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The Agentic OS Dashboard: Mission Control For All Your Agents
Inside a real agentic OS dashboard: mission control, agent tabs, live activity, galleries, memory graph and one-click workflows — with the design rules that keep it usable.
The dashboard is the difference between "I have six AI tools" and "I have an operating system".
One screen: every agent, every workflow, everything you've built, one click away.
Here's what belongs on it, from a system that's been iterated daily for months.
The anatomy
Mission Control — live activity feed, recent operations, today's goals.
Agent tabs — one per brain (Claude, Hermes, Codex, local), each with chat + history + its own workspace gallery.
Custom workflow tabs — SEO pipeline, video agent, image studio, lead gen: your repeated jobs as buttons.
Memory tab — the Obsidian vault as a visual graph.
Orchestration — kanban/team views where multiple agents share tasks.
Design rules that survived contact
Hideable everything (you'll use 20% daily — hide the rest, models change weekly).
Name every conversation (findability beats features).
Galleries for every output (unsaved work is lost work).
Local-first (an OS with file access shouldn't be a public website).
Visual anchors per workflow — an icon you recognize in half a second.
The engine room
Under the dashboard sit the models.
Route expensive brains to planning and a free local lane to grunt work — current local picks with real scores: Agents-A1 for agent speed, Qwable for build quality, data on the local leaderboard.
See a live one
Walkthroughs of every tab at agentos.guide; the installable dashboard ships in the AI Profit Boardroom.
FAQ
What should an agentic OS dashboard include?
Mission control (live activity + goals), one tab per agent with history, custom workflow tabs for repeated jobs, a visual memory layer, and galleries so every output is findable.
Web app or native app?
A local web app (localhost) is the sweet spot: full UI freedom, no store friction, and it stays private — important because the OS can edit files.
How long does it take to build?
From template: ~10 minutes to running. From scratch with a frontier model coding: an afternoon for the shell, then daily iteration as you add workflows.
Can the dashboard run free models?
Yes — a Local tab pointing at Ollama gives you a $0 lane; see the local leaderboard here for which model to pin.
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