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Expand Up @@ -109,13 +109,19 @@ config, and flags: [Install & run](#install--run).
while your pointer is over the table, so the kill button can't shift under your
cursor mid-click.

## Why not just htop / Grafana?
## Why not just htop / Grafana / OTel?

- **htop sees processes, not agents.** No rollup of a spawned tree under the
agent that owns it, no agent states (crash-looping, idle, leaking), and an
unguarded `F9`.
- **Grafana + Prometheus + an exporter is a stack you operate.** This is one
command with no database — and it still serves `/metrics` if you want both.
- **OTel GenAI telemetry stops at the process line.** The GenAI semantic
conventions standardized what an agent *spent* — session spans, token
counters like `gen_ai.usage.input_tokens`, cost rollups — and the vendor
dashboards consume them natively. They don't model whether the host process
is wedged, crash-looping, or leaking; the agent CLIs don't export even
their own pid. That half needs its own tool.
- **The kill switch is the point.** Allowlist-matched, token-gated, guarded
against CSRF and DNS rebinding, with an append-only action log — a web page
that can stop processes needs exactly those.
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