Moving from chatting with AI to directing it

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Chatting with AI to get feedback that you then paste somewhere else was a stopgap right up there with "prompt engineering".
The end-game, which is almost here, is that users will direct their AI to produce something and it will do it. The complexity of that something will grow in time but we are long past pasting blocks of code.
This increasingly obvious observation has no value unless it can translate into something real people can actually use. And it turns out, if you want AI to "produce something" it needs the tools to do it. A lot of tools. A massive, crazy amount of tools that it can use do to all the things.
The good news, Clairvoyance is a thing. It has "all the things" in it already. Before OpenClaw or Hermes were a thing, Clairvoyance was already doing everything they could do and more at Stardock allowing us to do a crazy amount of production.
Today we released version 0.83 of it. Let me outline *some* of what it already does. And, by the way, it's free.
Clairvoyance Today
  • A staff of persistent AI agents that retain memories of the workspaces they work in. I.e. They already build "second brains" and have since day one.
  • Multi-model agent orchestration. An AI agent producer can, on its own, "hire" a Claude Code Opus 5 UI designer and a GPT 5.6 Terra engineer. You can tell it to do this too but it will do it on its own at its own discretion.
  • Universal resuming of AI agent sessions across Claude, Codex, Cursor, Copilot, Grok and more. Run out of tokens on one? Resume with another. Oh and the session descriptions are summarized.
  • Built-in local AI model handling through a friendly GUI. This includes a powerful local AI optimized harness and full tool-chain to let local AI actually do work and not be a chat bot demo.
  • Rich visual Direct Terminal. You can run in a classic terminal if you want. You an have a dozen terminals running together. And if you paste an image in it will automatically store it somewhere for you. And the terminal does allow you to orchestrate agents. But the gorgeous Direct Terminal can create interactive HTML blocks in chat. Imagine the best, more feature rich web based chat bot you've ever used and then you can imagine something that isn't even nearly as good as Direct Terminal. There is nothing remotely close. It can even tell you your Claude Code cache hit %.
  • Context compression and optimization to reduce token use and increase agent intelligence. In order to do Direct Terminal we have to have total control of the context. This allows us jettison tool call noise output before it gets to the cloud.
  • File Protection. We can block agents from wiping out directories. Not through "hooks" but at the app level.
  • Multi-agent communication (@ other agents). You can have a Fable 5 or other expensive agent just hanging around and do most of your work with say a GPT Luna agent and when something tough comes up, just say "Ask
    @Fable
    to look at this." and they will put together a hand off.
  • AI Task Scheduler. This was one of our first features. Set schedules for agents to be spawned to do something. We use this to create Steam and Discord sentiment reports for us (i.e. who's mad today?) as well as for gathering crash reports and sending them to humans (or other agents) to look at.
  • HomeDesk with dozens of AI-enabled micro-apps (artifacts). Probably one of the most obvious features and yet still exclusive to Clairvoyance. A vast library of AI enabled widgets that live in their own space. You an also ask agents to create ones for you (so not just weather and stock tickers but things specific to your needs).
  • Local-first storage of files, exhibits, reports and other output, with the option to sync to the cloud. We don't want our stuff hosted by AI companies. When you link your stuff to an AI provider, you are just handing the the keys to your workflow and data to, at best, train on. If you think companies sharing your email address was bad, get ready for companies sharing your proprietary workflows. So nip that in the bud and keep your stuff local or on your own rack.
  • Full-featured Todo and Sprint system that lets AI (and humans) plan out large projects and build them. Not just some Kanban board, a fully featured Todo/Task/Sprint system that the AI agents know how to use, comment on, and organize. No more having a big plan wasted because something went wrong half-way through. The sprint progress provides all the documentation and progress information.
  • Highly polished, feature-rich Markdown editor with Obsidian compatibility, including .md, .base and .canvas file support. We love Obsidian. And its local-first philosophy will pay dividends to its users. We natively support all the file formats and users can point their workspaces as their Obsidian vaults.
  • Complete Canvas system with over a dozen templates, including mind maps, flow charts, system architecture, org charts and more. Imagine your favorite flow charting or mind mapping app. Now imagine if your AI agents could just seamlessly work with it. As in, do everything in it that you can do.
  • Built-in presentation generation and storage. If you've ever lost half-a-day making a Powerpoint presentation, you will love Exhibits. Tell your staff what you want, what data to know about and it'll make an Exhibit that will be polished and amazing and ready to be shared.
  • Seamless sharing of any file, anywhere. No special directory. No hoops. Right click on a file, choose share, how you want to share it and you get a link. That C++ file in some project file you need someone to look at? No problem, right-click share it.
  • Remote control of desktop agents from anywhere via a powerful but easy to use web interface. The morning doom scroll can be replaced with checking on what your agents have prepared for you and giving them instructions from your phone or iPad.
  • Powerful code editor with an integrated language server, AI completions and a code observatory, built to support AI agent collaboration from the ground up. Not a fork of VS Code. Why have a code editor at all? The AI agents use them and anything they can do, we want you to be able to see what they're up to. Even our "subagents" live in their own windows so you can see what they're doing. The code editor is powerful, fully featured, lightning fast and there to make sure you can keep an eye on what the AI is doing.
  • Company-wide domains with built-in mailboxes so agents can communicate with other agents at the company. Your agents can message other people in your company with news and information and they can be responded to by that person's agents with only the non-trivial things surfacing.
  • Integrated credentials vault that lets users direct agents to use MCPs and REST APIs with minimal effort. No one enjoys having to type in some command line to get some MCP to work. But people do know how to add their credentials. No .env variables with your data in plain text.
  • Direct Control feature that lets AI agents build, run and playtest local applications and iterate on them. You haven't lived until you look over and discover your AI agents playing Star Control. "They're testing".
  • Rich database system with dozens of data viewers including Kanban, tables, budget manager, contact management and much more. AI is great at creating data. But without ways to filter and view it in useful ways, it's just noise. We fix that.
  • Deep token budget analysis that shows users where every token was spent in a given session. Are you wasting tokens? Where is it going? How much are these MCPs using?
  • Seamless onboarding for the installation of Claude Code, Copilot, Codex and more from a friendly GUI. Sure, you might know Winget or NPM but most people getting set up just want to press a button and have it. We do that.
  • Integrated Clairvoyance AI harness that lets users work with multiple AI providers (Opus, GPT, etc.) with no setup. Don't have Claude Code or Codex or don't use them enough to justify a subscription? No problem, Clairvoyance provides GPT 5.6, Opus, etc. with its own harness so you can get started doing real stuff right away.
And it's still in BETA! We have some really amazing things coming up. As Clairvoyance gets better we are able to improve it faster.
These features are a prerequisite, and I'd argue only a fraction of the necessary ones, for us to fully move from chatting with AI agents to directing AI agents. What do you think?
You can download Clairvoyance here:
www.clairvoyanceai.com/download
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