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Senses and hands

A sense lets Nirvaana see something. A hand lets it do something out in the world. The rule that never changes: senses only read, and a hand never moves without your yes.

Today Nirvaana has senses and no hands. It can see what you type and what it has kept for you. That is all. It cannot send, post, pay, sign or delete anything, anywhere.

What it can see today

  • The conversation you are having with it right now.
  • Everything it has kept for you before, which it can search.
  • The promises and open questions it has written down.
  • The worlds you have brought into this conversation, and your own world.

What it cannot see today

This list is worth reading once, so you are never guessing.

  • Your email. It has no access to Outlook, Gmail, or any inbox.
  • Your calendar.
  • Your files, OneDrive or Drive.
  • The internet. It cannot open a web page or look something up online.
  • Your accounting, your fleet software, your phone, or anything else you use.

So if you ask it what is on your calendar tomorrow, it can only tell you what you told it. It should say so rather than guess. If it ever answers as though it looked something up, that is wrong and worth reporting.

What it can do today

All of it inside your own account. The one thing that reaches a world is a fact you said yes to.

  • Keep a fact, and search back through what it has kept.
  • Write down a promise, and close one when it is done.
  • Leave a question open for tomorrow, and close one.
  • List the ways in it has, which today is an empty list.
  • Adjust how it writes to you, and how formally it speaks in a given world.
  • Call on a keeper you have brought into the conversation.
  • Read you what is waiting for your ✅, and take your yes or your no to one, after saying who would see it. Only when no world is in the conversation; with one there, use the panel.
  • Keep what you tell it about a stage lighting rig, in your own words, and read it back.

When it uses one, the conversation says so in plain words: Kept that., Noted the promise., Looked through what I know. You always see what it did.

The It can panel

On the right of the workspace there is a panel called It can. It lists the ways in you have built together: accounts it is connected to, and procedures it has learned. Today it says Nothing yet. Each way in we build together stays here. That is accurate. As things are connected, they appear there with their state next to them.

Connecting your email, calendar and the restnot built yet

Outlook, calendars, meeting transcripts, accounting and the rest are planned, and each will say up front what it would let Nirvaana see and what it would let it do. None of them is connected yet, and there is no button to connect one.

The cloud computernot built yet

The panel in the top right called The computer is a drawing, labelled arrives soon, of something not built. The caption on it is the promise it is making: when a site has no other way in, Nirvaana will open a computer there, and either you watch it work or it points and you do the typing. Your password would never pass through it. Today nothing runs, and the picture is not a real screen.

Why the yes matters, even later

When hands do exist, the rule holds: reading is Nirvaana's, and sending, paying, signing, deleting or contacting another person is never done on its own. It asks, it waits for you to say yes in that same conversation, and that yes covers only the thing it asked about. Not the next one.