Clearance¶
Engineering → Crew → Clearance decides who may have the AI use each tool. One grid: every tool down the side, a tick per rank across the top, and people given it by name.
| Column | |
|---|---|
| Captain | always has everything |
| First Officer, Crew, Cadet | tick to give a tool to everyone of that rank (All users ticks all three) |
| Guest | people at a home device who aren't signed in; you pick for how long: until tonight, tomorrow night, a week, or until you untick it |
| Also given to | people given it by name (the Captain or First Officer) |
– means it can't be given there; point at it to see why (PC hands are for adults; mail, away missions, timers and PC hands aren't for Guests). Only the Captain ticks ranks.
What's in it¶
- The built-in tools: web search, reading links, weather, timers and reminders, lists, hand-offs to other models, pictures, paging, the Cargobay, PC hands (the AI using the Starbase PC at all) and Starship hands.
- The built-in parts, one line each: Mail, Messages, Away missions, Past conversations, Video. Clearance covers their part of Ops too: someone not cleared for Mail doesn't get the Mail buttons.
- Every Module's and tool server's tools, folded under its name. A new one's tools start with the Captain and the First Officer.
A tool someone wasn't given doesn't work for them: not by voice, not in a conversation, not in their missions.
Guests¶
Ticking Guest lets a Guest at a home device use that tool: web search, links, weather, leaving a message, Video, lists (the guests' own, shared by every Guest), code hand-offs, today's guest conversations on that device, and anything a Module or tool server adds. A change waits for their yes on that same device, and anything that needs a PIN is never for Guests.
How much asking¶
What happens when the AI uses a tool (right away, after an OK, or after an OK and a PIN) is the tool's level, set in Tools.
The Never list¶
At the bottom: what the AI won't do for anyone, on any PC. Wiping a disk, deleting everything on a drive, your user folder, Desktop or Documents, or a system folder. The Captain can take one off with their PIN; it then needs an OK and the PIN every time.