Built-in CommandsBeta
Commands that search the web, read a page, find files, use your clipboard, do math, and search your history.
Built-in commands reach past the words in front of you. They search the web, read the page you have open, find a file on your disk, use something you copied, or look through what you've already dictated.
Glaido ships ten of them, all on by default. Turn off any you don't want.
Prefer to watch? The Commands video is a three-minute walkthrough, also under See Commands in action at the top of the Commands screen.
Turning one off
- Open Commands in the sidebar.
- Stay on the Built in tab. The commands are grouped as Web, System, and Glaido.
- Switch off anything you don't want Glaido reaching for.
Click a card to read what the command does and see example sentences.
When one isn't available
If a command can't run right now, its card dims, loses its switch, and its dialog says why. When a whole category is out, its heading shows Not available yet.
Web search, Read a page, and Deep research come from Glaido's API, so they can show as unavailable while you're offline. They come back on their own.
Web
| Command | What it does |
|---|---|
| Web search | Finds pages and reads the top few |
| Read a page | Reads the one page you point it at |
| Summarize a YouTube video | Works from the video's transcript |
| Deep research | Reads across many sources, and takes minutes |
Web search answers from what it read rather than handing you a list of links. Ask it like you'd ask a person, for example "search the web for the latest news on electric cars".
Read a page and Summarize a YouTube video both work on the page already open in your browser, so say "summarize the page I'm on" without naming anything. A link you've selected works too. YouTube needs the video to have captions.
Deep research is the one command that doesn't finish while you wait. Ask the big question, carry on working, and the write-up lands in your history with a link to every source it used.
System
| Command | What it does |
|---|---|
| Math and dates | Calculator, time zones, and date questions |
| Files and apps | Lists, finds, reads, and opens files, folders, and apps |
| Search clipboard history | Finds text, files, and images you copied earlier today |
| Analyze image | Shows you the copied picture before using it |
Math and dates works the answer out on your own machine, so it's exact, not the model's best guess. Try "What's 17.5% of 849?", "What's the date 10 days from now?", or "It's 9 am Pacific, what time is that for me?"
Files and apps takes a description rather than a path. "What's in my Downloads folder?" "Find the contract I saved last month." "Open that screenshot in Preview." Name an app if you want a particular one to open it.
Search clipboard history looks back through what you've copied while Glaido was running. "Find the link I copied this morning." Glaido keeps the last 24 hours, up to 500 items, on this computer only. Settings > Account > Clear history clears it along with your dictations.
Analyze image answers a question about a picture on your clipboard, or one that Search clipboard history found. "What's in the screenshot I just copied?" "Explain the chart I copied."
Approving a clipboard picture
Analyze image is the one built-in command that asks first. Before it uses a picture, the command window shows it to you with Deny, Always allow, and Allow once. Once you approve, the picture sits under your request, and you can ask follow-up questions about it.
To stop the question, open the Analyze image card and set Approval to Always approve. That only covers pictures you ask about. Glaido never analyzes other images you copied.
Glaido
| Command | What it does |
|---|---|
| Search your history | Finds anything you've dictated on this computer |
| Search documentation | Answers a question about Glaido itself |
Search your history pastes the closest match straight back. Describe what you said and roughly when; you don't need the exact words. See History.
Search documentation reads these pages and answers from them, so you can ask "how do I change my dictation hotkey" without leaving what you're doing.
Where they run
Web search, Read a page, and Deep research run in Glaido's API. Everything else runs in the Glaido app on your machine.
Three of the app's commands still reach the internet. Search documentation reads these pages, Summarize a YouTube video reads the video's transcript, and Analyze image sends the picture you approved to Glaido's API to be described. Nothing else you copied goes with it.
The rest run entirely on your machine. Math and dates works the answer out on the spot, and finding a file, searching your clipboard, and searching your dictation history all happen locally.
Adding your own
For any other service, have a coding agent build Glaido a tool. It takes about two minutes. See Custom tools.