Agent Engine · Pulse

Watch the work move.

The one window you leave open to see everything your agents are doing right now — which terminals are moving, which one is waiting on you, and what the team is building. It is a view: a fresh photograph of work that actually lives in RoadWork and Design Hub. Editing Pulse changes nothing — to change the work you open RoadWork; to change a requirement you open Design Hub.

Truth · work RoadWork Every idea → task, and where it stands. If Pulse and RoadWork disagree, RoadWork wins. Truth · UI + requirements Design Hub What screens look like + what each thing does. If they disagree, Design Hub wins. You are here · a view Pulse renders a snapshot Reads the two stores + each terminal's state file. Renders. Never edits real state. Live · gated Push to AIU The same view, live on the intranet — updates in real time so you can watch from your phone. A hook re-writes this snapshot whenever the work moves — no command to run, no deploy per update.
See a state: Disconnected Nothing running Signed-out gate
This is a view — read-only, but never a dead end. A photograph of live work: no button here starts, stops, or edits a terminal. But every card is a doorway — Act on this takes you straight to where you intervene (its RoadWork lane today; ExMan when it ships). Read-only inside, always a doorway out — Pulse itself still writes nothing.
3moving now 2waiting on you 1idle 1no signal 7terminals
Heartbeats one card per terminal · click a card for its trail · every card is a doorway — Act on this to intervene · state is glyph + word + lightness, never a color alone
Design
Terminal · Pulse watch surface
◆ Working
Prototyping the heartbeat cards for this surface.
last emit 3m ago Act on this · Design Hub
Review
Terminal · security fix
⚑ Waiting on you
Needs your call: merge the auth-cookie fix, or hold for a second reviewer?
paused 8m ago Act on this · RoadWork #631
Research
Terminal · landscape
○ Idle
Finished the last brief · waiting for the next dispatch.
last emit 22m ago Act on this · RoadWork
Planning
Terminal · Tutor
⚠ Stale
Drafting Session 3 — no heartbeat in over two hours while still marked in-progress.
last moved 2h 14m ago Act on this · RoadWork #572
Automation
Terminal · intake
⊘ No signal
No heartbeat received — the watcher may be disconnected, or the terminal was closed.
since 6h ago Act on this · RoadWork #540
The composed view each panel is written by one seat and merged into this one file · every panel links out to its truth store

Waiting on you

from RoadWorkOpen in RoadWork ↗
Merge the auth-cookie fix — Review is paused until you decide.decide
Confirm StateMan stays out of Pulse v1 — default holds if you don't reply.confirm

Team in flight

from RoadWorkOpen in RoadWork ↗
Engineering — /prep step-statemoving
Design — Pulse heartbeat cardsmoving
Data — funnel viewmoving
Planning — Tutor Session 3stale · 2h

Who asked whom

from RoadWorkOpen in RoadWork ↗
Review → you: needs a merge call8m ago
Design → Engineering: heartbeat schema31m ago
Coordinator → Data: instrument the funnel1h ago

Open requirements

from Design HubOpen in Design Hub ↗
Does Pulse get its own brand token, or inherit Agent Engine's?open
Cross-agent sharing needs a Security sign-off before it ships.gated
This whole page is a portable snapshot. Everything is baked into one file, so you can drop it on your iPad or keep it as a record of "here's what work looked like at 2:48pm." Push a live copy to the intranet to watch it from your phone.
Live on the intranet — the always-on mirror. Same view as your desk, but DB-backed and real-time: it updates by itself as the work moves, with no reload and no deploy. It is login-gated because it shows internal work. The wire carries structured data, not a web page — the intranet renders it with the same template, so it looks identical to your local snapshot (R-FIDELITY).
aiuni.tech/intranet/pulse Live · real-time last data push · just now · signed in as avery@example.com
3moving now 2waiting on you 1idle 1no signal
Heartbeats rendered from pushed data by the standard Pulse template · identical layout to the local file
A terminal writes data to the push table → the intranet page subscribes and re-renders live. No credits spent, no worker spawned, no deploy.
Sharing beyond you (Connect · Teams · Education) is held. Sending a terminal's state to another person's agents is a real use — but it only carries the shared project slice, never code or secrets, and a deterministic scrub runs on every push. That mode ships only after a Security sign-off. Watching your own work (this page) is not blocked by that. See the signed-out gate

Sign in to watch

Pulse shows work in motion inside your org — who's building what, right now. It's private, so you sign in first.

Login-gated per the away-from-computer privacy rule. The auth model is confirmed with Security before this goes public.
Away from your computer. Because the mirror is DB-backed and live, you glance from your phone and see the work update in real time — the one job this surface does that nothing else does. Here's how it looks on a phone, shown in a frame so you can see it from your desk.

The phone shows the same heartbeats, waiting-on-you first. Nothing to reload — it beats on its own.

The watcher may be disconnected. These heartbeats have not updated recently — what you see is the last known state, not the current one. The work itself is fine; the view is stale. Last refresh 2h 14m ago · the hook stopped firing at 00:34
—moving (unknown) 7terminals · last known 2hsince last refresh
Heartbeats last known state · dimmed because the view is not current
Engineering
Terminal · signup flow
⚠ Last known
Was building /prep step-state — no update since the watcher dropped.
last seen 2h 14m ago
Design
Terminal · Pulse
⊘ No signal
No heartbeat since the watcher disconnected.
2h 14m ago
Review
Terminal · security fix
⊘ No signal
Last known: paused, waiting on you.
2h 14m ago

Why this state is honest: Pulse never guesses. When the heartbeats stop arriving it says so plainly — "last known, not current" — instead of showing a green all-clear it can't verify. Open RoadWork ↗ for the current truth.

No terminals running

Nothing is in motion right now — a flat line, not an error. When an agent starts work, its heartbeat shows up here on its own.

Your last snapshot is safe in RoadWork; nothing was lost by closing the terminals.

Start a terminal, or open RoadWork to see the work waiting to run
Reading from RoadWork — the truth for work. Pulse shows you this read-only. To change a priority, move a lane, or edit a task, open RoadWork itself — that's where the work actually lives. If Pulse and RoadWork ever disagree, RoadWork wins.
RoadWork · #614 · /prep step-state Open in RoadWork read-only preview · Pulse cannot edit this

Lane #614 · Building

read-only
Feature — /prep step-state projectionBuilding
Owner — Engineering terminalmoving
Priority — P1this week
Parent — Signup flow epic→ up

What Pulse can & can't do here

the seam
Read this lane's state and render it✓ yes
Link you straight to it in RoadWork✓ yes
Change the priority, owner, or stateRoadWork only
Move or close the laneRoadWork only
Notice there is no edit control on this page — no priority dropdown, no status toggle, no save. That's the point: Pulse is a window, RoadWork is the workshop. Back to Pulse
Reading from Design Hub — the truth for UI + requirements. Pulse shows you this read-only. To change what a screen looks like or what it should do, open Design Hub. If Pulse and Design Hub ever disagree, Design Hub wins.
Design Hub · Pulse · heartbeat cards Open in Design Hub read-only preview · Pulse cannot edit this

This surface · Pulse

read-only
Prototype — mock.html (locked)✓ this file
Hub story — the plain-English card→ hub.html
Build packet — screens · data · tests→ requirements
State today — locked mock, not builthonest

Open requirements

from Design Hub
Pulse's own brand token vs. inherit Agent Engine's silveropen
The heartbeat schema each terminal writes (task · last-move · state)draft
Cross-agent sharing scrub + scope rulesSecurity
Again — no edit control here. Requirements are authored in Design Hub; Pulse only reflects them. Back to Pulse
Prototype — Pulse, the read-only watch surface inside Agent Engine. Self-contained HTML · canonical AIU shell + tokens · light + dark (persists) · 375 → 1440 · CVD-safe (state = glyph + word + lightness, never a red/green hue). Data is representative sample; every field is what a terminal already writes to its own state file. StateMan is out of v1 (OQ6). No build tonight — the build packet is the companion doc.
The tether (§2.G · TC-17): every card carries one primary Act on this doorway OUT to where you intervene — never a dead button. The push-path + tether doorway are BUILT in PR #728; that shipped template is the tether authority for the live surface, and this mock carries the same handle so design review and the built surface stay in step.
Try it: switch At your desk / Live on AIU / On your phone · click any heartbeat for its trail · click any Act on this ▸ doorway · click Push to AIU · toggle the theme (top-right) · see the honest Disconnected and Nothing running states.
Pushed · the AIU page updated live.