Ccc Mission Control

$ccc-mission-control — Mission Control

One board that answers "who's working on what?" without reading a single log line. Every CC Commander session already journals its agent runs, tasks, and delegations to ~/.claude/commander/ (subagent-runs.jsonl, agent-runs.jsonl, tasks.jsonl, mission-control/events.jsonl). Mission control turns those logs into a picture a non-coder can read: agent roster, task board, delegation flow, and a plain-English summary.

🔒 Privacy: everything runs locally by default — the live dashboard binds to 127.0.0.1 and no data leaves your machine. The one exception is the optional 📤 snapshot artifact: publishing uploads the snapshot (agent names, task subjects, timings) to your private claude.ai artifact URL — it starts private to your account, but treat it as leaving the machine. The skill always asks before publishing, and never publishes automatically.

How it routes

On $ccc-mission-control with no argument, open a click-first picker:

AskUserQuestion:
  question: "Mission control — how do you want to see your agents?"
  options:
    - 🖥️ Open live dashboard — auto-refreshing panel that sits beside your chat
    - 🛰️ Publish snapshot artifact — a living status page you can keep or share
    - 🗣️ Plain-English status — narrate it right here, zero jargon
    - 💡 Review & promote suggestions — triage the ideas agents have surfaced
    - ⏹️ Stop dashboard — shut the local server down

Explicit sub-commands skip the picker: $ccc-mission-control open, $ccc-mission-control snapshot, $ccc-mission-control status, $ccc-mission-control suggestions, $ccc-mission-control stop.

Zero-state: if the logs are empty or missing, say so plainly and point forward — "No agents yet — spawn one with $ccc-spawn (or fan out with $ccc-fleet) and this board lights up." Never render an error for an empty board.

🖥️ Open live dashboard ("sits on the left side" mode)

1. Check whether the dashboard is already up:

   curl -s -o /dev/null -w '%{http_code}' http://127.0.0.1:4690/
   

2. If not 200, start it — run node dashboard/server.js as a background task from the CC Commander repo root. Finding that root:
   • Working inside the CCC repo → use the current checkout.
   • Installed via marketplace → the plugin lives in the marketplace cache; the repo checkout is at ${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}/../.. — verify dashboard/server.js exists there before launching.
   • No dashboard/server.js anywhere → fall back to snapshot mode (next section) instead of failing.
3. Open the Browser pane at http://127.0.0.1:4690/mission-control.html (preview_start {url}). The panel docks beside the chat and keeps itself fresh while you keep working.

🛰️ Publish snapshot artifact

LIVING PATTERN: always render to the same file path, scratchpad/mission-control-live.html, then republish that same path with the Artifact tool. Same path means the same URL, so each republish updates one living status page instead of creating a trail of stale copies. Do not change this path — it is the identity of every bookmark anyone already has for this deck.

Since v7.4.0 this page is the Overview tab of the Commander Console, published on its own. One builder renders every deck and the console, so the numbers can't disagree:

mkdir -p scratchpad
if [ -f "${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}/scripts/build-console.mjs" ]; then
  node "${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}/scripts/build-console.mjs" \
    --surface artifact --tab overview --out scratchpad/mission-control-live.html
else
  node commander/cowork-plugin/scripts/build-console.mjs \
    --surface artifact --tab overview --out scratchpad/mission-control-live.html
fi

The page is unchanged apart from one added line pointing at $ccc-console (the inline all-in-one view, with a prompt bar this static page can't have).

Then publish that same file with the Artifact tool using favicon 🎛️ and stable title "Commander Mission Control".

Confirm before the FIRST publish only: before the first Artifact publish this session, use AskUserQuestion to tell the user that agent names, task subjects, and timings will leave the machine for their private claude.ai artifact URL. Publish only after an explicit confirmation. Never publish automatically.

🔄 Refresh snapshot: rebuild the model → rewrite scratchpad/mission-control-live.html → republish that same file. The URL stays the same. Invoking $ccc-mission-control again IS the refresh consent — republish without re-asking; the first-publish confirmation above already covered what leaves the machine. If new session IDs appeared since the last published snapshot, mention it in passing (not as a fresh ask). To refresh later: run $ccc-mission-control again — same URL updates in place; viewers reload.

On Codex: some panels may be empty on Codex today — Safety's failure hotspots, Mission Control's agent roster, and Usage's savings hero are fed from Claude-only hooks right now. A follow-up workstream wires the matching Codex telemetry.

📱 Check from your phone: open the published URL there and revisit it after each refresh.

The artifact is a snapshot that updates on republish, not a self-refreshing page; strict CSP forbids live fetch.

The page is strict-CSP-safe: inline CSS, inline data, no scripts, no external URLs.

Honest note on surfaces: artifact publishing is verified in Claude Code Desktop; Cowork support varies by build. If the Artifact tool isn't available, fall back to sending the HTML file to the user (SendUserFile) — it renders standalone in any browser.

🗣️ Plain-English status

For non-coders, or when a panel is overkill. Read the JSONL logs (or run readModel from the snapshot library and use its summary), then narrate — caveman-simple, no jargon:

If awaitingPermission is non-empty, say that first. Name each waiting session and tell the user to switch to that session to approve.

Right now: 2 helpers working — reviewer has been at it 12 minutes, builder just started. Earlier today: 3 helpers finished fine, 1 hit a problem (auditor — timed out). Tasks: 2 in progress, 4 done, 1 waiting. Hand-offs: your main session delegated work to reviewer 12 minutes ago.

Rules: never say "subagent", "JSONL", "session_id", or token counts unless asked. Say "helper", "hand-off", "finished", "hit a problem".

💡 Review & promote suggestions

Agents can drop a proactive "you might want to do X" idea into ~/.claude/commander/mission-control/suggestions.jsonl (see lib/suggestions.js). This flow triages that queue.

1. Read the queue: run readModel({}) from the snapshot library (or read model.suggestions off the live dashboard's /api/suggestions) and pull model.suggestions, newest status: "new" first.

2. Zero-state: if there are no new suggestions, say so plainly — "Nothing waiting for review right now." — and stop.

3. Triage in batches of up to 4 with a click-first picker per item:

   AskUserQuestion:
     question: "<idea text> — from <from>. <evidence, if any>."
     options:
       - ✅ Promote — create a tracked ticket for this
       - ⏭️ Skip for now — leave it as "new", ask again later
       - 🗑️ Dismiss — this isn't worth tracking
   

4. On promote: create the ticket with whatever tracker the session already has access to — the Linear MCP if it's connected, otherwise a curl GraphQL call against $LINEAR_API_KEY if the user has that configured. Use the suggestion's proposed_ticket.title/project/priority as the starting draft, but confirm the title with the user before creating anything (never publish external tickets silently). If no tracker is available, say so and offer to just dismiss or leave it as new.

   Once the ticket exists, append the status line with a node -e one-liner against the shared writer lib (never write the JSONL by hand):

   node -e "
   import('${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}/lib/suggestions.js').then(({ appendStatus }) =>
     appendStatus({ id: '<suggestion-id>', status: 'promoted', promoted_ticket: { id: '<ticket-id>', title: '<ticket-title>', url: '<ticket-url>' }, by: 'mission-control' }, {})
   );
   "
   

5. On dismiss: append the same way with status: 'dismissed':

   node -e "
   import('${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}/lib/suggestions.js').then(({ appendStatus }) =>
     appendStatus({ id: '<suggestion-id>', status: 'dismissed', by: 'mission-control' }, {})
   );
   "
   

6. On skip: do nothing — it stays status: "new" and resurfaces next time this flow runs.

7. Report back a one-line tally: how many promoted, dismissed, and skipped.

Both the live dashboard and the published snapshot show the same queue (a 💡 Suggestions panel — status chips new/promoted/dismissed on the dashboard, a plain list with status badges on the snapshot) so you can review from either surface; this flow is for triaging it conversationally instead of clicking through the panel.

⏹️ Stop dashboard

Find the server and stop it politely — SIGTERM, never -9 first, and only the dashboard process:

pgrep -f 'node .*dashboard/server\.js'
kill <pid>

Confirm to the user what was stopped (or that nothing was running).

When you'd reach for it

• "What are my agents doing right now?" — before interrupting anything.
• After $ccc-fleet or $ccc-spawn kicked off parallel work and you want one board instead of scrollback.
• A non-coder (or future you) needs a status they can actually read — snapshot it.
• End of day: publish a snapshot as the durable "what happened" record.

When NOT to use

• Mid-$ccc-fleet run when you want the fleet-specific tree — that's $ccc-fleet-viz.
• You want advice on what to do next — that's $ccc-suggest; mission control only reports.
• Nothing has ever run on this machine — there's nothing to show yet (spawn first).

Limitations

• The board only sees work journaled by the plugin's hooks — agents run without CC Commander installed leave no trace here.
• The live dashboard needs a repo checkout with dashboard/ present; marketplace-cache installs without it get snapshot mode (fully offline, still complete).
• The living artifact updates when you republish the same file; open the live dashboard for continuous updates.
• agent-runs.jsonl rotates at 10MB; the board reads the current file, so ancient history ages out.

Related

• $ccc-console — the same Overview plus Usage, Safety, Memory and History in one inline panel, with a prompt bar
• $ccc-spawn — put new work on the board (isolated sessions)
• $ccc-fleet — parallel agent fan-out (mission control watches it)
• $ccc-relay — chained spec → build → review sessions
• $ccc-suggest — the "what next" advisor that reads the same signals

⚙️ Fable contract: plan before build · verifier ≠ worker · prove before alarm · loops need gates · leave durable state — rules/fable-method.md

(On Codex, present these options as a numbered list and ask the user to reply with a number — AskUserQuestion is Claude-only.)