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 handles prioritisation; the factory manages operations.
What it displays
- work awaiting your attention — queries to answer, plans to authorise, pull requests to review
- work that is paused or blocked
- what is currently running
- recent completions and failures
Paused work is the crucial part
The most valuable item here is work that has stopped and is waiting on a human decision.
A task in NEEDS_HUMAN_REVIEW has reached a stage requiring your decision. Until you
respond, it occupies no agent slot and cannot progress — yet it also does
not appear anywhere else. Mission Control is where it becomes visible, and
paused work can be resumed directly from here.
An organisation with several paused tasks that go unnoticed will have idle capacity and people waiting on results that never materialise.
A daily routine
- Address any query that asks a question. The cheapest possible intervention unblocks work instantly.
- Authorise or revise pending plans. The cheapest moment to alter an approach.
- Review completed pull requests.
- Quickly check for failures. One-off failures are insignificant; the same failure at the same stage across unrelated tasks indicates a configuration issue — see When a task gets stuck or fails.
You should not need to monitor it constantly
Notifications exist so Mission Control is a place you visit deliberately rather than a place you monitor. If you find yourself refreshing it, enable the notifications that would have alerted you — see Notifications.