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Starships

A Starship is your own PC or laptop (Windows, a Mac or Linux), paired as yours. It's the Satellite program with three more things: a key to hold while you talk, a corner window, and the AI's hands on that PC when you allow them.

Installing

Shuttlebay → Add a device → Starship. On Windows run install.bat and answer 3 (Starship); on a Mac or Linux, copy the Shuttlebay's Starship command into a terminal. Pair it as yours. A laptop asks to pair as Mobile (it goes with you); a desktop is in a room.

  • A Mac asks to let Python use the microphone, and the talk key needs Python in System Settings → Privacy & Security → Accessibility.
  • Linux with Wayland: the talk key needs a desktop shortcut to satellite --talk (tap to talk, tap again to send), or your user in the input group.

Talking

  • Hold Right Ctrl to talk (Right Option on a Mac; changeable). The mic is open only while the key is held. Its wake word is off unless you turn it on.
  • A corner window pops up when the AI talks or shows something, with what you said and its words, and fades after. Anything that works on a Shuttle's screen works there: the Viewscreen, pictures, videos.
  • Click the window to open the conversation and type (Enter sends). Typed messages are answered in text only, not out loud, in case you're somewhere you can't talk.
  • Always show the hologram (off to start with) keeps a small card in the corner: the AI's hologram or an orb, with what's new and your timers. Hologram size (60% to 200%) is in its settings.
  • The tray icon (the menu bar on a Mac) has its switches. The bell's pop-ups, timers, alarms and pages show as the PC's own notifications.
  • Drop a file on the window to send it to the AI; something big goes to your Cargobay.

The AI's hands

With Let the AI use this PC on (its tray menu, on that PC only; off to start with), the AI can, for you only:

  • open apps, files and websites,
  • find files ("find my tax return PDF") and read one into the conversation ("read number 2"),
  • send a file to your Files in Ops, or a big one to your Cargobay,
  • press the volume and media keys ("next song", "set the volume to 30"), and lock it,
  • run commands, and the scripts it writes.

Anything that only looks happens at once. Anything that changes something needs your OK and PIN (Approve in the corner window, or say yes and your PIN); "what would it do?" shows a preview first. Every action shows a notification on the PC, everything is in the audit log, and Ctrl+Shift+F12 stops whatever it's doing. The Never list applies here too.

Which PC: the one you're talking on, else the one you name ("on my laptop"), else the AI asks. Away from home, its hands work only on the Starship itself: see Outside the home.