Easiest: if the cockpit is running on this machine, just hit ⚡ Connect cockpit up top — the board pulls a live scan with one click, no pasting. This box is the manual fallback. Two things land here: (1) Run node station-scan.js on the Mac or Windows box (download it), open the station-scan.json it writes, and paste the whole thing — matching cards get a live git signal; anything new gets added. (2) Paste a station-board.json from Export board on your other machine to copy the whole board across. Your next-actions, blockers and notes are never overwritten by a scan.
This board tracks the work. The cockpit is a small local program that scans your repos, names the one thing to do next, and opens a terminal or fires a Claude Code agent — on your own machine, never in the cloud. It ships with ten specialist agents and a brain-dump inbox. Grab the kit for your computer, unzip it, and double-click the launcher.
How the two connect: the cockpit runs a tiny engine at 127.0.0.1:4317 (your machine only). Once it's running, the ⚡ Connect cockpit button at the top of this board reads a live git scan straight from it — every repo's branch, unsaved changes and ahead/behind counts land on the matching cards. No file, no copy-paste. The pill turns green and reads live · Mac when it's linked. If the cockpit isn't running, the button quietly says cockpit offline and the paste box still works as a fallback.
Needs Node (Claude Code already installs it). Opens at 127.0.0.1:4317 — your machine only; nothing auto-commits or pushes. Edit ROOTS in station-control.js first so it finds your repos. Just want the git numbers on these cards? Run node station-scan.js and paste the result into Import above.
One board for every project across both your machines — so "too many ideas everywhere" feels simple. Here's the whole thing in five steps.