¶Command history & insights

Conductor keeps a flight recorder of the commands you run: what ran, where, the exit code, how long it took, and a tail of the output. It powers three things — a live timeline, a searchable cross-session history, and an insights view — all local, with no telemetry.

The rich data comes from shell integration (on by default, zsh). Without it, the timeline falls back to coarse process names.

¶The timeline (🕘)

Open it from the toolbar or the command palette. The default view is this session: each finished command with its time, exit code (✓ / ✗), duration, and the pane it ran in.

• Jump — click a row to jump back to the pane it ran in.
• Ask Elyra — the 🤖 button hands the command and its output to an Elyra agent (e.g. to ask why did this fail?).

¶Persistent history & search

Every shell-integrated command is persisted to an app-internal SQLite store (history.db in the app data dir) — distinct from the database browser, which connects to your databases.

Type in the timeline's search box to query the history across every session, not just the current one. The search matches both the command and its captured output, so you can find that fix you half-remember:

“how did I fix the notarization hang last time?” → search notarization → the session from weeks ago, with the commands that resolved it.

Use Clear history (shown while searching) to wipe the persisted store.

¶Insights — where your time went

The Insights tab aggregates the history over Today / 7 days / All time:

• A headline: how many commands ran, how many failed, and total time spent waiting.
• Where the time went — the biggest time sinks grouped by command, with run count, average duration, and failures.

It answers questions like “why did today feel slow?” — often the honest answer is something like pnpm build ran 41× at 34s each.

¶Privacy

Everything stays on your machine: a local SQLite file, no network, no telemetry. Clearing the history deletes it.

¶Related

• Terminals & panes — shell integration, which captures the data.
• Elyra agent — where Ask Elyra / Fix it send a command's context.
• Tauri commands — history_add, history_query, history_stats, history_clear.