Documentation
Runtime state
Understand `.vectron/runtime.json`, socket location, and workspace-scoped state.
Runtime artifacts
When a workspace is running, Vectron records runtime state under .vectron/.
The most important file is .vectron/runtime.json.
What runtime state contains
The runtime state includes:
- schema version
- Vectron PID
- socket path or named pipe address
- workspace root
- config path
- log directory
- start timestamp
- Vectron version
Why this file matters
Commands such as status use runtime state to discover the active local control endpoint even when the current config file later becomes invalid.
Cleanup
The runtime file is removed when start exits cleanly.