diff --git a/dev-tools/proc-group/README.md b/dev-tools/proc-group/README.md
new file mode 100644
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+++ b/dev-tools/proc-group/README.md
@@ -0,0 +1,117 @@
+# proc-group — run TrustGraph as a single process
+
+A dev-focused alternative to the per-container deployment. Instead of 30+
+containers each running a single processor, `processor-group` runs all the
+processors as asyncio tasks inside one Python process, sharing the event
+loop, Prometheus registry, and (importantly) resources on your laptop.
+
+This is **not** for production. Scale deployments should keep using
+per-processor containers — one failure bringing down the whole process,
+no horizontal scaling, and a single giant log are fine for dev and a
+bad idea in prod.
+
+## What this directory contains
+
+- `group.yaml` — the group runner config. One entry per processor, each
+  with the dotted class path and a params dict. Defaults (pubsub backend,
+  rabbitmq host, log level) are pulled in per-entry with a YAML anchor.
+- `README.md` — this file.
+
+## Prerequisites
+
+Install the TrustGraph packages into a venv:
+
+```
+pip install trustgraph-base trustgraph-flow trustgraph-unstructured
+```
+
+`trustgraph-base` provides the `processor-group` endpoint. The others
+provide the processor classes that `group.yaml` imports at runtime.
+`trustgraph-unstructured` is only needed if you want `document-decoder`
+(the `universal-decoder` processor).
+
+## Running it
+
+Start infrastructure (cassandra, qdrant, rabbitmq, garage, observability
+stack) with a working compose file. These aren't packable into the group -
+they're third-party services.  You may be able to run these as standalone
+services.
+
+To get Cassandra to be accessible from the host, you need to 
+set a couple of environment variables:
+```
+      CASSANDRA_BROADCAST_ADDRESS: 127.0.0.1
+      CASSANDRA_LISTEN_ADDRESS: 127.0.0.1
+```
+and also set `network: host`.  Then start services:
+
+```
+podman-compose up -d cassandra qdrant rabbitmq
+podman-compose up -d garage garage-init
+podman-compose up -d loki prometheus grafana
+podman-compose up -d init-trustgraph
+```
+
+`init-trustgraph` is a one-shot that seeds config and the default flow
+into cassandra/rabbitmq.  Don't leave too long a delay between starting
+`init-trustgraph` and running the processor-group, because it needs to
+talk to the config service.
+
+Run the api-gateway separately — it's an aiohttp HTTP server, not an
+`AsyncProcessor`, so the group runner doesn't host it:
+
+Raise the file descriptor limit — 30+ processors sharing one process
+open far more sockets than the default 1024 allows:
+
+```
+ulimit -n 65536
+```
+
+Then start the group from a terminal:
+
+```
+processor-group -c group.yaml --no-loki-enabled
+```
+
+You'll see every processor's startup messages interleaved in one log.
+Each processor has a supervisor that restarts it independently on
+failure, so a transient crash (or a dependency that isn't ready yet)
+only affects that one processor — siblings keep running and the failing
+one self-heals on the next retry.
+
+Finally when everything is running you can start the API gateway from
+its own terminal:
+
+```
+api-gateway \
+    --pubsub-backend rabbitmq --rabbitmq-host localhost \
+    --loki-url http://localhost:3100/loki/api/v1/push \
+    --no-metrics
+```
+
+
+
+## When things go wrong
+
+- **"Too many open files"** — raise `ulimit -n` further. 65536 is
+  usually plenty but some workflows need more.
+- **One processor failing repeatedly** — look for its id in the log. The
+  supervisor will log each failure before restarting. Fix the cause
+  (missing env var, unreachable dependency, bad params) and the
+  processor self-heals on the next 4-second retry without restarting
+  the whole group.
+- **Ctrl-C leaves the process hung** — the pika and cassandra drivers
+  spawn non-cooperative threads that asyncio can't cancel. Use Ctrl-\
+  (SIGQUIT) to force-kill. Not a bug in the group runner, just a
+  limitation of those libraries.
+
+## Environment variables
+
+Processors that talk to external LLMs or APIs read their credentials
+from env vars, same as in the per-container deployment:
+
+- `OPENAI_TOKEN`, `OPENAI_BASE_URL` — for `text-completion` /
+  `text-completion-rag`
+
+Export whatever your particular `group.yaml` needs before running.
+
diff --git a/dev-tools/proc-group/group.yaml b/dev-tools/proc-group/group.yaml
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..98ef5016
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+++ b/dev-tools/proc-group/group.yaml
@@ -0,0 +1,257 @@
+# Multi-processor group config, derived from docker-compose.yaml.
+#
+# Covers every AsyncProcessor-based service from the compose file.
+# Out of scope:
+#   - api-gateway       (aiohttp, not AsyncProcessor)
+#   - init-trustgraph   (one-shot init, not a processor)
+#   - document-decoder  (universal-decoder, trustgraph-unstructured package —
+#                        packable but lives in a separate image/package)
+#   - mcp-server        (trustgraph-mcp package, separate image)
+#   - ddg-mcp-server    (third-party image)
+#   - infrastructure    (cassandra, rabbitmq, qdrant, garage, grafana,
+#                        prometheus, loki, workbench-ui)
+#
+# Run with:
+#   processor-group -c group.yaml
+
+_defaults: &defaults
+  pubsub_backend: rabbitmq
+  rabbitmq_host: localhost
+  log_level: INFO
+
+processors:
+
+  - class: trustgraph.agent.orchestrator.Processor
+    params:
+      <<: *defaults
+      id: agent-manager
+
+  - class: trustgraph.chunking.recursive.Processor
+    params:
+      <<: *defaults
+      id: chunker
+      chunk_size: 2000
+      chunk_overlap: 50
+
+  - class: trustgraph.config.service.Processor
+    params:
+      <<: *defaults
+      id: config-svc
+      cassandra_host: localhost
+
+  - class: trustgraph.decoding.universal.Processor
+    params:
+      <<: *defaults
+      id: document-decoder
+
+  - class: trustgraph.embeddings.document_embeddings.Processor
+    params:
+      <<: *defaults
+      id: document-embeddings
+
+  - class: trustgraph.retrieval.document_rag.Processor
+    params:
+      <<: *defaults
+      id: document-rag
+      doc_limit: 20
+
+  - class: trustgraph.embeddings.fastembed.Processor
+    params:
+      <<: *defaults
+      id: embeddings
+      concurrency: 1
+
+  - class: trustgraph.embeddings.graph_embeddings.Processor
+    params:
+      <<: *defaults
+      id: graph-embeddings
+
+  - class: trustgraph.retrieval.graph_rag.Processor
+    params:
+      <<: *defaults
+      id: graph-rag
+      concurrency: 1
+      entity_limit: 50
+      triple_limit: 30
+      edge_limit: 30
+      edge_score_limit: 10
+      max_subgraph_size: 100
+      max_path_length: 2
+
+  - class: trustgraph.extract.kg.agent.Processor
+    params:
+      <<: *defaults
+      id: kg-extract-agent
+      concurrency: 1
+
+  - class: trustgraph.extract.kg.definitions.Processor
+    params:
+      <<: *defaults
+      id: kg-extract-definitions
+      concurrency: 1
+
+  - class: trustgraph.extract.kg.ontology.Processor
+    params:
+      <<: *defaults
+      id: kg-extract-ontology
+      concurrency: 1
+
+  - class: trustgraph.extract.kg.relationships.Processor
+    params:
+      <<: *defaults
+      id: kg-extract-relationships
+      concurrency: 1
+
+  - class: trustgraph.extract.kg.rows.Processor
+    params:
+      <<: *defaults
+      id: kg-extract-rows
+      concurrency: 1
+
+  - class: trustgraph.cores.service.Processor
+    params:
+      <<: *defaults
+      id: knowledge
+      cassandra_host: localhost
+
+  - class: trustgraph.storage.knowledge.store.Processor
+    params:
+      <<: *defaults
+      id: kg-store
+      cassandra_host: localhost
+
+  - class: trustgraph.librarian.Processor
+    params:
+      <<: *defaults
+      id: librarian
+      cassandra_host: localhost
+      object_store_endpoint: localhost:3900
+      object_store_access_key: GK000000000000000000000001
+      object_store_secret_key: b171f00be9be4c32c734f4c05fe64c527a8ab5eb823b376cfa8c2531f70fc427
+      object_store_region: garage
+
+  - class: trustgraph.agent.mcp_tool.Service
+    params:
+      <<: *defaults
+      id: mcp-tool
+
+  - class: trustgraph.metering.Processor
+    params:
+      <<: *defaults
+      id: metering
+
+  - class: trustgraph.metering.Processor
+    params:
+      <<: *defaults
+      id: metering-rag
+
+  - class: trustgraph.retrieval.nlp_query.Processor
+    params:
+      <<: *defaults
+      id: nlp-query
+
+  - class: trustgraph.prompt.template.Processor
+    params:
+      <<: *defaults
+      id: prompt
+      concurrency: 1
+
+  - class: trustgraph.prompt.template.Processor
+    params:
+      <<: *defaults
+      id: prompt-rag
+      concurrency: 1
+
+  - class: trustgraph.query.doc_embeddings.qdrant.Processor
+    params:
+      <<: *defaults
+      id: doc-embeddings-query
+      store_uri: http://localhost:6333
+
+  - class: trustgraph.query.graph_embeddings.qdrant.Processor
+    params:
+      <<: *defaults
+      id: graph-embeddings-query
+      store_uri: http://localhost:6333
+
+  - class: trustgraph.query.row_embeddings.qdrant.Processor
+    params:
+      <<: *defaults
+      id: row-embeddings-query
+      store_uri: http://localhost:6333
+
+  - class: trustgraph.query.rows.cassandra.Processor
+    params:
+      <<: *defaults
+      id: rows-query
+      cassandra_host: localhost
+
+  - class: trustgraph.query.triples.cassandra.Processor
+    params:
+      <<: *defaults
+      id: triples-query
+      cassandra_host: localhost
+
+  - class: trustgraph.embeddings.row_embeddings.Processor
+    params:
+      <<: *defaults
+      id: row-embeddings
+
+  - class: trustgraph.query.sparql.Processor
+    params:
+      <<: *defaults
+      id: sparql-query
+
+  - class: trustgraph.storage.doc_embeddings.qdrant.Processor
+    params:
+      <<: *defaults
+      id: doc-embeddings-write
+      store_uri: http://localhost:6333
+
+  - class: trustgraph.storage.graph_embeddings.qdrant.Processor
+    params:
+      <<: *defaults
+      id: graph-embeddings-write
+      store_uri: http://localhost:6333
+
+  - class: trustgraph.storage.row_embeddings.qdrant.Processor
+    params:
+      <<: *defaults
+      id: row-embeddings-write
+      store_uri: http://localhost:6333
+
+  - class: trustgraph.storage.rows.cassandra.Processor
+    params:
+      <<: *defaults
+      id: rows-write
+      cassandra_host: localhost
+
+  - class: trustgraph.storage.triples.cassandra.Processor
+    params:
+      <<: *defaults
+      id: triples-write
+      cassandra_host: localhost
+
+  - class: trustgraph.retrieval.structured_diag.Processor
+    params:
+      <<: *defaults
+      id: structured-diag
+
+  - class: trustgraph.retrieval.structured_query.Processor
+    params:
+      <<: *defaults
+      id: structured-query
+
+  - class: trustgraph.model.text_completion.openai.Processor
+    params:
+      <<: *defaults
+      id: text-completion
+      max_output: 8192
+      temperature: 0.0
+
+  - class: trustgraph.model.text_completion.openai.Processor
+    params:
+      <<: *defaults
+      id: text-completion-rag
+      max_output: 8192
+      temperature: 0.0
diff --git a/trustgraph-base/pyproject.toml b/trustgraph-base/pyproject.toml
index 216ccbd6..e4a640bd 100644
--- a/trustgraph-base/pyproject.toml
+++ b/trustgraph-base/pyproject.toml
@@ -24,6 +24,9 @@ classifiers = [
 [project.urls]
 Homepage = "https://github.com/trustgraph-ai/trustgraph"
 
+[project.scripts]
+processor-group = "trustgraph.base.processor_group:run"
+
 [tool.setuptools.packages.find]
 include = ["trustgraph*"]
 
diff --git a/trustgraph-base/trustgraph/base/processor_group.py b/trustgraph-base/trustgraph/base/processor_group.py
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..2e370f17
--- /dev/null
+++ b/trustgraph-base/trustgraph/base/processor_group.py
@@ -0,0 +1,197 @@
+
+# Multi-processor group runner.  Runs multiple AsyncProcessor descendants
+# as concurrent tasks inside a single process, sharing one event loop,
+# one Prometheus HTTP server, and one pub/sub backend pool.
+#
+# Intended for dev and resource-constrained deployments.  Scale deployments
+# should continue to use per-processor endpoints.
+#
+# Group config is a YAML or JSON file with shape:
+#
+#   processors:
+#     - class: trustgraph.extract.kg.definitions.extract.Processor
+#       params:
+#         id: kg-extract-definitions
+#         triples_batch_size: 1000
+#     - class: trustgraph.chunking.recursive.Processor
+#       params:
+#         id: chunker-recursive
+#
+# Each entry's params are passed directly to the class constructor alongside
+# the shared taskgroup.  Defaults live inside each processor class.
+
+import argparse
+import asyncio
+import importlib
+import json
+import logging
+import time
+
+from prometheus_client import start_http_server
+
+from . logging import add_logging_args, setup_logging
+
+logger = logging.getLogger(__name__)
+
+
+def _load_config(path):
+    with open(path) as f:
+        text = f.read()
+    if path.endswith((".yaml", ".yml")):
+        import yaml
+        return yaml.safe_load(text)
+    return json.loads(text)
+
+
+def _resolve_class(dotted):
+    module_path, _, class_name = dotted.rpartition(".")
+    if not module_path:
+        raise ValueError(
+            f"Processor class must be a dotted path, got {dotted!r}"
+        )
+    module = importlib.import_module(module_path)
+    return getattr(module, class_name)
+
+
+RESTART_DELAY_SECONDS = 4
+
+
+async def _supervise(entry):
+    """Run one processor with its own nested TaskGroup, restarting on any
+    failure.  Each processor is isolated from its siblings — a crash here
+    does not propagate to the outer group."""
+
+    pid = entry["params"]["id"]
+    class_path = entry["class"]
+
+    while True:
+
+        try:
+
+            async with asyncio.TaskGroup() as inner_tg:
+
+                cls = _resolve_class(class_path)
+                params = dict(entry.get("params", {}))
+                params["taskgroup"] = inner_tg
+
+                logger.info(f"Starting {class_path} as {pid}")
+
+                p = cls(**params)
+                await p.start()
+                inner_tg.create_task(p.run())
+
+            # Clean exit — processor's run() returned without raising.
+            # Treat as a transient shutdown and restart, matching the
+            # behaviour of per-container `restart: on-failure`.
+            logger.warning(
+                f"Processor {pid} exited cleanly, will restart"
+            )
+
+        except asyncio.CancelledError:
+            logger.info(f"Processor {pid} cancelled")
+            raise
+
+        except BaseExceptionGroup as eg:
+            for e in eg.exceptions:
+                logger.error(
+                    f"Processor {pid} failure: {type(e).__name__}: {e}",
+                    exc_info=e,
+                )
+
+        except Exception as e:
+            logger.error(
+                f"Processor {pid} failure: {type(e).__name__}: {e}",
+                exc_info=True,
+            )
+
+        logger.info(
+            f"Restarting {pid} in {RESTART_DELAY_SECONDS}s..."
+        )
+        await asyncio.sleep(RESTART_DELAY_SECONDS)
+
+
+async def run_group(config):
+
+    entries = config.get("processors", [])
+    if not entries:
+        raise RuntimeError("Group config has no processors")
+
+    seen_ids = set()
+    for entry in entries:
+        pid = entry.get("params", {}).get("id")
+        if pid is None:
+            raise RuntimeError(
+                f"Entry {entry.get('class')!r} missing params.id — "
+                f"required for metrics labelling"
+            )
+        if pid in seen_ids:
+            raise RuntimeError(f"Duplicate processor id {pid!r} in group")
+        seen_ids.add(pid)
+
+    async with asyncio.TaskGroup() as outer_tg:
+        for entry in entries:
+            outer_tg.create_task(_supervise(entry))
+
+
+def run():
+
+    parser = argparse.ArgumentParser(
+        prog="processor-group",
+        description="Run multiple processors as tasks in one process",
+    )
+
+    parser.add_argument(
+        "-c", "--config",
+        required=True,
+        help="Path to group config file (JSON or YAML)",
+    )
+
+    parser.add_argument(
+        "--metrics",
+        action=argparse.BooleanOptionalAction,
+        default=True,
+        help="Metrics enabled (default: true)",
+    )
+
+    parser.add_argument(
+        "-P", "--metrics-port",
+        type=int,
+        default=8000,
+        help="Prometheus metrics port (default: 8000)",
+    )
+
+    add_logging_args(parser)
+
+    args = vars(parser.parse_args())
+
+    setup_logging(args)
+
+    config = _load_config(args["config"])
+
+    if args["metrics"]:
+        start_http_server(args["metrics_port"])
+
+    while True:
+
+        logger.info("Starting group...")
+
+        try:
+            asyncio.run(run_group(config))
+
+        except KeyboardInterrupt:
+            logger.info("Keyboard interrupt.")
+            return
+
+        except ExceptionGroup as e:
+            logger.error("Exception group:")
+            for se in e.exceptions:
+                logger.error(f"  Type: {type(se)}")
+                logger.error(f"  Exception: {se}", exc_info=se)
+
+        except Exception as e:
+            logger.error(f"Type: {type(e)}")
+            logger.error(f"Exception: {e}", exc_info=True)
+
+        logger.warning("Will retry...")
+        time.sleep(4)
+        logger.info("Retrying...")
diff --git a/trustgraph-flow/trustgraph/gateway/service.py b/trustgraph-flow/trustgraph/gateway/service.py
index 8d1aca9e..4e465bf7 100755
--- a/trustgraph-flow/trustgraph/gateway/service.py
+++ b/trustgraph-flow/trustgraph/gateway/service.py
@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@ from aiohttp import web
 import logging
 import os
 
-from trustgraph.base.logging import setup_logging
+from trustgraph.base.logging import setup_logging, add_logging_args
 from trustgraph.base.pubsub import get_pubsub, add_pubsub_args
 
 from . auth import Authenticator
@@ -195,12 +195,7 @@ def run():
         help=f'Secret API token (default: no auth)',
     )
 
-    parser.add_argument(
-        '-l', '--log-level',
-        default='INFO',
-        choices=['DEBUG', 'INFO', 'WARNING', 'ERROR', 'CRITICAL'],
-        help=f'Log level (default: INFO)'
-    )
+    add_logging_args(parser)
 
     parser.add_argument(
         '--metrics',
diff --git a/trustgraph-flow/trustgraph/metering/counter.py b/trustgraph-flow/trustgraph/metering/counter.py
index 3e0b610c..46460b1f 100644
--- a/trustgraph-flow/trustgraph/metering/counter.py
+++ b/trustgraph-flow/trustgraph/metering/counter.py
@@ -102,10 +102,10 @@ class Processor(FlowProcessor):
             __class__.cost_metric.labels(model=modelname, direction="input").inc(cost_in)
             __class__.cost_metric.labels(model=modelname, direction="output").inc(cost_out)
 
-        logger.info(f"Model: {modelname}")
-        logger.info(f"Input Tokens: {num_in}")
-        logger.info(f"Output Tokens: {num_out}")
-        logger.info(f"Cost for call: ${cost_per_call}")
+        logger.debug(
+            f"Model: {modelname}, in={num_in}, out={num_out}, "
+            f"cost=${cost_per_call}"
+        )
 
     @staticmethod
     def add_args(parser):