Command view

Command: view

Open the interactive, full-screen terminal dashboard.

Synopsis

columbus view

Description

A read-mostly dashboard over the indexed project: index freshness and counts, durable memory, epics & tasks (with task roll-up progress), and the dependency-graph hubs. It auto-refreshes, so external columbus reindex runs or agent edits appear on their own.

It is a projection of the same data the JSON/LLM commands expose. Only R writes (it runs the indexer in-process); memory, epics, stories, and tasks are read-only in the dashboard.

Keys

Key	Action
tab	Switch pane
↑/↓ or j/k	Navigate
enter	Detail view (full body, refs, history)
/	Search across code, memory, epics & tasks
esc	Back
r	Refresh
R	Reindex (in-process)
?	Help
q	Quit

When to use it

• A quick human overview of project state while an agent works.
• Browsing memory and work items without composing CLI queries.
• Watching the index update live.

For automation, use the CLI with --json / --llm instead — see Using Columbus with Your Agent.

See also

Quick Start · Navigating Code