hc-ops

What is hc-ops and what is it for?

hc-ops is a command-line tool for operating Holochain conductors, the processes that run Holochain apps. It is for people who deploy, test and inspect those conductors, and it gives them a repeatable way to tag a conductor, install and initialise an app, and look at what a running conductor is doing.

hc-ops is a command-line tool for operating Holochain conductors — the processes that run Holochain apps. Its repository describes it as the missing tooling for operating Holochain, and it is written in Rust for people who deploy, test and inspect conductors rather than for people writing logic inside a zome. Everything it does is aimed at the operational side of running Holochain.

In practice the tool remembers conductors and agents between commands. A conductor is given a short tag, and later commands address it by that tag instead of by an address and port, with the records kept in a small local SQLite database. That record-keeping is what turns a set of one-off calls against a conductor's admin interface into a routine a person can repeat.

The workflow the repository documents is installing and initialising a test app. A user tags a running conductor, packages a small fixture app, installs it through the conductor's admin interface, and runs its init callback, which is expected to report a passing init result. The README also shows a Holochain conductor being started inside a Nix development shell for testing against.

From 4 public sources, checked 23 September 2026.