The capability menu
Discover
bia starts with one door. Discover is how it finds and opens the right room — shell, calendar, Telegram, WhatsApp, and the rest — only when the work needs them.
Most chat assistants pretend they already know every button in the house. bia does the opposite. Its frozen starting kit is tiny on purpose: one tool called discover. That keeps the first thoughts light and honest.
When you ask for something that needs a real capability, bia searches the catalog, opens that branch, and only then sees the detailed controls. Opening Telegram, for example, is like plugging in a phone app — not like inventing a pretend phone.
You can ask it to list what exists, search by a word like “password” or “call”, or open a specific path such as the Chrome tools. The same door also reaches every skill folder that ships on the stick.
In everyday life
- Lists the big areas: shell, talk, calendar, memory, jobs, machine, and each skill on the stick.
- Opens one area at a time so the conversation does not drown in unused buttons.
- Searches plain descriptions when you are not sure which skill fits.
- Starts a messenger or browser skill when that path is opened for the first time.
Unlike a normal chatbot
A normal chatbot either claims endless tools up front or says “I can’t.” bia grows its toolkit in the open, like loading apps, instead of faking them.