Full-screen TUI monitor

# Watch and steer a run, without leaving the terminal.

A detached run used to be a black box you poked at with JSON. The monitor gives you a live cockpit: logs, a timeline, and approval gates in place, plus the power to grab the wheel when an agent gets stuck.

$ smithers monitor 7f3a
monitor · run 7f3a · implement-and-review running
timeline
plandone
implement0:42
reviewqueued
verifyqueued
logs
12:04 patch: editing deploy.ts
12:05 patch: applied 3 edits
12:05 test: 118 passed
▸ gate: deploy to production?
a approve r reject d details
l logs t timeline h hijack a approve q quit

Why this exists

## A run you cannot see is a run you cannot trust.

You kick off a long job in the background and then fly blind: polling status commands, grepping JSON, guessing whether it is stuck or just slow, and unable to step in when an agent goes down the wrong path.

What it shows

## The whole run, at a glance.

☰ logs

### Live output

Streamed logs as steps run, so you see what the agent is doing the moment it does it.

⧗ timeline

### Where it is

Every step and its state in one column. Done, running, queued, failed, at a glance.

✓ approvals

### Gates in place

When a run pauses for a human answer, approve or reject it right here. It detects the gate for you.

⛘ hijack

### Grab the wheel

An agent stuck in a loop? Drop into hijack mode and steer it back on course without killing the run.

⤺ events

### Full history

Scroll back through the run's events, even for a run that started before you opened the monitor.

⌨ keys

### Keyboard-native

Built on OpenTUI. Move, toggle, approve, and switch modes without ever reaching for a mouse.

How to open it

## One command, any run.

### Watch a specific run

Point it at any run id and drop straight into the cockpit.

$ smithers monitor 7f3a

### Launch and watch at once

Start a workflow interactively and the monitor opens on it as it runs.

$ smithers up --interactive

## Stop flying blind on your own runs.

Open the cockpit on any run and watch it, approve it, or steer it, all from the terminal.

$ smithers monitor