Mission Control overview
How Mission Control works: task orchestration, activity feeds, and approval gates from one dashboard.
What Mission Control does
Mission Control is where you manage tasks across all your desktops. Instead of switching between individual desktop chats, you get one view of every task, with tools to create, monitor, and approve work.
Dashboard layout
When you open Mission Control, there are four areas:
The overview panel at the top shows active desktops, total tasks, completion rates, and resource usage (CPU, RAM) across your fleet.
The Kanban board displays tasks in columns by status: Pending, Running, Review, Done, Failed, and Cancelled. Tasks move between columns automatically as their status changes. Drag-and-drop is not supported yet.
The activity stream is a real-time feed of events across your desktops. Task starts, completions, errors, and approval requests show up here as they happen.
The metrics sidebar shows aggregate CPU and RAM usage, task throughput, and success/failure ratios.
Key metrics
Mission Control tracks these in real-time:
| Metric | Description |
|---|---|
| Active desktops | Desktops currently in "running" state |
| Tasks pending | Tasks created but not yet started |
| Tasks running | Tasks currently being executed by agents |
| Tasks in review | Tasks waiting for your approval |
| Completion rate | Percentage of tasks that finished successfully |
| CPU / RAM | Aggregate resource usage across all running desktops |
Task lifecycle
Every task follows the same lifecycle:
- Pending -- created and assigned to a desktop, waiting to start
- Running -- the agent or shell is working on the task
- Review -- the task finished but needs human review (when approval gates are on)
- Done -- completed successfully
- Failed -- errored during execution
- Cancelled -- manually cancelled before completion
When to use Mission Control
Mission Control is useful when you are:
- Running multiple agents in parallel and need one place to watch them
- Delegating tasks that need human sign-off before they take effect
- Building automated workflows where tasks come in through the API
- Tracking resource usage across your desktop fleet
For one-off interactions, the chat panel on each desktop is simpler. Mission Control becomes worth it once you have more than one agent running.
Getting started
Go to the Mission Control tab in your dashboard. If you have running desktops, their status already shows in the overview panel. To start, create your first task. See Creating tasks.
Related docs
Creating tasks
How to create prompt and command tasks, assign them to desktops, and run them through Mission Control.
Approval workflow
How to set up approval gates so you can review AI agent work before it takes effect.
Activity monitoring
How to use the real-time activity stream to track task events, desktop status changes, and resource usage.