Shanks
Speech in and out natively through the Gemini Live API — no transcribe-then-synthesise chain. It reads hardware state and drives the desktop, so answering and acting are the same turn.
Native duplex audio
Audio goes straight in and out of the Gemini Live API. Nothing is transcribed to text and re-synthesised, so the turn does not stack three models' worth of latency.
It can actually act
Reads hardware state, sets volume, toggles Wi-Fi, launches applications and looks things up — the answer and the action are one turn, not a suggestion to go do it yourself.
Remembers across sessions
What you tell it persists, so preferences and context survive a restart instead of resetting every time you open the mic.