The factory is where work in flight lives. Tasks, lanes, plans, schedules 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
- schedules and their run history
- reports
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:
- Schedules run work on a recurring basis.
- Sentinel watches for conditions and can open remediation work.
- Hooks react to platform events.
- Reports summarise what happened, on a schedule.