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Mission Control

Mission Control is a live view of all running Claude Code sessions. It updates in real time via WebSocket — no refresh needed.

What you see

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Each agent card shows:

  • Status — running (green), waiting for input (amber), done (gray), error (red)
  • Current task — the most recent tool call or user message
  • Cost — cumulative token cost for the session
  • Duration — time elapsed since session start
  • Context gauge — real-time context window usage
  • Cache countdown — time until prompt cache expires
  • IDE file — which file the user was editing when they last messaged

Views

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Mission Control offers three layout modes:

  • Grid — compact card grid for monitoring many agents at once
  • List — detailed single-column view with more information per session
  • Monitor — live chat grid showing streaming conversations side by side
  • Kanban swimlanes — group running sessions into visual swimlanes by project or branch. Use the group-by dropdown to switch between project grouping, branch grouping, or flat view. Swimlane headers show the project/branch name with session counts.

You can also create custom layouts using drag-and-drop panels (powered by dockview). Save and load layout presets.

Cost tracking

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Token costs update live as agents work. claude-view uses current Anthropic pricing per model (with tiered pricing for large contexts). The total across all active agents is shown in the header.

Sub-agent visualization

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When a session spawns sub-agents (via the Agent tool), Mission Control shows the full agent tree — parent and children, each with their own status and cost tracking.

Session control

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From Mission Control, you can:

  • Click a session to open the full session detail view with chat history
  • Send messages to a running agent
  • Approve or reject tool call permissions
  • Review plans before the agent implements them
  • Stop a session (with confirmation)

Hook events

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Mission Control tracks hook events from two sources — live events captured in real-time via the file watcher (Channel A) and historical events backfilled from JSONL files (Channel B). Events are deduplicated automatically, so you see a complete timeline even for sessions that started before claude-view.

Real-time updates

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Mission Control connects via WebSocket to the claude-view server. Data refreshes every second. If the connection drops (network issue, server restart), it reconnects automatically with exponential backoff.

Crash recovery

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If the sidecar process crashes, Mission Control automatically detects stale bindings and recovers on the next startup. Active sessions resume monitoring without manual intervention.

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