The home dashboard
/home is the page you land on after signing in. It lists every space you own or can see, and it carries the shortest route into Mantis: drop a spreadsheet on the New Space card and you get a working map without answering a single configuration question.
Quick create: drag a CSV, get a space
The New Space card sits at the top of the page with a dropzone in it.
- Drop a CSV or XLSX file on the dropzone, or click it to browse. Accepted extensions are
.csv,.xlsx, and.xls, up to 50 MB. - Set the Public switch if you want the space visible to anyone with the link. It defaults to private.
- Wait. The card shows upload progress, then “Creating space…”, then redirects you straight into the new space’s progress view.
Quick create takes every decision for you. The space name comes from the filename with the extension and punctuation stripped, the map gets the same name, columns are analyzed automatically, and the pipeline is fixed to the vLLM embedding service, the vLLM instruct service, and UMAP reduction. If you want control over any of that, use one of the three cards beside it, CSV/XLSX Space, Text Space, and Web Search, or More space creation options for the full catalogue.
Errors surface in place under the dropzone. The most common one is a file that is neither CSV nor XLSX.
Your spaces
Below the create card is the space list, in three groups when no filter or search is active:
- Featured Spaces, collapsible.
- Recently Opened, the last five spaces you opened, collapsible.
- All Spaces, everything else.
Clicking a space anywhere opens it.
View, sort, filter
A control bar sits above the list.
- View mode: Grid, List, or Compact. Grid and Compact are cards; List is a sortable table with Space Name, Visibility, Health, and Description columns.
- Sort: Name, Health: lowest, or Health: highest.
- Filter: All Spaces, My Spaces, Starred, or Needs attention. The choice is remembered between visits.
- A live count of how many spaces match.
Search
There are two ways in to the same search: the Search spaces field in the page header, and the search icon in the dock pinned to the bottom of the page. Both filter the list as you type, and Ctrl+F expands and focuses the dock one.
Search matches on space name and on the AI summary. The sliders icon next to the dock search opens Search filters, where you can turn either of those columns off. While a search is active the Featured and Recently Opened groups collapse into a single flat result list; clearing the query restores them.
What a space card tells you
Each card carries the space name, a visibility icon (Private, Shared, or Public), the AI summary, and a stat line with map count, point count, and cluster count where the listing provides them. The buttons along the bottom are:
- Star, to pin the space into the Starred filter.
- Space Settings, which opens a modal with Overview, Content, Sharing, and Advanced sections.
- Manage Maps, for editing which maps belong to the space (owners and editors only).
- Add New Map, which opens the tabular upload flow already pointed at this space.
The Health score
The circular number on each card is a Health score out of 100, computed from the space listing alone. It starts at 100 and loses points for problems Mantis can see without opening the space:
| Problem | Cost |
|---|---|
| No maps, or every map failed | Score goes to 0, labeled Broken |
| One or more failed maps | −50 |
| No points | −60 |
| Missing primary map | −25 |
| Maps pending unusually long | −10 |
| Missing summary | −10 |
Scores of 80 and above read Healthy, 50 to 79 Needs attention, below 50 Unhealthy, and 0 Broken. The Needs attention filter shows everything under 80. Hovering the badge lists the specific deductions, which is usually enough to tell whether a space failed to build or simply never got a summary.
A score is a statement about metadata, not about whether your analysis is any good. A perfectly useful space with no AI summary sits at 90.
Keyboard shortcuts
| Shortcut | Action |
|---|---|
| Ctrl+N | Open the create flow at /new-space |
| Ctrl+F | Expand and focus the dock search |
| ? | Show these shortcuts in a browser alert |