Sparky Lab
A workshop for an AI that runs on a computer in my house. It plans, does the work in a real folder, and leaves a receipt for everything it touched.
The receipt
Every run shows its work.
When a job finishes, it folds into a short log: the steps it set itself, the files it read, the commands it ran and whether they came back clean.
Every changed file is listed with its line count. One click opens the exact lines that were added or removed, so I never have to take its word for it.
Plan first
A plan I can read before anything changes.
In Plan mode it can look around, but it can't edit a file or run a command. What comes back is a card: the goal, the approach, the risks, the steps, and which files it expects to touch.
I can change the steps or just say what's wrong. Nothing starts until I press Start. Then the steps become a checklist that ticks as it goes.
Approvals
Risky commands wait for a yes.
Every command is sorted by what it could do. Reading and ordinary edits go ahead. Anything destructive stops and asks, and says why in plain words.
I can allow it once, allow that kind of thing for the rest of the conversation, or say no and tell it what to do instead. If I'm away, my phone rings.
The night shift
Stack the work, then walk away.
A conversation can be a queue. I add tasks in plain words, it takes them one at a time, and each one is its own run with its own receipt.
I can keep adding tasks while it works. The shift can run on a different model than the one I talk to during the day.
Project notes
It learns the project, and shows me what it learned.
Each workspace has a short list of notes: how to run the checks, where things live, what bit us last time. They ride along with every new conversation in that folder.
When something it knows stops being true, it proposes the correction on a card. Replacing or retiring a note always waits for my tap, and the old wording is kept with the reason.
The library
Everything it made, in one place.
Every workspace is a shelf. Pages open as a live preview in a sandbox with no network, documents and code open as text, and anything can be edited right there.
Earlier versions of an edited file are kept, so a change I regret can be taken back.
In your pocket
The same workshop on a small screen.
There's a native iPhone app too. These two pictures are the web app at phone width.
- Working
Thinking
Done
A workshop, not a chat box.
It lives at home
The models run on computers in my house. The conversations, the files and the notes stay on that box.
Three rooms
Chat is for talking. Work is for doing things in a folder. The Library is for reading what came out of it.
One folder at a time
Work happens inside the workspace I chose, and every command runs in a sandbox around it.
Pick the brain
Each conversation chooses its model. A bigger one for thinking, a second one on another machine for long shifts.
A door for Sparky
My personal assistant can hand a job to the Lab with a key that opens only that door. The result comes back as a report.
Long days stay quick
Long conversations are summarized before they get slow, and a line in the transcript says when that happened.