rt

rt is a personal developer CLI for branch management, service orchestration, git workflows, and notifications. It's designed for monorepos with git worktrees.

Mental model

Run rt with no arguments to get an interactive menu that walks you from repo, to worktree, to action. Every command also works as a direct invocation, so once you know the shape of a command you can skip the picker entirely:

rt <command> [subcommand] [args]

A background daemon runs alongside the CLI, caching MR and branch data, scanning ports, and guarding git hooks so commands like rt status and rt port stay fast and work from anywhere on your machine.

Zero footprint

rt is macOS-only. It keeps all of its state, config, and per-repo data under ~/.rt/ and never writes anything into the repos it manages, so onboarding a repo or uninstalling rt never touches your git history or working tree.

Reference is generated

The Command reference section in the sidebar is generated from the same command tree that drives rt's interactive pickers, so it always matches what rt actually does. See rt status or rt cd for examples of what a reference page looks like.

Where to go next

Start with Install to get rt onto your machine, then Onboard a repo and First commands to get moving day-to-day.