Not everyone wants to leave the terminal to look at a dashboard — and increasingly, the thing building your dashboard is not a person at all. Widgets PRO meets both: a CLI for power users and an MCP server for AI agents.
The widgets CLI: dashboards without leaving the terminal
Install the widgets binary, log in through the browser once, and your dashboards are a command away. View a dashboard as a navigable terminal UI, render a single widget as ASCII, or jump straight to the browser when you want the full picture.
- widgets login — browser-based auth, no token copy-paste
- widgets dashboards view <id> — arrow-key navigation in the terminal
- widgets widgets view <id> — a single widget, rendered as text
- Add --open to jump to the browser, or --json for raw output
Dashboards an AI agent can build for you
Widgets PRO ships an open MCP server, so any MCP-compatible assistant — Claude, Cursor, or your own agent — can read your dashboards and build new ones. Describe what you want to watch, and the agent assembles the widgets and wires the data sources.
Why a scriptable dashboard matters
A dashboard you can script is a dashboard you can reproduce. Provision a new client workspace from a config file, regenerate a layout from a prompt, or check a number without lifting your hands from the keyboard. The pane stays focused; how you build it is up to you. Install the CLI and connect the MCP server free.