Local web dashboard for Claude Code (or any agent) to report progress while it works. The agent writes Markdown to a session file; this app watches the file and renders it live in your browser.

Pairs with the bundled status-orchestrator skill, which turns Claude into an orchestrator: it maintains the status file, delegates work to background subagents, and holds them to a quality bar.

What it does

• Runs a small Go server on http://127.0.0.1:7879.
• Manages a list of sessions (create, rename, pin, archive, search).
• Each session = one .md file on disk under ./sessions/.
• Click a session title in the sidebar to copy its absolute path — paste that into Claude so it knows where to write.
• Page re-renders live (SSE) every time the file changes.
• Optional desktop notifications when a session changes while the tab is hidden.
• System-tray icon with Open / Copy URL / Quit. Single-instance — re-launching the exe reuses the running server and pops a fresh browser tab.

Features

Embedded terminals per session

Open a Claude (or any) console directly inside the session's column — no Alt-Tab, no lost context:

• ConPTY-backed on Windows; full key passthrough (Esc, Ctrl+B, etc.) so Claude Code's shortcuts work.
• Terminal survives tab switches — the PTY lives on the server. × Close kills it explicitly; nothing else does.
• ▶ Show cmd reattaches to a running PTY, or resumes via claude --resume <uuid> when the session has a stored Claude session ID, or starts fresh otherwise.
• Open cmd launches a detached Windows console in the session's working folder — same resume/fresh logic.
• Ctrl+C copies selected text; Ctrl+V pastes. Ctrl+C with no selection forwards the SIGINT as usual.

Live diff highlighting

Every time the file is re-saved, blocks whose plain text appeared since the last version get an amber highlight in the rendered markdown — including table rows. The mark persists until the next update, so you never miss what changed while you were away.

Skill that loads itself

The status-orchestrator skill is embedded in the binary and written to data/status-orchestrator.SKILL.md on startup. When you ▶ Start cmd for a fresh session, the terminal runs:

claude "Read and follow <path-to-SKILL.md>, then use this for status: <path-to-session.md>"

So Claude adopts the orchestrator role immediately — no skill install required. (If you already installed the .skill zip from the help dialog, that's fine too; they're the same content.)

Themes

Dark is the default. A sidebar-footer button cycles System → Light → Dark; the choice is stored as a theme cookie (1 year) and applied pre-paint (no flash on reload).

Mobile drawer

Below 768px the sidebar collapses to an off-canvas drawer — tap the hamburger top-left to open. Tap the overlay or press Escape to close; selecting a session also closes it.

YAML frontmatter metadata

Sessions store their metadata (title, project_folder, claude_session, created, focus) as YAML front matter at the top of the .md file. It renders invisibly in the dashboard (via goldmark-meta) but stays machine-readable. The header shows focus as a sub-title; the Metadata button toggles a panel with all fields.

Other conveniences

• Native folder picker via a real Windows FolderBrowserDialog (not the sandboxed webkitdirectory that only exposes the folder name).
• Open file — opens the raw .md in your system's default editor.
• Renaming the title rewrites the YAML title: field in place and keeps the sidebar / browser tab in sync.
• Auto-reload — when the server restarts, the connection banner appears briefly; once the SSE stream reconnects, the tab reloads itself so you pick up new assets automatically.
• Relative timestamps in coarse buckets ("just now", "a moment ago", "X minutes ago", "an hour ago", …) so nothing ticks every second.

Requirements

• Windows 10 / 11
• Go 1.22+ (only to build from source)

Install

Download the prebuilt ai-status.exe from the GitHub Releases page, or build from source:

go build -ldflags="-H windowsgui" -o ai-status.exe

The -H windowsgui flag hides the console window. Omit it while developing if you want stdout.

Run

ai-status.exe

Opens the browser automatically and adds a tray icon. Sessions and app data are written under the working directory (./sessions/, ./data/).

Flags

Companion skill

The status-orchestrator skill is bundled at skill/status-orchestrator/SKILL.md and exposed as a .skill download from the app (and from GitHub).

Install in Claude: Customize → Skills → Install skill, select the downloaded .skill file.

Source: skill/status-orchestrator/SKILL.md

Usage

1. Launch ai-status.exe. The dashboard opens at http://127.0.0.1:7879.
2. Click New session — a fresh .md file is created under sessions/.
3. Click the session title to copy its absolute path.
4. In Claude, paste the path and ask it to use it (the skill recognises the pattern automatically).
5. Work as normal. Claude writes status; the page updates live.

Data layout

<root>/
├── sessions/          # one .md per session
├── data/
│   └── sessions.json  # session metadata (titles, pin, archive state)
└── status-updates.log # server log (only visible in windowsgui builds)

All files are plain text. Safe to back up, diff, or edit by hand.

License

MIT