Track progress

Read the workbar

The workbar sits under the composer by default. It holds the active goal, the To-do list, and the sub-agents working for this session. Finished items stay visible as done instead of disappearing. Select a row, or press Enter on it, to open its detail.

pending

Not started yet.

in progress

What Codewhale is doing now — one item at a time.

completed

Done.

cancelled

Dropped, and kept in the list so you can see it was.

Move it or change what it shows:

/workbar left
/workbar bottom --save
/workbar off

Positions are bottom, top, left, right, and off. --save keeps your choice for future sessions.

Set a goal that lasts across turns

A goal keeps one objective in view until it is met. Set it yourself, or let Codewhale set one when you ask for a clear end state, such as “until the tests pass.” It then shows one line saying so, and you stay in control:

/goal make the CLI tests pass on Windows budget: 200000
/goal            # show progress
/goal pause
/goal resume
/goal done
/goal clear

The optional budget: is a token limit for the goal. A goal does not change your mode, approval setting, or model.

Continue in a fresh session

When a session gets long, /relay writes a handoff for a new thread, including the current To-do list exactly as it stands, so the next session starts from where you really are rather than a summary of it. Add a focus to steer the handoff:

/relay finish the Windows test fixes

Sub-agents started with the parent's context receive the same list, so they also know what is already done.

Know which list counts

There is exactly one progress list: the To-do. A plan Codewhale writes out — its approach, risks, and checks — explains how it will work but does not track progress, and the workbar does not show it as a second list.

The list in the workbar is for you. Codewhale sees its own updates as ordinary results in the conversation; the list is not re-sent to the model on every step.

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