ghcp-cli-dashboard 0.4.0

A local web dashboard that monitors all your GitHub Copilot CLI sessions in real-time

Copilot Session Dashboard

A local web dashboard that monitors all your GitHub Copilot CLI sessions in real-time. Designed for power users running multiple Copilot sessions simultaneously.

[!IMPORTANT] The dashboard requires the SESSION_STORE experimental feature to be enabled in the Copilot CLI. Without it, session history will not be available. Add "experimental": true to ~/.copilot/config.json, then start a new Copilot session. The session-store.db file will be created automatically on first run.

Installation

Option 1: From PyPI

pip install ghcp-cli-dashboard

Option 2: From Source

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

# Install in editable mode
pip install -e .

Usage

# Start the dashboard
copilot-dashboard start

# Start in background
copilot-dashboard start --background

# Check status
copilot-dashboard status

# Stop
copilot-dashboard stop

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

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

Desktop Notifications

Click the 🔕 button in the header to enable browser notifications. You'll get an alert whenever a session transitions from working to waiting or idle, so you can stay on top of sessions that need attention without watching the dashboard.

Views

• Tile view (default) — compact card grid to see all sessions at a glance
• List view — detailed expandable rows with full session info
• Toggle between views with the buttons next to the Active/Previous tabs

Session Monitoring

• Active vs Previous — sessions with a running copilot.exe process appear in the Active tab
• Waiting context — when a session is waiting, shows what it's asking (e.g. the ask_user question and choices)
• Background tasks — shows count of running subagents per session
• YOLO mode indicator — shows 🔥 YOLO badge for sessions running with --yolo
• MCP servers — displays connected MCP servers (e.g. bluebird, icm, github) for both active and past sessions
• Project grouping — sessions are auto-categorized by repo, working directory, or content analysis

Actions

• Focus window — click 📺 on an active session to bring its terminal window to the foreground
• Restart commands — each session has a copy-pasteable copilot --resume <id> command (includes --yolo only if the session was running with it)
• Session details — click any session to see checkpoints, recent tool output, references, and conversation history

Appearance

• Light/Dark mode toggle
• Color palettes — Default and Pink themes
• Auto-refresh — active sessions poll every 5s, full session list every 30s; expanded sections and collapsed groups persist across refreshes

Prerequisites

Package	Purpose
flask	Web server
pywin32	Window focus and process detection (Windows-only)

Both are installed automatically via pip install ghcp-cli-dashboard.

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