Ask your agents by voice

With voice set up, you can also listen instead of read. Yardmaster can speak an answer back to you, summarize a session you name, or pass your spoken question to an agent and tell you when it answers. Each one is off until you turn it on in Settings > Voice Control, and each needs Enable Voice Input on first (see Talk to your agents by voice).

Hear answers read aloud#

Turn on Enable Voice Report Back. When you ask something with a voice command and the AI answers in words, Yardmaster reads the answer to you in the voice you picked under the read-aloud settings. Commands that just do something, like opening the Inbox, stay silent.

Under Advanced settings, Max characters limits how much is read (600 to start with), and Daily cost cap (USD) stops reading for the day once that much is spent ($1 to start with).

Ask about a session#

Turn on Ask about a thread (voice). Then press Option plus V⌥VAlt plus VAltV (or say the wake word) and ask, for example, "tell me about the auth refactor thread" or "in the auth refactor thread, what is blocking it?". Yardmaster answers out loud from that session's conversation, then listens for a follow-up question.

If you do not name a session, or the name matches none, it uses the session you have open. It only reads; nothing is sent to the agent.

Ask the agent that is working#

Turn on Ask the live agent (voice). Say, for example, "ask the auth refactor agent why it picked this approach". Yardmaster sends your question to that agent when it next pauses, asking it to answer without changing anything, and tells you with a notification when the answer is ready. The question appears in the session like any other message.

It never starts a new session.