Around the Cockpit
The Cockpit is nitpin’s full working window for the current project — where you
review captures, talk to agents, triage, dispatch fixes, and watch everything happen
live. Open it from the menu-bar popover (Open Cockpit) or with nitpin open from
a terminal.
The zones
The window is one continuous pane, organized left to right:
- Command rail (top) — the project switcher, the current operating mode, a live presence cluster showing who’s working, and the capture buttons (Capture Window ⇧⌘6 · Capture Live ⌥⌘L).
- Backlog (left) — every issue in the project, grouped and sorted. See Working the Backlog.
- Stage (center) — the selected issue’s screenshot, hero-sized, with its sub-issues beside it; or the Live surface when you’re in Live mode.
- Inspector (right) — details, the discussion thread, and the action rail for the current selection.
- Status bar (bottom) — activity chips, the sync pill, live token readouts during fixes, and update notices.
Operating modes
The Cockpit expresses what’s happening right now by faintly tinting its chrome and naming the mode in the rail:
| Mode | Tint | When |
|---|---|---|
| Normal | none | quiet — reviewing, capturing |
| Agentic | teal, breathing | one or more agents are working the backlog |
| Triage | slate-violet, breathing | a triage pass is running |
| Live | orange, steady | you’re driving the embedded Live surface |
You never set a mode; the Cockpit reflects reality. The same signals reach the menu bar too — the pin icon glows while an agent is at work, so you can close the Cockpit and still know.
Everything is live
The Cockpit is built to be watched. Issues regroup as triage lands, claim indicators breathe on whatever an agent holds, a one-line progress note under each claimed issue tells you what the agent is doing right now, resolutions flip in place, and costs tick up in the status bar. If something looks wrong, everything is one click away — reply in the thread, stop an agent, or revert a fix.