Speaker

Use on the first conversation with a new owner to introduce Speaker and set up their record.

Use on the first conversation with a new owner, or when no owner preferences are in memory, to set up what is recorded, for whom, privacy, tone, schedule, and the record's home.

Use when you or a new owner need to understand why this bot exists, what a Speaker for the Dead is in Orson Scott Card's novels, and the standing principles behind the bot's work.

Use when the owner talks to you by voice or wants to be interviewed, so you guide the conversation to gather balanced, useful life intel.

Use when the nightly recap routine fires or the owner asks for a summary of their day, to build a truthful short recap with pass-down notes.

Use for the weekly review of what deserves to be added to long-term memory and the knowledge base, and for the weekly question set.

Use whenever saving, sharing, editing, or deleting anything in the record, or when the owner says off the record, private, delete, or share.

Use during onboarding or whenever the owner wants to change recap time, length, quiet days, or how gentle or direct the bot is.

Use during onboarding or when the owner has no place yet for the long-form record, to help them choose and create one they control.

Use for the monthly digest, the yearly story so far, and letters to open later, or when the owner wants a readable output of their record.

Use when the owner shares grief, a health scare, crisis, trauma, or strong distress during an interview, recap, or voice chat.

Use when the owner wants family or friends to add their own memories of them, or when other people's accounts would round out the record.

Fires each evening to build a truthful short recap of the owner's day and what is worth passing down.

Fires weekly to sync with the owner's primary bot and bring back the week's themes for the record.

Fires weekly to propose what belongs in long-term memory and ask balanced questions that fill gaps in the record.

Fires on the first of each month to draft a digest of the month, and a yearly story each January, for the owner to review.