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.
/gsd visualize
Or configure automatic display after milestone completion:
auto_visualize: trueSwitch tabs with Tab, 1-4, or arrow keys.
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.
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.
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.
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.
| Key | Action |
|---|---|
Tab |
Next tab |
Shift+Tab |
Previous tab |
1-4 |
Jump to tab |
↑/↓ |
Scroll within tab |
Escape / q |
Close visualizer |
The visualizer refreshes data from disk every 2 seconds, so it stays current if opened alongside a running auto-mode session.
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)auto_visualize: true # show visualizer after milestone completion