dashboard-log-debugger

A debugging agent for the jgclark.Dashboard NotePlan plugin. It traces dashboard startup, perspective changes, section refreshes, Apple Reminders data, and related plugin events through NotePlan’s structured log.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to investigate dashboard startup or refresh problems, perspective switching, Apple Reminders or REM issues, repeated data updates, plugin data calls, and JavaScript blocking.
Why use it?
It helps locate failures in asynchronous refresh paths and distinguishes which function ran and what data updates it sent. This makes it easier to form a focused hypothesis and apply a minimal fix.

Agent for Cursor

Install

Getting it into your agent

One page per mod, every tool's command on it. A separate URL per tool would split the same page into five that compete with each other.

agentmods
npx agentmods add agents/noteplan/plugins/dashboard-log-debugger
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/NotePlan/plugins

Made for: Cursor.

Per session 73 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 875 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.
Token cost

What it costs to keep this loaded

Counted locally with the o200k_base tokenizer, which is exact for GPT models; Claude uses its own tokenizer and its counts differ. Treat this as one consistent yardstick across the catalogue rather than a bill. Prices are per million input tokens.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5 $0.00073 $0.00875
Opus 5 $0.00036 $0.00438
Sonnet 5 $0.00015 $0.00175
Haiku 4.5 $0.00007 $0.00088

Measured yesterday against content hash 18bc6895151e, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

dashboard-log-debugger scanned grade A with 0 findings against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured yesterday.

A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.

Nothing flagged

None of the 26 patterns this scan looks for appear in this file: no shell pipes, no recursive deletes, no credential paths, no hidden text, no instruction-override or anti-refusal phrasing, no agent-config snooping. That is not a guarantee, it is the absence of the things that are checkable.

.cursor/agents/dashboard-log-debugger.md · 48 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 48 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

You are a Dashboard debugger for the NotePlan plugin jgclark.Dashboard.

When invoked:

  1. Read the latest relevant plugin log with nplog --json (never grep the raw log file).
  2. Identify the run (showDashboardReact, reactWindowInitialisedSoStartGeneratingData, PERSPECTIVE_CHANGED, TB timer, etc.).
  3. Trace which refresh function ran and how many setPluginData / UPDATE_DATA payloads it sent.
  4. Form a hypothesis, make a minimal fix, add or update tests, and note CHANGELOG under the current first H2.

Logs

Use node scripts/nplog/nplog --json from the repo root. Do not grep the raw NotePlan log.

  • --last-run is the most recent Executing function, which is often a TB timer refreshSomeSections, not the startup you care about. Prefer --since 10m or --mode for showDashboardReact / reactWindowInitialisedSoStartGeneratingData.
  • --follow --wait-idle 5 after an x-callback. Do not read immediately; the log flushes in batches (can lag 20s+).
  • Exit code 1 means at least one emitted ERROR. Check that first.
  • Do not use the MCP per-plugin _MCP-console.log as evidence of a past run.

Refresh paths

  • refreshSomeSections: merge; one setPluginData; keep other rows. Default for 1-few codes.
  • incrementallyRefreshSomeSections: N merges; progressive pop-in. First launch and full Refresh.
  • batchReplaceSections: one wholesale replace. Perspective switch only.

Perspective switch already writes sections: [] before generation. Incremental merge-onto-empty would not leave leftover rows. Keep batch because: one cheap getGlobalSharedData while sections are empty, then a single write; the switch spinner hides pop-in so N round-trips buy nothing; skip header done-count recount.

setPluginData always getGlobalSharedDatas the whole WebView tree. A follow-up flag-only patch after a large send re-serializes the full section list back into the plugin and blocks paint. Fold spinner / firstRun / perspectiveChanging into the payload that already has the new sections.

Read the full file on GitHub · 48 lines

Changes

What this file has done since we first saw it

Hashed on every crawl. A supply-chain change to an agent config is a question of when, not whether, so the history is kept rather than the latest state alone.

  1. yesterday First seen · 48 lines · 73 tokens per session scan A 18bc6895151e

Subscribe to this mod's changes

dashboard-log-debugger is an agent published in the GitHub repository NotePlan/plugins (204 stars, last pushed 2d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 73 tokens to every session and 875 once invoked, about $0.0004 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-30.

Related

Other agents, from other repositories

Demonstrate

Agent for demonstrating VS Code features.

microsoft/vscode · 10 tokens

playwright-test-generator

Use this agent when you need to create automated browser tests using Playwright Examples: Context: User wants to generate a test for the test plan item.

microsoft/playwright · 151 tokens

.NET-Notebook-Migration-Agent

Expert .NET and documentation transformation agent that migrates Polyglot Jupyter notebooks into clean Markdown and companion .NET sample code.

microsoft/ai-agents-for-beginners · 33 tokens

AVM Owner Triage

Triage open GitHub issues across the Azure Verified Modules (AVM) repos an owner maintains. Splits the backlog into a Copilot-delegatable pile and a human pile, produces a report with a delegation ratio, and never comments or assigns without explicit user approval.

github/awesome-copilot · 61 tokens

Ultimate Transparent Thinking Beast Mode

Agent "Ultimate Transparent Thinking Beast Mode" from github/awesome-copilot, covering quantum cognitive architecture, phase 2: adversarial intelligence & red-team analysis, phase 3: implementation & iterative refinement and phase 4: comprehensive verification & completion.

github/awesome-copilot · 11 tokens

code-reviewer

Performs thorough code reviews for the Notebooks in the Cookbook repo, focusing on Python/Jupyter best practices, and project-specific standards. Use this agent proactively after writing any significant code changes, especially when modifying notebooks, Github Actions, and scripts.

anthropics/claude-cookbooks · 52 tokens