The reading you land on: you and the ship's AI, everything said, in order.
1 This reading is the conversation, drawn as one.
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.
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.
4 Three settings stand behind every answer here.
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.