Dashboard
Every running session in one list, grouped by who needs you — with the situation in one sentence, what each session is doing and a way to tidy up.
The dashboard answers one question across all your projects: who needs me right now? Open it from the top icon of the rail on the right, from the command palette, or by saying “what needs me” to Voice. The rail icon carries a badge with the number of sessions that need you, so you see it even with the panel closed.
The summary
At the top, one line sums up the situation: how many sessions are open across how many projects, and then — only what matters — “2 need you · 3 working · 1 new done”, or All quiet. A thin bar below shows the share of each group.
Groups
Sessions are grouped by urgency, most urgent first:
| Group | Contains | Order |
|---|---|---|
| Needs you | Waiting for an answer or a permission, failed requests, crashed processes | Longest waiting first |
| Working | Busy, starting, or waiting for their own background work | Longest running first |
| New done | Finished while you weren’t looking | Newest first |
| Ready | Idle, done and already seen, or stopped | Newest first |
| Ended | Processes that exited | Newest first |
A session row
Each row shows:
- a status mark — a spinning ring while working, a pulsing ring while waiting, a check mark when done, a cross on errors,
- the agent logo and the session name,
- the time — “for 4 min” while working or waiting, “2 min ago” for results, the exit code for ended sessions,
- a detail line with what it wants from you or what it is doing: the question it asked, the error, Waiting for 1 shell, or the current task,
- a meta line with the project, the agent (if the name doesn’t already say it), the account profile, Worktree and the effort level.
Hover a row to see where its status came from — Claude hook, terminal notification, the screen, output activity, your input or the process exit. Click a row to jump to the session: PaneScale switches to its project and Code mode and focuses the pane.
Close idle sessions
Close idle in the dashboard header ends all sessions that are ready, quiet or ended — after a confirmation that tells you how many. Working and waiting sessions are never touched. Use it at the end of a day, or before starting a big launch set.
Footer
The footer shows how many processes your panes run and how much memory they use, updated every ten seconds. The info icon explains the rule the dashboard follows: status comes from each CLI’s own events, and silence counts as ready, never as done.