Pulse Dashboard

Feature

Monitor your team's architectural health, track active discussions, and stay on top of decisions requiring your attention.

Overview

The Pulse Dashboard is your team's home page. It provides a high-level view of architectural health, surfaces decisions needing attention, and shows recent team activity.

Think of it as your morning check-in: What's blocked? What needs my vote? What changed while I was away?

Health Score

The health score is a letter grade (A-F) representing your decision graph's overall health. It's calculated from several factors:

Base Score

Starts at 100 and decreases based on issues found. The higher your base score, the healthier your graph.

Penalties

-15 per conflict: Decisions that contradict each other
-10 per orphan: Decisions with no relationships
-10 per stale decision: Untouched for 30+ days
-5 per draft: Imported decisions not yet verified

Bonuses

+5 for active discussion: Healthy debate happening
+3 per concluded decision: Decisions moving to closure
+2 for good documentation: Context and rationale provided

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Hover over the health score to see a detailed breakdown of how it was calculated.

Inbox

The Inbox shows decisions requiring your attention. It combines several sources into a single, prioritized list:

Awaiting your vote: Active decisions where you haven't voted yet
Idle drafts: Your draft decisions that need to be published or deleted
Pending ratification: Concluded decisions waiting for your approval (if you're an approver)
Stale watch: Your decisions that haven't been updated in 30+ days

Items are sorted by urgency, with voting deadlines at the top.

Critical Issues

The dashboard surfaces critical graph issues that need immediate attention:

Critical: Conflicts

Two or more decisions are in direct conflict. This usually means contradictory architectural choices that need resolution.

Warning: Circular Dependencies

A chain of depends_on relationships forms a loop. This often indicates unclear ownership or scope creep.

Warning: Orphan Nodes

Decisions with no relationships. They may be missing context or were imported without being fully integrated.

Click on any issue card to navigate to the graph with the relevant nodes highlighted.

Activity Feed

The activity feed shows real-time updates from your team:

New decisions created
Status changes (conclusions, approvals, rejections)
Arguments added
Votes cast
Relationships created
AI agent queries via MCP

Each item shows who did what, when, and links directly to the relevant decision for more context.

Graph Diff View

Arbiter Insights

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