Workflow Visualizer

Introduced in v2.19.0

The workflow visualizer is a full-screen TUI overlay that shows project progress, dependencies, cost metrics, and execution timeline in an interactive four-tab view.

Opening the Visualizer

/gsd visualize

Or configure automatic display after milestone completion:

auto_visualize: true

Tabs

Switch tabs with Tab, 1-4, or arrow keys.

1. Progress

A tree view of milestones, slices, and tasks with completion status:

M001: User Management                        3/6 tasks ⏳
  ✅ S01: Auth module                         3/3 tasks
    ✅ T01: Core types
    ✅ T02: JWT middleware
    ✅ T03: Login flow
  ⏳ S02: User dashboard                      1/2 tasks
    ✅ T01: Layout component
    ⬜ T02: Profile page
  ⬜ S03: Admin panel                         0/1 tasks

Shows checkmarks for completed items, spinners for in-progress, and empty boxes for pending. Task counts and completion percentages are displayed at each level.

Discussion status is also shown when milestones have been through a discussion phase — indicates whether requirements were captured and what state the discussion left off in.

2. Dependencies

An ASCII dependency graph showing slice relationships:

S01 ──→ S02 ──→ S04
  └───→ S03 ──↗

Visualizes the depends: field from the roadmap, making it easy to see which slices are blocked and which can proceed.

3. Metrics

Bar charts showing cost and token usage breakdowns:

• By phase — research, planning, execution, completion, reassessment
• By slice — cost per slice with running totals
• By model — which models consumed the most budget

Uses data from .gsd/metrics.json.

4. Timeline

Chronological execution history showing:

• Unit type and ID
• Start/end timestamps
• Duration
• Model used
• Token counts

Ordered by execution time, showing the full history of auto-mode dispatches.

Controls

Key	Action
Tab	Next tab
Shift+Tab	Previous tab
1-4	Jump to tab
↑/↓	Scroll within tab
Escape / q	Close visualizer

Auto-Refresh

The visualizer refreshes data from disk every 2 seconds, so it stays current if opened alongside a running auto-mode session.

HTML Export (v2.26)

For shareable reports outside the terminal, use /gsd export --html. This generates a self-contained HTML file in .gsd/reports/ with the same data as the TUI visualizer — progress tree, dependency graph (SVG DAG), cost/token bar charts, execution timeline, changelog, and knowledge base. All CSS and JS are inlined — no external dependencies. Printable to PDF from any browser.

An auto-generated index.html shows all reports with progression metrics across milestones.

auto_report: true    # auto-generate after milestone completion (default)

Configuration

auto_visualize: true    # show visualizer after milestone completion