The command bar

Talk to the bar#

• When no console or text field has the keyboard, ⌘K puts the cursor in the bar (inside a console it clears that console instead), Return sends, Esc gives the keyboard back to the board, and Up and Down recall your last 50 commands.
• Hold Space on the board to speak, and let go to send. The mic button works too: hold it, or tap once to start and again to stop. See Voice orders.
• The placeholder reminds you: Hold space to speak · @ to direct. On an empty board it suggests asking what can you do?.

Aim an order with @#

• Typing @ opens a Direct to menu: everyone, then each console, then each group. Choose with Up and Down, accept with Tab or Return, dismiss with Esc.
• @Otto run the tests goes to Otto only. @everyone, @all and @everybody address every console. The mention itself is taken out of the text the agent receives.
• A mention with nothing after it gets a nudge, such as Say what Otto should do.
• Names work without the @ too: tell Otto to run the tests, Otto, run the tests, the backend group, run the migrations. When the planner is available, these forms go through it, and it writes the instruction. With an @ mention of one console your words are typed exactly; a mention of a group or of several consoles goes to the planner, which splits the work, and @everyone works like no mention.
• When a name only sounds close, for example a spoken “Claudia” for your Claude console Otto, Symvibe holds the order and asks Did you mean Otto? With more matching consoles it asks whether to send it to all of them. Say confirm, or click Send.

The chips#

The thread#

• The chevron on the bar opens the thread: your orders, the replies, and a row for each agent's report.
• After each plan, a Plan note shows what each console was sent.
• When an agent you gave work to finishes, its row says it finished and how long it took, or that it failed and why, with the first lines of its reply and See output. Agents that do not answer within 30 minutes are dropped with a note.
• Ask who finished or what happened for where your latest order stands: who finished, who failed, who is still on it and who needs you. status counts what every console is doing and names who needs you.
• The thread is kept per repo, up to the last 500 messages, in ~/Library/Application Support/Hypervibe/Threads. Clear empties it. The globe in its header sets the speech language.

What it understands#

Short, plain orders such as spawn 4 codex, pause Otto or open loops are understood on your Mac without the planner. They use no planner credits, but a spoken confirmation that is not cached yet does. If your speech language is set to one other than English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, German or Italian, every order goes to the planner. Whole sentences, questions and work for several agents go to Symvibe's planner service, which uses credits. Small talk such as “thanks” never reaches a console.

Voice and typed commands lists everything with example phrasings, and How orders reach your agents explains what happens next.

Keep going#