Lich, start a dev stack per coding agent in parallel
Hey HN, Lich is a worktree aware local dev stack orchestrator. Simply put, it allows you to run multiple copies of your development stack from different worktrees with different code in parallel without going insane. I built Lich because I’ve found myself increasingly using multiple parallel coding agents for development work. I wanted my coding agents to each have independent copies of my development stack to be able to test and validate their own work well. I found that trying to do this totally broke the way I have normally setup tooling for local development. Ports conflict, the UI from…
Lich, start a dev stack per coding agent in parallel launched on June 5, 2026 with 7 votes, #1,808 of 22,647 launches that month and more than 75% of that year's launches.
What it does
Worktree isolated dev stacks for parallel coding agents. - RPate97/lich
Worktree-scoped dev stack orchestrator. Run as many dev stacks as you have worktrees. A CLI that reads a lich.yaml file describing your stack (docker containers, host processes, env variables, lifecycle) and brings it up with per-worktree isolation. Run lich up in two worktrees, get two independent stacks running whatever code exists in those worktrees. Developers who want to run parallel development stacks from multiple worktrees. Typically this is to enable workflows using multiple parallel coding agents. Traditional local dev tooling is done ad hoc. It uses various tools: bash/npm scripts, procfiles, docker compose, etc. These systems generally can't run multiple copies of the same stack…from github.com
In the maker’s words, at launch
Hey HN, Lich is a worktree aware local dev stack orchestrator. Simply put, it allows you to run multiple copies of your development stack from different worktrees with different code in parallel without going insane. I built Lich because I’ve found myself increasingly using multiple parallel coding agents for…
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