Code Desktop Overview

While the Opta CLI is terminal-native, Code Desktop provides a visual operations layer on the same daemon. It renders timeline events, tool calls, and streaming output for high-speed debugging and review.

Code Desktop is a Vite + React app that communicates with daemon endpoints over localhost. The daemon then brokers calls to LMX, keeping transport and policy centralized.

The left rail indexes active and historical sessions. Selecting a session opens a full timeline with model turns, tool invocations, and latency spans, making post-mortem analysis practical for autonomous runs.

During generation, Code Desktop surfaces token velocity, elapsed runtime, and event granularity. This gives immediate signal on regressions after model/config changes.

Optimal workflow: start or verify daemon in CLI, execute tasks, then use Code Desktop for visual debugging and replay. This prevents hidden failures and improves intervention speed when tools drift or prompts overreach.

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