Tater – Tater v81

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Tater – Tater v81

🥔 Tater v81 — “The Potato Learned Terminal Commands” 💻

Hold onto your hats, tinkerers! Tater just leveled up from a local chat app to a full-blown local AI workspace and runtime system. The potato officially has shell access now, so things are about to get much more interesting (and potentially chaotic)! ⚠️

🚀 Spudex: The New Terminal Workbench

The biggest highlight is Spudex, a brand-new terminal-console workspace built directly into Tater. It’s essentially a “Codex” for your local machine where you can:

  • Chat with terminal-capable models.
  • Run commands, write scripts, and manage files.
  • Inspect outputs and retry/fix failed tasks in real-time.

Pro-tip:* Use containers or isolated folders! Spudex is powerful, so keep those guardrails active to prevent the AI from “reorganizing” your filesystem into abstract art. 🎨

🧠 Hydra Terminal Tools & Smarter Research

Hydra is getting much more capable with new tools like `spudex_run`, `spudex_task`, and `spudex_status`.

  • Multi-step execution: Hydra can now handle real terminal tasks instead of just pretending it did them. It even auto-continues unfinished tasks!
  • No more “AI Confidence Theater”: Web research is much smarter. Instead of grabbing random snippets, Hydra can now search, inspect pages, and evaluate if it actually found the answer before moving on.

🎙️ Self-Managing Wake Words

Thanks to Firmware v3.0.3, Tater can now change its own satellite wake words!

You can literally say, “Tater, change your wake word to hey computer,”* and it works.

  • The new `microwakewordVerba` handles natural spoken phrases better (e.g., “hey tatty” vs “hey-tatty”) and can reset to defaults if things get weird.

📅 Enhanced Personal Core Dashboard

Your dashboard is getting a much-needed productivity boost:

  • 7-day outlook context: Get a better grasp of your upcoming schedule.
  • Multi-user support: Easily switch between different person profiles.
  • Deep Context: Added calendar, action, and subscription context directly into your briefs.

This release marks a massive shift toward Tater being a persistent workflow engine. Happy scripting (and please, use common sense with that shell access)! 🥔⚙️

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