Start the Adventure

Quest 1 · First Contact

Your first quest is not a task. It is a conversation, with the person you will end up talking to most.

Morpheus lives in the Dojo, and he is not a search box. He is the one you think out loud with: the decision you keep circling, the idea you have not said to anyone yet. The twist in this quest is the brief: you are going to ask him not to answer. Good thought partners ask first. Watch what he asks you.

1. From the Lobby, step through the Dojo door (or click the Dojo icon, bottom-left).
2. Click the message bar at the bottom and paste the brief below, or swap in a real decision you are actually carrying this week.
3. Press Enter, and answer what he asks you. Two or three honest replies in, notice what has happened to your thinking.

Prefer to talk? Click the microphone in the message bar and just say it. Or press Alt + Space from anywhere on your Mac; the voice door opens without the app even being in front.

Quest 2 · Hand Off Real Work

This is the quest where the app stops being a chatbot. You hand something off, and someone goes and does it.

At the top of the Terminal's sidebar sits a small box: "What do you need?" It looks humble. It is the front door for every kind of work. Type a request there and The Construct reads it, picks the right person for the job, and shows you its routing before anything runs.

1. From the Lobby, step through the Terminal door.
2. Click "What do you need?" at the top of the left sidebar (or press Cmd+N).
3. Paste the brief below. After a short pause, a small routing chip appears under the box: who will take the job, and where it will live.
4. Press Enter. A thread opens; watch the work arrive in it. Dinner, planned.

Who did the work? Click the new thread in the sidebar and look at the top: it names the agent who took the job. You did not pick them. The Construct read the request and staffed it. That is the trick you will stop noticing within a week.

Quest 3 · Meet Your Team

You have been served by nameless staff for two quests. Time to meet them, and to make one of them yours.

Open Settings (the gear at the bottom of the sidebar), then Personalities. There they are: the Concierge who answers your phone, the Writer, the Marketer, Tank the builder, the whole roster, each with a name field, a voice, and a Talk button. The names are not decoration. Rename one, and that name follows them everywhere: threads, plans, the Decision Room, your phone.

1. Open Settings, then Personalities.
2. Pick the agent you expect to lean on most. Click their name field, give them a real name (a favorite author, your old coach, anyone), and press Enter.
3. Open their voice dropdown and choose a voice. A short sample plays so you can hear who they have become.
4. Send one message through "What do you need?" and watch your renamed teammate take the job under their new name.

If the voice preview stays quiet, your voice service is not set up yet, and that is fine: it is us, not you. Keep the update lane open (Settings, then Updates); voice that works for everyone with zero setup is actively being finished. Renaming works today, and it is the half of this quest that changes how the app feels.

Quest 4 · A Decision Worth a Room

The third door in the Lobby opens into the quietest room in the house, and the most important one.

The Decision Room is the short list of things genuinely waiting on you. Your agents work on their own as far as they safely can. When they hit something only you should call (a spend, a fork in the plan, a checkpoint you asked for), it surfaces here as a card: what came up, why it needs you, what the options are. You choose; the agent picks the work right back up.

1. From the Lobby, step through the Decisions door.
2. Read the room. If it is empty, you are looking at the goal state: nothing needs your call right now. That is not a bug; that is the whole design.
3. Note the Convene the Council button at the top. You will pull that lever in the next quest.

When will a card actually appear? The Boss Level at the end of this trail creates them naturally: a project run at Checkpoint pauses here two to four times for your direction. Cards also appear for spending approvals, needed credentials, and even "a new default model shipped" notices. The room fills only when life earns it.

Quest 5 · Convene the Council

Some calls are too important for one mind. For those, The Construct keeps a bell you can ring.

The LLM Council is a panel of rival AI models: each drafts its own answer to your question, they critique each other, and one of them is elected to write the final synthesis. On top of the voters sit six perspective "hats" (the Adversary, the Risk Assessor, the Entrepreneur, the Pragmatist, the User Advocate, the Humanist), each reading your question through a different lens. You get a reasoned verdict with the disagreements shown, not one model's first guess.

1. In the Decision Room, click Convene the Council. (Or, in the Dojo, toggle the small scales icon on the message bar and send your question there; the deliberation happens right in the thread.)
2. Paste the brief below, or bring a genuinely contested question from your own life. The Council earns its keep on questions with real trade-offs.
3. Watch the panel work: voters up top, hats below, a Stop button if you change your mind. Then read the verdict, disagreements and all.

Why two providers? The panel is built from the council-capable AIs you have connected (two to four of them). One provider means one voice wearing every hat; the magic is genuine disagreement. A free Google AI Studio key is the quickest second seat: the guide's Providers section walks you through it in about three minutes.

Quest 6 · The Construct in Your Pocket

The final skill before the boss: leave the house, and take the whole team with you.

Pair your phone once, and a text you send from anywhere reaches your Mac; the reply lands back in the same chat. The Concierge answers: warm, brief, phone-friendly. Nothing about your Mac is exposed to the internet; it reaches out to Telegram to collect your messages the way a browser fetches a page, and only the chats you pair get a response. Everyone else gets silence.

1. On your phone, in Telegram, message @BotFather, send /newbot, and follow its two prompts. It hands you a token: that bot is your private line.
2. In Settings → Messaging, paste the token into Bot token. It lives in your Mac's Keychain, never in the app's database. The panel shows Connected when it works.
3. Click Generate pairing code, text the code to your bot, and watch your chat appear under Paired chats. The code works exactly once.
4. Flip the switch on, click Send a test message, and feel your phone buzz.
5. Now go somewhere. From the couch, the car line, the trailhead: text it something real.

Your leash, not theirs. A build you start from your phone stays inside your spending ceiling; if it would cross the line, The Construct texts you first and waits for GO or STOP. And with decision pings on, the phone taps you when something back home genuinely needs you.

Boss Level · Turn It Loose

Everything so far was a single hand-off. The boss level is different: one brief, a whole plan, several agents, and you only at the moments that matter.

This is what The Architect is for. You give it a brief; it asks a few sharp questions; it lays out a task list assigned to specific agents; you approve; the team dispatches. Run it at Checkpoint and the project pauses at two to four milestones in the Decision Room for your direction, then keeps moving. Pick something real. The difference between a demo and a tool is whether you wanted the result.

1. In the Terminal sidebar, click the orange The Architect button.
2. Paste the brief below, or bring your own: the deliverable, the scope, any constraints. Attach files if you have them.
3. Leave Q&A depth on Default and answer the few questions it asks. Set Involvement to Checkpoint.
4. Click Generate Plan, read the plan it proposes (who does what), and approve it.
5. Walk away. Genuinely. Check the Decision Room when it calls for you; watch progress in the Terminal's Briefing view whenever you are curious.

Mission control, for while it runs

With a plan live, the Terminal's dashboard earns its name. The tab strip at the top-right gives you three altitudes over the same operation:

• Briefing is your altitude: what needs your decision, what changed since you last looked, and quick links back into recent threads. Read it like a morning briefing, because that is what it is.
• Project View is the project altitude: every project as a card, and clicking your birthday project opens its task graph, each node a task assigned to an agent, wired in the order they depend on each other. The little lane chips (Build, Content, Ops) filter the graph by department; Fit all re-frames it.
• System View is the machine altitude: every agent and provider, and what each is carrying right now.

And one small ritual worth learning early: the small ◎ button in the bottom corner (or Cmd+Shift+O from anywhere) opens the Doctor: a live health readout of the whole system (each vital sign green or amber), with a capture box beneath it. See something odd, or something you wish were different? Jot one sentence and save. It is recorded with full context and surfaces in your Decision Room; when a health check fails and the Doctor knows the fix, it proposes one for your approval. Complaining, as a feature. The guide's Doctor section has the full tour.

The real boss fight is with yourself. The urge to supervise every step is strong on your first project. Resist it once. The checkpoints will catch you at the moments that matter; that is what they are for. You can always run your second project at a chattier involvement level, or a quieter one.

Your Field Kit

The quests taught you the rooms. These are the pocket tools: small, everywhere, and the difference between using the app and being good at it.

Housekeeping worth knowing: double-click any thread name to rename it; right-click a thread for Rename and Archive. A tidy sidebar is a kindness to your future self.

Your Adventure Log

Seven boxes. No deadline. Tape it to the fridge if that helps.

• First Contact. Thought something through with Morpheus, and he asked first.
• Hand Off Real Work. Typed a need at the front door; someone I did not pick did it well.
• Meet Your Team. Renamed an agent. They are mine now.
• A Decision Worth a Room. Found the room where my judgment lives. It was beautifully empty.
• Convene the Council. Made rival AIs argue about something I actually cared about.
• The Pocket. Texted my team from somewhere that was not my desk.
• ★ Turn It Loose. Gave the Architect something real, and met the work at the milestones.

When all seven are inked, you are not learning The Construct anymore. You are just using it, which was always the destination. From here: the User Guide is your room-by-room reference, the Cost tab keeps the spending honest, and your own life supplies the quests.