Demos

Ready-made programs in PowerShell and C#. Watch what each one draws, run it with one line, then copy it and make it yours.

27 programs, from a three-line welcome screen to a full dashboard. Each page shows the whole program, how to run it, and what to change first.

PowerShell

Install-Module ConsoleMonster -Scope CurrentUser
Get-ConsoleDemo                 # list them
Show-ConsoleDemo assessment

Terminal

dotnet new install ConsoleMonster.Templates
dotnet new consolemonster --demo assessment -n Demo
cd Demo; dotnet run

Forest assessment 140×4224-bitFull

 Nightly checks · ad.adatum.com forest assessment · 12 targets · 332 rules  ▴ 332 rules · 267 passed · 16 failed · 37 warnings · 12 skipped 

 ✓ Discover 2.8s › ✓ Collect 4.0s › ▴ Evaluate 47s › ✓ Report 1.8s

╭─ Targets ──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────── 6 workers ─╮ ╭─ Results ───────────────────────────────╮
│ ▴ ad.adatum.com (domain)     ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 100%  ✓14 ✗ 0 ▴ 2  done in 18s             │ │ ███████████████████████████████████████ │
│ ✗ eu.ad.adatum.com (domain)  ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 100%  ✓13 ✗ 1 ▴ 2  done in 16s             │ │ █ Passed   267  80%                     │
│ ✗ DC01.ad.adatum.com         ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 100%  ✓24 ✗ 1 ▴ 5  done in 20s             │ │ █ Warnings  37  11%                     │
│ ▴ DC02.ad.adatum.com         ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 100%  ✓24 ✗ 0 ▴ 5  done in 17s             │ │ █ Failed    16   4%                     │
│ ✗ DC03.ad.adatum.com         ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 100%  ✓23 ✗ 2 ▴ 3  done in 17s             │ │ █ Skipped   12   3%                     │
│ ✗ DC04.ad.adatum.com         ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 100%  ✓23 ✗ 1 ▴ 4  done in 23s             │ │ ─────────────────────────────────────── │
│ ✗ DC05.ad.adatum.com         ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 100%  ✓27 ✗ 1 ▴ 1  done in 14s             │ │ Evaluated        332 / 332              │
│ ✗ DC06.ad.adatum.com         ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 100%  ✓25 ✗ 1 ▴ 4  done in 17s             │ │ Average rate     7.1 rules/s            │
│ ✗ DC07.eu.ad.adatum.com      ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 100%  ✓18 ✗ 6 ▴ 2  done in 19s             │ │ Remaining        -                      │
│ ✗ DC08.eu.ad.adatum.com      ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 100%  ✓24 ✗ 3 ▴ 3  done in 18s             │ │ Targets done     12 / 12                │
│ ▴ DC09.eu.ad.adatum.com      ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 100%  ✓27 ✗ 0 ▴ 2  done in 20s             │ │ Targets failing  8                      │
│ ▴ DC10.eu.ad.adatum.com      ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 100%  ✓25 ✗ 0 ▴ 4  done in 23s             │ │                                         │
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╭─ Throughput ────────────────────────── rules/s ─╮ ╭─ Rule duration ─────────────────────────╮ ╭─ Failures by category ───────────────────╮
│ 17│              ⢠⡇                             │ │ 105│     █████                          │ │ Domain controllers ▆▆▆▆▆▆▆▆▆▆▆▆▆▆▆▆▆▆▆ 6 │
│   │ ⡄            ⡎⢸    ⢀⡄ ⢠⡀⣠                   │ │    │     █████ ▇▇▇▇▇                    │ │ Replication        ▆▆▆▆▆▆▆▆▆▆▆▆▆       4 │
│   │⢠⢻           ⡜ ⠘⡄  ⢀⠇⢸ ⡇⠈ ⡇    ⡗⡄            │ │    │▃▃▃▃ █████ █████                    │ │ DNS                ▆▆▆                 1 │
│   │⢸ ⠧⢄⢠       ⡰⠁  ⠓⠢⢄⡸  ⠟   ⠸⡀ ⡔⣴⠁⢱            │ │    │████ █████ █████                    │ │ Kerberos           ▆▆▆                 1 │
│   │⡜   ⠁⡇ ⢀⠞⡄⢀⠎      ⠈⠃       ⠈⠉ ⠘ ⠈⡆ ⡀         │ │    │████ █████ █████ █████              │ │ Security           ▆▆▆▆▆▆              2 │
│   │⠃    ⠘⠒⠁ ⠘⠁         ⢀⡄           ⠱⡰⠙⠔⠒⢢      │ │    │████ █████ █████ █████              │ │ Group Policy                           0 │
│  0│⣀⣀⡰⠱⣀⣀⣀⣀⠔⢄⣀⣀⣀⣀⣀⣀⡠⠒⠒⠒⠊⠘⣄⠔⠒⢄⣀⠎⢆⣀⠔⡤⠢⣀⣁⣀⣀⣀⣀⣓⣒⣄⣔⣒ │ │    │████ █████ █████ █████ ▁▁▁▁▁        │ │ Accounts           ▆▆▆                 1 │
│   └──────────────────────────────────────────── │ │   0│████ █████ █████ █████ █████        │ │ PKI                                    0 │
│    █ completed   █ failed                       │ │     0s   0.25s 0.5s  1s    2s    4s  8s │ │ Time               ▆▆▆                 1 │
╰─────────────────────────────────────────────────╯ ╰─────────────────────────────────────────╯ ╰──────────────────────────────────────────╯
╭─ Log ────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────╮
│ 00:39 ▴ WARN DC08.eu.ad.adatum.com: Clock skew - clock skew of 48 seconds                                                                │
│ 00:41 ✗ ERR  DC08.eu.ad.adatum.com: Event log sizes failed - Security log is 20 MB and overwrites in 2 hours                             │
│ 00:42 ▴ WARN DC10.eu.ad.adatum.com: Time source hierarchy - NTP server configured by IP address                                          │
│ 00:47 ▴ WARN DC10.eu.ad.adatum.com: Audit policy baseline - logon auditing set to success only                                           │
│ 00:54 ✓ OK   Report written to Reports/Assessment-ad.adatum.com.html (4.2 MB)                                                            │
│ 00:58        Done.                                                                                                                       │
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Showcases

Full programs: dashboards, apps and wizards at their best. Longer files, still one file each, with the data at the top.

Forest assessment

 Nightly checks · ad.adatum.com forest assessment · 12 targets · 332 rules  ▴ 332 rules · 267 passed · 16 failed · 37 warnings · 12 skipped 

 ✓ Discover 2.8s › ✓ Collect 4.0s › ▴ Evaluate 47s › ✓ Report 1.8s

╭─ Targets ──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────── 6 workers ─╮ ╭─ Results ───────────────────────────────╮
│ ▴ ad.adatum.com (domain)     ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 100%  ✓14 ✗ 0 ▴ 2  done in 18s             │ │ ███████████████████████████████████████ │
│ ✗ eu.ad.adatum.com (domain)  ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 100%  ✓13 ✗ 1 ▴ 2  done in 16s             │ │ █ Passed   267  80%                     │
│ ✗ DC01.ad.adatum.com         ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 100%  ✓24 ✗ 1 ▴ 5  done in 20s             │ │ █ Warnings  37  11%                     │
│ ▴ DC02.ad.adatum.com         ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 100%  ✓24 ✗ 0 ▴ 5  done in 17s             │ │ █ Failed    16   4%                     │
│ ✗ DC03.ad.adatum.com         ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 100%  ✓23 ✗ 2 ▴ 3  done in 17s             │ │ █ Skipped   12   3%                     │
│ ✗ DC04.ad.adatum.com         ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 100%  ✓23 ✗ 1 ▴ 4  done in 23s             │ │ ─────────────────────────────────────── │
│ ✗ DC05.ad.adatum.com         ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 100%  ✓27 ✗ 1 ▴ 1  done in 14s             │ │ Evaluated        332 / 332              │
│ ✗ DC06.ad.adatum.com         ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 100%  ✓25 ✗ 1 ▴ 4  done in 17s             │ │ Average rate     7.1 rules/s            │
│ ✗ DC07.eu.ad.adatum.com      ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 100%  ✓18 ✗ 6 ▴ 2  done in 19s             │ │ Remaining        -                      │
│ ✗ DC08.eu.ad.adatum.com      ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 100%  ✓24 ✗ 3 ▴ 3  done in 18s             │ │ Targets done     12 / 12                │
│ ▴ DC09.eu.ad.adatum.com      ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 100%  ✓27 ✗ 0 ▴ 2  done in 20s             │ │ Targets failing  8                      │
│ ▴ DC10.eu.ad.adatum.com      ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 100%  ✓25 ✗ 0 ▴ 4  done in 23s             │ │                                         │
╰──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────╯ ╰─────────────────────────────────────────╯
╭─ Throughput ────────────────────────── rules/s ─╮ ╭─ Rule duration ─────────────────────────╮ ╭─ Failures by category ───────────────────╮
│ 17│              ⢠⡇                             │ │ 105│     █████                          │ │ Domain controllers ▆▆▆▆▆▆▆▆▆▆▆▆▆▆▆▆▆▆▆ 6 │
│   │ ⡄            ⡎⢸    ⢀⡄ ⢠⡀⣠                   │ │    │     █████ ▇▇▇▇▇                    │ │ Replication        ▆▆▆▆▆▆▆▆▆▆▆▆▆       4 │
│   │⢠⢻           ⡜ ⠘⡄  ⢀⠇⢸ ⡇⠈ ⡇    ⡗⡄            │ │    │▃▃▃▃ █████ █████                    │ │ DNS                ▆▆▆                 1 │
│   │⢸ ⠧⢄⢠       ⡰⠁  ⠓⠢⢄⡸  ⠟   ⠸⡀ ⡔⣴⠁⢱            │ │    │████ █████ █████                    │ │ Kerberos           ▆▆▆                 1 │
│   │⡜   ⠁⡇ ⢀⠞⡄⢀⠎      ⠈⠃       ⠈⠉ ⠘ ⠈⡆ ⡀         │ │    │████ █████ █████ █████              │ │ Security           ▆▆▆▆▆▆              2 │
│   │⠃    ⠘⠒⠁ ⠘⠁         ⢀⡄           ⠱⡰⠙⠔⠒⢢      │ │    │████ █████ █████ █████              │ │ Group Policy                           0 │
│  0│⣀⣀⡰⠱⣀⣀⣀⣀⠔⢄⣀⣀⣀⣀⣀⣀⡠⠒⠒⠒⠊⠘⣄⠔⠒⢄⣀⠎⢆⣀⠔⡤⠢⣀⣁⣀⣀⣀⣀⣓⣒⣄⣔⣒ │ │    │████ █████ █████ █████ ▁▁▁▁▁        │ │ Accounts           ▆▆▆                 1 │
│   └──────────────────────────────────────────── │ │   0│████ █████ █████ █████ █████        │ │ PKI                                    0 │
│    █ completed   █ failed                       │ │     0s   0.25s 0.5s  1s    2s    4s  8s │ │ Time               ▆▆▆                 1 │
╰─────────────────────────────────────────────────╯ ╰─────────────────────────────────────────╯ ╰──────────────────────────────────────────╯
╭─ Log ────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────╮
│ 00:39 ▴ WARN DC08.eu.ad.adatum.com: Clock skew - clock skew of 48 seconds                                                                │
│ 00:41 ✗ ERR  DC08.eu.ad.adatum.com: Event log sizes failed - Security log is 20 MB and overwrites in 2 hours                             │
│ 00:42 ▴ WARN DC10.eu.ad.adatum.com: Time source hierarchy - NTP server configured by IP address                                          │
│ 00:47 ▴ WARN DC10.eu.ad.adatum.com: Audit policy baseline - logon auditing set to success only                                           │
│ 00:54 ✓ OK   Report written to Reports/Assessment-ad.adatum.com.html (4.2 MB)                                                            │
│ 00:58        Done.                                                                                                                       │
╰──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────╯
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Forest assessment

Follow 332 checks across twelve targets, six workers, throughput, duration buckets and actionable findings.

Showcase
Live
140×42
349 lines

How it's built PowerShell · C#

Show-ConsoleDemo assessment

dotnet new consolemonster --demo assessment

Fleet health

 Fleet health check · corp.example.test · 5 servers · 8 checks                                                                                         00:00:00 

━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━  40/40  100%  · ✓ 34 passed  ▴ 2 warnings  ✗ 4 failed  · in 3.2s
✓ Discover › ✓ Connect › ✗ Check › ✓ Report
╭─ Check map ────────────────────────────────────╮ ╭─ Categories ───────────────────────────────────────────╮ ╭─ Running ──────────────────────────────────────╮
│ DC01  ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓                          │ │ ✗ Identity      ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 100%  ✓ 9 ✗ 1 ▴ 0 │ │ ✗ Checks complete                              │
│ DC02  ✓ ✗ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓                          │ │ ✓ DNS           ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 100%  ✓ 5 ✗ 0 ▴ 0 │ │                                                │
│ FS01  ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✗ ✓ ✓                          │ │ ✗ Certificates  ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 100%  ✓ 8 ✗ 1 ▴ 1 │ │                                                │
│ SQL01 ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✗ ▴                          │ │ ✗ Updates       ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 100%  ✓ 4 ✗ 1 ▴ 0 │ │                                                │
│ WEB01 ✓ ✓ ✓ ✗ ▴ ✓ ✓ ✓                          │ │ ✗ Storage       ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 100%  ✓ 4 ✗ 1 ▴ 0 │ │                                                │
│ ✓ 34 passed  ✗ 4 failed  ▴ 2 warnings          │ │ ▴ Services      ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 100%  ✓ 4 ✗ 0 ▴ 1 │ │                                                │
│                                                │ │ ────────────────────────────────────────────────────── │ │                                                │
│                                                │ │ Domain   corp.example.test                             │ │                                                │
│                                                │ │ Servers  5 · 3 sites                                   │ │                                                │
│                                                │ │ Checks   8 · 40 in all                                 │ │                                                │
│                                                │ │ Report   HTML                                          │ │                                                │
╰────────────────────────────────────────────────╯ ╰────────────────────────────────────────────────────────╯ ╰────────────────────────────────────────────────╯
╭─ Findings ─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────╮ ╭─ Slowest checks ─────────────────────────────────────╮ ╭─ Durations ──────╮
│ Server  Check            Expected      Actual                                  │ │ Check            Server  Took                        │ │ 18│██            │
│ ──────  ───────────────  ────────────  ────────────────────────────            │ │ ───────────────  ──────  ─────                       │ │   │██            │
│ DC02    Time offset      under 1 s     4.7 s                                   │ │ Missing updates  WEB01   10.9s                       │ │   │██ ██         │
│ WEB01   Cert expiry      30+ days      9 days                                  │ │ Missing updates  SQL01   9.8s                        │ │   │██ ██         │
│ WEB01   Cert chain       trusted root  intermediate ends in 40 days            │ │ Missing updates  FS01    8.7s                        │ │   │██ ██ ▃▃      │
│ FS01    Missing updates  0             3 updates                               │ │ Missing updates  DC02    7.6s                        │ │   │██ ██ ██ ▁▁▁  │
│ SQL01   Free space       15% free      6% on data volume                       │ │ Missing updates  DC01    6.5s                        │ │  0│██ ██ ██ ███  │
│ SQL01   Auto services    all running   1 restarted                             │ │                                                      │ │    0  2  4  8 16 │
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╭─ Log ────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────╮
│        DC01 · Auto services: all running                                                                                                                     │
│        DC02 · Auto services: all running                                                                                                                     │
│        FS01 · Auto services: all running                                                                                                                     │
│ ▴ WARN SQL01 · Auto services: 1 restarted                                                                                                                    │
│        WEB01 · Auto services: all running                                                                                                                    │
│        Preparing HTML report: /tmp/reports/fleet                                                                                                             │
│        Report ready · 6 findings to review                                                                                                                   │
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Fleet health

Plan a fleet check, review the command and follow every category through findings and results.

Showcase
Live
160×50
317 lines

How it's built PowerShell · C#

Show-ConsoleDemo fleet

dotnet new consolemonster --demo fleet

Stress test

 Stress test · 32 workers · captured tool output · 6s                                                                                       

╭─ Workers ───────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────╮ ╭─ Session ────────────────────────────────╮
│ ✓ worker 01  ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 100%  ✓ 93088 ✗  1030 ▴  5882  done                      │ │ Updates posted     768,000               │
│ ✓ worker 02  ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 100%  ✓ 93088 ✗  1030 ▴  5882  done                      │ │ Updates applied    768,000               │
│ ✓ worker 03  ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 100%  ✓ 93088 ✗  1030 ▴  5882  done                      │ │ Update rate       27,193/s               │
│ ✓ worker 04  ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 100%  ✓ 93088 ✗  1030 ▴  5882  done                      │ │ Frames                  90               │
│ ✓ worker 05  ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 100%  ✓ 93088 ✗  1030 ▴  5882  done                      │ │ Frame rate            15.0 fps           │
│ ✓ worker 06  ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 100%  ✓ 93088 ✗  1030 ▴  5882  done                      │ │ CPU                   101%               │
│ ✓ worker 07  ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 100%  ✓ 93088 ✗  1030 ▴  5882  done                      │ │ CPU share            12.6% of 8 cores    │
│ ✓ worker 08  ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 100%  ✓ 93088 ✗  1030 ▴  5882  done                      │ │ Stray writes            24               │
│ ✓ worker 09  ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 100%  ✓ 93088 ✗  1030 ▴  5882  done                      │ │ Dropped / errors         0 / 0           │
│ ✓ worker 10  ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 100%  ✓ 93088 ✗  1030 ▴  5882  done                      │ │ ── updates/s ─────────────────────────── │
│ ✓ worker 11  ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 100%  ✓ 93088 ✗  1030 ▴  5882  done                      │ │  ▆▄▁█▅▃ ▇▄▁█▅▃ ▇▄▂ ▆▃▁▇▅▂ ▆▄▁█▅▃ ▇       │
│ ✓ worker 12  ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 100%  ✓ 93088 ✗  1030 ▴  5882  done                      │ │ ██████████████████▇███████████████       │
│ ✓ worker 13  ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 100%  ✓ 93088 ✗  1030 ▴  5882  done                      │ │ ██████████████████████████████████ 27k/s │
│ ✓ worker 14  ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 100%  ✓ 93088 ✗  1030 ▴  5882  done                      │ │ ── CPU % (100% = one core) ───────────── │
│ ✓ worker 15  ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 100%  ✓ 93088 ✗  1030 ▴  5882  done                      │ │ 115%│  ⢠⡆ ⢀⡄  ⡼⡀ ⣴  ⣠  ⢠⢇ ⢀⡆ ⢀⡄  ⡼⡀ ⣰  ⢠ │
│ ✓ worker 16  ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 100%  ✓ 93088 ✗  1030 ▴  5882  done                      │ │     │ ⡠⠃⢣⢀⠎⢇ ⡜ ⢇⡜⠘⡄⡰⠹⡀⢠⠃⢸⢀⠎⢸⢀⠎⢇ ⡜ ⡇⡰⠁⡇⢠⠃ │
│ ✓ worker 17  ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 100%  ✓ 93088 ✗  1030 ▴  5882  done                      │ │     │⡰⠁ ⠸⠃ ⢸⠎  ⠘⠁ ⠗⠁ ⡧⠃  ⠏ ⠈⡞ ⢸⡜  ⠸⠁ ⢱⠃  │
│ ✓ worker 18  ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 100%  ✓ 93088 ✗  1030 ▴  5882  done                      │ │     │⠁                        ⠈          │
│ ✓ worker 19  ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 100%  ✓ 93088 ✗  1030 ▴  5882  done                      │ │   0%│                                    │
│ ✓ worker 20  ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 100%  ✓ 93088 ✗  1030 ▴  5882  done                      │ │     └─────────────────────────────────── │
│ ✓ worker 21  ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 100%  ✓ 93088 ✗  1030 ▴  5882  done                      │ │                                          │
│ ✓ worker 22  ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 100%  ✓ 93088 ✗  1030 ▴  5882  done                      │ │                                          │
│ ✓ worker 23  ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 100%  ✓ 93088 ✗  1030 ▴  5882  done                      │ │                                          │
│ ✓ worker 24  ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 100%  ✓ 93088 ✗  1030 ▴  5882  done                      │ │                                          │
│ ✓ worker 25  ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 100%  ✓ 93088 ✗  1030 ▴  5882  done                      │ │                                          │
│ ✓ worker 26  ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 100%  ✓ 93088 ✗  1030 ▴  5882  done                      │ │                                          │
│ ✓ worker 27  ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 100%  ✓ 93088 ✗  1030 ▴  5882  done                      │ │                                          │
│ ✓ worker 28  ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 100%  ✓ 93088 ✗  1030 ▴  5882  done                      │ │                                          │
│ ✓ worker 29  ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 100%  ✓ 93088 ✗  1030 ▴  5882  done                      │ │                                          │
│ ✓ worker 30  ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 100%  ✓ 93088 ✗  1030 ▴  5882  done                      │ │                                          │
│ ✓ worker 31  ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 100%  ✓ 93088 ✗  1030 ▴  5882  done                      │ │                                          │
│ ✓ worker 32  ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 100%  ✓ 93088 ✗  1030 ▴  5882  done                      │ │                                          │
╰─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────╯ ╰──────────────────────────────────────────╯
╭─ Captured output ────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────╮
│       stray-2-18: FakeLib: GC pause 8 ms                                                                                                 │
│       stray-3-19: FakeLib: flushed 960 records                                                                                           │
│       stray-0-20: FakeLib: cache miss for key 412                                                                                        │
│ ✗ ERR stray-1-21: FakeLib: retrying request 28 (attempt 2)                                                                               │
│       stray-2-22: FakeLib: connection pool at 76% capacity                                                                               │
│       stray-3-23: FakeLib: GC pause 8 ms                                                                                                 │
╰──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────╯
 32 workers    15 frames/s    Ctrl+C stop

Stress test

Keep thirty-two workers, session counters, CPU trends and captured output readable under sustained updates.

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Parallel patch wave

── Patching the web farm ───────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────

40 hosts · throttle 8 · per-host timeout 4s

━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━  40/40  100%  · ✓ 36 passed  ✗ 4 failed  ● 0 running  ○ 0 pending

╭─ Host outcomes ──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────╮
│ web01–10 ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓                                                                                         │
│ web11–20 ✓ ✓ ✗ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓                                                                                         │
│ web21–30 ✓ ✗ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✗ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓                                                                                         │
│ web31–40 ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✗ ✓                                                                                         │
│ ✓ 36 passed  ✗ 4 failed                                                                                              │
╰──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────╯

╭─ Last eight hosts ───────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────╮
│ ✓ web33  ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 100%  ✓4 ✗0 ▴0  done                                                   │
│ ✓ web34  ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 100%  ✓4 ✗0 ▴0  done                                                   │
│ ✓ web35  ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 100%  ✓4 ✗0 ▴0  done                                                   │
│ ✓ web36  ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 100%  ✓4 ✗0 ▴0  done                                                   │
│ ✓ web37  ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 100%  ✓4 ✗0 ▴0  done                                                   │
│ ✓ web38  ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 100%  ✓4 ✗0 ▴0  done                                                   │
│ ✗ web39  ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 100%  ✓3 ✗1 ▴0  done                                                   │
│ ✓ web40  ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 100%  ✓4 ✗0 ▴0  done                                                   │
╰──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────╯

╭─ Retained failures ──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────╮
│ ✗ web13                                                                                  Restart verification failed │
│ ✗ web22                                                                                4s timeout · retry separately │
│ ✗ web26                                                                                  Restart verification failed │
│ ✗ web39                                                                                  Restart verification failed │
╰──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────╯

Wave finished · failed hosts remain available for a separate retry

Parallel patch wave

Run forty hosts eight at a time, bound each task and retain restart failures and timeouts.

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Module build pipeline

 Module build · Build-Module ConsoleMonster                                                                                                 

 ✓ Prepare 0.9s › ✓ Restore 1.6s › ✓ Build 6.6s › ▴ Test 7.7s › ✓ Docs 2.6s › – Sign 0.3s › ✓ Package 2.0s › – Publish 0.3s

╭─ Steps ─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────╮ ╭─ Module ─────────────────────────────────────────────╮
│ ✓ Read Build/project.build.json                                            0.4s │ │ Module      ConsoleMonster                           │
│ ✓ Update ConsoleMonster.psd1                                               0.5s │ │ Version     0.0.4 → 2.0.0                            │
│ ✓ Restore NuGet packages                                                   1.6s │ │ Frameworks  netstandard2.0 · net472 · net8.0         │
│ ✓ Compile ConsoleMonster (netstandard2.0)                                  1.8s │ │ PowerShell  5.1 Desktop · 7.x Core                   │
│ ✓ Compile ConsoleMonster (net472)                                          1.5s │ │ Run mode    Build                                    │
│ ✓ Compile ConsoleMonster (net8.0)                                          1.4s │ │ Elapsed     22.0s                                    │
│ ✓ Compile ConsoleMonster.PowerShell                                        1.9s │ │ ──────────────────────────────────────────────────── │
│ ✓ Run xUnit tests (net472, net8.0)                                         3.2s │ │ Overall   ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━  100%  16/16 │
│ ✓ Run compatibility tests                                                  2.4s │ │ ── Compiler workers ──────────────────────────────── │
│ ▴ Run Pester tests (PowerShell 7.5)                                        2.1s │ │ ✓ netstandard2.0  ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 100%  ✓1 ✗0 ▴0 │
│ ✓ Generate markdown help (38 commands)                                     1.7s │ │ ✓ net472          ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 100%  ✓1 ✗0 ▴0 │
│ ✓ Generate en-US MAML help                                                 0.9s │ │ ✓ net8.0          ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 100%  ✓1 ✗0 ▴0 │
│ – Sign module files                                                        0.3s │ │ ✓ PowerShell      ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 100%  ✓1 ✗0 ▴0 │
│ ✓ Pack ConsoleMonster.2.0.0.nupkg                                          1.2s │ │                                                      │
│ ✓ Create module archive                                                    0.8s │ │                                                      │
│ – Publish to PowerShell Gallery                                            0.3s │ │                                                      │
╰─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────╯ ╰──────────────────────────────────────────────────────╯
╭─ Output ─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────╮
│ ▴ WARN Tests Passed: 40, Failed: 0, Skipped: 1 (requires conhost)                                                                        │
│        Docs/Readme.md updated                                                                                                            │
│        Docs/Write-ConsoleTable.md ... Docs/Start-ConsoleDashboard.md                                                                     │
│        en-US/ConsoleMonster.PowerShell.dll-Help.xml (412 KB)                                                                             │
│ – SKIP SignModule is $false for this build; skipping Authenticode signing                                                                │
│        Successfully created package 'Artefacts/ProjectBuild/ConsoleMonster.2.0.0.nupkg'.                                                 │
│        Artefacts/Packed/ConsoleMonster-v2.0.0.zip (1.1 MB)                                                                               │
│ – SKIP RunMode is Build; publishing is disabled                                                                                          │
╰──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────╯
 Prepare · Restore · Build · Test · Docs · Sign · Package · Publish    Ctrl+C stop

Module build pipeline

Follow all sixteen build steps with phase timings, compiler lanes, module facts and captured output.

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Interactive prompt tour

Try typed choices, task previews, confirmation, text, secret, number and path prompts, plus a live dashboard pause.

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DNS and mail query report

── DNS query results · example.test ────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────

 Domain      example.test
 Resolver    Edge west DNS over HTTPS (192.0.2.53)
 Query time  38 ms for 7 record types
 Records     10
 DNSSEC      ▴ not signed

╭─────────────────────┬──────┬────────┬────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────╮
│ Name                │ Type │    TTL │ Data                                                                                                   │
│ example.test        │ A    │    300 │ 192.0.2.12                                                                                             │
│ example.test        │ A    │    300 │ 198.51.100.94                                                                                          │
│ example.test        │ AAAA │    300 │ 2001:db8::12                                                                                           │
│ example.test        │ MX   │  3,600 │ 10 mail.example.test                                                                                   │
│ example.test        │ NS   │ 86,400 │ ns1.example.test                                                                                       │
│ example.test        │ NS   │ 86,400 │ ns2.example.test                                                                                       │
│ example.test        │ TXT  │  3,600 │ v=spf1 include:spf.example.test include:relay.example.test ip4:203.0.113.9 -all                        │
│ _dmarc.example.test │ TXT  │  3,600 │ v=DMARC1; p=reject; rua=mailto:[email protected]; ruf=mailto:[email protected]; fo=1              │
│ example.test        │ CAA  │  3,600 │ 0 issue "ca.example.test"                                                                              │
│ example.test        │ SOA  │  3,600 │ ns1.example.test. hostmaster.example.test. 2026102401 10000 2400 604800 3600                           │
╰─────────────────────┴──────┴────────┴────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────╯

╭─ Delegation ────────────────────────────────────────────────────────╮ ╭─ Mail security ─────────────────────────────────────── example.test ─╮
│ . root                                                              │ │ ✓ SPF record present and valid                             9 lookups │
│ └── test.  reserved namespace                                       │ │ ✓ DMARC policy enforced                                     p=reject │
│     ├── ns.test  192.0.2.42                                         │ │ ✓ DKIM selector1 / selector2                                2048-bit │
│     └── example.test.  2 name servers                               │ │ ▴ MTA-STS policy                                       not published │
│         ├── ✓ ns1.example.test  198.51.100.103 · 12 ms              │ │ ▴ TLS-RPT reporting                                    not published │
│         ├── ✓ ns2.example.test  203.0.113.149 · 14 ms               │ │ ✗ DNSSEC chain of trust                              zone not signed │
│         └── mail  MX target                                         │ │ – BIMI record                                               optional │
│             └── ✓ mail.example.test  192.0.2.17                     │ │ ──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────── │
│                                                                     │ │ Edge west      ▆▆▆▆▆▆▆▆▆▆▆▆                                    12 ms │
│                                                                     │ │ Edge east      ▆▆▆▆▆▆▆▆▆▆▆▆▆▆▆▆▆▆                              18 ms │
│                                                                     │ │ Cache north    ▆▆▆▆▆▆▆▆▆▆▆▆▆▆▆▆▆▆▆▆▆▆▆▆                        24 ms │
│                                                                     │ │ Cache south    ▆▆▆▆▆▆▆▆▆▆▆▆▆▆▆▆▆▆▆▆▆▆▆▆▆▆▆▆▆▆▆                 31 ms │
│                                                                     │ │ Local resolver ▆▆▆▆▆▆▆▆▆▆▆▆▆▆▆▆▆▆▆▆▆▆▆▆▆▆▆▆▆▆▆▆▆▆▆▆▆▆▆▆▆▆▆▆▆▆▆ 47 ms │
╰─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────╯ ╰──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────╯

DNS and mail query report

Combine a query summary, wrapped DNS records, a delegation tree, mail checks and resolver latency.

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Complete setup wizard

── Install Toolbox Agent ───────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────

✓ Location › ✓ Components › ✓ Service › ✓ Connection › ✓ Review › ✓ Install › ✓ Result

╭─ 7 / 7 · Result ─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────╮
│ ✓ Copy files                                                                                                 │
│ ✓ Register agent                                                                                             │
│ ✓ Configure connection                                                                                       │
│ ✓ Start agent                                                                                                │
│                                                                                                              │
│ Install  ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━  100%  40/40 │
│                                                                                                              │
│ Toolbox Agent installed · 4 steps done · launch with the toolbox command                                     │
╰──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────╯
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Complete setup wizard

Walk through component choices, dependent server loading, review, installation progress and a result.

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Server toolbox

 Server toolbox · lab.example.test · 4 servers · 4 tasks                                                               00:00:00 

━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━  16/16  100%  · ✓ 12 passed  ▴ 2 warnings  ✗ 2 failed  · in 1.3s
✓ Discover › ✓ Connect › ✗ Tasks › ✓ Report
╭─ Servers ───────────────────────────────────────────────────╮ ╭─ Run options ────────────────────────────────────────────────╮
│ ▴ FS01  Warsaw   ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 100%  ✓3 ✗0 ▴1 │ │ Targets   4 servers                                          │
│ ✗ FS02  Warsaw   ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 100%  ✓3 ✗1 ▴0 │ │ Tasks     4 per server                                       │
│ ▴ WEB01  Warsaw  ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 100%  ✓3 ✗0 ▴1 │ │ Parallel  3                                                  │
│ ✗ SQL01  Warsaw  ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 100%  ✓3 ✗1 ▴0 │ │ Report    HTML                                               │
│                                                             │ │ Dry run   no                                                 │
╰─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────╯ ╰──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────╯
╭─ Findings ───────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────╮
│ Server  Task                Expected          Actual                                                                         │
│ ──────  ──────────────────  ────────────────  ─────────────────────────────                                                  │
│ FS01    Disk cleanup        cache under 1 GB  1.4 GB remains                                                                 │
│ FS02    Patch status        0 missing         3 updates missing for 41 days                                                  │
│ WEB01   Certificate expiry  30+ days          expires in 24 days                                                             │
│ SQL01   Disk space          15% free          4% free on data volume                                                         │
╰──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────╯
╭─ Log ────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────╮
│       SQL01 · Certificate expiry: 30+ days                                                                                   │
│       FS01 · Disk space: 15% free                                                                                            │
│       FS02 · Disk space: 15% free                                                                                            │
│       WEB01 · Disk space: 15% free                                                                                           │
│ ✗ ERR SQL01 · Disk space: 4% free on data volume                                                                             │
│       Preparing HTML report: /tmp/reports/toolbox                                                                            │
│       Report ready · 4 findings to review                                                                                    │
╰──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────╯
 Ctrl+C cancel · results keep the findings

Server toolbox

Select servers and maintenance tasks, review options and follow a run into actionable results.

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Starters

Small programs that do one thing well. Copy one, change the data, keep the layout.

Backup jobs with retry

── Nightly backup · throttle 2 · maximum 2 attempts ────────────────────────────────────────────────

╭────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┬─────────┬──────────┬────────╮
│ Job                                                                │ Size    │ Attempts │ Status │
├────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┼─────────┼──────────┼────────┤
│ catalog                                                            │ 2.4 GiB │        1 │ ✓ Pass │
│ media                                                              │ 8.1 GiB │        2 │ ✓ Pass │
│ settings                                                           │ 14 MiB  │        1 │ ✓ Pass │
│ audit                                                              │ 640 MiB │        1 │ ✓ Pass │
╰────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┴─────────┴──────────┴────────╯

4 passed   1 recovered on retry   retention: 14 days

Backup jobs with retry

Run a bounded wave, retain its outcomes and retry only unfinished jobs.

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Build steps

Build pipeline · Orbit.Tools

╭─ Release checklist ──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────╮
│ Restore  complete                                                                    │
│ Compile  complete                                                                    │
│ Test  complete                                                                       │
│ Package  complete                                                                    │
╰──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────╯

Overall  ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━  100%  4/4

Project    Orbit.Tools
Version    1.2.0
Artifacts  ./artifacts/
Publish    manual approval

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Build steps

Follow a dry-run build from restore to package without running build tools.

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Certificate expiry report

── Certificate renewals · as of 2026-10-24 ─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────

1 urgent   1 due soon   2 healthy

╭──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┬────────────┬──────┬──────────┬────────╮
│ Name                                                     │ Expires    │ Days │ Owner    │ Status │
├──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┼────────────┼──────┼──────────┼────────┤
│ api.example.test                                         │ 2026-11-02 │    9 │ Platform │ ▴ Warn │
│ vpn.example.test                                         │ 2026-10-26 │    2 │ Network  │ ✗ Fail │
│ packages.example.test                                    │ 2027-02-14 │  113 │ Build    │ ✓ Pass │
│ portal.example.test                                      │ 2026-12-18 │   55 │ Web      │ ✓ Pass │
╰──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┴────────────┴──────┴──────────┴────────╯

╭─ Renewal policy ─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────╮
│ ✗ vpn.example.test                                                 Network · renew before Monday │
│ ▴ api.example.test                                         Platform · schedule renewal this week │
│ Urgent: 7 days or fewer · due soon: 30 days or fewer                                             │
╰──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────╯

Certificate expiry report

Review certificate renewal deadlines, named owners and practical next actions in one concise report.

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Disk usage review

── Storage review · capacity planning ──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────

╭─ Used / 100 GiB ──────────────────────────────╮ ╭─ Largest folders ──────────────────────────────╮
│ Workspace ▆▆▆▆▆▆▆▆▆▆▆▆▆▆▆▆▆▆▆             62% │ │ ./                                             │
│ Cache     ▆▆▆▆▆▆▆▆▆▆▆▆▆▆▆▆▆▆▆▆▆▆▆▆▆▆      88% │ │ ├── ./workspace                                │
│ Artifacts ▆▆▆▆▆▆▆▆▆▆▆▆▆▆▆▆▆▆▆▆▆▆▆▆▆▆▆▆    94% │ │ │   ├── src  12 GiB                            │
│ Archive   ▆▆▆▆▆▆▆▆▆▆                      35% │ │ │   ├── packages  31 GiB                       │
│                                               │ │ │   └── fixtures  19 GiB                       │
│                                               │ │ ├── ./cache                                    │
│                                               │ │ │   ├── dependencies  63 GiB                   │
│                                               │ │ │   └── downloads  25 GiB                      │
│                                               │ │ └── ./artifacts                                │
│                                               │ │     ├── current  18 GiB                        │
│                                               │ │     └── history  76 GiB                        │
╰───────────────────────────────────────────────╯ ╰────────────────────────────────────────────────╯

╭─ Next action ────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────╮
│ Artifacts is at 94%. Review the retention policy before the next build.                          │
│ Keep the current release; archive history older than 30 days.                                    │
╰──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────╯

Disk usage review

Show storage pressure with threshold bars, a folder breakdown and a clear summary of remaining capacity.

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Everyday formatting

── Everyday formatting | same objects, clearer output ──────────────────────────────────

Before | plain text

Draft release notes | Ready | 12 min
Review examples | In progress | 25 min
Archive old drafts | Waiting | 8 min

After | ConsoleMonster table

╭──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┬─────────────┬─────────╮
│ Task                                                         │ State       │ Minutes │
├──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┼─────────────┼─────────┤
│ Draft release notes                                          │ ✓ Ready     │      12 │
│ Review examples                                              │ In progress │      25 │
│ Archive old drafts                                           │ Waiting     │       8 │
╰──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┴─────────────┴─────────╯

Three tasks. Aligned columns and right-aligned numbers.

Everyday formatting

Turn the same task objects from plain text into a readable table with status colour and aligned numbers.

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Fleet filter

Fleet health · production inventory

╭─ Fleet summary ──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────╮
│ 2 healthy  1 warning  1 offline  1 running                                           │
╰──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────╯

╭─ › Filter ───────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────╮
│ missing                                                                              │
╰──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────╯

0 of 5 hosts
╭──────┬──────┬──────┬────────╮
│ Host │ Role │ Site │ Status │
├──────┼──────┼──────┼────────┤
╰──────┴──────┴──────┴────────╯
No matching hosts. Backspace to broaden the filter.
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Fleet filter

Filter five hosts as you type while retaining the fleet-wide health summary above the matching rows.

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Live filter app

Live filter · host inventory

╭─ › Filter ───────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────╮
│ missing                                                                              │
╰──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────╯

0 of 5 hosts
╭──────┬──────┬──────┬────────╮
│ Host │ Role │ Site │ Status │
├──────┼──────┼──────┼────────┤
╰──────┴──────┴──────┴────────╯
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Live filter app

Type a literal query and watch matching table rows update immediately while keeping their columns aligned.

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Log tail

Application log · worker events

╭─ ./logs/worker.log ──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────╮
│ 09:41:00 INFO  Worker started                                                        │
│ 09:41:01 INFO  Loaded 12 queued jobs                                                 │
│ 09:41:02 WARN  Cache cold; using local fallback                                      │
│ 09:41:03 INFO  Cache warm; queue draining                                            │
│ 09:41:04 INFO  Batch complete; no jobs lost                                          │
╰──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────╯

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Log tail

Watch a bounded log fill with synthetic events and a recoverable warning.

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Patch progress

Parallel patch run · throttle 3

╭────────┬──────────┬──────────────╮
│ Host   │ Stage    │ Result       │
├────────┼──────────┼──────────────┤
│ web-01 │ Finished │ ✓ Pass       │
│ web-02 │ Finished │ ✓ Pass       │
│ web-03 │ Finished │ Retry needed │
│ job-01 │ Finished │ ✓ Pass       │
│ sql-01 │ Finished │ ✓ Pass       │
│ sql-02 │ Finished │ ✓ Pass       │
╰────────┴──────────┴──────────────╯

5 passed  1 retry needed

Patch progress

Run six harmless preview jobs with a concurrency limit and one retry outcome.

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Host and port matrix

── Application connectivity · core services ────────────────────────────────────────────────────────

╭─ HTTPS 443   |   SQL 5432   |   Cache 6379 ──────────────────────────────────────────────────────╮
│ web-01   ✓ – –                                                                                   │
│ web-02   ✓ – –                                                                                   │
│ api-01   ✓ ✗ ▴                                                                                   │
│ sql-01   – ✓ –                                                                                   │
│ cache-01 – – ✓                                                                                   │
│ ✓ 5 passed  ✗ 1 failed  ▴ 1 warning  – 8 skipped                                                 │
╰──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────╯

╭─ Exceptions to investigate ──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────╮
│ ✗ api-01 → SQL 5432                             Connection refused · check listener and access … │
│ ▴ api-01 → Cache 6379                                              180 ms · expected under 50 ms │
╰──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────╯

Skipped cells are ports that host does not need.

Host and port matrix

Put application connectivity and its exceptions on one screen, with host, port and status columns.

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Process monitor

── Process monitor · refresh 1s ────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────

CPU 66%   Memory 1768 MiB   4 processes

╭──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┬──────┬───────┬────────────╮
│ Name                                                                 │  Pid │ CPU % │ Memory MiB │
├──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┼──────┼───────┼────────────┤
│ build-worker                                                         │ 4102 │    48 │        892 │
│ test-runner                                                          │ 4107 │    34 │        544 │
│ api-host                                                             │ 4120 │    18 │        252 │
│ file-watcher                                                         │ 4131 │     9 │         80 │
╰──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┴──────┴───────┴────────────╯

╭─ CPU history ────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────╮
│ CPU %                                                                                  ▅▅▆▆▇█ 66 │
╰──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────╯

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Process monitor

Track CPU and memory counters in a bounded live dashboard with process rows and a compact summary.

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Readiness report

── Readiness assessment | workspace ────────────────────────────────────────────────────

3 passed   1 warning   1 failed   5 checks total

╭─ Checks ─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────╮
│ ✓ Configuration                                        All required settings present │
│ ✓ Dependencies                                               No conflicting versions │
│ ▴ Test coverage                                         Two scenarios need attention │
│ ✓ Documentation                                       Examples match the current API │
│ ✗ Recovery plan                                       Restore rehearsal still needed │
╰──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────╯

╭─ Readiness by area ──────────────────────────────────────────────────── score / 100 ─╮
│ Configuration ▆▆▆▆▆▆▆▆▆▆▆▆▆▆▆▆▆▆▆▆▆▆▆▆▆▆▆▆▆▆▆▆▆▆▆▆▆▆▆▆▆▆▆▆▆▆▆▆▆▆▆▆▆▆▆▆▆▆▆▆▆▆▆▆▆ 100% │
│ Coverage      ▆▆▆▆▆▆▆▆▆▆▆▆▆▆▆▆▆▆▆▆▆▆▆▆▆▆▆▆▆▆▆▆▆▆▆▆▆▆▆▆▆▆▆▆▆▆▆                    72% │
│ Recovery      ▆▆▆▆▆▆▆▆▆▆▆▆▆▆▆▆▆▆▆▆▆▆▆                                            35% │
╰──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────╯

Next: rehearse a restore, then add the two missing test scenarios.

Review owner: Platform team · next review: Friday

Readiness report

Show what passed, what needs attention, and where to start in one static dashboard.

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Many-repository status

── Repository workspace · ./work ───────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────

╭─────────────┬───────────────────────────────────────────────┬──────────┬────────┬───────┬────────╮
│ Repository  │ Branch                                        │ Modified │ Staged │ Ahead │ Behind │
├─────────────┼───────────────────────────────────────────────┼──────────┼────────┼───────┼────────┤
│ orbit-api   │ feature/cache                                 │        3 │      1 │     2 │      0 │
│ orbit-cli   │ main                                          │        0 │      0 │     0 │      4 │
│ orbit-docs  │ docs/setup                                    │        2 │      0 │     0 │      0 │
│ orbit-tests │ main                                          │        0 │      0 │     0 │      0 │
╰─────────────┴───────────────────────────────────────────────┴──────────┴────────┴───────┴────────╯

╭─ Suggested next steps ───────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────╮
│ ◆ orbit-api                                             Review the staged diff before committing │
│ ▴ orbit-cli                                     Working tree clean; inspect four incoming commi… │
│ ◆ orbit-docs                                                         Two local edits need review │
│ ✓ orbit-tests                                                               Clean and up to date │
╰──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────╯

Many-repository status

Review local edits and branch divergence across several repositories in one compact workspace report.

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Basic setup wizard

Install Toolbox Agent · Toolbox Agent

╭─ › Install folder ───────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────╮
│ ./toolbox-agent                                                                      │
╰──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────╯

╭─ Component ──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────╮
│ › type to filter                                                                     │
│   Core                                                                               │
│   Core + reports                                                                     │
│                                                                                      │
╰──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────╯

╭─ Back ───────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────╮
│  Back                                                                                │
╰──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────╯

╭─ Next / preview ─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────╮
│  Next / preview                                                                      │
╰──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────╯

╭─ 3 / 3 · Review ─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────╮
│ Folder: ./toolbox-agent                                                              │
│ Component: Core                                                                      │
│ Ready to install. Review the folder and components.                                  │
╰──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────╯
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Basic setup wizard

Edit a folder and component choice, then step through an installation preview.

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Task menu

Server toolbox · operations

╭─ › Task ─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────╮
│ › type to filter                                                                     │
│   Health report                                                                      │
│   Inspect queue                                                                      │
│ ▌ Preview cleanup                                                                    │
│                                                                                      │
╰──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────╯

╭─ Preview ────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────╮
│ 3 artifacts eligible                                                                 │
│ Eligible artifacts: build-cache, test-output, old-logs.                              │
╰──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────╯
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Choose a task and inspect a safe preview before connecting your own actions.

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Three-line welcome

Add a small greeting, workspace hint, and useful tip to your shell profile.

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Workspace welcome

█   █ █▀▀▀▀ █     █     ▄▀▀▀▄
█▄▄▄█ █▄▄▄  █     █     █   █
█   █ █     █     █     █   █
▀   ▀ ▀▀▀▀▀ ▀▀▀▀▀ ▀▀▀▀▀  ▀▀▀
A little context before your next command.

╭─ Host summary ───────────────────────────────────────────────────── local workspace ─╮
│ Host       comet-devbox                                                              │
│ Platform   Cross-platform development                                                │
│ Runtime    PowerShell 7.4+ / .NET 8+                                                 │
│ Workspace  comet-notes                                                               │
╰──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────╯

╭─ Git | comet-notes ──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────╮
│ main   2 modified   1 staged   0 ahead / 0 behind                                    │
╰──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────╯

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Ready when you are.

Workspace welcome

Start a shell session with a logo, host summary, git snapshot, and one useful tip.

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Worker progress

Worker stress dashboard · worker pool

╭─ Workers ───────────────────────────────╮ ╭─ Session ────────────────────────────────╮
│ worker-01  ━━━━━━━━━━━──   85%   85/100 │ │ Updates  2080                            │
│ worker-02  ━━━━━━━━━━━╾─   90%   90/100 │ │ Queue    4                               │
│ worker-03  ━━━━━━━━━━━━╾   95%   95/100 │ │ Workers  8                               │
│ worker-04  ━━━━━━━━━━━━━  100%  100/100 │ │ Dropped  0                               │
│ worker-05  ━━━━━━━━━━━━━  100%  100/100 │ │ updates/s                     ▃▅▅▇▆█ 280 │
│ worker-06  ━━━━━━━━━━━━━  100%  100/100 │ │                                          │
│ worker-07  ━━━━━━━━━━━━━  100%  100/100 │ │                                          │
│ worker-08  ━━━━━━━━━━━━━  100%  100/100 │ │                                          │
╰─────────────────────────────────────────╯ ╰──────────────────────────────────────────╯

Ctrl+C stops the live run.

Worker progress

Follow eight simulated workers with progress lanes, a throughput trend and a bounded work queue.

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