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Overview

Monitoring in Cowork happens on the Mesh Canvas (Mission Control at /cowork) — not on a separate Control Center page. You watch employees from three surfaces that work together:
  1. Day Planner — upcoming wake-ups and pending items across your workspace
  2. Employee detail drawer — status, stats, and timeline for one employee
  3. Mesh nodes — live status badges on each employee on the canvas

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Day Planner

Open the Mission Control / Day Planner panel on the Mesh Canvas. It answers “what needs attention now?” Typical lanes include:
  • Upcoming wake-ups — scheduled Work Cycle runs about to start
  • Pending approvals — plan reviews, input requests, connector decisions, and hire reviews waiting on you
  • Recent activity — quick scan of what ran recently across visible employees
Click an item to jump to the employee on the Mesh and open its drawer.
Resolve pending approvals promptly — blocked runs and scheduled wake-ups stay waiting until you decide.

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Employee detail drawer

Click any employee node to open the drawer. Monitoring details live here:
  • Status badge — Idle, Active, Running, Paused, Error, Pending approval, or Terminated
  • Summary stats — run counts, success rate, average duration, and credit usage for this employee
  • Timeline — recent runs with outcome, duration, and cost per run
  • Quick actions — invoke, pause, resume, or terminate (when you have permission)
See Execution History for how to read the timeline and open a run’s full detail.

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Pending items on the Mesh

Employees waiting on you show a Pending approval (or similar) status on their node. You may also see cues in the Day Planner. Open the drawer or the live run view to approve, reject, or answer input — see Approvals & Interactions.

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What to watch

Cowork does not show per-employee CPU or memory usage. Use run logs, timeline outcomes, and credit usage to judge health.

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Tips

  • Start each session in Mission Control — scan Day Planner, then spot-check nodes with Error or Pending approval
  • Use Cowork Layers to widen or narrow whose employees you see (My area through Full org)
  • For deeper per-run insight (planner notes, token/credit breakdown), open a run from the drawer — see Advanced Monitoring

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Next steps