The agent task board, the environment underneath it, and the tools both replace. Each page shows the capability in the app, the mechanism behind it, and what it costs: usually nothing.
5 pages
A Kanban board both you and your agents work. Cards are Markdown in the repo; moving one to To Do dispatches the agent.
Agent dev environmentStack detection, runtimes, HTTPS, databases and mail, provisioned per project — the running app your agents verify their work against.
Sandboxed runsWrap a cloned repo or agent-modified project in a sandbox-exec profile: writes confined, network by policy, every denial logged.
Agent memoryA rolling hand-off brief and a learned rule-book as Markdown in your repo, read back on every run — and a failed run can write the next rule.
Tasks as MarkdownEvery board card is one Markdown file at .portbay/tasks/<id>.md — edit it with any tool and the board re-renders in about 150 ms.
PortBay is the operating hub between you and your AI agents — they pick up cards, build against real local sites, and report back. All on your Mac.
Claude Code, Codex and Cursor show up like teammates — who's working, on what, right now.
Move a card to Todo and PortBay dispatches the agent — no prompt-pasting, no terminal juggling.
Runtime, web server, trusted HTTPS and a real .test domain — handled in one click.
HTTP traffic, database queries and outgoing mail — captured live, and nothing leaves your Mac.
Agents claim cards, move them to Done and comment what changed. You stay in control.
4 pages
https://name.test per project: mkcert certificates, managed local DNS and a bundled Caddy edge, with expiry and reissue in view.
Local databasesSix engines, one wizard: isolated data dirs, dedicated ports, supervision, and connection vars injected into linked projects on start.
Local email testingA bundled Mailpit inbox on 127.0.0.1: outgoing mail is caught, readable and local, with MAIL_* vars injected at launch.
Public tunnelsOne click gives a project a public HTTPS URL through Cloudflare's free tier: bundled cloudflared, no account, gone when you stop sharing.
4 pages
Save a host once: real terminal, SFTP browser with inline ⌘S editing, click-to-start tunnels, and host panels, on system OpenSSH.
HTTP inspectorA DevTools-style live table of every request through the Caddy edge, with filters, header detail, opt-in body capture and a dump viewer.
CLIbrew install --cask portbay ships a full CLI over the same Rust core: lifecycle, logs, doctor, config-as-code and the board, with --json.
Visual editorClick an element on your running site in your own browser and edit its text, classes and styles straight into the source file, across 21 stacks.
2 pages
A managed, supervised Ollama server with a live model catalog and one on-device endpoint shared by dictation, agents and your own tools.
DictationHold Fn anywhere on your Mac: on-device Whisper or Parakeet transcription plus a local AI rewrite, with ⌘Z always restoring your words.
Details past what a page covers live in the docs. Weighing a switch? Compare PortBay with your current tool or take the migration guide.
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