The web dashboard

Prefer a browser to the terminal? writing-agent web serves a local dashboard that drives the same engine as the TUI - the two read and write the same on-disk brain, so they can’t drift.

writing-agent web                 # opens http://127.0.0.1:8787 in your browser
writing-agent web --port 9000     # pick a different port
writing-agent web --no-browser    # start the server, don't auto-open

Local, single-operator - by design

The server binds 127.0.0.1 only, with no authentication (the same trust boundary as the TUI on your machine), and runs one background job at a time. Don’t port-forward or reverse-proxy it onto a network. Starting a second run while one is active returns a 409.

Under the hood it’s a pure-stdlib ThreadingHTTPServer with Server-Sent Events streaming a single-page app - no framework, no build step, no extra dependencies.

The views

View	What it shows
Studio	Start a run - abstract, mode, and the same settings the TUI exposes
Live run	The active run streamed over SSE: stage, tokens vs budget, cost, and each critic verdict as it lands
Projects	Every project with its type and status
Project	Per-project tabs: Overview · Activity · Evals · Artifacts · Rejected · Export · Cost
Telemetry	Per-call usage rolled up - calls, tokens, real USD cost, latency, errors (per node and per unit)
Skills	Learned craft skills and their efficacy
Settings	The same keys as config/settings.yaml, edited live

The Rejected tab surfaces rejected.jsonl - unused images and dropped artifacts the figure-reconciliation pass logged instead of silently discarding.

Export & rewrite

The Project → Export tab offers every format (PDF · EPUB · HTML · DOCX · TXT · MD) plus a Rewrite (restyle) option that re-voices the finished piece. See Exporting for the format details.

Themes

The dashboard follows the editorial design system with System / Light / Dark plus named themes; they recolor the surface, never restructure it. The same system governs the TUI.

Which surface should I use?

Both do the same work. Reach for the TUI for keyboard-driven, in-terminal runs and plain-English chat; reach for the dashboard when you’d rather click through projects, evals, and exports, or watch a run stream in a browser tab. Every run either one starts is resumable from the other.