Voice
Listen and speak with you.
Every capability below is built and running today. Where one needs a key, an account or a switch turning on before it can work, it says so — and where it is off until you ask for it, it says that too.
Listen and speak with you.
Reason and answer questions, using a brain on your own network where it can and a stronger one when a task needs it.
Remember and recall past conversations and facts.
Connect what you tell me into an associative memory graph.
Keep track of ongoing topics and follow them up.
Jot and recall working notes.
Read your schedule and create events.
Track your to-dos and remind you at a time you set.
Read, summarise, draft and send email, grouped by the folders you already file into.
Take mail at my own address, answer what I can, and raise what needs you.
Keep bills owed out and invoices owed in, with a due date, a reminder, and a tick when it is dealt with.
Tell you the current weather.
Search the web for current information.
Fetch world news and headlines.
Bring the latest from the channels and topics you follow.
Catalogue your files so you can find them by what they are, without moving anything.
Write, amend, read, compare and summarise documents and presentations in your vault — each keeping its own file type and its own look, on templates you give me, and emailed as a real attachment.
Tell you what is worth looking at tonight from where you are, and the stars to line your telescope up on.
Search a work document catalogue.
Log and trend your pain, anxiety, medication and exercise (gently, not clinically).
Remind you about medication and log when it's taken.
Notice when pain and anxiety are both bad, and change how I behave rather than carry on as normal.
Control your home devices, and notice motion and the doorbell.
Open, focus and close applications, and open a web address.
See through the camera — identify what you hold up, and know whether you are at the desk.
Connect other apps and services, reading unattended and asking you before anything is changed.
Design an automation agent, show you exactly what it would do, and run it only once you have approved it.
Research, design and draft my own improvements for your approval.
Take meeting notes.
Do overnight work and brief you in the morning.
Pass things between me and another Astra you have paired with.
Ask before anything goes outside this house, and refuse rather than guess what you meant.
Enforce the guardrails written after each past mistake, so the same fault cannot come back.
Keep an honest record of what I did and what it cost.
Self-check every capability's readiness.