Progress & project status
Progress is your standing answer to "where does this project actually stand?" - written by the Captain, kept current on its own, and readable in about ten seconds. Every project has one. You don't have to configure anything, and you don't need to set a goal first.
It lives on the project's Dashboard, the page the project menu opens on. There is no separate Progress page: the summary is the second band on the dashboard, directly under the metrics, and the work it describes is listed beneath it.
The summary
A short markdown blurb of where the project stands: what has taken place, and what is being planned. It leads with the key points in bold and opens collapsed to just that lead line; use Show more for the full narrative.
The summary deliberately names no individual tasks. It is the altitude view - the paragraph you would give someone who asked how the project is going - and the lists on the same page are where the specific work lives, each row already a link. A summary that listed task numbers would be a backlog, not a summary.
There is nothing to edit by hand. Each time the Captain runs a progress update it reviews the project and rewrites the summary; the Updated time shows when that last happened.
What else the dashboard carries
Reading down the page:
- a metric strip - what needs you, how many agents are working, open tasks, goal progress and month-to-date spend. Each tile is a link to the page that owns its number: the inbox, the team, the task list, your goals and the budget,
- the progress summary above,
- a strip naming the agents working right now and the task each is on,
- action items waiting on you, and the tasks in progress,
- your goals and your spend,
- the progress update runs that produced the summary.
The goals card shows the four goals most worth a decision - off track first, then at risk - with a link to the rest. The in-progress list shows the seven most recently touched tasks, with a link to the full list.
Progress update runs
A progress update is a standalone Captain run - no task attached - that exists to rewrite the summary. The run history sits at the bottom of the dashboard, each entry expandable to its full log, exactly like an agent run on a task.
The Captain runs one on its own heartbeat when the summary has gone stale and something has actually moved since it was last written. A project nobody is working on doesn't burn runs rewriting an identical summary.
You don't have to wait for that: Run now triggers a progress update immediately. It always runs, whether or not the project has goals. If the Captain is busy, the run is queued and starts as soon as it frees up; a queued run shows as a "Queued - waiting for the Captain to finish" row you can cancel while it waits.
Goals are optional on top
If you also set goals, the same progress update assesses whichever ones are due, and the dashboard's goals card fills in with each one's progress, health and deadline.
Goals are not required. The progress summary works exactly the same without them - goals add outcome tracking on top, and they are well worth adding, but the summary does not wait for them.
Progress is a per-project concept. The global HQ project has no progress summary.