Administrators: When prompted, create a new organization.
Developers: To join an existing organization, please request the organization administrator to send an invite link.
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Installation
After signing up, you’ll be taken to the Getting Started page. The required steps to install the Code Agent Integration Package called Overwatch on your local machine are below:
Open the terminal on your system
Install the Overwatch package globally
npm install -g @highflame/overwatch
Note: when you run the above command it will try to open a web browser and redirect you to highflame for authentication.
Start Overwatch
overwatch start
If you are using GitHub Copilot CLI, run this command to install Overwatch for GitHub Copilot CLI
Voilá! Now you have successfully installed overwatch package, and you don't need to configure anything else; you can continue with your development workflow as usual.
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Accessing Local Dashboard
To view the key stats locally on your system, please run:
overwatch status
Click on the url shown in the terminal output to see the key stats. The url will look like this: http://localhost:<port>/dashboard
The local dashboard will look something like this:
local dasbord
The dashboard shows:
Sessions: IDE sessions with event counts and threat counts.
Threats: Blocked or flagged events (e.g., command injection, secrets).
Commands: Shell and tool executions.
Events: Full event stream.
MCP Scans: Results of overwatch scan (servers, issues, severity).
Note: If you are the admin of the organization, please refer to Discovery & Metrics
