Overview
Beyond status badges and the Day Planner, Cowork exposes richer monitoring inside the employee drawer and run detail — not on a separate analytics dashboard. Use these views when you need to understand how an employee has been working, how reliably, and at what cost.Performance summary (drawer)
The employee drawer includes an aggregate summary for that employee:- Total runs and split between succeeded and failed
- Success rate over all recorded runs
- Average run duration
- Total credits consumed
Planner notes (run detail)
Some employees maintain a planner journal: compact summaries of recent heartbeats that help the employee stay oriented across runs without keeping an enormous chat context. When enabled for your workspace, journal entries appear in run detail for eligible runs — a readable digest of what the employee planned and did, plus any open threads it flagged for itself.Per-run cost and usage
Each run detail shows credits used and, when available, token counts and the model that handled the work. Compare runs to tune:- Work instructions (shorter, clearer tasks often cost less)
- Model choice in Advanced settings
- Work Cycle frequency (fewer wakes → lower steady spend)
Goal progress signals
When goal tracking is active, the drawer may surface how the employee reports progress against its stated goal. Treat large gaps between expected and reported progress as a review trigger — adjust instructions or Work Mode rather than assuming silent success.When to go deeper vs stay in Mission Control
Related
Mission Control monitoring
Day Planner, drawer stats, and pending items
Execution History
Timeline and run detail