gokazi

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Your first task ​

In this walkthrough you will:

  1. Write a gokazi.yaml describing one task.
  2. Start the underlying process by hand.
  3. Use gokazi list to detect it.
  4. Use gokazi stop to kill it.

1. Create the config ​

Create gokazi.yaml next to your project. We will manage gokazi itself — running gokazi list against another gokazi list is a tidy self-test.

yaml
# yaml-language-server: $schema=https://raw.githubusercontent.com/foomo/gokazi/main/gokazi.schema.json
version: '1.0'

tasks:
  list:
    name: gokazi
    description: Long-running listing process
    path: $PWD/bin
    cwd: $PWD
    args: [list]

Field-by-field:

  • name: gokazi — match any process whose OS name is gokazi.
  • path: $PWD/bin — narrow to executables under ./bin/ (env-vars expand at match time).
  • cwd: $PWD — narrow to the project directory.
  • args: [list] — the cmdline must contain list (extras allowed).

2. Start the process ​

You need a gokazi binary in ./bin/. From the gokazi repo:

shell
make build

Then start one in the background:

shell
./bin/gokazi list &

3. Detect it ​

shell
./bin/gokazi list

You should see your list task with running: true and a PID.

4. Stop it ​

shell
./bin/gokazi stop list

What just happened

gokazi stop walked the OS process table, matched the task by name+path+cwd+args, and sent it a kill signal with a 5-second context timeout. There is no daemon — every command is a fresh enumeration.

Next: Managing tasks.