The Kodachi dashboard, control by control

Five dashboards and a boot tool, one manual. Each page plays through the real interface and explains every control a user touches, or you click the control you are looking at and read about that one. Where two controls look alike and are not, a Know this card opens under the explanation and compares them: WireGuard against Hysteria2, plain WireGuard against its obfuscated variants, round-robin against weighted, the three panic tiers, what each hardening level breaks. Nothing here runs: these are renders of the dashboard plus its own help text. New to Kodachi? Read in this order. Startup first, because every session begins there. Then Circle, the dashboard a fresh install opens, then Lite Classic for the complete workspace and Shared controls for the top bar, the output drawer and the notifications that sit on every dashboard. SOC and Vitals only watch the machine, ColonyOps is for building multi-step workflows, AutoShield runs before any dashboard opens, and the tray menu reaches the same controls from the panel icon. Two rules hold everywhere. Switching between dashboards changes only the view. And no dashboard connects a VPN or sends your traffic through Tor by itself. Out of the box, the only actions that run without a click are the startup privacy actions, while the launcher is still on screen and only with automatic sign-in on (the default). By default they give the computer a random hostname and switch DNS to DNSCrypt, once after each boot; a random MAC and a random or synced timezone also run once per boot if you switch them on, while Restore MAC, Detorrify and Prepare Tor, if switched on, run every time the dashboard starts. The switches are in Settings under Dashboard, Startup, and also in Advanced setup under Launch Settings when your plan includes Advanced setup (the support page shows live which plans do). Others act on their own only once you set them up: AutoShield, if you arm it, whose steps can include connecting a VPN or sending all traffic through Tor; and the dashboard’s own protection in Settings, Security: auto-lock, the response to failed unlock attempts (which can cut the network or power the machine off) and a scheduled Destroy.