Buf(1)

✨ NAME ✨

okay so bestie, you're in the Buf(1) manual and this page is about buf-lsp-serve — its whole vibe is Start the language server 💖. That's the name situation: buf-lsp-serve - Start the language server.

🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

buf lsp serve [flags]

that's the exact summoning spell, no cap 🪄

🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

Start the language server. That's literally the description — short, sweet, and iconic 👑. No extra lore, just the language server getting started, periodt 💅.

💅 OPTIONS 💅

• --config="" — the buf.yaml file or data to use for configuration 🎀
• --debug-address="" — address to serve debug endpoints on (e.g. localhost:6060); disabled if not specified 🙈
• -h, --help[=false] — help for serve 🫶
• --pipe="" — path to a UNIX socket to listen on; uses stdio if not specified 💜

🌈 OPTIONS INHERITED FROM PARENT COMMANDS 🌈

• --debug[=false] — Turn on debug logging (env BUF_DEBUG) 🔥
• --log-format="color" — The log format text,color,json ⟨env BUF_LOG_FORMAT⟩ 🌸
• --timeout=0s — The duration until timing out, setting it to 0 means no timeout (env BUF_TIMEOUT) ⏰

👀 SEE ALSO 👀

• buf-lsp(1) — that's the see-also, iykyk 🦋

📜 HISTORY 📜

• 2026-10-22 — Auto generated by spf13/cobra 💀

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