Operations
Monitoring runs
The Runs screen (sidebar → Runs, or Ctrl/Cmd+3) lists "every submitted job; click one for live progress."
The runs list
Each row shows the Job (its name, or a short id), its State, the Dataset, and when it was Created. States:
| State | Meaning |
|---|---|
| Queued | Accepted, waiting to start. |
| Running | The optimizer is evolving generations. |
| Validating | Evolution finished; the top finalists are in the validation gauntlet. |
| Done | Finished — leaderboard ready. |
| Failed | Errored; the run detail shows the error text. |
| Cancelled | Stopped by you. |
The live run view
Click a run to open its detail. While it's working you'll see:
- Stat row — Generation, Best fitness, Median fitness, Diversity, and total Evaluated candidates, updating as generations complete.
- Fitness per generation — best (green) and median (gray) lines. Best climbing = still improving; both flat = converged.
- Population diversity — how genetically varied the population remains. See How evolution works for reading these curves.
- Top strategies so far — a snapshot of the current leaders, refreshed as generations complete ("Evaluating — best strategies appear as generations complete.").
The top bar shows a compact live badge (gen 12 · best 1.87) wherever you are in the app — click it to jump back to the run.
Cancel (top right) stops the run; finished evaluations aren't lost, but the leaderboard reflects only what completed. Early generations are the slowest (cold caches) — give a fresh run a couple of generations before judging its pace.
When it finishes
A completion banner sums up the run — "Run complete — 45,000 evaluations over 60 generations." — with a View Leaderboard button, and the full leaderboard is embedded below the live charts. From there: Reading the leaderboard.
Runs and their results are kept — the Runs list is your history, and Leaderboard picks from any finished run. Everything persists locally in the app's database, and run/leaderboard metadata backs up privately to your account (Account & sync).