My dashboard is empty
An empty My Overview or My Repos page means one of two different things: either ATTRIBUT has never received any data for your account, or it has data but your current date range or filters don't match any of it. The two look different on screen, and the fix for each is different too — this article shows you how to tell them apart.
The two empty states
Never connected — nothing has ever been reported to your account: no AI coding tool has sent a session, and/or no GitHub repository is connected. In this state ATTRIBUT shows a dedicated "connect" card instead of the dashboard, and the Date/Tool/Repo filter chips disappear entirely (there's nothing yet for them to filter).
Connected, but filtered to nothing — you do have data in your account, but the date range, tool, or repo you've currently selected doesn't match any of it. In this state the filter chips stay on screen (so you can change them), and the page itself either shows a small "nothing in this view" message or simply renders with zero values.
What "never connected" looks like
On My Overview, if no AI coding tool has ever reported a session for your account, the page shows a "Start metering your AI work" card in place of the usual charts. This is the account-level connect screen — it's asking you to connect an AI coding tool, not GitHub. Setting up a connector is covered in a separate article ("Connect your AI tools to ATTRIBUT" in the Connectors collection) — this article only covers recognizing the empty state, not the connect steps themselves.
On My Repos, the equivalent "never connected" card is titled "Connect your code to the value it ships." It appears whenever no GitHub installation is connected yet — because Repos is built entirely from merged pull requests and commits, it has nothing to show until a source-control connection exists. (If GitHub is already connected but nothing has synced as attributed work yet, you will see the "filtered to nothing" state described below instead, not this connect card — the connect card checks only whether a GitHub installation exists, not whether any repos have data yet.) This is a separate connection from your AI tool: connecting an AI coding tool alone will populate Overview and Sessions, but Repos stays on this card until GitHub is connected too. GitHub connector setup is documented separately in the Connectors collection.
A quick way to jump to connecting either kind of source: the "Add source" button in the My Repos header links straight to the Connectors page.
What "filtered to nothing" looks like
This is different from never connected — you already have real data, it's just that nothing in your account matches what's currently selected (for example, a date range before you started using ATTRIBUT, or a Tool/Repo filter combination with no overlap).
On My Repos, this shows a lightweight message: "No repositories in this view," with the hint "Adjust the date range or filters to see attributed work." Unlike the connect card, your Date/Tool/Repo filter chips remain visible above this message, because the fix is just to change them.
On My Overview, there isn't a separate "nothing in this view" message — the page renders normally, just with zero or blank values everywhere: the top statement shows no spend, the checkpoints and heatmap show nothing for the period, and the Spend → Value panel (which breaks spend down by repo) disappears entirely if there are no repos with activity in range. The filter chips stay visible the same way, so if Overview looks "stuck at zero" rather than showing an obvious empty-state card, this is almost always why.
How to tell them apart at a glance
Signal | Never connected | Connected, filtered to nothing |
Date / Tool / Repo filter chips | Not shown | Still shown and adjustable |
My Overview shows | "Start metering your AI work" connect card | Normal layout, but every value is zero/blank |
My Repos shows | "Connect your code to the value it ships" connect card | "No repositories in this view" message |
What to do
If you're seeing a connect card (no filter chips at all): you need to connect a source before there's anything to show. For Overview and Sessions, connect an AI coding tool. For Repos, connect GitHub. Both are set up from the Connectors page; see "Connect your AI tools to ATTRIBUT" and the GitHub connector article in the Connectors collection for the exact steps.
If you're seeing filter chips but empty or zero data: widen your date range, or clear/change the Tool and Repo filters, until they match a period and scope where you actually worked. No new connection is needed — the data exists, it's just currently filtered out.