Find your way around the web UI

The web UI is where you read what mike captured and where you change what it does. Open http://localhost:9990 while mike is running. It updates as new requests arrive, so you can leave it open beside Claude Code. This page covers the parts every screen shares: the menu, search, the top bar, the tour and Help. What each screen shows is on the page for its part, listed in Find a page.

The web UI has no login. Open it only on the machine mike runs on. See Privacy.

This is a fictional example capture: a session named docs in ~/projects/site, working on “Rewrite the install page”. Nothing in it comes from a real machine.

Open the web UI

1. Start mike and Claude Code as in the quickstart.
2. Open http://localhost:9990 in a browser.
3. You land on Home. With a session running, you see a strip of live counts, then the sessions running now, grouped by project, and cards for every other page.

If nothing has been captured yet, Home shows a short getting-started panel instead of the cards. Send one request through mike and it fills in. If the page does not load at all, mike is not running: see Troubleshooting.

Move between pages

The left-hand menu lists every page in four groups. Hover an item for a one-line description.

The judge’s pages and the Settings sub-pages sit indented under their parent in the menu. The chevron at the foot of the menu collapses it to icons; on a narrow window it becomes a menu button at the top left.

Every page, its address and its guide are in Find a page.

Search

Press Ctrl K (⌘ K on a Mac), or click Search in the top bar, and type. The box searches:

• Recent pages you opened,
• Pages, by name,
• Actions, such as pinning the current session or opening the filter workbench,
• Help topics and the glossary,
• Sessions, by title, session id or project, once you type two or more characters.

Choose a result with the arrow keys and Enter. When nothing matches, the box says “No matches” and suggests a page name, session id or project.

To find something said in a conversation, use the search box on the Sessions page instead: see Find something a session said.

The top bar

The top bar is on every page.

pause only freezes what you see. mike keeps capturing while the page is paused.

Take the tour

On Home, choose Take a tour, or open http://localhost:9990/?tour=1. The tour dims the page and points at six areas in turn: the live counts, the “start from a task” shortcuts, the sessions running now, and the Insight, Levers and System groups. Replay it any time from the same button. Home is the only page with a tour.

Read Help

Choose Help in the menu to open /help. It has:

• How-to guides: getting Claude Code talking to mike, inspecting a captured request, rewriting outbound system prompts, investigating a prompt anomaly, keeping the data you care about, and how steering works;
• a glossary of the terms the interface uses;
• the documentation bundled with mike, such as installed setup and recovery.

The help button in the top bar opens the same material in a drawer beside the page you are on, so you do not lose your place. Hovering a dotted label anywhere in the interface shows a short definition and, where there is one, a link to its glossary entry.

When a page is empty

An empty page almost always means nothing has been captured, or the feature behind it is off.

Next steps

• Read a session: the page you will use most.
• Find a page: every page and command in one list.
• Decide what to turn on.