Status dashboards and monitoring tools for many Claude Code, Codex, and terminal-agent sessions.
At its simplest, an agent dashboard is one row per session. Status, branch, last activity, last log line. Something like this:
This is the load-bearing distinction in this category. A dashboard tells you that fix-nav has been idle for four minutes. It does not switch you into that session, does not send the agent the input it is waiting for, does not show you the diff so you can decide whether to ship.
Visibility is necessary but not sufficient. The teams who get the most out of dashboards usually pair them with a separate workflow for spawning, switching, reviewing, and merging. The teams who get burned by dashboards treat them as the whole solution and end up watching agents stall instead of moving them along.
- your spawn / review loop is solved — you have a workflow you like, you just lose track
- background agents — long-running tasks where you only need to know when something needs you
- team visibility — multiple developers want to see who is running what without context switching
- ops awareness — you want to know how many sessions, hours, and tokens you are burning
- you spend more time switching to fix things than watching — you need control, not visibility
- you do not have a worktree workflow yet — start there, then add visibility
- your dashboard says "errored" but you cannot see the diff — you need a manager that owns the session
- you want notifications, not a tab to look at — desktop apps surface this without a separate tool
- does the tool monitor sessions or run them?
- does it know about worktrees and diffs?
- does it prevent collisions or only report state?
- does it require tmux, VS Code, or another host?
Pane includes status and notifications, but also runs the sessions and keeps worktrees, diffs, and git actions attached.
| tool | constraint | what pane does instead |
|---|---|---|
| recon | monitors only. requires tmux. | monitors and runs the session, no tmux needed |
| Lazyagent | monitors only. macOS menu bar. | cross-platform, with the session and review in-app |
| 49agents | broader IDE-style canvas. | lighter, terminal-first, no canvas to learn |
| agent-view | tmux session viewer. | owns the session layer directly, no tmux |
Confusing visibility with control. A dashboard can show that an agent is stuck, but it may not own the terminal, worktree, or diff review path.
Want monitoring plus the cockpit that runs the sessions? Download Pane.