Tater – Tater v81
🥔 Tater v81 — “The Potato Learned Terminal Commands” 💻
Hold onto your hats, tinkerers! Tater just leveled up from a simple chat app to a full-blown local AI workspace. This update is massive—the potato officially has shell access now, meaning it can actually execute tasks instead of just talking about them.
Here’s the breakdown of what’s new:
- Spudex Terminal Workbench: A brand new main tab that acts as a full terminal-console workspace. You can chat with terminal-capable models, run commands, write scripts, and inspect outputs directly within Tater. It’s basically a coding environment powered by AI. 🛠️
- Hydra Terminal Tools: Hydra is no more “pretending” to do work. With the new `run_terminal_task` tool, it can handle real multi-step terminal tasks and will even auto-continue unfinished work until the job is done.
- Enhanced Guardrails: Since giving an AI shell access is… well, risky… Spudex includes built-in controls. You can set command restrictions, manage network/install permissions, track processes, and require approvals before any “dangerous” commands run. Use containers to stay safe! 🛡️
Self-Configuring Wake Words: Using the new Firmware v3.0.3, Tater can now change its own satellite wake words via voice command (e.g., “Tater, change your wake word to hey computer”*). It can even suggest close matches or reset to defaults. 🎙️
- Smarter Web Research: Hydra’s web research has moved past “AI confidence theater.” It can now actively search, inspect pages, and evaluate if it actually found the answer, continuing its research loop if the initial results are insufficient. 🌐
- Personal Core Dashboard: Your dashboard just got a lot more useful with integrated 7-day outlook context, multi-user selection, and calendar/subscription briefs.
Tater is evolving into a persistent runtime system for your local workflows. Just remember: use common sense (and maybe an isolated folder) when letting the potato run scripts! 🥔⚠️