IPC Transport

The CLI communicates with the daemon over a local IPC channel. This happens automatically — every stackie command is sent to the daemon and the response is streamed back. The dashboard and AI agents use HTTP instead.

Platform Support

PlatformTransportDefault Endpoint
macOS / LinuxUnix domain socket~/.stackie/stackied.sock
WindowsNamed pipe\\.\pipe\stackie_daemon

Overriding the Endpoint

Set the STACKIE_SOCKET environment variable to use a custom endpoint path:

export STACKIE_SOCKET=/tmp/my-stackie.sock
stackie daemon status