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:

shieldcortex dashboard
# http://localhost:3030

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:

npx shieldcortex config --mode balanced

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.

npm install -g shieldcortex && shieldcortex setup