Actana Control

Panel

The Panel is how you drive work on paired machines from a browser. It holds no projects, sessions, or files of its own — everything live arrives over the panel-link; first paint is server-rendered, then the tab stays current.

A Panel that knows no Cores opens in the first-run wizard — install a Core, pair it, and the app unlocks. After that you always start in Fleet: every Core's sessions in one list. Click a Core to enter it. The shell has no Core switcher — to work on a different machine, go back to Fleet and pick another.

Inside a Core the surface is the same every time: project rail, session grid, then the live terminal. Sessions split into needs-input, running, and finished, so a machine that is waiting on you is visible without opening it.

flowchart LR
  W[First-run wizard] -->|pair a Core| F[Fleet]
  F --> C[Pick a Core]
  C --> P[Project rail]
  P --> G[Session grid]
  G --> T[Terminal]

In this section

  • First-Run Wizard — what a Panel with zero Cores shows, and why there is no way past it.
  • Fleet — live fan-out across Cores.
  • Projects — folders on the Core; unlink never deletes files.
  • Sessions — real PTYs, one writer, others read.

See also

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