Feature Directory - Enconvo Documentation

Every guide in these docs, grouped the way the sidebar groups them. Find what you want to do, then open its guide. For individual built-in commands, see the Command Catalog. For models, voices, and other services, see the Provider Catalog. Some features reach the Beta channel first. If a guide describes something your app doesn’t have, check your update channel.

Get started

Guide	What it helps you do
Installation	Install Enconvo on your Mac, keep it up to date, and fix install problems.
Quick Start	Install Enconvo, connect a model, and ask your first question in about five minutes.
Troubleshooting	Fix common problems with answers, shortcuts, voice, permissions, and integrations, and send diagnostics when you’re stuck.

Ask AI anywhere

Guide	What it helps you do
SmartBar	Ask an Agent a question or run a command from any app with one shortcut.
Chat Window	Hold longer conversations with an Agent, keep them in projects, and add files and context.
Dynamic Island	Ask an Agent, run a shortcut, and follow running tasks from a compact panel at the top of your screen.
PopBar	Explain, translate, fix, search, or read selected text from a toolbar that appears where you select it.
App Sidebar	Chat with an Agent in a sidebar beside the app or website you’re working in.
Desktop Pet	Keep an animated companion on your desktop that shows what your Agents are doing and opens Enconvo when you click it.
Window Management	Pick the Enconvo window that fits a task, set the shortcuts that open each one, and keep results in view.

Voice

Guide	What it helps you do
Dictation and Voice Command	Type with your voice in any app, or hold a key and ask your Agent to do something.
Live Talk	Call your Agent and talk things through: it listens, answers in its own voice, and starts tasks while you talk.
Avatars	Give an Agent a character on your desktop that talks with you in voice calls.
Speech Recognition	Choose the speech model each voice feature uses: Enconvo Cloud, your own key, or a model on your Mac.
Text-to-Speech	Have Enconvo read text aloud, or turn text into an audio file.
Dictionary and Speakers	Teach speech features your words and spellings, and name the voices in your recordings.

Recordings and transcripts

Guide	What it helps you do
Meeting Recording	Record a meeting or lecture, then review its transcript, summary, and follow-ups.
Transcription	Turn an audio or video file you already have into a searchable transcript.
Live Captioning	Read subtitles in real time while audio plays, and revisit each captioning session later.
Voice Notes	Press a hotkey, say an idea, and find it later in your knowledge base.

Context, knowledge, and the web

Guide	What it helps you do
Context Awareness	Choose what the SmartBar picks up from the app you were using, and add more context with #.
Appshots	Add the app window in front to your next question with one hotkey.
Screen Doodle	Draw on your screen to point at something, then ask your Agent about it.
Quick Capture	Save the app in front to a knowledge base with one keystroke, so you can find it and ask about it later.
Knowledge Base	Collect documents, notes, web pages, and folders, then search them and ask about them in chat.
Memory	See, correct, and control what your Agents remember about you across chats.
Web Search	Let your Agent search the web for current information and cite its sources.
Web Fetch	Have your Agent read a web page from its URL, or keep the page in a knowledge base.
Knowledge Base MCP	Let Claude, Cursor, Codex, and other MCP clients on your Mac search and read the knowledge bases you share.

Write and create

Guide	What it helps you do
Writing Toolkit	Fix, rewrite, shorten, explain, or reformat the text you select in any app.
Translation	Translate the text you select, a part of your screen, or what you dictate.
Image Generation	Ask an Agent to create an image, or to change one you attach, with the image provider you choose.
Video Generation	Turn a text prompt or an image into a short video clip.
Visual Answers	Get a diagram, chart, or interactive widget right in the chat instead of plain text.

Files and utilities

Guide	What it helps you do
OCR	Copy the text from any part of your screen or from an image, read on your Mac or by an online service.
Files and Folders	Let an Agent find, read, and edit the files on your Mac.
Code Runner	Let an Agent run shell commands, scripts, builds, and development servers in a real terminal on your Mac.
Media Utilities	Compress images, video, and audio, save the sound from a video, or download a video from a link.
Quicklinks	Open a web search, website, file, folder, or deeplink from SmartBar with one command.

Agents and AI Commands

Guide	What it helps you do
Agents	Create an assistant with its own instructions, model, and tools, and choose when it asks before it acts.
AI Commands	Save a prompt you use often as a command you run from PopBar, a hotkey, or SmartBar.
Skills	Teach Enconvo’s Agents a repeatable task with a skill: instructions, references, and optional scripts in one folder.
Hooks	Run a shell command or send a webhook automatically when an Agent starts, uses a tool, or finishes.

Workflows and automations

Guide	What it helps you do
Workflows	Chain prompts, Agents, shell commands, and tools into a repeatable process you can run, inspect, and schedule.
Build Your First Workflow	Follow a narrated video to create a workflow from a template, add steps by hand and with the assistant, then run it and read each step’s output.
Creating Workflows	Create, edit, run, and share workflows in the Visual editor or in YAML, with an assistant that builds and fixes steps for you.
Advanced Workflows	Branch, loop, retry, get structured results, switch models per step, and compose workflows, with complete examples to copy.
Automations	Have an Agent, a workflow, or a shell command run on its own: on a schedule, when something happens, or when you start it.
Variables	Insert your current input, selected text, app context, or the date into prompts and other fields that accept templates.

Plugins and integrations

Guide	What it helps you do
Plugins	Find, install, and manage the plugins that give Enconvo new commands, tools, and connections.
Installing Plugins	Install Enconvo, Codex, Claude Code and portable plugins from the store, an archive, GitHub, git, npm, a folder or a plugin marketplace, and keep them up to date.
Built-in Command Catalog	Find built-in commands and the guides for their behavior.
MCP Servers	Add MCP servers so Enconvo’s agents can use their tools: from Settings, the CLI, a config you already have, or an install link.
Browser Use	Let an Agent read and work in your real browser tabs, with the sign-ins your browser already has.
Browser Extension	Install the Enconvo Companion extension so Enconvo can work in your real browser, with your sign-ins, cookies, and extensions.
Computer Use	Let Enconvo work in your Mac apps: click, type, scroll, drag, choose files, and read what’s on screen.
Apple Apps	Let agents work in Calendar, Reminders, Contacts, Notes, Mail, Messages, Music, and Maps on your Mac.
Gmail	Connect your Gmail once so agents can search, read, organize, and send your mail from any chat.
IM Channels	Connect a Telegram or Discord bot to an Enconvo Agent, and choose who can talk to it.

iPhone

Guide	What it helps you do
iPhone App	Pair the Enconvo iPhone app with your Mac and continue your Mac’s chats from your phone, with a narrated video tutorial.
Phone Chats	Chat with AI models on the iPhone itself: pick the default model, add providers and keys, or sign in with ChatGPT, Grok, Le Chat, GitHub Copilot, or Antigravity.

Settings and account

Guide	What it helps you do
Settings Reference	Every entry in the Settings sidebar, what it controls, and the guide that explains it.
Enconvo Account	Sign in, check your plan and points, manage your team’s Seats, sync your Macs, see your usage, and redeem codes or invite friends.
Plans and Pricing	Choose how you pay for Enconvo and its AI: a lifetime license, an Enconvo Cloud plan, your own API keys, a provider plan, or local models.
Credentials	Add an API key or sign in to a provider’s plan, share one setup across features, and clean up keys you no longer use.
macOS Permissions	See which macOS permissions Enconvo uses, grant the ones a feature needs, and fix capture or typing that stops working.
Keyboard Shortcuts	See every hotkey Enconvo uses, change one, and find which command a key combination runs.
Notifications	Choose how Enconvo tells you an Agent has finished, and hold questions and finished tasks during quiet hours.
Privacy and Security	See where your requests go, what stays on your Mac, and how to control context, credentials, tools, analytics, and diagnostics.
Updates	Pick the Production, Beta, or Dev update channel and install new Enconvo versions.

Reference

Guide	What it helps you do
Video Walkthroughs	Short demonstrations of real Enconvo interface flows.
FAQ	Quick answers about requirements, models, voice, knowledge, automation, and privacy.

Providers: Get started

Guide	What it helps you do
Providers	Pick how Enconvo reaches AI models: Enconvo Cloud, your own keys, a plan you already pay for, or models on your Mac.
Auto Route	Let Enconvo pick the model for each message, based on the kind of work it asks for.
Choose a Model	Pick a model for the job, and know where Enconvo’s default model is set.
Provider Catalog	Every provider in Enconvo, grouped by the feature it powers, with the settings each one shows.

Providers: Enconvo Cloud and plans

Guide	What it helps you do
Enconvo Cloud	Use models, voices, and media tools through your Enconvo account, with no provider keys.
ChatGPT Subscription	Sign in with your ChatGPT plan to use OpenAI models in Enconvo without an API key.
Claude Subscription	Sign in with your Claude plan to use Claude models in Enconvo without an API key.
GitHub Copilot	Sign in with a GitHub account that has a Copilot plan and chat with your plan’s models.
Antigravity	Sign in with your Google account and chat with the Gemini and Claude models of your Antigravity plan.

Providers: Popular providers

OpenAI, Anthropic, Google Gemini, xAI (Grok), DeepSeek, Mistral AI, OpenRouter.

Providers: More providers

1min AI, AIMagicX, Arli AI, Cerebras, Cohere, DashScope, DeepInfra, Fireworks, Groq, Kimi, MiniMax, Perplexity, Phala, Poe, Qwen, SambaNova, SiliconFlow, Together AI, Xiaomi MiMo, Z.AI.

Providers: Gateways and enterprise

Guide	What it helps you do
Vercel AI Gateway	Chat with Vercel AI Gateway models in Enconvo using your own Vercel AI Gateway API key.
Azure OpenAI	Chat with your Azure OpenAI deployments in Enconvo.

Providers: Agent gateways

Guide	What it helps you do
Hermes Agent	Use Hermes Agent as an OpenAI-compatible model in Enconvo
OpenClaw	Use OpenClaw agents as OpenAI-compatible models in Enconvo

Providers: Local models

Guide	What it helps you do
Local Models	Run models on your own hardware, and keep a whole task on your Mac.
Local LLM (MLX)	Run language models on your Mac with Enconvo’s built-in MLX engine.
Ollama	Chat with models that Ollama serves on your Mac or on another computer.
LM Studio	Chat with models that LM Studio serves on your Mac or on another computer.

Providers: Speech

Guide	What it helps you do
Soniox	Use Soniox speech-to-text for dictation, recordings, and file transcription in Enconvo.

Developers: Build plugins

Guide	What it helps you do
Developing Extensions	Build an Enconvo plugin with a TypeScript command and a Local API route, try it in the app, and publish it to the plugin store.
Plugin Formats	See which plugin packages Enconvo installs, from Codex and Claude Code plugins to portable plugins and desktop extensions, and which files and fields it reads from each.
AI Model and Voice Plugins	Build a plugin that adds your own AI model or text-to-speech voice to Enconvo’s pickers, then test and publish it.
Extension API Reference	Look up the @enconvo/api building blocks a plugin uses: entry points, requests and responses, native helpers, storage, streams and providers.
Validation Codes	Look up a problem that `enconvo plugin validate`, `scan`, `pack` or `publish` reports: what it means, how severe it is, and how to fix it.
Plugin Store Guidelines	Get a plugin ready for the Enconvo store: what reviewers check, the review materials to send, and how to submit to OpenAI’s portal from the same folder.

Developers: Local API and CLI

Guide	What it helps you do
CLI and Local API	Run Enconvo’s commands from Terminal and call its local HTTP API from scripts, agents and other apps.

Developers: Deep dives

Guide	What it helps you do
How Knowledge Bases Work	Learn how Enconvo stores, splits, indexes and searches your knowledge bases, and how to keep search results good.
Build an MCP Server	Write a small local MCP server, connect it to Enconvo, and give your Agent its tools.
How Context Awareness Works	See what Enconvo reads from the app you were using, when it reads it, and which permissions and settings control it.

​Get started

​Ask AI anywhere

​Voice

​Recordings and transcripts

​Context, knowledge, and the web

​Write and create

​Files and utilities

​Agents and AI Commands

​Workflows and automations

​Plugins and integrations

​iPhone

​Settings and account

​Reference

​Providers: Get started

​Providers: Enconvo Cloud and plans

​Providers: Popular providers

​Providers: More providers

​Providers: Gateways and enterprise

​Providers: Agent gateways

​Providers: Local models

​Providers: Speech

​Developers: Build plugins

​Developers: Local API and CLI

​Developers: Deep dives