The reading you land on: you and the ship's AI, everything said, in order.

1 This reading is the conversation, drawn as one.

Where am I? We're holding at Jameson Memorial. [Switched to Cora] Yours on the right. The ship's on the left. A note about the conversation sits across the middle. A mark like that is the panel speaking, not a voice in the conversation — so it takes no side.

The other three readings are files on disk, and each has its own help. This one is held in memory and is the only reading that is Directive 47's own.

2 Two ways in, and the microphone always says which.

Type here, and Enter sends it SEND Or speak — and the badge beside the box is always in one of these three states. PTT Ready holding nothing; press your key Listening... waiting for its name, no key held MIC ON your voice is being kept Filled circle, not just a colour — so the state that matters is readable without telling two colours apart.

The third does not say push-to-talk on purpose. A key you are holding and a gate Directive 47 opened for itself are the same fact about your microphone, and naming the key there would be false half the time.

3 The controls around it.

COPY ALL the whole conversation, not the selection — that is Ctrl+C SEARCH counts every match and steps you through them both ways THE BANKNOTE the receipt for the last response — what it used, and what it cost Scroll what is shown above the fold — right-click, or Ctrl+L It deletes nothing — scroll back up and it is all still there. On all four readings. Scroll away from the newest line and a ↓ Newest button appears to bring you back. The banknote opens a window, so it is on the desktop only.

4 Three settings stand behind every answer here.

HEARD Whisper turns your voice into words ANSWERED the language model, or nothing at all SPOKEN a voice reads the answer back Three separate settings, and a quiet page is one of them switched off rather than all three broken. The three links below go straight to those rows.

The details

In Ship is the Transcript’s first reading and the one the panel opens on. It is what was said between you and Directive 47 — your questions and its answers, in order, with a marker where the core changed.

It is the only reading held in memory rather than read from a file, and that one fact decides most of what follows.

How it is drawn

Each response gets a bubble: yours on the right in the theme’s own colour, the ship’s on the left. When Directive 47 notes something about the conversation rather than saying something in it — the core changing under you — that sits across the middle in the accent with no bubble, because it is not a side.

The headset’s big panel does the same. The mini panel does too and spends less on it: the same sides and the same colours, with the gutter and most of the padding given back, because a surface 512 pixels across cannot afford to say twice over which side a line is on.

The controls

Copy All puts the entire conversation on the clipboard. It is deliberately not called Copy: the text on the page is selectable and Ctrl+C already copies a selection, so a button called Copy beside selectable text is a button that means two things. A search query does not narrow what it copies — you asked for the conversation, not for the matches.

Search highlights every match, counts them, and steps forward and back through them. It clears in one press, and Escape does the same.

Newest appears over the text once you have scrolled away from the live end, and takes you back to it. This reading grows downwards, so its arrow points down.

Clear what is shown — on the right-click menu, and Ctrl+L — empties this page. It is offered here and greyed on the other three readings, which are files on disk that Directive 47 only reads: a control appearing to empty one would be offering to delete it.

It clears the page and not the record. The model still remembers the conversation, so a follow-up question is answered as if you had not cleared anything, and the log file on disk is untouched.

The banknote at the right of the status line opens the receipt for the most recent response — the tools it ran, the tokens and characters it spent, and the price. It was the word Details until 0.93.0; hovering still says what it does, and so does a screen reader. It opens a window, so it is on the desktop and not in a headset, and there is no second place these figures are shown.

It is a note rather than a coin on purpose. These are dollars on a provider account, not your in-game balance, and a coin in a cockpit overlay is the thing that gets read as credits.

The ask box takes typing, and Enter sends. The button beside it does the same thing and exists so that the first thing you do with Directive 47 is not a guess. The box is on this tab only — from anywhere else, say what you want instead.

The microphone badge is never silent about its own state. PTT Ready means push-to-talk is armed and nothing is being kept. Listening… means there is no key to hold and it is waiting to hear its name. MIC ON means your voice is being captured right now — and it is drawn filled as well as coloured, so it stays readable if the two colours are hard to tell apart.

Saying where you want to go

This reading answers to “in ship”, and to “conversation” and “thread”, which are what it was called before. The label on the screen answers what am I looking at; the spoken phrase answers how do I ask for it, and they stopped having to be the same string in 0.96.0.

What decides the answers

Three settings sections, and they fail independently:

If this is wrong You see
Listening — the Whisper model, the microphone, the mode Nothing appears when you speak, though typing works
Language model — the provider and key Only the questions Directive 47 answers on its own
Speech — the voice Answers appear on the page but are never read aloud

That is why a quiet page is usually one of the three switched off rather than everything broken, and why the three links above go to those rows rather than to three more explanations.