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The Dashboard

N45 plans and executes the work for you — and the Dashboard is where you watch it happen. One command launches a visual interface in your browser with your features, the agents' execution as a kanban board, metrics, the project documents and the configuration.

npx n45-ai@latest status

Run it at the root of a project or a workspace. The interface is served by a local server embedded in the binary (nothing leaves your machine), it opens the browser on its own and stays up until Ctrl-C. Leave it in a tab while N45 works and follow the build in real time — the screen refreshes itself.

What you'll find

Features — the execution kanban

The heart of the dashboard. Each feature opens a kanban board where tasks move column by column (backlog → wip → done) as the agents execute. This is where you watch, live, what's being built — no log-reading required. The Done column sorts by the most recently completed task, so fresh work rises to the top.

From planning, not just execution

Agents show up on the board from spec authoring and fan-out — a feature still in the backlog already shows the architect and consultants running, with a live badge in the feature list. Metrics and the Timeline count that planning effort too (spec duration, consultants, fan-out).

Beyond the board, each feature has:

  • Timeline — the vertical panorama of the feature, in chronological order.
  • Metrics / Review — quality and flow indicators: problems, blocks, added tasks, parallelism, burndown, and a retrospect with recommendations.

Docs — the project context

The four documents N45 keeps about your project (STACK, PATTERNS, PROJECT, RUNBOOK) and the registered tech-debts, rendered for reading. A feature's artifacts — Discovery, Spec (and Contract/Manifest, in a workspace) — open from here too.

Config — settings and application context

The only screen that writes. It has two parts:

  • Settings — the .n45/.config settings (protected branches, branch prefixes, minimum coverage, etc.).
  • Context (Project mode) — the tacit knowledge of the application you want N45 to always keep in mind when planning (conventions, decisions, what to avoid). It's advisory: it informs planning, it doesn't block.

In a workspace: the aggregated view

Run in a workspace folder, the same status launches the consolidated view of every member: Features, Metrics and Docs merge what comes from each repository, and a cross-repo feature's board shows the tasks of all members in a single board — each card tagged with its owning member, filterable by member, phase and agent.

That's the core difference: in Project you see one repository; in Workspace you see the whole product in one place. Details in The Workspace dashboard.

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