About three weeks in, I hit the point where the assistant had so many moving parts that I wanted to see it all in one place. So I built Mission Control.

It’s a dashboard running on my VPS, reachable at mission-control.vaughantaylor.com. Every important event in the system, from both my desktop and my servers, streams into a database over Tailscale, and the dashboard renders it as a live board. Deployments, bridge connections, cron runs, status changes. It’s my digital life as an event feed.

Signing in is with Google, because I refuse to maintain another password. The database sits on the VPS behind Tailscale so it’s not exposed to the public internet, and the whole thing routes through Traefik so I didn’t have to open a single new firewall port. That last bit was a deliberate design rule for the whole project: no new holes in the perimeter. Everything comes in through the existing front door or over the encrypted tailnet.

The dashboard itself is honestly a vanity project. The assistant doesn’t need it to function. But there’s something genuinely useful about watching your infrastructure talk to itself in real time, and it’s become my go-to is-everything-okay screen before bed.

Also, it gave the whole project a name. The dashboard is called Hermy HQ. My assistant has a home now.