summond

Schedule and manage macOS background jobs without writing a single plist.

launchd is powerful but painful to use directly. Summond wraps it with a CLI that handles plist generation, log management, and job lifecycle — so you can focus on what the job actually does.

Install

brew install --cask joshgummersall/summond/summond

Or from source (requires Go 1.24+):

go install github.com/joshgummersall/summond/cmd/summond@latest

How it works

Define jobs in a TOML file and apply them:

[jobs.cleanup]
command  = "/usr/local/bin/my-script"
schedule = "daily"
hour     = 3
minute   = 0

[jobs.cleanup.env]
MODE = "nightly"

summond apply

That's it. Summond generates and loads the launchd plist, creates log files, configures newsyslog rotation, and tracks execution history. When you delete a job from the config, summond apply --prune removes it cleanly.