This sounds like a great addition for servers written in Swift. Pair it with the very easy to use and clean command line arguments package and it should be "tri

This sounds like a great addition for servers written in Swift. Pair it with the very easy to use and clean command line arguments package and it should be "trivial" to add management/diagnostic console full of commands to your server. Traditionally for HTTP servers I carve off a URL prefix, e.g. /diagnostics/ or listen on a different port, and make handlers there to let me know how things are going. The downside is that I then have to protect those which collides with whatever other authentication is going on. Moving that to a command console eliminates all those ways to screw up and let evil people into my diagnostic functions. The command line parser package is trivial to use once you get the hang of it and generates acceptable "help" automatically, so you'll end up with a custom CLI of your diagnostic commands with a "help" function to remember them for essentially zero coding and maintenance effort. Now I have to spend all day resisting the urge to weld this into my latest HTTP server to see how it goes. Update: There is an example server in the Sources/NIOSSHServer directory of the repository. 5 files, about 500 lines total to implement a "bash" command executer and a remote port forwarder. Update 2: 50 minutes in and I have an ssh server embedded in my server. Maybe. When I send a command it explodes my process with a Posix.close() to a bad file descriptor tripping a precondition check. So, maybe don't rush this to a live server.