vibecheck-dashboard

VibeCheck Dashboard

A desktop application that monitors your AI coding tool usage and surfaces patterns you might not see yourself. Built for developers who want to understand their relationship with AI-assisted programming.

VibeCheck sits in your system tray, quietly tracking which applications you use and how you split time between AI-assisted coding, manual coding, and everything else. It stores all data locally in SQLite -- nothing leaves your machine.

What it tracks

• Active window monitoring -- detects VS Code, Cursor, Claude Code, JetBrains IDEs, terminal emulators, and browser-based AI tools (Claude, ChatGPT, Copilot, Gemini)
• Activity classification -- categorizes every 5-second interval as AI-assisted, manual coding, or non-coding
• Session lifecycle -- start, pause, resume, and stop coding sessions with duration tracking
• Daily summaries -- aggregated time breakdowns rolled up automatically

Classification logic

The classifier runs a priority-ordered rule chain:

1. AI coding apps (always AI-assisted): Cursor, Claude Code, Windsurf, Codeium
2. Browsers with AI tabs (AI-assisted): Claude, ChatGPT, Copilot, Gemini, Perplexity, v0, Bolt, Replit
3. Code editors (manual, unless AI panel detected): VS Code, Zed
4. Terminals running AI tools (AI-assisted): detects claude, aider, codex via window title and child process inspection
5. Terminals with editors (manual): Neovim, Vim, Helix, Emacs
6. Plain terminals (manual): Terminal, iTerm2, Warp, Ghostty, Kitty, Alacritty
7. JetBrains IDEs (manual, unless AI Assistant active): IntelliJ, PyCharm, WebStorm, GoLand, RustRover, CLion, and others
8. Everything else: non-coding

Tech stack

Layer	Technology
Backend	Rust
Framework	Tauri v2
Frontend	Svelte 5
Database	SQLite (rusqlite, bundled)
Window detection	active-win-pos-rs
Serialization	serde

Build from source

Prerequisites: Rust 1.77+, Node 18+, npm

git clone https://github.com/Manavarya09/vibecheck-dashboard.git
cd vibecheck-dashboard
npm install
npm run tauri build --debug

The app bundle appears at src-tauri/target/debug/bundle/macos/VibeCheck.app.

For development with hot reload:

npm run tauri dev

Project structure

src/                          Svelte frontend
  components/                 UI components (Sidebar, CurrentSession, etc.)
  lib/                        API wrappers, stores, types, utilities
src-tauri/                    Rust backend
  src/
    db/                       SQLite schema, models, queries
    monitor/                  Window detection, classification, session tracking
    commands/                 Tauri command handlers (frontend-backend bridge)
    tray.rs                   System tray setup
    lib.rs                    Application wiring

Privacy

All data stays on your machine. The SQLite database lives at ~/Library/Application Support/com.vibecheck.dashboard/vibecheck.db on macOS. No telemetry, no cloud sync, no network requests. VibeCheck records behavioral metadata only (timestamps, app names, categories) -- never code content, prompts, or file contents.

macOS permissions

VibeCheck works without any special permissions. However, granting Screen Recording permission (System Settings > Privacy & Security > Screen Recording) enables window title detection, which improves classification accuracy for browser tabs and terminal-based tools.

License

MIT