Voice and typed commands
Say these with Space held, or type them in the command bar. Plain orders run on your Mac; whole sentences go to the planner, which understands far more than this list.
On this page
Agents and groups#
| To | Say | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Start consoles | spawn two reviewers, spin up 3 codex | Up to 12 at once. Name a built-in CLI, or an agent you added under SettingsAgentsYour agents. A request with no CLI and no role opens plain shells. |
| Make a group | make a group of three Claude Code agents | Without a number, a group has three. |
| Add to a group | add two testers to group 2 | |
| Pause | pause, pause Otto, wait | Stops the process until resumed. No confirmation. |
| Resume | resume, continue, keep going | |
| Restart | restart group 1, reset the codex | Relaunches in place. Asks you to confirm. |
| Close | kill Otto, kill the claude consoles, delete the backend group | Closes and removes them. Always asks you to confirm. |
Giving work#
| To | Say | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Tell one agent | @Otto run the tests, tell Otto to run the tests, Otto, run the tests | Only that console gets it. With @ your words are typed exactly; the other two forms go through the planner, which writes the instruction. |
| Tell the board | run the tests and report | The planner decides who gets what. |
| Same prompt for all | give everyone the same prompt: review the auth flow | Otherwise work is split or goes to one free agent. |
| Hand off | pass this task to codex, hand off to gemini | See Handoffs. |
| Forward results | when they finish, pass it to Codex | |
| Cancel | cancel that, never mind, scratch that | Drops what was not typed yet. |
Asking#
| To | Say |
|---|---|
| Get the state | status, how's it going |
| Get the results | who finished, what happened, give me a summary |
| Get help | what can you do?, help |
The board#
| To | Say |
|---|---|
| Move the camera | show me everything, zoom in, reset zoom, go to Otto, focus on group 2, show me the codex lanes |
| Open panels | open loops, open memory, open mission map, open settings, open github, open usage, close that |
| Open studios | open documents, open code, open markdown, open skills |
| Add things | add a note that says ship Friday, add a kanban, add a calendar, open localhost 3000, add an orchestrator |
| Draw | I want to draw, eraser |
| Theme | light mode, dark mode, match macOS |
| Undo | undo, redo, on their own, in the command bar |
Workspaces, loops and Git#
| To | Say | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Workspaces | go to workspace 2, new workspace called QA, rename this workspace to Backend, close workspace 2 | Command bar only. Closing with agents running asks. |
| Loops | every 10 minutes run the tests | The time must open the sentence; 1 minute to 24 hours. A macOS dialog confirms. |
| Git | commit and push, push, pull, commit with the message fix login | Runs at once, no confirmation. |
Through the planner#
Anything that is not a plain order goes to the planner: a whole sentence for several agents, a question about the board, group the testers, clean up the board, renaming, checklists, presets. It writes the steps and the text each agent gets; How orders reach your agents covers what then happens, and what asks before acting. Each planner turn uses credits.
Speech is recognized in 25 European languages. The planner's replies and spoken lines come in English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, German or Italian, and in English otherwise.
Keep going#
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