Twenty minutes into a call, someone asks a question nobody in the room can answer from memory. What does the new pricing page say? Where is that post we wrote about it? Usually someone says "I'll send it after," and after never comes.
Since Skyflo 1.8.2, the guest in the call can answer. Ask Skyflo, and it looks it up while the conversation carries on, answers in a sentence or two, and posts the link in the meeting chat. If the question turns out to be real work, it hands it to its mission and the mission keeps going after the call ends.
This builds on Meetings, which brought Skyflo into Google Meet, Zoom and Microsoft Teams calls as a participant tied to one mission. A participant that can only take notes is a recorder. One that can find things, send them and follow through is closer to the colleague you wanted in the room.
Ask, and it looks it up
Ask "Can you find our pricing page and drop it in the chat?" Skyflo reads that as a lookup, searches the web, and answers in the call from what the search returned. If a link was asked for, it posts one link in the meeting chat: the most relevant result, not a list of everything it found. It says it sent the link instead of reading an address aloud.
A few rules keep the answer useful in a room full of people:
- Short. A spoken answer is at most three sentences, and never includes an address, an email or a phone number. Those belong in the chat, where people can click them.
- Honest about time. If the search takes more than a few seconds, Skyflo says it is still checking. If it cannot answer quickly, the question goes to the mission as work instead of a guess.
- One link. A request for a link posts the best one alone. The other sources back up what Skyflo says, but in a call they are noise.
The same search works outside meetings. On a paid plan, missions on Skyflo's own agent can look things up while they work, and so can Talk it through on Home.
From the call to the work
Some questions are not lookups. "Can you compare their plans against ours and send me a summary?" is work, and Skyflo treats it that way. It hands the request to its mission as a written instruction, not as a slice of transcript, and the mission does it under its own access mode.
While the mission is tied to the live call, it can post back into the meeting chat too: a link to what it found, or a short note when something is ready. The call does not need to wait for it. When the call ends, the mission keeps running and reports on Home like any other.
Knowing when not to talk
The hardest part of being a good meeting guest is silence. In 1.8.2, Skyflo is better at it:
- In a call with two or more people, it stays quiet while people talk to each other.
- A question that calls it by name gets an answer, without second-guessing whether it was meant for someone else.
- The private notes it keeps about what it handed to the mission are never spoken in the call.
A record you can use later
Meeting transcripts are now on by default. Skyflo saves a text transcript of each call on your Mac, and the mission can answer a later question from what was actually said. The host can turn the transcript off for any call when Skyflo joins. Skyflo still records no audio or video.
Getting into the call
None of this helps if Skyflo cannot get through the door. Two fixes in 1.8.2 make joining more reliable:
- A Teams link copied from Google Calendar keeps its passcode, and a link wrapped in Google's redirect opens instead of being refused.
- A slow Teams guest page gets two minutes to show its join screen.
What stays under your control
- Search the web is a setting. Turn it off in Settings, under Diagnostics and privacy, and no search leaves your Mac.
- A mission that works with your Gmail or Google Calendar is never offered web search, so mail and calendar content is not sent to a search.
- Web search comes with paid plans and uses your plan's included usage.
- In the call, the mission keeps its access mode. A request from the call can be allowed once or rejected, and anything broader is changed in Skyflo on the host's Mac.
Try it
- Download Skyflo for Mac, or update to 1.8.2.
- On a monthly paid plan, add Meetings for $35 a month on the pricing page. Your first meeting is free: one call, up to 20 minutes.
- Start a mission, then ask Skyflo to join your next Google Meet, Zoom or Teams call.
- In the call, ask Skyflo to find something and post the link in the chat.
- Afterwards, open the mission on Home and see what it did with the rest.
The 1.8.2 release notes list everything else in the release, including Home's new layout and faster form filling in computer use. Meetings explains how Skyflo joins a call and what it can do there.