Chat

Chat is the primary way to interact with Stallari. It gives you a conversational Chief of Staff that can explain the system, search help, summarize setup state, and request work through the local helper.

What Chat Shows

Area	Purpose
Messages	Conversation between you and Stallari.
Routing indicator	Shows whether the next answer is expected to use local, peer, or cloud inference.
Tool disclosures	Shows when Stallari used help search, status lookup, plugin calls, or dispatch requests.
Review prompts	Asks before sensitive work, plugin use, or higher-risk actions proceed.

Chat should make authority visible. A helpful answer is not enough; Stallari should also show what context or tools were involved when that matters.

What Chat Can Do

Chat can answer product questions, look up local help, inspect status, list installed capabilities, and request a workflow. It can also explain why a feature is unavailable.

Examples:

• “What still needs setup?”
• “Why is Mail indexing unavailable?”
• “Which providers are configured?”
• “Show me what failed most recently.”
• “Prepare a daily summary.”

When a request would use a plugin or start work, Stallari should show the relevant confirmation or review path.

Privacy Routing

The routing indicator describes where model processing is expected to happen:

Route	Meaning
Local	A model on this Mac handles the message.
Peer	A trusted configured peer handles the message.
Cloud	A configured cloud provider handles the message.

Cloud routing does not mean blanket vault access. The model receives only selected context and permitted plugin results for the job.

Tool And Work Confirmation

Chat may call built-in help or status tools to answer questions. For work that changes state, touches external services, or uses sensitive plugins, Stallari should ask for confirmation or route the item to review.

The confirmation should name the requested work, the plugin or service involved, and the expected result.

First Week Recommendations

During early use, Chat may show setup recommendations such as configuring a provider, approving the helper, installing a plugin, or reviewing permission readiness. These are shortcuts to the relevant Settings or Status surfaces, not a replacement for those surfaces.

Good First Prompts

• “Explain my setup state.”
• “What does Status say needs attention?”
• “What plugins are installed?”
• “How does Mail indexing permission work?”
• “What can I do without a cloud provider?”

Related concepts

• Agency Model — authority visibility, tool surfaces, review gates exercised here
• Context And Memory — what context the model receives per chat turn
• Scope And ACL — how scope tags gate tool use during a conversation