Dashboard
mental dashboard opens a read-only page on your own machine. It shows the same journal, attention, and decisions as the CLI. It does not write them.
Default address: http://127.0.0.1:3847/. The process stays in the foreground until you press Ctrl-C.
mental dashboard
mental dashboard --no-open
mental dashboard --port 3848 --no-open
mental dashboard --idle-exit 30| Flag | What it does |
|---|---|
--port |
Port on 127.0.0.1. Default 3847. |
--no-open |
Print the URL. Do not open a browser. |
--idle-exit |
Exit after this many minutes with no requests. Use this for a detached launch. |
If 3847 is busy and you did not pass --port, Mental picks an ephemeral port and prints it. If you pass --port and that port is busy, Mental exits with an error. Free the port, or pass --port 0 for an ephemeral port.
Views
One server covers every project. The page selects a project with ?p= in the hash. The letter after g switches view.
| View | Hash | Keys | What you see |
|---|---|---|---|
| Today | #/today |
g then t |
Where you left off |
| Attention | #/attention |
g then a |
Open residue |
| Library | #/library |
g then l |
Journals, decisions, notes |
| Decisions | #/decisions |
g then d |
Decisions |
| Map | #/map |
g then m |
How files link |
| Sit-downs | #/sitdowns |
g then s |
Time tracking, only when track is on |
| All projects | #/projects |
g then p |
Every bound project |
Sit-downs is hidden until you run mental option track on. See Time tracking.
Read only
The server accepts GET and HEAD. Any other method gets 405. It binds 127.0.0.1 and ::1. It refuses a Host that is not loopback. It does not send CORS headers.
Attention actions that look like a resolve copy a CLI command, for example mental attention --title … --status resolved --via dashboard --json. Paste that into a terminal. The page does not POST a write.
While the server runs, it records { port, pid, url, startedAt } in ~/.mental/dashboard.json. The Claude panel and the Cursor sidebar read that file to find the port.
Embed and the sample on the site
?embed=1 hides the outer chrome. The Cursor sidebar uses it. The sample on getmental.dev is a fixture of the same UI. It is not your files.
Agents still use mental … --json. The dashboard is for you.
Command row: CLI reference. Host panels that open this page: Host UIs.