Houston

Mission control for macOS launch daemons and agents. Free and open source.

What it does

Browse, create, edit, and manage every launchd job on your Mac — user agents, global agents, and system daemons — from one window. Plist editor with validation. Touch ID for privileged operations.

Requirements

macOS 26 (Tahoe) or later. Xcode 26+ to build from source.

Get started

make install

Or open in Xcode:

make open

All commands: make help

How it's built

Swift 6, SwiftUI, no external dependencies. One Xcode project with an embedded Swift package:

HoustonKit/
  Models             Data types
  LaunchdService     launchctl, plist I/O
  PrivilegedHelper   XPC client for /Library ops
  JobAnalyzer        Misconfiguration detection
  LogViewer          File tail + OSLog
  PlistEditor        Editor view models

License

MIT — Quantizor Ventures