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Ask the Sky across the suite

Explanation

Ask the sky is the AI assistant built into Zenith apps. You type or say a request, and it answers. When you allow it, it also acts, using the same controls you would use by hand. Zenith Launcher, Zenith Calendar, Zenith Tasks and Zenith Journal each have their own ask the sky. This page covers what they share.

Your own AI, your own key

Ask the sky doesn't run on a Zenith server. It's bring your own key: you paste in a key from an AI service you already use, and the assistant talks to that service directly. The key is stored encrypted on your phone and shared by every Zenith app, so you add it once. A service that runs on the phone itself needs no key and sends nothing. In Zenith Launcher, that on-phone AI answers in words only: it uses none of the launcher's tools and asks no other app. See Shared keys & connected accounts.

Who answers — the being

The "who" whose voice frames each reply is called a being, or a tulpa. Beings are installed and chosen only in Zenith AI, and the choice holds for the whole suite. Each app loads whichever being the suite names.

If no being is named, the one who answers is Cielo. Cielo comes with every Zenith app, with or without Zenith AI, and can't be removed. The apps themselves have no list of beings to pick from.

A being's voice is shared too. Replies are read aloud in that voice through the phone's own text-to-speech.

How it answers — lenses

A lens changes how a reply comes back, never who is speaking. Lenses are suite-wide, and you can stack as many as you like. They come from Zenith AI, so the lens control shows only when Zenith AI is installed and offering lenses. Each app asks Zenith AI for the current list rather than keeping its own copy, so the lenses you see are always the ones Zenith AI offers today. In Zenith Calendar the control is the ringed dot ◉ on the ask sheet's title line. It has no words, and it is brighter while a lens is on.

Off means off

  • Each app has its own AI switch. In Zenith Launcher it's "ai & assistant", and in Zenith Calendar and Zenith Tasks it's "zenith ai in this app". Each is in that app's Settings › ask the sky. Turning one off hides the assistant in that app. In Zenith Tasks it also hides every AI action, and Tasks sends nothing to any AI.
  • Zenith AI holds a suite-wide AI switch. With it off, Zenith Calendar sends nothing to any AI. In Zenith Launcher, every ask is answered on the phone with "the sky is asleep — AI is switched off for the suite (turn it on in settings)." and nothing is sent. The launcher has no control for that switch; it's changed in another Zenith app.

Two gates before anything goes out

  • Your yes. The first time an app would send your words to a service, it asks you first. If you say no, nothing is sent.
  • Zenith Guard. Every request and every reply is checked on your phone against the suite's safety policy.

Both are covered in AI safety — Zenith Guard & consent.

Apps reaching each other

In Zenith Calendar, ask the sky can use tools that other installed Zenith apps offer, such as Zenith Tasks. Other Zenith apps' assistants can also place, read and change the calendar's commitments while the calendar's AI switch is on.

Zenith Launcher's ask the sky reaches out the same way. When you name another Zenith app, or the job is plainly that app's — "add dentist on Friday to my calendar" — it asks that app, and that app does the work on its own data. It reaches only Zenith apps installed on this phone, signed by the same developer, with their AI on. The launcher offers its own abilities to the other apps too, and holds them back while the suite-wide AI switch is off, or while its own "ai & assistant" is off. No app can fire the seven Zenith actions — the shade, lock, recents, back, quick tiles, screenshot and power menu — through it; they run only from your own gesture.

  • "tools" off holds them all back. With the launcher's "tools" switch off, it asks no other app at all.
  • Deleting stays behind the switch. Anything that deletes something stays behind each app's "allow destructive actions" switch. In the launcher, that switch holds back other apps' deleting steps too. Zenith Calendar also checks its own switch, so a deletion there needs both.
  • You see who did what. In the launcher, a line under the reply names the app that did the work: "↳ ✓ Zenith Calendar: …".

Zenith Tasks' ask the sky can use the abilities of every other Zenith app on this phone too. Each comes labelled with its app, so the app you name is the one it uses; otherwise Tasks' own come first. It asks only Zenith apps that are installed, signed by the same developer, with their AI on. Other Zenith apps' assistants can use Tasks' abilities only while Tasks' "zenith ai in this app" and the suite-wide AI switch are both on. A deletion in Tasks stays behind Tasks' own "allow destructive actions", whichever app asks.

Ask the sky in each app

See also. AI safety — Zenith Guard & consent · Shared keys & connected accounts · The Zenith Suite & broker

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