Tidyports

See and kill the dev servers your coding agents leave running, and get collision-free ports.

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Client Config & Setup

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Target File:~/Library/Application Support/Claude/claude_desktop_config.json

claude_desktop_config.json

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "tidyports": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "skills"
      ]
    }
  }
}

💡 Paste the JSON block into your client's configuration file under mcpServers, then restart the application.

Documentation Overview

TidyPorts integrations

Let your coding agent see and control the local dev servers it starts.

If you run Claude Code, Cursor or Codex across several git worktrees, each one starts dev servers you never typed a command for. Ports collide, and an agent that hits EADDRINUSE often can't tell a port conflict from a bug — so it "fixes" working code instead.

These integrations give the agent a way to look, rather than guess.


`mcp/`	An MCP server — typed tools for any MCP client (Claude Code, Cursor, Claude Desktop, Windsurf, Zed).
`skills/`	A Claude Code skill, if you'd rather it shelled out to the CLI directly.
`guard/`	Wrap your dev command so `EADDRINUSE` names what is holding the port, instead of only saying that something is.
`raycast/`	A Raycast extension for the same list, without leaving the launcher.

Tools

Tool	What it does
`list_servers`	Listening dev servers: port, process, branch, owner, idle. Read-only.
`kill_port`	Stop the server on a given port.
`alloc_port`	A stable, collision-free port for this worktree — the fix for parallel agents fighting over `:3000`.
`free_port`	A port nothing is listening on right now, to bind immediately.

Install

The skill, for any agent (Claude Code, Cursor, Copilot, Gemini…):

Terminal

npx skills add dan-fetch-studio/tidyports-integrations

The MCP server:

Terminal

npm install -g @tidyports/mcp

Then register it with your client, pointing at the installed tidyports-mcp binary. For Claude Code:

Terminal

claude mcp add tidyports -- tidyports-mcp

It needs the TidyPorts app

These are a thin layer over the tidy-ports CLI, which ships inside TidyPorts — a free macOS menu-bar app that shows every dev server running on your Mac and which agent started it.

brew install --cask dan-fetch-studio/tap/tidyports

Or download it from tidyports.app/download. macOS 15+.

Licence

The integrations here are MIT (see LICENSE). The TidyPorts app itself is source-available under its own licence.

Read the full README →View source on GitHub →

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Frequently Asked Questions about Tidyports

Add the following block to your claude_desktop_config.json under mcpServers: "mcpServers": { "tidyports": { "command": "npx", "args": ["-y", "tidyports"] } }

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Documentation Overview

TidyPorts integrations

Let your coding agent see and control the local dev servers it starts.

These integrations give the agent a way to look, rather than guess.


`mcp/`	An MCP server — typed tools for any MCP client (Claude Code, Cursor, Claude Desktop, Windsurf, Zed).
`skills/`	A Claude Code skill, if you'd rather it shelled out to the CLI directly.
`guard/`	Wrap your dev command so `EADDRINUSE` names what is holding the port, instead of only saying that something is.
`raycast/`	A Raycast extension for the same list, without leaving the launcher.

Tools

Tool	What it does
`list_servers`	Listening dev servers: port, process, branch, owner, idle. Read-only.
`kill_port`	Stop the server on a given port.
`alloc_port`	A stable, collision-free port for this worktree — the fix for parallel agents fighting over `:3000`.
`free_port`	A port nothing is listening on right now, to bind immediately.

Install

The skill, for any agent (Claude Code, Cursor, Copilot, Gemini…):

Terminal

npx skills add dan-fetch-studio/tidyports-integrations

The MCP server:

Terminal

npm install -g @tidyports/mcp

Then register it with your client, pointing at the installed tidyports-mcp binary. For Claude Code:

Terminal

claude mcp add tidyports -- tidyports-mcp

It needs the TidyPorts app

These are a thin layer over the tidy-ports CLI, which ships inside TidyPorts — a free macOS menu-bar app that shows every dev server running on your Mac and which agent started it.

brew install --cask dan-fetch-studio/tap/tidyports

Or download it from tidyports.app/download. macOS 15+.

Licence

The integrations here are MIT (see LICENSE). The TidyPorts app itself is source-available under its own licence.