Grove is an AI-native macOS script runner designed to unify your terminal experience with your AI coding agent. It allows both you and your agent to control the same terminal processes, streamlining development workflows. Upon connecting a folder, Grove automatically sets up a menu bar, CLI, and a MCP server to manage real terminal processes. You can start, inspect, and stop these processes seamlessly.
Hey Product Hunt,
I built Grove because I kept losing track of project scripts across terminal tabs. Once I started working with coding agents, the problem got worse. An agent would start another dev server because it could not see the one I already had running.
Grove gives both of us control over the same processes.
Connect a folder and Grove finds scripts across Node, Deno, Python, Rust, Go, Make, and monorepos. Start them from the menu bar, CLI, or built-in MCP server. Every process has shared logs, detected ports, status, and a stop control that also terminates its children.
The scripts run in real pseudo-terminals, so colors, prompts, progress bars, signals, and shell environments work as expected.
Grove also integrates with Apple Intelligence. On a compatible Mac running macOS 26, you can press Explain after a script crashes. Grove removes anything shaped like a token or password before Apple's on-device model reads the end of the log and summarizes the failure.
I'd especially like feedback from developers using coding agents for local development. How are you handling shared dev servers and background processes today?
Forgive me for oversimplifying but, any process that your agent starts goes thru this and you can see/manage them all in one place, correct? If yes then it's amazing
the shared-visibility problem is real and I've hit the exact same duplicate-dev-server thing. what happens when you and the agent both reach for the same process at the same moment though - say you restart it manually right as the agent sends a stop signal? is there any locking, or is it just "last command wins" and you sort out the mess after?
hello Rakesh, keeping tabs on everything running quietly in the background has worn me down more than I like to admit.
Having it all gathered in one calm spot would lift a real weight, and the part where my AI helper and I finally see the same thing is what stuck with me.
the agent booting a second dev server bcoz it cant see mine has happened to me more than once. built in MCP server is why im looking. nice launch rakesh
About Grove on Product Hunt
“One terminal for you and your AI agent”
Grove launched on Product Hunt on September 3rd, 2026 and earned 99 upvotes and 11 comments, placing #13 on the daily leaderboard. Grove is an AI-native macOS script runner designed to unify your terminal experience with your AI coding agent. It allows both you and your agent to control the same terminal processes, streamlining development workflows. Upon connecting a folder, Grove automatically sets up a menu bar, CLI, and a MCP server to manage real terminal processes. You can start, inspect, and stop these processes seamlessly.
Grove was featured in Productivity (660k followers) and Developer Tools (518.8k followers) on Product Hunt. Together, these topics include over 240.5k products, making this a competitive space to launch in.
Who hunted Grove?
Grove was hunted by Rakesh. A “hunter” on Product Hunt is the community member who submits a product to the platform — uploading the images, the link, and tagging the makers behind it. Hunters typically write the first comment explaining why a product is worth attention, and their followers are notified the moment they post. Around 79% of featured launches on Product Hunt are self-hunted by their makers, but a well-known hunter still acts as a signal of quality to the rest of the community. See the full all-time top hunters leaderboard to discover who is shaping the Product Hunt ecosystem.
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Rakesh