Dashboard Guide
Two apps. The local dashboard ships in the npm package. Cloud is the hosted fleet view. They do not share a nav, and Cloud does not ship X-Ray.
Local dashboard (npm 5.0.6)
Launch:
There is no 3D brain and no Constellation nebula. Automatic inject into every conversation is off.
Nav
- Overview — protection, memory, and health at a glance. Live numbers or marked unavailable.
- Memory — Library, Graph (Map / Focus / Path), Recall, Review, Timeline / Replay.
- Protection — status, quarantine, audit, intercepts, policies. Honest pills: off / unknown / unavailable / on.
- X-Ray — local file and package scans. Not in Cloud.
- Settings — host table, Guard (off by default), cloud connect, policy lock status.
Cloud
Hosted fleet view. Default chrome is glass (Shield), not the CIC terminal. You can still switch to terminal in the header.
- Operate — Shield, Audit, Capture
- Memory — Recall, Library, Graph, Replay
- Review — Queue, Quarantine
- Defence — Dome, Rules, Verify, Alerts (plan-gated)
- Admin — Keys, Team, Devices, Skills, Compliance
Connect a box with shieldcortex config --cloud-api-key then --cloud-enable. Always-on servers also need shieldcortex service install --headless. Online means a recent ShieldCortex heartbeat.
Defence modes
strict / balanced / permissive. Change from Settings or:
Action Guard is a separate switch and stays off until you enable it on purpose.
Install
Node 22.14+ or Node 24. Guard stays off.