> ## Documentation Index
> Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://developer.watson-orchestrate.ibm.com/llms.txt
> Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further.

# Managing watsonx Orchestrate Developer Edition UI

With watsonx Orchestrate Developer Edition installed you have access to a local UI for the watsonx Orchestrate. This UI is not started automatically when you start the watsonx Orchestrate Developer Edition server, so if you want to use it you need to manually start or stop it using the CLI commands.

## Starting watsonx Orchestrate Developer Edition UI

To start the watsonx Orchestrate Developer Edition UI on port `3000`, run:

```bash BASH theme={null}
orchestrate chat start
```

<Expandable title="command flags">
  <ResponseField name="--skip-open" type="boolean">
    Do not open the chat UI in a web browser.
  </ResponseField>

  <ResponseField name="--env-file / -e" type="string">
    Path to a .env file that overrides default.env. Then environment variables override both.
  </ResponseField>
</Expandable>

## Stopping watsonx Orchestrate Developer Edition UI

When you finish using the UI, you can stop it to free resources on your machine, run:

```bash BASH theme={null}
orchestrate chat stop
```

<Expandable title="command flags">
  <ResponseField name="--env-file / -e" type="string">
    Path to a .env file that overrides default.env. Then environment variables override both.
  </ResponseField>
</Expandable>