Motivation
The dashboard (src/dashboard/) currently shows historical series (cost over time, by model, by agent) via Chart.js. A live-feeling "burn rate" gauge — a speedometer/fuel-gauge needle showing current tokens/min or $/hr — would be the dashboard's signature visual and directly on-brand for "Burnbar."
Proposal
Add a gauge widget (needle + arc, animated transitions between readings) showing the current burn rate, with color bands (cool → hot) as intensity rises.
Feasibility notes
- The dashboard is a full
BrowserWindow with Chart.js already bundled via esbuild — gauges are achievable with a Chart.js gauge/doughnut-based plugin or hand-rolled canvas, no new architectural surface needed.
- Requires the same burn rate derivation as the tray-flame idea (issue: tray icon animated flame) — worth deriving it once in
derive.ts/capture-service.ts and sharing between the tray and dashboard rather than computing it twice.
- Read-only via the existing
archive:get-series IPC channel; if burn rate needs finer-grained (sub-daily) data than the current archive grain, that's a scoping question to resolve before implementation.
Acceptance criteria
Motivation
The dashboard (
src/dashboard/) currently shows historical series (cost over time, by model, by agent) via Chart.js. A live-feeling "burn rate" gauge — a speedometer/fuel-gauge needle showing current tokens/min or $/hr — would be the dashboard's signature visual and directly on-brand for "Burnbar."Proposal
Add a gauge widget (needle + arc, animated transitions between readings) showing the current burn rate, with color bands (cool → hot) as intensity rises.
Feasibility notes
BrowserWindowwith Chart.js already bundled via esbuild — gauges are achievable with a Chart.js gauge/doughnut-based plugin or hand-rolled canvas, no new architectural surface needed.derive.ts/capture-service.tsand sharing between the tray and dashboard rather than computing it twice.archive:get-seriesIPC channel; if burn rate needs finer-grained (sub-daily) data than the current archive grain, that's a scoping question to resolve before implementation.Acceptance criteria