# Use the Dashboard

> Read what your squad is working on, what waits on you, today's scheduled runs, the credits you used, finished reports, and recent activity, section by section.

## The top of the page

The Dashboard is titled **Overview**. The button on the right, **Message** and your lead's name, opens **Chat** with your lead.

## The four numbers

These four cards count your squad's work and what waits on you.

| Card               | What the number counts                                                                       |
| ------------------ | -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| **Active agents**  | Squad members with at least one task running now. The line under it counts your whole squad. |
| **In progress**    | Tasks with a run going now and no open ticket                                                |
| **Waiting on you** | Open tickets                                                                                 |
| **Done today**     | Tasks finished since midnight, on your computer's clock                                      |

**In progress** and **Done today** also count child tasks, the smaller pieces inside a bigger task. Child tasks don't show as cards on **Tasks**, so these numbers can be higher than the board.

## Today’s schedule

This panel lists each scheduled job that runs today, earliest first. Each row shows its time in 24-hour form, its name, the squad member who runs it, and where the result goes. A paused job is left out. A job with no single time of day shows **Custom**, or **Recurring** when it runs every minute.

Select a row to open that job on **Calendar**. With nothing today, the panel names the next job and when it runs. If you see "Schedule unavailable", open **Calendar** to load it again.

## Needs you

This panel shows your oldest open ticket: who asked, the kind of answer it needs, and **Urgent** or **High priority** when it has that priority. The number beside the heading counts every open ticket.

Select the card to open that ticket on **Tasks > Tickets**. When more wait, select **Review queue** under it for the full list. To answer, see [Answer questions and approve drafts](/docs/tickets).

When your squad suggested more work, a line such as "4 suggestions waiting" shows, with **View** to open **Tasks > Suggestions**. Suggestions aren't in the **Needs you** count, because no work waits on them.

## Credits consumed

This panel shows the credits used each day for the last 14 days. Point at a column, or select the chart and use the arrow keys, to read that day's credits and the change from the day before. The day with the most credits is marked **Peak usage**.

Credits pay only for research lookups, such as web searches, page reads, and a live browser. Your AI provider bills you for the model, so that cost never shows here. See [What SquadRoom costs and what uses credits](/docs/costs#what-credits-pay-for). **View usage** opens **Settings > Usage**.

## Latest outcomes

Each row is one report on a finished task: unread first, then read, newest first in each group. A count such as **2 unread** shows when reports wait. A task you send back for changes shows again with its new report.

Select a row to read more of the report and mark it read. An open row lists up to 2 docs the report saved. Select one to read it at the exact version saved with the report. **Helped by** names each squad member that added a part.

| Button                     | What it does                                                                |
| -------------------------- | --------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| **Open Task** (the arrow)  | Opens the task on **Tasks**                                                 |
| **Dismiss Report** (the X) | Removes the row from this panel. The task and its report stay on **Tasks**. |

The panel shows 3 rows at first. **Show more Reports**, or **Load older Reports**, under the list shows more, and **View all Tasks** opens **Tasks**.

A child task gets no report here. It hands its result to the task above it.

## Squad on duty

This panel lists every squad member with its task now, or else its last task. The status on the right is one of these:

| Status                           | What it means                                                      |
| -------------------------------- | ------------------------------------------------------------------ |
| **Working**, or **Working on 3** | One or more of its tasks have a run going now.                     |
| **Waiting on you**               | Nothing is running for it, and one of its tasks waits on a ticket. |
| A time, such as **3h ago**       | Nothing is running. Its last task last changed then.               |
| **Idle**                         | It has no tasks yet.                                               |

Select a squad member with a current task to open that task.

## Recent activity

This panel lists what happened across your squad, newest first. Each entry shows who did it, what happened, such as "completed" or "moved Queued to Done", and the task. **System** marks an entry with no squad member behind it.

Select an entry that names a task to open it. Scroll down for older entries.

## What the Dashboard doesn't do

- It doesn't answer tickets, start suggestions, or change tasks. Each link opens the page where you do that.
- The four number cards aren't links.
- The credits chart covers 14 days only. For more, open **Settings > Usage**.
- A dismissed report doesn't come back to **Latest outcomes**. Open it from its task on **Tasks**.

## If something goes wrong

### "Couldn’t mark this Report as read. Try again."

**Cause:** Opening the row didn't save it as read.

**Fix:** Close the row and select it again.

### "Couldn’t dismiss this Report. Try again."

**Cause:** **Dismiss Report** didn't save.

**Fix:** Select **Dismiss Report** again.

### "One or more saved document versions are unavailable. The current Docs were not swapped in."

**Cause:** A doc version the report saved is gone. The rest of the report still opens.

**Fix:** If the doc still exists, open it on **Docs** for its current version.

## Related pages

- Talking with your lead: [Chat with your squad](/docs/chat).
- One task, its board, and suggestions: [Track work on Tasks](/docs/tasks#start-or-dismiss-a-suggestion).
- Answering what waits on you: [Answer questions and approve drafts](/docs/tickets).
- Scheduled jobs: [Schedule work on the Calendar](/docs/calendar).
- How work and child tasks come back: [Hand over work that comes back finished](/docs/hand-over-work).