The factory is where work in flight lives. Tasks, lanes, plans, automations and reports are all reachable from it, so you have one place to answer "what is happening right now".
What it is for
Mission Control answers "what needs me?". The factory answers "what is running, and how is it going?".
The distinction matters when you have more than a couple of tasks in flight. Mission Control is a triage surface; the factory is an operations surface.
What you can see
- tasks by status, including what is queued and what is blocked
- lanes, and how the work integrating into each one is progressing
- plans and which phase each is in
- automations, which run on a schedule or when something happens, and their run history
- reports
When the work is merged, use Releases to follow the selected commit through readiness, deployment attempts, and environment health. A completed task or promoted lane is not a deployment result.
- Timelapse city block - Chrono CityTaskcity-sim1 day agoNeeds review
- Timelapse cityPlancity-timelapse2 days agoReady to merge
- Super Mario in 3DTask3d-game3 days agoNeeds review
- Conway’s Game of Life in 3DPlangame-of-life4 days agoReady to merge
- Street racing gamePlancity-timelapse5 days agoRunning
The Factory view: plans and tasks in one queue, filtered by what needs attention. Illustrative data.
Watching a task run
Open a running task to follow it live: the steps taken, tools called, files touched, and test output as it accumulates.
This is worth doing a few times early on. Watching two or three tasks end to end teaches you more about how to write a good specification than any amount of documentation — you see exactly where an agent had to guess.
After that, stop watching. Notifications will tell you when something needs you.
Intervening
You can pause, cancel or send a running task back with comments. See When a task gets stuck or fails for when each is right.
Automation
Work does not only start from someone typing a description:
- Automations start work on a schedule or when something happens, such as a pull request opening. They are listed under Automations.
- Schedules run work on a recurring basis.
- Hooks react to platform events.
- Reports summarise what happened, on a schedule.