What is Runeya?

Runeya lets you start, monitor and configure a project's processes from one UI. The AI tools are in the same UI, next to the services they work on.

The problem

A modern application often runs about ten processes together: an API, a worker, a database, a mail server and a few side services. Running them in ten terminals takes time and leads to mistakes. It is hard to see which one stopped. Variables differ between machines. Logs are spread over many places.

Runeya groups all of this in one place:

• Start, stop and restart each service, with its state and health
• Live logs, filterable, structured by parsers
• Per-environment variables, encrypted secrets included
• A configuration you can share with your team
• An AI chat, scenarios, and MCP tools wired to your services

Three components

Component	Role
UI	What you see: services, logs, configuration, conversations
Server	Decides what runs and stores projects, services, environments and secrets
Agent	Runs the processes, on your machine or another one

The agent is a separate component because a service can run on another machine than the one you are using. See Agents.

Local first

Everything works with no account and no network. Data stays in .runeya/, secrets are encrypted there, and AI messages go straight from your machine to the provider you chose.

The cloud is optional. It is used to share projects and work as a team.

AI

Runeya works without AI. When AI is enabled, it can control almost all of the app. The built-in chat uses Claude Code, Codex or an API provider. The AI can start and stop your services, read their logs and change their configuration. Scenarios split a task across several roles.

The cloud

With the cloud, the team organizes its work on kanban boards: bugs, requests, work in progress. The boards are built into the app, next to the services.

Runeya ships its own MCP server. Claude Code, Codex or another AI tool can read a card, check the logs of the service it concerns, comment on the card and move it.

Where to start

Quick start shows how to start and monitor a first service in a few minutes.