Mission Control is where you land. It answers one question: what needs me?
That is a different question from what is happening?, which is what the factory answers. Mission Control is triage; the factory is operations.
What it surfaces
- work waiting on you — questions to answer, plans to approve, pull requests to review
- work that is paused or blocked
- what is currently running
- recent completions and failures
Paused work is the important part
The most valuable thing here is work that has stopped and is waiting on a human.
A task in NEEDS_HUMAN_REVIEW has hit a decision only you can make. Until you
answer, it holds no agent slot and makes no progress — but it also does not
announce itself anywhere else. Mission Control is where it becomes visible, and
paused work can be resumed directly from here.
An organization with several paused tasks nobody noticed has capacity sitting idle and people waiting on results that will never arrive.
A daily rhythm
- Answer anything asking a question. Cheapest possible intervention, unblocks work immediately.
- Approve or revise waiting plans. Cheapest point to change an approach.
- Review finished pull requests.
- Glance at failures. One-off failures are noise; the same failure at the same stage across unrelated tasks is a configuration problem — see When a task gets stuck or fails.
You should not need to watch it
Notifications exist so Mission Control is somewhere you go deliberately rather than somewhere you monitor. If you find yourself refreshing it, turn on the notifications that would have told you — see Notifications.