Module process 

Functions

find_killable_pids

Returns PIDs that are NOT MCP stdio servers (safe to kill during lean-ctx stop). MCP servers are child processes of the IDE and must not be killed — the IDE will immediately respawn them, causing a kill loop that requires a reboot.

find_pids_by_name

Find all PIDs of processes whose executable name matches name. Excludes the current process.

force_kill

Unconditionally kill a process.

is_alive

Check whether a process with the given PID is still running.

kill_all_by_name

Kill non-MCP processes matching name (SIGTERM then SIGKILL). Returns count of killed processes.

terminate_gracefully

Ask a process to terminate gracefully (SIGTERM on Unix, nothing on Windows since we prefer HTTP shutdown; the caller should have already tried that).