Home Screen
The Crow's Nest home screen is your app launcher. It shows your panels and installed bundles as a clean tile grid — like a phone home screen.
What's on the home screen
- Greeting — Crow icon, welcome message, and current date
- Pinned items — Optional row above the grid for bookmarked conversations, drafts, or projects
- Panel tiles — Built-in Crow panels (Messages, Memory, Blog, Files, Skills, Extensions, Settings)
- Bundle tiles — Installed Docker add-ons (Ollama, Nextcloud, Immich, etc.)
Tile ordering
- Built-in panels appear first, sorted by their navigation order
- Bundle tiles follow, sorted by install date (oldest first)
Bundle tile lifecycle
When you install a bundle add-on, its tile automatically appears on the home screen. When you uninstall it, the tile disappears. No manual management needed.
- Bundles with a web UI open it in a new tab when clicked
- Bundles without a web UI link to the Extensions panel
- Running bundles show a green status dot; stopped bundles show a muted dot
Tile icons
Bundle tiles resolve their icon in this order:
- Branded logo — Official add-ons (Ollama, Nextcloud, etc.) have custom SVG logos
- Manifest icon — The
iconfield in the add-on manifest maps to a feather-style icon - First-letter fallback — Unknown add-ons show the first letter of their name
Supported manifest icon keys: brain, cloud, image, home, book, rss, mic, message-circle, gamepad, archive.
What doesn't get tiles
- MCP servers — Headless integrations with no UI to launch
- Skills — Markdown behavior files, visible in the Skills panel
- Panel add-ons — Already appear as panel tiles via the panel registry
Pinned items
Pin conversations, blog drafts, or projects to the home screen for quick access. Pinned items appear in a scrollable row above the main grid. Hover over a pinned item to reveal the unpin button.
Related
- Crow's Nest Overview — Full dashboard documentation
- Creating Add-ons — How to build add-ons that appear on the home screen
- Creating Panels — How to build dashboard panels