diff --git a/scripts/daemon/exec/exec_daemon.php b/scripts/daemon/exec/exec_daemon.php
--- a/scripts/daemon/exec/exec_daemon.php
+++ b/scripts/daemon/exec/exec_daemon.php
@@ -14,7 +14,7 @@
 $args->setTagline('daemon executor');
 $args->setSynopsis(<<<EOHELP
 **exec_daemon.php** [__options__] __daemon__ ...
-    Run an instanceof __daemon__.
+    Run an instance of __daemon__.
 EOHELP
   );
 $args->parse(
@@ -28,29 +28,30 @@
       'help' => 'Enable debug memory tracing.',
     ),
     array(
-      'name' => 'log',
+      'name'  => 'log',
       'param' => 'file',
       'help'  => 'Send output to __file__.',
     ),
     array(
-      'name' => 'load-phutil-library',
-      'param' => 'library',
-      'repeat' => true,
+      'name'    => 'load-phutil-library',
+      'param'   => 'library',
+      'default' => array(),
+      'repeat'  => true,
       'help' => 'Load __library__.',
     ),
     array(
-      'name'  => 'verbose',
+      'name' => 'verbose',
       'help'  => 'Enable verbose activity logging.',
     ),
     array(
-      'name' => 'more',
+      'name'     => 'argv',
       'wildcard' => true,
     ),
   ));
 
 $trace_memory = $args->getArg('trace-memory');
-$trace_mode = $args->getArg('trace') || $trace_memory;
-$verbose = $args->getArg('verbose');
+$trace_mode   = $args->getArg('trace') || $trace_memory;
+$verbose      = $args->getArg('verbose');
 
 $log = $args->getArg('log');
 if ($log) {
@@ -61,13 +62,11 @@
 }
 
 $load = $args->getArg('load-phutil-library');
-$argv = $args->getArg('more');
+$argv = $args->getArg('argv');
 
-if ($load) {
-  foreach ($load as $library) {
-    $library = Filesystem::resolvePath($library);
-    phutil_load_library($library);
-  }
+foreach ($load as $library) {
+  $library = Filesystem::resolvePath($library);
+  phutil_load_library($library);
 }
 
 PhutilErrorHandler::initialize();
@@ -84,9 +83,9 @@
 }
 
 if ($echo_to_stderr) {
-  // If the caller has used "--log" to redirect the error log to a file, PHP
-  // won't output it to stderr so the overseer can't capture it and won't
-  // be able to send it to the web console. Install a listener which just echoes
+  // If the caller has used `--log` to redirect the error log to a file, PHP
+  // won't output it to stderr so the overseer can't capture it and won't be
+  // able to send it to the web console. Install a listener which just echoes
   // errors to stderr, so we always get all the messages in the log and over
   // stdio, so they'll show up in the web console.
   PhutilErrorHandler::setErrorListener('phutil_daemon_error_listener');