Mission Control

A personal command-center dashboard for orchestrating AI agents, projects, hardware builds, spend, and day-to-day ops — all from a single pane of glass.

Built with React 18 + TypeScript + Tailwind CSS on the frontend and an Express 5 API server on the backend.

Press ⌘K (Ctrl+K) anywhere for the command palette — jump to any page or search notes, docs, and tasks. Every view runs on real data from your connected agents; views lazy-load on demand.

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What's Inside

The sidebar is grouped into four sections — Work, Knowledge, Build, and AI Ops — plus Settings. Related monitoring views are consolidated into tabbed hubs rather than scattered across many sidebar entries.

Work

View	What you can do
Home	Landing overview — mission-control hero, an "at a glance" priority queue (alerts, overdue to-dos, pending approvals, system errors), and quick-view cards for usage, to-dos, projects, alerts, and system health. Every card deep-links to the right hub and tab.
To-Do	Personal quick-capture list plus a built-in view switcher — To-Do (default), Tasks (kanban board), Approvals, and Inbox — so personal items and agent work live on one page. To-Do: natural-language quick add (!crit @long tomorrow), severity levels (low → critical), short/long horizon, due dates with overdue badges, inline editing, a one-click OpenClaw/Hermes research button (summary, action steps, links, key facts), an optional Additional Details sub-panel (date, time, location, phone, cost, URL, contact, category, custom fields) with smart auto-detection, and opt-in Google Calendar sync for dated items. Tasks is a status-column kanban (Active / Queue / Blocked / Completed); Approvals reviews agent output (approve / reject / request changes); Inbox is a unified priority-sorted feed of approvals, tasks, and to-dos with snooze.
To-Buy	Personal shopping list with the same click-to-open drawer as To-Do. Quick add with priority/quantity/price tokens (power drill !high x1 $89), a running estimated total, and one-click OpenClaw/Hermes research that returns general info, a fair price + range, online buy links, local store options, and key specs — auto-filling the item's price estimate.
Spend	Personal money command center. Separates Claude Code (a subscription — shown as token-equivalent value, not billed per-token) from OpenClaw/Hermes agents (real per-token API spend), plus a "things" lane (open To-Buy total + the value of hardware you already own), and an Expense Ledger lane fed by manual entries (log via !spend in Discord or the API). 30-day trend, projected monthly, and this-month category breakdown.
Chats	Browse Claude / OpenClaw / Hermes conversation sessions. See token counts, cost per session, and open the full message history for any conversation.
Calendar	Day / Week / Month / Agenda views of your scheduled tasks and Google Calendar events, with prev / today / next navigation and an in-app event composer (create / edit / delete).

Knowledge

View	What you can do
Docs	Documentation browser connected to your agent knowledge base, with a Notes tab (quick-capture scratchpad) and a Links tab — save, tag, pin, and archive bookmarks; add manually or via the Inbox "save as link" action.
News	Real-time curated news dashboard with three tabs: Feed (17 RSS/Atom sources across AI, computing, code, and robotics), GitHub (trending repos by time range and language), and Buzz (top discussions from HN, Reddit, and Lobsters). ADHD-friendly magazine-style hero, cross-source "Top right now" strip, category/platform filters, and 5-minute auto-refresh.
Memory	A live operational dashboard over your agent's real memory system, read over SSH from the agent machine: an Activity timeline of memory events (recall / dream / promotion, each expandable to the actual content), Daily logs + workspace files with a full-text index over every day, Recall (semantic chunks + similarity scores + concept tags), Dreaming (the nightly Light / Deep / REM consolidation and promotions into long-term MEMORY.md), Health (LanceDB vector store + pipeline freshness/staleness), and Metrics (per-day volume, dream phases, top concepts). Configure the SSH connection via OPENCLAW_SSH_*.

Build

The hardware → ideas → projects loop in one place.

View	What you can do
Projects	Kanban-style boards for tracking initiatives (drag cards across columns, set owners, attach notes), with a Pipeline tab — a multi-stage run monitor (card grid or Gantt timeline) with step-level traces and a cron jobs panel.
Inventory	Hardware catalog with SQLite-backed persistence. Search and filter items, view status (available / in-use / reserved), trigger per-item agent research, and inline-edit any field. Bulk add lets you paste a free-form list (bullets, xN quantities, (Model: …)) — it parses each line into an item, shows a live preview, and can queue agent research on the whole batch so specs, value, and form factor get filled in automatically.
Ideas	Idea Factory — browse and triage the buildable project ideas the agents generate from your inventory. Confidence/coolness score bars, difficulty, cost/time, and parts-on-hand / still-need lists. A Buildable now filter surfaces projects you can build with parts you already own; sort by Best / Coolest / Cheapest / Newest, search across ideas, like / snooze / Built it! / reject-with-reason, and trigger a new generation run.

AI Ops

Five consolidated hubs covering everything your agents do — built on local Claude Code logs plus the OpenClaw (WS) and Hermes (REST) gateways.

View	What you can do
Activity	Live cross-platform agent monitoring in one place: Live (real-time tool calls / file reads / commands streamed from OpenClaw + Hermes), Sessions (run history with token/message totals and full transcripts), Brain (raw event log with tool-loop detection and top tools), Agents (who's running and their current state), and Map (node-link traffic topology, 1 h / 24 h / 7 d / all).
Usage	Cost & model analytics: a Claude Code token/cost view (daily trends, token mix, cost anomalies, per-model share, hour-of-day heatmap) plus a Models tab (Helicone-style spend, latency, volume, and failure rate per model with a cost-vs-latency scatter).
Benchmarks	Benchmark how a model performs through OpenClaw/Hermes (App → harness → model → tools/context/routing → result), not raw model APIs. 9 behaviour lanes, 4 task packs, deterministic scoring with normalized failure types, multi-sample reliability scoring, a per-task detail drawer, and a model/provider Compare fingerprint (reliability, speed ± stdev, verbosity/tokens, est. cost, fences). Runs real dispatches via the Hermes API server, OpenClaw WS, or any OpenAI-compatible /v1 endpoint (LM Studio / Ollama / vLLM).
Evals	Agent performance evaluation hub. Model scorecard leaderboard, agent-model matrix, session trend chart, benchmark task runner (dispatched to the Hermes API server), memory benchmark panel (recall / multihop / temporal / conflict / applied / negative), and a scoring methodology reference.
Health	Platform & connector health: System (Claude config / MCP / plugin health, uptime, memory file browser), Security (connector token health, reachability, auth-error counts, risk badge, live diagnostics probes), Alerts (rule builder — error rate / loop / stalled / token spike / no activity — plus fired alerts), and per-platform deep-dive dashboards for OpenClaw and Hermes.

Settings

Configure connectors, API keys, the Google connection (connect / reconnect / disconnect), and application preferences.

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Discord Integration

Mission Control has a bidirectional Discord bot. Set DISCORD_BOT_TOKEN in .env and the bot starts automatically with the server.

Setup

1. Go to discord.com/developers/applications → New Application → Bot → Reset Token — copy the token into DISCORD_BOT_TOKEN.
2. Under Bot → Privileged Gateway Intents, enable MESSAGE CONTENT INTENT.
3. Invite the bot to your server with OAuth2 scope bot and permissions: Read Messages, Send Messages, Read Message History.
4. Optionally set DISCORD_CHANNEL_IDS (comma-separated) to limit which channels accept commands.
5. Optionally set DISCORD_NOTIFY_CHANNEL_ID to a single channel where the bot will post proactive notifications.

You can reuse an existing bot token (e.g. the OpenClaw or Hermes bot) as long as it's in the same server and has the Message Content Intent enabled.

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Commands

All commands start with !. The bot replies in the same channel with a confirmation.

Create

Command	What it does
!todo <title> [high|medium|low|critical] [due:YYYY-MM-DD]	Add a to-do item
!buy <item> [$price] [high|medium|low]	Add to shopping list
!spend $<amount> <description> [category]	Log an expense (double space before optional category)
!task <title> [due:YYYY-MM-DD]	Add a task to the kanban board
!note <content>	Save a quick note to the Discord / Quick Capture notebook
!inventory <name> [--research]	Add to hardware inventory; --research triggers OpenClaw enrichment

Query

Command	What it does
!list todos [open|done|high|critical|all]	List to-dos (default: open)
!list tasks [active|queued|done|all]	List tasks (default: active/queued)
!list tobuy [open|purchased|all]	List shopping items
!list spend [month|all]	List expense entries
!list approvals [pending|all]	List approval requests
!agenda	Today's calendar events + items due today or overdue
!balance	Spending summary: this-month expenses, shopping total, inventory value
!find <term>	Search across todos, inventory, and notes
!help	Show all commands

Examples

!todo Renew server certificate critical due:2026-07-15
!buy Raspberry Pi 5 $80 high
!spend $12.50 Lunch  Food
!inventory Arduino Mega --research
!agenda
!balance
!find raspberry
!list todos high

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Proactive Notifications (DISCORD_NOTIFY_CHANNEL_ID)

When DISCORD_NOTIFY_CHANNEL_ID is set, the bot pushes messages to that channel automatically:

Event	When it fires
Approval request	An agent (OpenClaw/Hermes) creates a new approval — posted with Approve ✅ / Reject ❌ buttons; clicking resolves it without opening the UI
Research complete	Agent research on a todo, shopping item, or inventory item finishes (success or failure)
Due-date reminders	Todos and tasks due today or overdue — checked every 5 minutes, once per item per day
Agent alerts	Fired alert rules (token spike, loop detected, stalled session, etc.) — checked every 2 minutes

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Tech Stack

• Frontend — React 18, TypeScript, Tailwind CSS, Vite, Lucide icons
• Backend — Express 5, tsx (TypeScript execution), dotenv, Node.js ≥ 18
• Database — SQLite via Node's built-in node:sqlite (DatabaseSync) for inventory, agent-event, and benchmark stores; JSON files for lighter stores (notes, alerts, connectors)
• Integrations — Google Calendar API (OAuth 2), Anthropic API, OpenClaw WebSocket, Hermes REST

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Getting Started

Prerequisites

• Node.js ≥ 18
• npm ≥ 9

Install

npm install

Configure

Copy the example env file and fill in your credentials:

cp .env.example .env

Required variables (see .env.example for details):

Variable	Purpose
API_PORT	Express server port (default 3001)
GOOGLE_CLIENT_ID	Google OAuth client ID (Calendar)
GOOGLE_CLIENT_SECRET	Google OAuth client secret
ANTHROPIC_API_KEY	Anthropic API key (Radar analytics)
GITHUB_TOKEN	GitHub personal access token — optional; raises the Search API rate limit for the News → GitHub tab
OPENCLAW_SSH_HOST	Agent machine host — reads the OpenClaw memory system (daily logs, dreaming, LanceDB recall) over SSH for the Memory view
OPENCLAW_SSH_USER	SSH username on the agent machine
OPENCLAW_SSH_KEY	SSH private key — absolute path, or a key name resolved under ~/.ssh

Google Calendar: set the two GOOGLE_* values, then connect from Settings → Google (or visit /api/auth/google). The refresh token is stored in data/google-tokens.json and refreshed automatically — no copy-paste. Publish your OAuth consent screen ("In production") in Google Cloud Console; while it is in "Testing" mode Google expires the refresh token after 7 days.

Run

Start both the API server and Vite dev server:

npm run dev

• Frontend → http://localhost:5173
• API → http://localhost:3001

Build

npm run build

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License

Private — not licensed for redistribution.