ix-daemon

Global per-user daemon for Ixchel. Provides a shared IPC layer for background sync, single-writer enforcement, and queueing across repos and tools.

Responsibilities

• Accept IPC requests over local sockets
• Namespace requests by {repo_root, tool}
• Enforce per-repo writer locks
• Queue and coalesce sync work
• Report status for --sync and health checks

IPC

• Unix socket: ~/.ixchel/run/ixcheld.sock
• Windows: named pipe (path defined in specs)

Specs

• Requirements
• Design
• Tasks