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Export a dashboard brief

The Varco panel can turn an existing Lovelace dashboard or single view into a local agent brief zip. This is a bootstrap helper only: it creates a manifest blueprint, not a grant, and no Home Assistant token leaves Home Assistant.

  1. Open /varco.
  2. In Dashboard brief export, choose a Lovelace dashboard.
  3. Optionally choose a single view instead of the whole dashboard.
  4. Review the harvested entities grouped by the referencing view/card and uncheck anything the consumer should not use.
  5. Click Download agent brief zip.

The zip contains:

  • brief.md: a self-contained instruction brief for a coding agent, including the manifest, entity catalog, unresolved dashboard warnings, and a ready-to-run @varco/client bootstrap with the current Authority ID and bridge URL.
  • manifest.json: the canonical read-only manifest blueprint.

The export harvests entity: and entities: references into read_entities and subscriptions, history-graph entities into history, and camera entities from picture/camera cards into camera_snapshots.

It does not emit actions; the brief tells the coding agent to ask which entities need write or history elevation before changing the manifest.

The entity catalog includes static metadata and a trimmed point-in-time state snapshot. The downloaded zip may contain real state values, so treat it as private.