pace-dashboard-setup

Set up and run pace

Install and launch a pace dashboard. Two paths: Bun for development, Docker for production.

Prerequisites

Bun path: Bun v1.3+ installed
Docker path: Docker and Docker Compose installed

Bun (development)

# Clone and install
git clone https://github.com/av/pace.git
cd pace
bun install

Create config from the example

cp config.example.yaml config.yaml

Edit config.yaml -- see skills/pace-dashboard-configure/SKILL.md for how to build one from scratch Start the dev server

bun run dev


The server starts at http://localhost:7453 by default.

### CLI flags and commands

For the authoritative, version-accurate help text run:

```bash
pace --help

Commands overview:

Command	Purpose
`serve`	Run the dashboard server (default when no command given)
`presets list`	List bundled preset configs
`adapters list`	List all adapter types
`adapters explain <type>`	Show full documentation for an adapter
`transforms list`	List all transform types
`transforms explain <type>`	Show full documentation for a transform
`config check [path]`	Validate a config file without starting the server
`skill [name]`	List or print bundled agent skills

Key options: -c/--config <path> (default ./config.yaml), -p/--port <number> (default 7453), -P/--preset <name> (use a bundled preset), -C/--chdir <dir> (change working directory for config and data loads).

Environment variables PACE_CONFIG (config file path) and PORT (server port) provide overrides; CLI flags take precedence over environment variables.

Global install

cd pace
bun install && npm link
# Now `pace` is available globally
pace --config ~/my-config.yaml

The CLI always resolves paths relative to the project root (where package.json lives), so data/, node_modules/, and default config paths work regardless of shell cwd.

Docker (production)

Using Docker Compose

# Copy and edit config
cp config.example.yaml config.yaml

# Uncomment the config volume mount in docker-compose.yml (under x-data-volume):
#   # - ./config.yaml:/app/config.yaml:ro   # uncomment to use a custom config

docker compose up -d

Using Docker directly

docker build -t pace .
docker run -d \
  -p 7453:7453 \
  -v ./config.yaml:/app/config.yaml:ro \
  -v pace-data:/app/data \
  pace

Using the prebuilt image

The docker run -d invocation (including -p and volume mounts) is identical to the one under "Using Docker directly" above; simply replace the final image argument pace with ghcr.io/av/pace:latest (no docker build step is required).

The /app/data volume persists the SQLite database across container restarts.

The Docker image also contains the bundled agent skills. To inspect them without running the server:

docker run --rm ghcr.io/av/pace pace skill

Themed example configs

List the available presets directly:

pace presets list
# example
# tech-news
# ml-ai
# daily-brief
# product-launches
# release-tracker
# academic-papers
# video-podcast
# ops-dashboard

Launch with a preset:

# Bun:
pace --preset tech-news

# Docker:
docker run -d -p 7453:7453 -v pace-data:/app/data ghcr.io/av/pace:latest --preset tech-news

Copy a preset to config.yaml and customise it, then restart with your edited file (see skills/pace-dashboard-configure/SKILL.md for detailed editing guidance).

Beyond feeds: widgets, bookmarks, and counters

Layouts can include more than just content-feed panels. Three widget types let you embed static content directly into the layout tree without an adapter:

Image widget - logos, banners, status badges (image: key)
Text widget - notes, changelogs, instructions in plain, markdown, or html (text: key)
Iframe widget - embedded external pages like Grafana dashboards (iframe: key)

Two special adapters complement these:

Bookmarks - curated link lists defined in config (no network fetch)
Counter - fetches a JSON endpoint and extracts a numeric value; pair with display: counter on the panel for stat-card rendering

See skills/pace-dashboard-configure/SKILL.md for full config reference and examples.

Verifying it works

Open http://localhost:7453 -- the dashboard should render with panel headers.
Content appears after the first adapter refresh cycle (within refresh_interval minutes, default 15).
To trigger an immediate refresh for a panel, POST to /refresh/<panel-id>.

curl -X POST http://localhost:7453/refresh/hackernews

For automated health checks (Docker, Kubernetes, load balancers), GET /health:

curl http://localhost:7453/health

Expected response: {"status":"ok"}

Common issues

Symptom	Cause	Fix
`config: file not found`	No config.yaml and no PACE_CONFIG set	`cp config.example.yaml config.yaml`
`config: ...` prefixed error	Invalid YAML or schema error in config	Run `pace config check config.yaml` for fast diagnosis without starting the server
`scheduler: adapter type "X" is configured but no matching adapter module was discovered`	Typo in adapter type name	Run `pace adapters list` to see all valid types
Panels show but no content	Adapters haven't refreshed yet	Wait for refresh_interval or POST to `/refresh/<panel-id>`
Port already in use	Another process on port 7453	Use `--port 7454` or `PORT=7454`
LLM transforms do nothing / items unchanged	`llm` block missing or misconfigured	LLM transforms silently pass items through without a valid `llm` config -- add or fix the `llm` block and restart