See why your AI agents succeed, stall, or burn budget.

Terminals scroll rapidly while delivery quietly stalls

• Unobserved handoff stalls: A builder actor finishes a slice and waits 45 minutes for reviewer acceptance while holding locks—looking identical to active progress.
• Ping-pong rework loops: Two actors bounce a failing task back and forth four times, exhausting context windows and burning uncached tokens without converging.
• Opaque token spikes: Cloud billing alerts arrive after a 400% token spike, unable to distinguish cache-invalidation bleed from runaway tool retry loops.

Five Disjoint Activity Bands & Multi-Hop Lineage

• Five Disjoint Agent Activity Bands: Every observed actor interval is partitioned into active, waiting_on_human, idle_with_work (Handoff Wait), idle_without_work (Cleanly Parked), and unknown (Stalled / Rework / Unobserved).
• Multi-Hop Sub-Agent Lineage (I09): Trace spawn, delegate, handoff, return, and retry edges across sessions and harnesses.
• 100% Local-First DuckDB: Passive out-of-band flight recording with sub-15ms queries and zero prompt or secret persistence.

Trajectory Vortex: Orbital Phase-Space Attractor

Spot when an agent stops converging and starts spiraling—plotting multi-turn trajectories in an elliptical phase space (FLOAT[32] cosine distance and turn-transition dynamics) so runaway tool retry loops pull orbits outward before token budgets burn. A vortex trip is an empirical alert, not a proved root cause.

Schema Drift: Biological DNA Fingerprint Gel-Strip

Track structural metadata shifts across Claude Code, Codex, AGY, Grok CLI, and Pi updates as a biological DNA gel-strip—measuring VARIANT envelope L1 distance (keys_added, keys_removed, keys_retyped) across daily cohorts so silent harness upgrades never blindside your pipelines. Structural drift is not a compatibility verdict.

Authority Blast Radius: Radial Propagation Ripple Graph

Trace how far a revoked permission, failed tool call, or compromised credential propagates across multi-hop sub-agent delegation chains—walking evidenced session_edges and security_facts authority scopes up to an 8-hop ceiling. Dependency exposure does not grant or imply inherited authority.

Counterfactual Routing: Split-Beam Route Comparator

Test "what-if" model routing policies against your real workload history before changing a single production setting. Evaluates pinned pricing tiers and SIMULATED TIER TOTAL (COUNTERFACTUAL) fast-tier envelopes in normalized token units against a 128k context-pressure threshold. Simulation proxy, not a live routing mutation or financial guarantee.

Install & Launch the 6-Screen Ratatui TUI or Web Studio

# Path A: Install via Cargo (dendro on PATH)
cargo install --git https://github.com/smota/dendro.git dendro-cli
dendro cockpit

# (or from local checkout: cargo install --path crates/dendro-cli --locked)

# Path B: Or build and run from Git checkout (current)
git clone https://github.com/smota/dendro.git
cd dendro && cargo build --release --locked
./target/release/dendro cockpit

# Serve the Connected Web Studio on loopback (127.0.0.1:4242 only)
dendro dashboard --serve 127.0.0.1:4242 --site-dir ./site

# Run headless loopback daemon, pre-flight advisor & Nao semantic queries
dendro serve 127.0.0.1:4242
dendro advise
dendro ask "which handoff pairs had the highest return rate this week?"

Zero-Flicker Terminal Views & Strict Loopback Safety

• dendro cockpit (6-Screen Ratatui TUI): Pure-Rust terminal interface with 6 keyboard-driven screens (Overview, Layers, Handoffs, Capabilities, Consoles, Inspection) and full L0–L3 insight drill-downs.
• dendro serve & dendro dashboard (127.0.0.1:4242): Binds strictly to local loopback (refusing non-local interfaces), streaming live SSE updates (/api/events) and DuckDB JSON queries (/api/query).
• dendro advise & dendro ask: Sub-15ms pull-only pre-flight health oracle and deterministic in-process Nao semantic router across 12 canonical SQL views (zero LLM query hallucination).