aide.sh dash

Open the agent observability dashboard.

Usage

aide.sh dash [-p PORT]

Options

Flag	Description
`-p, --port PORT`	Port to serve on (default: `3939`)

Description

Starts a local HTTP server serving a web UI for monitoring agent instances. The dashboard provides a read-only view of instance status, skills, cron schedules, and logs.

Static assets are embedded in the binary via rust_embed.

API endpoints

Method	Path	Description
GET	`/`	Dashboard web UI (index.html)
GET	`/api/instances`	List all instances with status, type, email, role, cron count, last activity
GET	`/api/instance/{name}`	Instance detail: metadata, version, description, author, skills, cron entries
GET	`/api/logs/{name}?tail=N`	Recent log lines for an instance (default tail: 100)

Response examples

GET /api/instances

{
  "instances": [
    {
      "name": "jenny.ydwu",
      "agent_type": "jenny",
      "status": "active",
      "email": "[email protected]",
      "role": "PhD assistant",
      "cron_count": 2,
      "last_activity": "[08:00:01] cool scan completed"
    }
  ]
}

GET /api/logs/jenny.ydwu?tail=5

{
  "logs": [
    "[08:00:01] cron: cool scan",
    "[08:00:03] cool scan completed",
    "[12:00:01] cron: email check",
    "[12:00:05] email check completed",
    "[14:32:10] mcp-exec: cool courses"
  ]
}

Integration with aide.sh up

When running aide.sh up, the dashboard is spawned as a background task within the daemon unless --no-dash is passed.

aide.sh up              # starts daemon + dashboard on port 3939
aide.sh up --no-dash    # starts daemon without dashboard