prettierd is a daemonized wrapper around Prettier that avoids Node.js startup overhead by running Prettier as a persistent background process (using core_d.js). It provides a CLI interface that pipes file content to the daemon, which resolves the appropriate Prettier version (local or bundled), loads configuration (with support for .prettierrc, editorconfig, and environment-driven defaults), and returns formatted output. The architecture is a single daemon per working directory, managed through core_d. Key entry points are the shell script `bin/prettierd` and TypeScript modules `src/prettierd.ts` (CLI orchestration) and `src/service.ts` (formatting logic). The service module handles Prettier resolution, config precedence, argument parsing, and formatting/checking tasks. It supports TypeScript config files via Node.js experimental strip-types. The codebase is clean, well-structured TypeScript with strict compiler settings, and though it has no test suite, CI verifies build and daemon startup across multiple platforms and Node versions.