Nock overview

Nock keeps help close to what you are doing. Hold a shortcut to dictate into the app in front of you, ask Nock to do something, or talk to the Chat Manager about your coding chats. On Mac it lives in the notch and menu bar; on Windows it uses a top bar and side panels.

About Nock tells the story behind that small interface: keep your work in view while voice connects your apps, agents, people, and projects.

Choose your first job

Dictate into any app

Put the cursor in a text field, hold the dictation shortcut, speak, and let go. Recognition starts on your computer.

→Coordinate coding chats

Find the chat that needs you, send a follow-up to the right agent, or start another conversation.

→Message people and agents

Keep Team conversations, send a voice note, and hand work to the destination you choose.

→Connect an outside agent

Give a supported agent its own Team connection through MCP, then check that it can reach your team.

→Meet on Nock Social

Browse the community feed, add friends, join groups, and send private messages. Social has its own login.

→Keep work going in the cloud

Give a NockBot its own instructions and cloud workspace. Cloud bots are Beta.

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Start with Quickstart or Windows quickstart. How Nock works explains the voice, AI, local tools, and connected agents behind the interface.

Three ways to talk

What you want	macOS default	Windows default	What happens
Type spoken words	Hold Fn	Hold Ctrl + Win	Dictation inserts text into the focused field.
Ask Nock for help	Hold Control + Option	Hold Ctrl + Alt	Nock answers or uses the enabled tools.
Manage coding chats	Hold Option + Command	Hold Ctrl + Alt + Win	The Chat Manager coordinates your chats.

These are separate actions. Change them in Keyboard shortcuts; use your own Settings page as the reference if you customized them.

Your computer does the local work

Dictation runs locally first, Light cleanup runs locally, and Nock can speak replies with an on-device voice. Conversations, local memories, project indexing, and local file work live on your computer. Local dictation explains the downloaded models and the switch that prevents dictation audio from leaving this computer.

AI conversations send the context needed by your chosen model. Polished cleanup, optional cloud speech, connected apps, shared Team messages, Social posts and messages, and cloud bots have their own data paths. Use Privacy and data to choose the setup that fits your work.

Bring the AI you already use

Connect your ChatGPT plan through Codex, bring supported provider keys, or use Nock’s included AI within your plan. You can also keep building with your own Claude Code or Codex sign-in. Bring your own AI explains these different connections; Nock Own brings them together in one plan.

Make something and keep it

• Background tasks let a worker continue while you keep talking.
• Computer use lets Nock operate desktop apps; Nock’s browser gives it a separate place to work on the web.
• Widget builder makes small tools that live in the notch and Studio.
• Glass Canvas gives you a board for notes, diagrams, pictures, and web cards.
• Ideas and Discover collect useful next steps and stories selected for you.
• Team messaging connects people, linked computers, and agents; Nock Social is the separate community website.
• Routines run local jobs while your computer is awake; cloud routines belong to a cloud bot.

Start with a small request, inspect its result, and expand from there. Choose a workflow connects common jobs to the right guide.