Coffee in one hand, nothing in the other. You open Skyflo and the morning brief has already told you what was finished overnight. You press one button. Skyflo opens the first thing that needs you, explains it, recommends an answer and waits. You answer the way you would answer a colleague. A few minutes later the decisions are made, the new work you mentioned is already running, and you have not opened your inbox.
That is Home in Skyflo 1.8.0, the release that made Skyflo your AI chief of staff. This post walks through a morning on it: how Home sorts the work, how the brief reports it, and how Talk it through lets you clear it by voice without giving away a decision you did not mean to make.
Home sorts by who moves next
Home is the first thing you see. It holds every open obligation Skyflo knows about, from your missions, your mail and your calendar, and places each one by who moves next.
- Focus holds what you pinned.
- Needs you is what waits on your decision.
- Review is finished work to check.
- Running is what Skyflo and its agents are doing now.
- Waiting on is what waits on someone else, such as a reply you sent.
- Deferred is what you set aside until a time or a condition.
- Handled is what Skyflo organised since you were last here, with Undo, and Settled is what you closed.
That one question, who moves next, is what makes the page calm. Work that is moving does not ask for your attention, and work that needs you cannot hide behind it.
One ranking, one reason
Needs you is ordered by one ranking, and every item says in one line why it sits where it does: what it blocks, how long it has waited, the deadline it is up against. You can pin an item to Focus, mark one as less important, or reorder them when you know better.
Decide works through Needs you one item at a time, with the request, its effects and the evidence beside the choice. Answer it, or defer it until a time, until shortly before its deadline, or until it needs you again, and its work keeps going in the meantime. Settle an item when you are done with it, and reopen it if your judgement changes. When you reach the end of the pass, Decide says you are clear; anything you skipped stays on Home.
The morning brief
Before you decide anything, Skyflo has already written your brief. It leads with what Skyflo did: work it finished, then news it is passing on, kept separate so an update never reads as something Skyflo did. Then come the decisions that are yours, the work under way and any movement on your goals. An evening brief closes the day the same way.
You choose the times from the Home menu, or let Skyflo adjust mornings to when you are usually at your Mac. Something urgent does not wait for the next brief, and quiet hours hold urgent notes until they end.
Talk it through
Press Talk it through at the top of Home, or hold Space anywhere on Home. Nothing opens over the page. Skyflo speaks first, opens the first item that needs you and reads it.
For each item, Skyflo explains what an approval would actually do, in plain words, and recommends one way. Then it waits for you. Answer in whatever words come naturally. You can ask what a command does before you agree. You can say "show me" and it takes you to the mission behind the item and its plan, and the conversation carries on there. You can push an item to later and say when it should come back, or Skyflo asks.
Mail and calendar items work the same way. Skyflo tells you what the drafted reply says, or which response it recommends for an invite. Ask for different wording and it rewrites the reply. A reply is sent, or an invite answered, only when your answer names the option you want.
Describe new work ("draft the board update from last month's numbers") and it becomes a mission, started the way Send starts one. Skyflo tells you it has started only once it actually has.
New items do not interrupt you mid-answer. They join the queue and come up when you have dealt with what is in front of you. And when you would rather not go one by one, ask Skyflo to handle what it can. It clears the low-risk approvals, each with Undo, then walks you through the ones that need your answer.
A yes is not a blank cheque
Speaking is fast, and fast is exactly when a careless yes does damage. So Talk it through holds a few rules in code, not in the voice model's judgement.
- A plain yes takes the narrowest choice. When an approval offers "Allow for this session" or "Always allow", saying yes does not take it. Skyflo asks which one you mean, and only naming the standing option by its label takes it.
- High-risk items and plans are read before they are approved. A go-ahead counts only after Skyflo has explained the item as it stands now, on the page you are on. If the item changes after you heard it, your earlier yes does not carry over.
- Bulk handling stays low risk. Handling what it can never takes a high-risk approval, an answer that needs your own words, or a change to what Skyflo may do on its own, such as letting a Skill finish without asking. Those wait for you to answer by name.
The point is the same one Skyflo applies everywhere: the work moves on its own, and the decisions stay with you. Voice simply makes the second part quicker.
How to try it
Home and its morning and evening briefs come with every plan; on Free, Skyflo writes them with your own Moonshot or Z.ai key. Talking it through uses Voice Mode, included with Core, Pro and Max; the pricing page has the details.
- Download Skyflo for Mac, or update to 1.8.0. Home opens first.
- Open Brief times from the Home menu and set your morning brief.
- Tomorrow, read the brief, then work through Needs you by hand once, to see the ranking and its reasons.
- On Core, Pro or Max, press Talk it through and clear the rest by voice. The Voice Mode guide covers starting and privacy.
- End by describing one piece of new work aloud, and find it in Running.
If you prefer the missions list, a setting turns Home off and restores it. Your AI chief of staff describes everything Home is part of. Download Skyflo for Mac and run tomorrow morning from Home.