Tutorial: command your HQ by typing or talking

The command bar at the bottom of your HQ is one input that does everything: open panes, route tasks to agents, change themes, start music, run loops. Everything typed works spoken too.

1. Try your first command

Click the bar (or press its hotkey) and type “open browser” — a Browser pane appears. The placeholder rotates through suggestions (“Try ‘new codex agent’”, “Try ‘tidy windows’”) when you’re out of ideas.

2. See everything it can do

Type “open the commands list”:

That pane is the full vocabulary — window control, agents, kanban, media, music, streaming — each with a say-this example. It’s the fastest way to discover features.

3. Route work to agents by name

The bar routes to agents like teammates:

• “tell Remy to fix the auth bug” — sends the task to Remy’s window.
• “who’s working?” — a spoken/typed status across all agents.
• “stop all agents” — the big red button, as a sentence.

4. Go hands-free

Click the mic for one command, or the waveform button for Dictation mode (it stays listening). Mastery HQ talks back with real voices — ask “what’s the status?” while you’re across the room.

Where to go next

• Command bar basics — hotkeys, history, completion.
• Voice commands reference — the printable phrase list.
• Dictation engines — offline vs cloud speech-to-text.