Dashboard and widgets
The Command deck is the first tab of each workspace. It shows widgets on a grid with 6 columns. A widget is a card that shows one type of information, for example your pending reviews or your reminders.
The Helm window
- The left rail has three groups. Navigate contains the Command deck, the brain and the design system. Tools contains tools such as the DB explorer and the terminal. Projects contains the projects of the workspace.
- The workspace switcher is at the top of the left rail. You can also press Alt+1 to Alt+3 to change the workspace.
- The tab bar shows your open tabs. To close a tab, click its close button or middle-click it.
- The Sessions panel on the right shows your agent sessions and chats. See Sessions and chat.
- The chat dock at the bottom sends a prompt to Claude Code or Codex.
Helm keeps the tabs and the dashboard layout of each workspace. When you change the workspace, Helm shows the tabs and layout of that workspace again.
Add a widget
- On the Command deck, click Add widget. The Widget library opens.
- Find the widget. Type in Search widgets…, or select a category.
- Click Add on the widget card.
- If the card shows Configure & add, the widget has a required setting. Set the values and click Save.
Helm shows "{widget} added to the deck". A card shows On deck if you can add that widget only one time and it is already on the deck. A card with Multi can be on the deck several times, each with its own settings.
Change a widget
- Move: drag the header of the widget.
- Resize: drag the bottom-right corner. Each widget has a minimum size.
- Configure: click the Widget settings button in the header. Change the values and click Save. Only widgets that have settings show this button.
- Remove: click the Remove widget button. To get the widget back, click Undo in the message. The message stays for 5 seconds.
If a widget shows "Configure this widget to choose what it shows.", click Configure and set its required values.
To go back to the default layout, click Reset.
Built-in widgets
| Widget | Category | Shows |
|---|---|---|
| Telemetry | Overview | Headline numbers: active projects, pending reviews, sessions and brain size |
| Workspace health | Overview | Project availability, pending reviews and captures, and warnings about interrupted operations |
| Activity | Overview | A timeline of changes in the workspace |
| Relays | Work | Open requests between linked projects. Close a relay in chat with /tdt-relay |
| Waiting interviews | Work | TDT interviews that wait for answers. Open continues one in a new tab |
| Calendar | Work | A month view of your TDT reminders, with the agenda of the selected day |
| Project spotlight | Work | The availability, path and references of one project |
| Focus timer | Work | Focus, deep-work and break countdowns |
| Notes | Knowledge | Scratchpad notes and approved knowledge |
| Review queue | Knowledge | Pending knowledge candidates. Open one, or hand it off to /tdt-review-brain |
| Brain radar | Knowledge | The brain, with counts for each kind of record |
| Agent runs | Agents | Live Helm agent sessions and pending knowledge captures |
| Recent sessions | Agents | The latest agent sessions. Click one to open it again in a tab |
| Stacks & skills | Utility | Installed stacks, an update check that runs when you click it, and pending skill proposals |
| Quick actions | Utility | Buttons that open sessions, the brain, core skills and settings |
Most widgets need live TDT data. In offline mode, they show "Live TDT data · start the Helm server". Only Focus timer and Quick actions work offline.
Plugins can add more widgets. The widget library marks them Sandboxed. See Plugins.
Where Helm keeps the layout
Helm keeps the layout in your browser, not on the server. A different browser or computer shows the default layout.