Rig is a Mac control plane for local development: one window discovers, starts, stops and streams logs for every process in a project — scripts, Procfiles, Laravel artisan sidecars, and managed Postgres or Redis — and owns the ports they bind so you stop running lsof. A local MCP hub lets Cursor, Claude, Codex, Windsurf or VS Code check health and logs, or restart a crashed service, without a raw shell. It explicitly isn't a hosted IDE, cloud VM or PHP runtime — it sits beside tools like Herd or Valet rather than replacing them. The Mac app is free during beta, with an optional paid Mesh tier for remote machines.
What holds up
- +Lets AI coding tools (Cursor, Claude, Codex, Windsurf, VS Code) check health and restart services via MCP.
- +Owns the ports your processes bind, so you stop manually running lsof to find conflicts.
- +Source code stays on your Mac — optional cloud sync covers only metadata and backups, never the repo.
Mind the limits
- −Free only during beta — what the paid Mesh tier costs after beta isn't stated on the page.
- −Doesn't run PHP itself — you still need Herd or Valet alongside it for that.
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