Agent Eye

A local web dashboard that monitors all your GitHub Copilot CLI, Claude Code, and Microsoft Scout sessions in real-time. Designed for power users running multiple AI coding sessions simultaneously.

Installation

Option 1: From PyPI

pip install agenteye-app

Option 2: From Source

# Clone the repo
git clone https://github.com/JeffSteinbok/agenteye.git
cd agenteye

# Install in editable mode
pip install -e .

Usage

Native App (Recommended)

Run as a native desktop app with system tray integration:

# Start the tray app (window + tray icon)
agenteye app

# Start minimized to tray
agenteye app --hidden

# Custom port
agenteye app --port 8080

The tray app provides:

• Native window with dark/light title bar matching app theme
• System tray icon with quick access menu
• Close (X) minimizes to tray, quit from tray menu exits
• Native Windows notifications (no browser permission needed)

Browser Mode

Run as a background server and open in your browser:

# Start the dashboard
agenteye start

# Start in background
agenteye start --background

# Check status
agenteye status

# Stop
agenteye stop

# Upgrade to the latest version (restarts automatically if running)
agenteye upgrade

Open http://localhost:5111 in your browser.

Autostart at Login (Windows)

# Start tray app on login (recommended)
agenteye autostart --mode app

# Start background server on login
agenteye autostart --mode server

# Custom port
agenteye autostart --mode app --port 8080

# Remove login startup
agenteye autostart-remove

Features

Session States

• Working / Thinking (green) — session is actively running tools or reasoning
• Waiting (yellow) — session needs your input (ask_user or ask_permission pending)
• Idle (blue) — session is done and ready for your next task

Key Features

• Native tray app — agenteye app runs as a native desktop application with system tray integration, eliminating the need for a separate browser tab
• Dark/light title bar — window title bar automatically matches your chosen theme
• Native notifications — Windows toast notifications with proper app name and icon (no browser permission prompts)
• Start hidden — --hidden flag starts the app minimized to tray (great for autostart)
• Claude Code support — automatically discovers Claude Code sessions from ~/.claude/projects/. Active Claude sessions appear alongside Copilot sessions with a ✦ Claude badge.
• Microsoft Scout support — automatically discovers Scout's embedded Copilot sessions from ~/.scout/copilot/. Active Scout sessions appear with a 🧭 Scout badge.
• Cross-machine sync — see active sessions from all your machines in one dashboard, powered by OneDrive or any cloud-synced folder. See Cross-Machine Sync for details.
• Settings menu — ☰ hamburger menu in the header with toggles for autostart-on-login and remote sync.
• Upgrade command — agenteye upgrade stops the server, upgrades via pip, and restarts automatically.
• Desktop notifications — get alerts when sessions transition between states
• Focus window — bring an active session's terminal to the foreground with one click
• Restart commands — copy-pasteable copilot --resume <id> commands for every session
• Dismiss sessions — hide completed/noisy sessions from the dashboard without deleting them on disk
• Waiting context — shows what a waiting session is asking (e.g. the ask_user question and choices)
• Background tasks — shows count of running subagents per session
• Session details — click any session to see checkpoints, recent tool output, references, and conversation history
• Tile & List views — compact card grid or detailed expandable rows
• 9 color palettes and light/dark mode

Cross-Machine Sync

See active sessions from all your machines in one dashboard — powered by OneDrive, Google Drive, or any cloud-synced folder. No Git commits needed.

How it works:

• On each poll cycle, the dashboard exports your active sessions as JSON files to a shared cloud folder
• Other machines read those files and display them in a "Remote Sessions" section under Active
• Each machine only writes to its own subfolder — no sync conflicts

Auto-detection (priority order):

1. OneDriveCommercial (preferred — prevents data leakage to personal accounts)
2. OneDriveConsumer
3. User Documents folder

Configuration (~/.copilot/dashboard-config.json):

{
  "sync": {
    "enabled": true,
    "folder": "D:\\MyCloudSync"
  }
}

• Set "enabled": false to disable sync entirely
• Set "folder" to override auto-detection with a specific path

What remote sessions show:

• Live state indicators (working, waiting, idle)
• Session summary, intent, branch, MCP servers, turn/checkpoint counts
• Machine name badge (e.g. 🖥️ LAPTOP-HOME)

What remote sessions don't show:

• No detail drill-down (checkpoints, turns, files)
• No focus or kill actions (those are local-only)
• No past/previous sessions from remote machines

Prerequisites

All are installed automatically via pip install agenteye-app.

For more details on architecture, data sources, and API endpoints, see DEVELOPMENT.md.