# Menu bar dashboard

> Open Hansard's Mac menu bar dashboard to check agents, memory, plan usage, accounts, and imports.

The Mac desktop app adds a Hansard item to the menu bar. It opens a compact
dashboard that follows the system's light or dark appearance. Select a row
to open its page in the main window.

- App: **macOS menu bar → Hansard**

## Choose a module

Use the switcher in the dashboard header to choose one module:

| Module       | What it shows                                                                                                            |
| ------------ | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ |
| **Agents**   | Working, waiting, and idle agents, with conversations that need attention.                                               |
| **Memory**   | Memory held by agents and their child processes, grouped by agent and checkout, and what pausing idle agents could free. |
| **Usage**    | Recorded account limits and recent usage.                                                                                |
| **Accounts** | Account connections, routing, and sign-ins that need attention.                                                          |
| **Imports**  | Watcher state, import activity, and queued or failed imports.                                                            |

Left and right arrow keys move between modules. Escape closes the switcher,
then the dashboard. The dashboard remembers the last module. On its first
opening, it starts with a module that needs attention.

Account names match **Accounts** in the main window. When an account has no
custom name, its email identifies it, with the organization or team shown
separately. Memory totals cover agent processes, not the computer's total RAM.

## Respond to an alert

A dot on the menu bar icon marks an agent waiting for approval or a reply, an
approval waiting in **Review**, a stopped watcher, a failed import, or memory
pressure. Select the item to inspect the affected module, then select its row
to open the relevant page.

**Pause** opens the [Activity overview](https://www.hansard.dev/guides/running-agents/#review-memory-by-folder)
in Running and asks before pausing agents idle for over an hour. The paused-agents row opens that page too. Resume each agent there
individually. The dashboard never resumes every paused agent together.

## Read current values

The dashboard opens with the last values it showed, then updates each module
as its data arrives. It refreshes detailed data only while open. The icon's
attention indicator reads a small summary at most once a minute.

If a module cannot read its source, its unavailable section disappears until
the next successful read. Open the main page for detailed status and errors.