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 is a message on the left, under a badge naming who spoke: D47 in the theme’s own colour, CMDR in a dimmer grey, a persona or a role like Tower in between. 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 badge.

A turn you speak through the comms push-to-talk carries a grey comms tag after CMDR; turns spoken through the core key, and typed turns, have none.

The headset’s big panel does the same, and so does the mini panel.

The controls

Copy, the button showing two overlapping squares beside the search box, puts the entire conversation on the clipboard. The name that appears when you point at it reads COPIED or COPY FAILED for two seconds after. To copy only part of it, select the text and press Ctrl+C. 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. CLEAR beside the box empties it, 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.

SPEND 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 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. SEND beside it does the same thing and exists so that the first thing you do with Directive 47 is not a guess. The box grows to three lines as you type, then scrolls. It is on this tab only — from anywhere else, say what you want instead.

The microphone line above the box is never silent about its own state, and only its dot changes colour: one colour when ready, a second while listening or while the speech model loads, and the danger colour when no microphone is open. 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. MIC OFF means no microphone is open, and its dot is hollow — a filled dot always means a device is open, so the state stays readable if the 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.