Mission Control

Mission Control is a full-screen TUI dashboard that brings RSI activity, inbox proposals, and scheduled jobs into one place. Open it with /mission-control.

The Three Panels

The screen is divided into three panels: a large Inbox on the left, and Activity + Schedule stacked on the right.

Inbox

Pending RSI proposals displayed as cards. Each card shows:

Tool proposals (orange tool badge) — new dynamic tools RSI thinks you need, with the shell command template
Command proposals (teal command badge) — new slash commands RSI drafted based on usage patterns
Skill proposals — new SKILL.md files RSI drafted when it detects a repeated multi-step workflow that isn’t covered by an existing skill

Each card shows the proposal name, type badge, description or command template, and how long ago it was proposed.

Apply or reject proposals inline:

a — apply the selected proposal (installs tool/command to config, or creates skill directory)
r — reject the selected proposal (archives with optional reason)

Applied and rejected entries are archived daily to ~/.opencrabs/rsi/applied/ and ~/.opencrabs/rsi/rejected/ so the trail is auditable.

A banner on session start shows the count of pending inbox items.

Activity

A chronological feed of the last 100 RSI improvements. Shows what the autonomous engine did, when, and why:

Brain file modifications (SOUL.md, MEMORY.md, TOOLS.md, etc.)
Template syncs from upstream
Hard rule additions
Feedback analysis summaries
Violation count updates

Each entry shows the time ago, a summary of the change, and the target file.

Schedule

Your cron job queue with paused/active state. Each job shows:

Job name
Cron expression
Next run time (when active)
paused label (when paused)

See Cron Jobs for full cron documentation.

Cron BLOB Recovery (v0.3.20)

Cron jobs with legacy BLOB-typed prompt rows in the database are now tolerated instead of causing silent failures. The schedule panel resumes showing jobs normally.

The visible compaction banner text has been removed. The schedule panel now uses typing-only indicators during compaction windows (10-60s), keeping the experience clean.

Context Counter Evolution (v0.3.26→v0.3.28)

v0.3.26 — introduced per-provider tokenizer calibration. Uncalibrated providers showed 0/max until first message calibrated the ratio
v0.3.28 — calibration system removed entirely. Context counter now uses provider-reported input_tokens verbatim, showing real-time usage without calibration overhead

Key	Action
`Tab` / `Shift+Tab`	Cycle focus between panels (Inbox → Activity → Schedule)
`↑` / `↓`	Move selection within a panel
`Enter`	Open detail popup for selected item
`a`	Apply selected inbox proposal
`r`	Reject selected inbox proposal
`Esc`	Close popup or exit Mission Control

Architecture

Mission Control is split into three module trees:

Layer	Path	Purpose
Data services	`brain/mission_control/`	Fetches inbox proposals, activity log, schedule items
Panel renderers	`tui/render/mission_control/`	Draws each panel (inbox, activity, schedule, detail popup)
App state + input	`tui/app/mission_control/`	Focus management, keystroke handling, actions

Layout and keystroke contracts are unit-testable without spinning up a full App instance.

Self-Improvement (RSI) — the engine that generates proposals
Skills System — skills proposed by RSI land in the inbox
Dynamic Tools — what RSI tool proposals install into
Custom Commands — what RSI command proposals install into
Cron Jobs — the schedule panel

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