of processes
Grove reads whatever project the developer opens and detects scripts from package.json, deno.json, pyproject.toml, Cargo.toml, go.mod, Makefile, and a project-level .grove/scripts.json, without a configuration step. Once a script is running, its logs, its port, its status and its stop control show up in the menu bar and in the CLI, and any coding agent connected through the built-in MCP server sees the same list rather than starting a second copy of the same process. The site sums this up as "your agent runs the process you can see".
Four live terminals can run at once with colours preserved and ports shown as clickable links. Grove's own summary of the value is that the agent and the developer see the "same logs, port, and stop control".
Where Apple Intelligence is used, and where it is not
When a process fails, Grove offers an explanation of the last lines of the log using Apple's on-device model. Anything shaped like a token or a password is stripped locally before the model sees it, and the summary is generated on the machine rather than sent to a cloud API. This part needs macOS 26, which is the Apple Intelligence baseline; the rest of Grove runs on macOS 15 or later on either Apple Silicon or Intel.
The MCP server is a local Unix socket. That is the surface that a coding agent talks to when it wants to start, list, follow or stop one of the scripts Grove has already found.
Pricing and status
Grove is a single one-time purchase of $5, with a three day free trial that needs no card. The licence covers up to three personal Macs, and a purchase includes the app, the CLI and the MCP server. The current version shown on the site is v0.2.0.
The project is by Rakesh, listed on Product Hunt under the handle @itsrakesh, and is distributed as a signed download from grove.publishstudio.one. There is no listed traction figure on the Product Hunt page.
The interesting part is how it fixes the problem. Every coding agent already opens its own terminal in a subprocess and starts its own dev server, and the person watching the agent has to trust that whatever port and pid the agent thinks it is looking at is the one they can also see. Grove reverses the ownership: the process list is the shared view, and the agent, the CLI and the menu bar are three views of the same thing.
The cost of adopting it is small: one Mac, one purchase, no server to run. The limit is that this is a personal tool for a developer using coding agents on their own machine. A team wanting shared session logs, credential isolation and multi-user auditing needs a different category of product. A developer who has ever stopped the wrong dev server after their agent quietly started a second one has the exact problem this addresses.
Source
Primary source: Grove at grove.publishstudio.one. Product Hunt launch: Grove on Product Hunt.
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