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Run the same project services across linked Git worktrees without assigning ports by hand. Set port = "auto" on a database preset, or provide a base port for a custom daemon:

[settings]
experimental = true

[daemons.postgres]
preset = "postgres"
version = "18"
port = "auto"

[daemons.api]
run = "exec npm run dev -- --port $API_PORT"
port = { auto = true, base = 3000 }

The primary checkout uses ports 5432 and 3000. Linked worktrees derive offsets from their project paths. PostgreSQL's PGPORT and DATABASE_URL, and the custom daemon's API_PORT, expose the resolved ports through mise env and mise x before startup. The custom example assumes the application's dev script accepts --port.

Port allocation

  • base defaults to the preset's port and is required for custom daemons. Optional stride defaults to 1; increase it for services that use consecutive ports.
  • Nested projects and submodules follow their enclosing checkout. Independent clones and projects outside Git keep the base port; worktrees of bare repositories all receive offsets.
  • Assignments are saved during daemon registration and reused while base and stride remain unchanged. mise daemons ls --json reports port and port_auto.
  • Paths map to 511 worktree slots, so collisions are possible. Startup checks for running mise-managed daemons in other projects and identifies the conflicting daemon and root. Stopped daemons do not reserve ports, and checks cover only the daemons being started.

Mise does not fall back to another port: doing so would leave existing shells with stale connection settings. Conflict checks are diagnostic, not reservations; simultaneous starts and unmanaged listeners can still cause bind failures.

Compatibility and review notes

This remains part of experimental [daemons], with no additional setting or migration. Integer ports stay fixed. Custom daemons continue to accept pitchfork's structured port tables; presets accept only integers and mise's automatic port syntax.

Custom daemons with integer or automatic ports now export <NAME>_PORT, including existing fixed-port declarations. Explicit [env] values take precedence. Invalid or ambiguous variable names produce warnings and omit the affected exports without preventing daemon startup.

Worktree detection is shared with trust-path mapping in src/git.rs; this PR also tightens validation of the Git metadata used by that mapping.

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The implementation includes unit coverage for allocation, parsing, persistence, conflict detection, and Git layouts, plus e2e coverage for worktree environment variables and JSON listings. CI passed for the implementation commit 584c08748, including lint, docs, and Linux, macOS, and Windows test jobs. The documentation cleanup passes scoped Prettier and Markdownlint checks.

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Experimental daemon registration, env exports, and startup now depend on worktree detection and cross-project port checks; fixed-port custom daemons gain new env vars, and tightened git metadata parsing also affects worktree-related logic in src/git.rs.

Overview
Adds port = "auto" (and optional { auto = true, base, stride }) so database presets and custom daemons keep base ports in the primary checkout and get deterministic offsets in linked Git worktrees. Ports are resolved at config load, written into pitchfork expect (no bump), persisted in state.json, and surfaced via preset connection vars plus new <NAME>_PORT exports for custom daemons (with warnings when names are ambiguous or invalid for shells).

mise daemons ls --json now includes port and port_auto, including fallbacks for daemons removed from config but still registered. Startup and shell-hook registration only conflict-check ports for daemons actually being launched, probing other projects for running daemons on the same port (with fingerprint caching on the hook path).

Git layout detection is extended (in_linked_worktree) with stricter worktree vs submodule / separate-git-dir validation, reused for slot assignment. Schema, daemon docs, unit tests, and e2e coverage for worktree env/listing accompany the change.

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Mise renders a daemon's port into its command line, readiness check, and
[env] exports while configuration loads, so a second checkout of the same
project rendered the same fixed port and failed to start. Pitchfork's bump
cannot help, because it resolves long after mise has already exported the
endpoint.

port = "auto" derives the port from the project root instead. The primary
checkout keeps the base port, so single-checkout projects are unchanged, and
each linked git worktree gets a stable offset derived from its path. A
worktree is recognised by its .git entry being a file rather than a
directory, so nothing shells out to git during config load.

Allocations are persisted in state.json with the base and stride they came
from, so a later change to the slot derivation cannot move a running daemon
while an edited base still re-derives. Registration fails when another
project root on this machine already claims the port, naming that root.

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Daemon ports now support fixed and automatic allocation. Automatic ports use stable worktree-based slots, persist claims, report allocation data, and check conflicts against the daemon holding the port.

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Daemon port allocation

Layer / File(s) Summary
Port configuration contracts
docs/daemons.md, schema/mise.json
Documentation and schema define integer, "auto", structured automatic, and custom passthrough port declarations.
Port parsing and worktree resolution
src/daemons/ports.rs
Port requests are parsed and validated. Linked worktrees receive stable hashed slots. Compatible persisted claims are reused.
Linked worktree validation
src/git.rs
Git metadata validation identifies valid linked worktrees and rejects unrelated, incomplete, or independent Git layouts.
Daemon loading and preset integration
src/daemons/mod.rs, src/daemons/presets.rs
Daemon loading resolves port claims. Presets use their default ports for automatic allocation. Custom daemons preserve structured passthrough values.
Runtime persistence and conflict reporting
src/daemons/runtime.rs, src/cli/daemons.rs
Runtime state stores claims, checks the specific daemon holding a matching port, and lists port and allocation status in JSON output.

Priority: ⬇️ Low

Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~45 minutes

Change: Feature

Suggested reviewers: risu729

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sequenceDiagram
  participant DaemonsLoad
  participant PortsParse
  participant PortsResolve
  participant RuntimePrepare
  participant State
  DaemonsLoad->>PortsParse: parse daemon port declaration
  PortsParse-->>DaemonsLoad: PortRequest
  DaemonsLoad->>PortsResolve: resolve port claim
  PortsResolve-->>DaemonsLoad: PortClaim
  DaemonsLoad->>RuntimePrepare: register daemon and claim
  RuntimePrepare->>State: persist port claims
  RuntimePrepare-->>DaemonsLoad: prepared daemon configuration
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The PR appears safe to merge; the post-review changes correctly include imported daemon ports without introducing a new selection or claim-mapping failure.

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Adds deterministic automatic daemon ports for linked Git worktrees and exposes resolved ports through daemon environments and listings.

  • Supports fixed ports, preset-backed port = "auto", and custom automatic ports with configurable base and stride.
  • Persists resolved assignments and diagnoses conflicts with running mise-managed daemons in other projects.
  • Extends Git-layout detection to distinguish linked worktrees, submodules, and separate Git directories.
  • Updates the post-review selection fix so imported daemons are checked using their owning project’s bare claim name.

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Two defects in the port allocation, both found in review.

A project root is the directory holding mise.toml, not the checkout root, so a
nested config such as packages/api/mise.toml saw no adjacent .git and every
worktree was classified as primary. All of them then resolved to the same base
port, which is exactly the collision the feature exists to prevent. Detection now
walks ancestors to the enclosing checkout, and only a gitdir under a worktrees
directory counts, so a submodule and a separate-git-dir clone keep the base port
instead of being offset as if they were copies.

The conflict check also treated any persisted claim as exclusive. Because
state.json outlives the daemon it describes, a stopped project reserved its port
forever, and two projects could no longer take turns on a default port such as
5432. Liveness is now probed before failing, and only for a root whose port
actually matches, so the scan stays cheap and an unreachable supervisor leaves
the port available. A shared lock spans the scan and the claim, so two projects
starting at once cannot both find the port free.

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Both reviewers found the same two defects, and both were real. Fixed in d7dcea2.

Nested project roots shared a port. A project root is the directory holding
mise.toml, not the checkout root, so packages/api/mise.toml in a worktree saw no
adjacent .git and every checkout was classified as primary. They all resolved to the
same base port, which is the exact collision this change exists to prevent. Detection
now walks ancestors to the enclosing checkout.

Cursor's follow-on point was also correct: a .git file is not proof of a worktree.
Only a gitdir: under a worktrees/ directory counts now, so a submodule and a
git clone --separate-git-dir keep the base port instead of being offset as if they
were copies.

Stopped daemons reserved their ports. state.json outlives the daemon it
describes, so treating every persisted claim as exclusive meant a stopped project held
a port forever, and two projects could no longer take turns on a default 5432. That was
a regression of existing behavior. Liveness is now probed before failing. The scan stays
cheap because the probe runs only for a root whose port actually matches, and an
unreachable supervisor leaves the port available rather than blocking a start that used
to work.

The scan/publish race is closed with a lock shared across projects, held from the
scan until the claim is durable.

Tests cover each: nested and sibling roots in a worktree, submodule and separate-git-dir
markers keeping the base port, and a persisted claim being only a candidate rather than
a verdict.

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Three follow-ups from review.

Worktree detection duplicated logic that git.rs already had, and did it worse:
it matched any gitdir path containing a worktrees component, so a submodule
under a directory of that name was offset off its base port, and it never
resolved a relative gitdir. git.rs gains in_linked_worktree, sharing the gitdir
parsing with main_checkout_root, which tests the parent directory name and so
distinguishes a real worktree from a submodule or a --separate-git-dir clone.
It also accepts worktrees of a bare repository, which have no main checkout to
map onto but are still separate working copies.

The conflict check probed project-wide liveness, so a stopped Postgres in a
project still running Redis, or merely holding an open shell session, blocked
another project from taking 5432 and the error named the stopped daemon as
running. It now asks about the daemon holding the port.

The shared lock is gone. It claimed to make a claim durable, but once conflicts
require the other daemon to be live, a recorded claim reserves nothing and the
lock bought only contention. The check is documented for what it is: a
diagnostic that replaces an opaque bind failure with one naming the other
project, with binding itself remaining the arbiter.

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The docs claimed two worktrees never collide. Offsets are hashed into 511 slots
rather than assigned in sequence, so two can share a slot well before the slots
run out: roughly a 1% chance with four worktrees and 5% with eight. The section
now states that, and what happens when it occurs, since a user planning several
worktrees deserves the real number rather than a promise the allocator does not
make.

Worktree detection also accepted a gitdir whose target did not exist, so a
pruned or hand-written marker shaped like a worktree path earned its own port.
The private dir must now carry a commondir file, which is what git actually
writes, and the test fixtures build that layout instead of a bare path.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5.1 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Review raised a separate-git-dir clone whose git directory sits directly under
a directory named worktrees. Checking the layout against real git confirms the
current code already rejects it: git writes commondir only into a worktree's
private directory, never into an ordinary git directory, and both normal and
bare-repo worktrees do have it.

The existing tests did not pin that down. A pruned marker names a directory
that does not exist, so it passes even if only existence were checked. This
case has a real git directory present and is distinguished solely by the
missing commondir, which is what makes it a regression test rather than a
restatement.

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Detection accepted any private directory under worktrees/ that merely contained
a file named commondir, so a hand-made directory could earn a worktree port
offset. The file is now read and resolved, and its target must be an existing
directory. Worktrees of a bare repository still qualify, since their commondir
resolves to the bare repo.

main_checkout_root already did this resolution inline and now shares it, so the
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The daemons docs also undersold the conflict error, which names the daemon
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🟡 Minor · Serialize automatic-port registration across roots. · runtime.rs:340-360

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Serialize automatic-port registration across roots.

Runtime::prepare locks only state_dir(root)/project.lock. Concurrent starts for different roots therefore scan independently. check_port_conflicts scans before the current state.json is published, and automatic allocation is deterministic. Two roots can select the same port and both pass the scan. The per-root lock remains held through runtime.exec, but it does not coordinate different roots. One daemon can then fail at bind with an opaque error instead of receiving the conflict diagnostic. Hold a shared ports lock through conflict scanning, state publication, and daemon start, or use an equivalent atomic claim.

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roots, not just via the per-root project.lock. Acquire a shared ports lock or
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Resolving commondir accepted any existing directory, so a worktree marker
pointing at an ordinary folder still earned a worktree port offset. The
previous test made this plain: it created a directory with no git metadata and
asserted the result was a linked worktree.

The target must now contain a HEAD file, which git writes in an ordinary .git
and at the top of a bare repository, so both valid cases keep working. The test
now asserts the opposite of what it did: an existing but empty target is
rejected, and adding HEAD is what flips it, pinning the check to git metadata
rather than to a path existing.

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On the outside-diff suggestion to hold a shared ports lock through conflict scanning, state publication, and daemon start: I am declining this one deliberately, and flagging it so a human can overrule me.

The analysis is correct. Two roots starting at the same instant can both pass the scan, and one daemon then fails at bind with an opaque error instead of the conflict diagnostic.

I removed a narrower version of this lock earlier in the PR, because once conflicts require the other daemon to be live, a written claim reserves nothing and serializing scan-and-publish changes no outcome. Extending it through daemon start would genuinely work: the first daemon would be bound and live by the time the second scans.

The cost is what stops me. That lock would serialize daemon startup across every project on the machine, including first-run initdb, which takes seconds to minutes. prepare is also on the shell hook path for auto lifecycle, so entering a project with changed config could block on an unrelated project's slow first start. The feature was built to keep that path fast.

That trades a real, frequent cost for a nicer message in a rare race whose fallback is already a clear port-in-use error from the daemon itself. The code and docs say plainly that this is a diagnostic rather than a reservation, and that binding is the arbiter, so nothing here overstates the guarantee.

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🟡 Minor · Stop at nested non-worktree .git markers. · git.rs:648-662

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Stop at nested non-worktree .git markers. in_linked_worktree skips a submodule or --separate-git-dir marker, then finds the enclosing linked-worktree marker. slot therefore returns a nonzero slot, and resolve changes port = "auto" from the documented base port to base + slot * stride. This also changes the daemon's exported port and command-line endpoint.

If a .git file is not a linked-worktree marker, stop the ancestor walk:

-        if dotgit.is_file() && worktree_gitdir(&dotgit).is_some() {
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+        if dotgit.is_file() {
+            return worktree_gitdir(&dotgit).is_some();
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Review against the brief, with the branch checked out and cargo test daemons run (23 passed). Verdict: merge after fixes. Core mechanics and compatibility are sound; the gaps are about what reaches mise env.

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1. For custom daemons the auto port reaches pitchfork only, never mise env or the rendered strings. src/daemons/mod.rs:146-159 writes the resolved claim only as port = { expect = [N], bump = false }; custom daemons have no exports (mod.rs:170). So the process learns its port only via pitchfork's $PORT injection (undocumented in docs/daemons.md), mise env exports nothing for [daemons.api] port = { auto = true, base = 3000 }, and the docs' own ready_port = 3000 example (docs/daemons.md:22) cannot follow the auto port. The brief's "mise env sees per-worktree endpoints with no discovery step" holds for presets only. Either export a <NAME>_PORT for custom daemons or document $PORT/{{ daemons.x.port }} as the only routes.

2. Hashed slots rather than sequential allocation. ports.rs:130-140 hashes the canonical root into 1..511, giving documented collision odds (docs/daemons.md:106-112, roughly 5% at eight worktrees) with a manual remedy. Since the PR already reads sibling state.json files (runtime.rs:66-89), a first-free-slot allocator was feasible and collision-free. Maintainer call, but it is not what was specified.

3. Bare-repo layouts get no slot 0. git.rs:648-661 returns linked for every worktree of a bare repo, so all checkouts are offset and nobody keeps 5432. Consistent with the definition, but docs/daemons.md:114-118 does not list it, and bare repo plus worktrees is a common agent layout. A docs line or a primary = true escape.

4. Persisted pinning silently overrides derivation. ports.rs:157-161 returns the persisted claim when base/stride match, and mod.rs:104-117 reads state.json on every config load, so "deterministic from root" is only true until the first start, and there is no command to drop a pin. ls --json shows port_auto but not that it is pinned.

5. Conflict check is narrow. Single-port equality only (runtime.rs:261), so stride > 1 ranges are not overlap-checked; probes the other root with our pitchfork binary (runtime.rs:277), so a version mismatch reads as "not serving"; only runs past the fast path (runtime.rs:355-357), so a hook autostart after an unchanged config never re-checks. All documented as best effort; noting for completeness.

6. Hash stability. Slot is SipHash of PathBuf (ports.rs:138); Path: Hash changed once before (Rust 1.62). Same exposure as state_dir, but docs/daemons.md:97-99 "always resolves to the same port" is stronger than warranted for a never-started worktree.

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  • No test that a persisted state.json flows through load() (only resolve() is tested, ports.rs:229-244); check_port_conflicts itself is untested; no e2e for port = "auto"; ls --json port/port_auto untested; no ports.rs-level bare-repo test.
  • Schema is correct (daemon_port def, not: required[auto]). Docs gaps: $PORT for custom daemons, ready_port interaction, bare repos, pinning depends on a prior start, presets rejecting the structured table (docs/daemons.md:34-35).

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The Postgres path works end to end: exports render with the resolved port (presets.rs:100-117) and are added before explicit [env] (config/mod.rs:1454-1466), so [env] DSN = "...{{ env.PGPORT }}..." composes. A multi-port preset (CockroachDB 26257 plus HTTP) is still blocked by the single port: u16 in Preset (presets.rs:13-20) and the single {{ port }} in the tera context; that needs the named-ports extension in the presets work, not this PR.

Integer port and preset defaults behave exactly as before.

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A forged commondir could name an unrelated repository that happened to contain
a HEAD file. git puts a worktree's private dir at <common>/worktrees/<name>, so
the pointer must lead back to the directory it sits under; that is now checked,
verified against real git for ordinary worktrees, bare-repository worktrees,
and this repository's own worktree.

The ancestor walk also skipped every non-worktree .git file, so an independent
repository nested inside a worktree inherited that worktree's offset even
though the docs promise it keeps the base port. It now stops there, exactly as
a nested .git directory already did.

A submodule still does not stop the walk, and a test now pins that. A submodule
belongs to the checkout containing it, so the same submodule in two worktrees
is two working copies and each needs its own port. Stopping there would give
both slot 0 and reintroduce the collision this feature exists to prevent.

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On the outside-diff suggestion to stop the ancestor walk at any non-worktree .git marker: I took half of it in 5a4eab8, because the proposed diff as written would reintroduce the bug this PR exists to fix.

The half I took. An independent repository nested inside a worktree, such as a --separate-git-dir clone, did inherit that worktree's offset even though the docs promise it keeps the base port. The walk now stops there, exactly as a nested .git directory already did.

The half I did not. A submodule must not stop the walk. A submodule belongs to the checkout that contains it, so the same submodule in two worktrees is two working copies that each need their own port. With return worktree_gitdir(&dotgit).is_some(), both become primary, both take slot 0, and they collide. That is the nested-root collision from the first review round, reappearing one level down.

I built the case with real git to be sure of the shape. A submodule inside worktree wtA records gitdir: ../../super/.git/worktrees/wtA/modules/sub, so a modules component is what separates it from an independent repo. The walk now continues only for that, and a test pins both directions.

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jdx and others added 2 commits September 18, 2026 03:49
The submodule check matched any gitdir with a modules component, so an
independent repository whose git directory merely sat under a directory of that
name was read as a submodule, kept walking, and inherited the enclosing
worktree's port offset instead of its base port.

git keeps a submodule's git dir at <enclosing>/modules/<name>, where the
enclosing dir is the superproject's git dir, or that worktree's private dir for
a submodule inside a worktree. The path before modules must now be a git
directory, which is what separates the two. Both shapes were checked against
real git.

The worktree fixture also lacked the HEAD file git writes into a private
directory, which is what a nested submodule anchors against. Adding it makes the
fixture match reality rather than only the code.

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Submodule detection checked the directory enclosing the modules component but
not the submodule git directory itself, so a marker naming a directory that was
not there still continued the ancestor walk and picked up the enclosing
worktree's port offset.

The test encoded that gap: it pointed at a submodule git directory it never
created, so it passed without the referenced directory existing. It now asserts
the marker is ignored until that directory is present, which is what makes the
enclosing relationship meaningful.

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Registration covers every daemon in a project, so the conflict check saw every
claim rather than the ones about to launch. Presets always carry a claim, so
another project serving Postgres on 5432 failed this project's
`mise daemons start redis`, a task requiring only Redis, and the automatic
lifecycle of unrelated daemons, none of which would ever bind that port.

Each caller now names what it will actually start: the selected daemons for the
CLI, the required ones for a task, and the automatic-start subset for a shell
hook. Moving the check before the fast path in the previous commit widened this,
since a single busy port could then fail every prompt in the project.

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Third pass at 29c14786d, cargo test daemons 50 passed. Code is done; verdict merge after one description fix.

  • Both description items addressed: the integer-port export change is stated in Compatibility and the two edge cases now warn instead of failing (src/daemons/mod.rs:163-183, 219-229); the src/git.rs tightening has its own paragraph.
  • 946af9ff7 moves check_port_conflicts before the registration fast path and 29c14786d scopes it to the daemons being started (runtime.rs:385-395; callers at cli/daemons.rs:233-245, hook_env.rs:97-101, tasks.rs:167-173). Correct. Two things worth knowing: the hook now does a sibling state.json scan on every prompt for auto-start projects, acknowledged in docs; and starting = [] checks nothing, so a future caller that forgets to pass names silently loses the check. A one-line contract comment on prepare would help.
  • Description bug: "Stability and conflicts" says a shared lock spans the scan and the claim so two projects starting at once cannot both find the port free. There is no cross-project lock; the only lock is state_dir(root)/project.lock (runtime.rs:346), and both the code comment (runtime.rs:59-63) and docs/daemons.md:335-336 correctly say two simultaneous starts can both see the port free. Fix the sentence, not the code.

Merges cleanly onto current main; #13340 and #13347 are already in the branch history.

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Scoping the conflict check to the daemons being started filtered selectors
against bare daemon names, but selectors are matched against pitchfork ids. A
start naming a daemon as <namespace>/<name> therefore produced an empty list,
skipping the conflict check entirely, while the later id-based selection still
launched that daemon. A collision fell through to an opaque bind failure instead
of naming the project holding the port.

The selection now runs over the same qualified ids the daemon selection uses,
mapping each back to its daemon name. It is a named function with its own test,
which fails against the bare-name filter.

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The e2e located generated pitchfork.toml files with `find -print -quit`, which
returns whichever hash-named directory readdir happens to yield first. Eighteen
projects register over the course of the test, so the assertions were reading an
arbitrary one and passing on luck; CI drew a different order and a task-daemon
assertion was handed the group-parent project's config instead.

All three lookups now go through one helper that matches the root recorded in
state.json, the same way the profile assertion already did.

Also documents what `prepare` does with an empty `starting` list: it checks no
ports, which is right when a caller launches nothing but would silently drop the
conflict diagnostic if a future caller forgot to fill it in.

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Thanks. All three points are in.

Description bug: you were right, and it was worse than one sentence. The shared lock was removed in 72d7f89c2, but the body still advertised it, and two neighbouring claims had gone stale the same way: that the check "sits past the existing fast path", which 946af9ff7 reversed, and that the scan-and-publish race was "closed with the shared lock". That section now says what the code does: the check runs before the fast path and is scoped to the daemons being started, and it is a diagnostic with no cross-project lock, so two simultaneous starts can both see a port free and binding remains the arbiter.

prepare contract. Added. The doc comment says an empty starting checks no ports, which is correct when a caller launches nothing but silently drops the diagnostic if a future caller forgets to fill it in.

The hook-path scan is the deliberate trade and stays documented. The previous round showed the alternative was worse: with the check after the fast path, an automatic start on an unchanged configuration never got it, which is exactly where a background bind failure is easiest to miss.

Separately, CI caught a flaky assertion in the e2e that is worth knowing about. The generated config was located with find -print -quit, so with eighteen projects registered the assertions were reading whichever hash-named directory readdir yielded first and passing on luck. CI drew a different order and handed a task-daemon assertion the group-parent project's config. The three lookups now match the root recorded in state.json, like the profile assertion already did. The fragile lookups are main's, and my additions sit after the failing assertion, so this was pre-existing rather than introduced here.

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State rebuilt the port claims from the declared daemons alone, while ids kept
entries for daemons dropped from the configuration precisely because they may
still be running. A daemon removed from mise.toml therefore vanished from every
other project's scan on the next prepare, and the next project to resolve that
port was told it was free. That is the case the check exists to prevent: the
second daemon fails to bind, or an application follows the exported endpoint
into the first one's data.

Claims now carry forward for daemons that are no longer declared, and are
dropped only when a daemon is still declared and no longer has a port mise
resolves. Stale entries cost nothing, because a conflict is reported only once
the daemon holding the port answers as running.

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Checking conflicts before the registration fast path put a directory read and a
JSON parse of every other daemon project's state file on the shell-hook path,
which runs on essentially every prompt. A preset always carries a resolved port,
so the documented auto lifecycle on postgres or redis paid this every time, and
the cost grows with the number of daemon projects, a population per-worktree
ports exists to increase.

The hook now compares the other projects' state files by name, size and
timestamp first. Unchanged neighbours and unchanged claims of our own can only
give the answer they gave last time, so the read and parse are skipped. An
explicit start still scans unconditionally.

The fingerprint is a hint, not a guarantee: a rewrite of the same length within
one timestamp tick looks unchanged, which delays a hint rather than yielding a
wrong port.

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The skip added for the shell-hook path keyed on sibling file metadata and this
project's own claims, but the conflict verdict also depends on whether the other
daemon is running and on which daemons the command starts. Neither is visible in
a state file: a neighbour starting or stopping one does not rewrite it, and a
daemon gaining auto lifecycle changes the selection without touching any claim.
The cache therefore skipped checks whose answer had changed.

Only one answer survives without re-asking: no neighbour naming any of this
project's ports. No subset of them can conflict, and no daemon starting or
stopping elsewhere can make one appear. The fingerprint is recorded only in that
case and cleared otherwise, so anything less certain is re-checked. Clearance is
judged over every claim the project holds rather than the starting subset, which
keeps it independent of selection.

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The guard withheld the variable for any name not starting with a letter or
underscore, and told the user it began with a digit either way. A name such as
`.api` is legal and normalizes to `_API_PORT`, which a shell accepts, so it lost
its export for no reason and to a misleading message.

Only a leading digit disqualifies now. Names are letters, digits, `.`, `_` and
`-` and cannot lead with `-`, so every other first character either is a letter
or becomes an underscore.

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#	src/daemons/hook_env.rs
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#	src/daemons/tasks.rs
Resolving the conflict with the imported-daemon feature meant taking main's
mod.rs and re-applying the port work against its new structure, and the four
loader-level tests did not come with it: the coverage for auto ports separating
worktrees, the <NAME>_PORT exports, a persisted allocation winning over a fresh
derivation, and the invalid declarations.

Nothing failed, because a deleted test is silent. Listing the test names against
the feature is what found it.

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An imported daemon is keyed in the set by its qualified ID while its claim is
recorded under its own name, so the three callers that list what they are about
to launch read the map keys and silently dropped every imported daemon. A task
requiring one produced an empty list, and an empty list checks nothing, so two
projects could start on the same port undetected whenever one imported from the
other.

All three now go through DaemonSet::names, which returns names as claims are
keyed, so the callers cannot drift from that again.

This is the failure mode the prepare contract comment warned about: an empty
starting list is indistinguishable from launching nothing. The merge with
imported daemons introduced it immediately.

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Checked the head after the latest round. The retained-claim fix is in: previous.ports entries for daemons no longer declared are carried forward and only current daemons overwrite (src/daemons/runtime.rs:117-124), which closes the gate's high. The description now describes the lock correctly. Gate has no current findings. Merge. Nothing further from me; #13346 and #13368 rebase on this once it lands.

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The branch already carries that work through its own merge of the same commits,
and main's squash is byte-identical to the tip it merged for every conflicting
file, so this side stands. Both prerequisites have now landed.

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Three conflicts, all from #13342 touching the same places.

prepare() gained a `starting` parameter on main while this branch moved its
lock out of the state directory; it takes both.

The daemons ls row reports main's port fields alongside this branch's project
figures.

Both sides appended self-contained blocks to the daemons e2e test, so both are
kept; the fake pitchfork's status handling merged cleanly.

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