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stroblmeandClaude Opus 5 5b122341d5 New run: start a run from the app, on the working copy
The site promises simulated inputs and mocked sensor values, and nothing in
the app was that. A run already is: the values are the caller's, the state is
the run's own namespace, and nothing it computes reaches the live flow. What
was missing was a screen to do it from, and the draft flag being honoured.

`/runs/new` is a flow, a field per declared input, a seed and Run; `/runs`
stays the log. A comma-separated list in a number field expands into the grid
`fluksio sweep --param` builds and goes to the sweep route, so launching one
no longer needs a terminal. Only numbers split: a comma in a string is
content, and one in JSON is syntax.

`RunCreate.draft` was validated at submit and dropped before the run
executed, so "try the working copy" ran the published one. `Run.draft` is a
column now, the driver reads the same copy the submit checked, and a retry
carries it. `FlowSummary.mode` came with it so the rail can say which flows
are batch before one is picked.

Also here: a Retry button on a finished run, which the route has always had
and the UI never did, and parameter cells truncated to their column with the
full value on hover.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_013TTfoK82awm8wvxXhHz3XF
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The dashboard app

The web interface is a single-page app served at app.${DOMAIN}, or, for an instance reached through a portal, at ${DOMAIN}/i/{instance-id}. Either way it is the same application, and it is a client of the same REST API you can script against.

Sign in with the account the instance was created with. On a fresh instance that account was printed once, on the first start.

The shell

A floating sidebar on the left, the selected screen filling the rest. On a phone the sidebar collapses to a sheet.

Entry What lives there
Home the brain graph, health, and everything that recently happened
Flows the list of flows, and the canvas for each
Dashboards the widget canvases, and the panels that display them
Runs starting a run with values you choose, and the log of what ran
Workers the machines that nodes can be placed on
Secrets credentials your nodes reference without holding
Modules the Python packages your node code may import
Alerts where failures get sent
Admin users (superusers only)
Search anything in this instance, by name
Settings your account, appearance, and remote access

Search at the foot of the sidebar, or ⌘K / Ctrl-K from anywhere, opens a panel that finds things by name as you type: flows and the nodes inside them, dashboards and the widgets on them, panels, secrets, modules, workers and alert channels. Picking a node opens its flow with that node in focus; picking a widget opens its dashboard.

It searches this instance. Reached through a portal, other instances are behind All instances at the top of the sidebar.

Home

The one screen you leave open. Four things share it.

The brain graph

Every flow drawn as a neuron, wired to the flows it exchanges messages with. This is the brand mark made live, and it is also the fastest read on the instance: a neuron pulses when its flow is running work, and its ring turns terracotta when the flow cannot run as written. A neuron with a problem keeps its label showing so you can see which one it is without hovering.

Each flow also has a switch beside it in the list, which starts and stops it.

Flows and dashboards

Two columns under the graph, exactly as tall as each other, most recently worked on first. The flows column is the list with the switches; the dashboards column is a mosaic, each tile a schematic of that dashboard's layout: blocks where its widgets sit, shaded by what kind of widget each one is. Neither column grows past about six rows: past that it scrolls in place rather than pushing the health block down the page.

The tiles are a footprint, not a live view. They show you which dashboard is which at a glance; the readings are on the dashboard itself.

Health

Always answers, degraded or not. The tiles cover:

  • Flows — total, running, paused, quarantined, and how many cannot run because their graph does not validate
  • Nodes — how many failed to load
  • Runs running — batch runs in flight right now, and how many are waiting. Only on an instance that has run something
  • Queue — depth, and how old the oldest pending item is
  • Loop lag — whether the engine's event loop is keeping up

status: degraded comes with a list of named problems, in words. "3 flow(s) cannot run: house, pv, hallway" is more useful than a red dot, so that is what it says.

Activity

Charts of executions and failures over the selected range (1h / 6h / 24h / 7d), with the recent runs, recent failures, dead-lettered work and the audit trail underneath.

The charts are scrubbable: hover a moment and the lists below filter to it, click to hold it while you read. That turns "something went wrong around two o'clock" into the actual rows.

Flows

The list shows each flow's title, node count, whether it has unpublished changes, and whether it is enabled, paused or quarantined. The toolbar searches, creates, and offers Publish all changes when several flows have drafts.

Opening one takes you to the flow editor.

Deleting several at once

Press and hold a card, or ctrl-click it, to pick it, then tap the rest. While anything is picked, New flow in the toolbar becomes a trash button, and it asks once before deleting the lot. Unpicking the last one puts the list back; so does Escape. The Dashboards screen works the same way.

Everything else

Appearance

Light and dark follow your system by default; Settings → Appearance overrides it. Both themes are first-class, and the wall-panel view is designed to be legible in dark from across a room.