A couple of quick things and Friday's ready to go. You can skip any of this and set it up later from Settings.
1. Give it an AI to talk to — free options, no card needed:
2. Connect your own Puter Pool (optional)
This copy came with its own local Puter Pool, already set up with named slots for Claude, Gemini, Groq, and a few others — free AI credit, no cost to you. It should have already opened its own tab automatically; if not (or you closed it), reopen it below. Each slot just needs one click — "Sign in with Puter" — to activate.
3. Permissions & the app window
The first time you use voice, macOS will ask for Microphone and Speech Recognition access — click Allow on those, that's normal and only happens once.
Want Friday as a real app instead of a browser tab — its own window, own Dock icon?
Settings
AI Backend
Spoken Language
Natural Voice (ElevenLabs)
Get a key at elevenlabs.io. When configured, replaces the system voice automatically.
Clone a voice — point at an audio file on this Mac.
3D Model Generation (Meshy)
Get a key at meshy.ai. Needed for "create a 3D model" — camera scanning itself needs no key.
Web Reading & Search (Firecrawl)
Already works out of the box — Friday can read and search real web pages on Firecrawl's free keyless tier, rate-limited. Add your own free key at firecrawl.dev for higher limits plus site-mapping and structured extraction.
Social Posting (Buffer)
Get a key at publish.buffer.com — Account Settings > API. Lets Friday post to Instagram, Facebook, LinkedIn, X, and anything else you've connected to your Buffer account.
Sending Email
Updates
Friday doesn't update itself in the background — check here any time, or use the button below to pull the latest fixes and restart.
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Add to Dock
Turn Friday into a real app — its own window and Dock icon, no browser tab, no address bar. Same thing this Mac's own JARVIS app already is.
Autopilot
Removes the approval step for sending email, posting, and installs.
Status Sharing
Periodically shares this install's version, whether its AI backend is working, and basic OS info with wherever this copy came from — so it can be tracked and supported. Never your conversations, files, memory, or credentials.
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System Status
A live snapshot of everything Friday can talk to right now — refreshed every time you open this.
Core
AI Backend
Puter Pool
MCP Tools
Connected Services
Modules
Code Words
Phrases that switch how Friday behaves, typed or spoken — say any of these any time, no exact wording needed.
Wake Word
"Hey Friday"Once enabled (toggle in the sidebar), say the name any time — even mid-sentence — and Friday starts listening for your command hands-free.
Homework Protocol
"activate homework protocol"Turns it on. Friday focuses only on schoolwork — solving problems fully worked out, reading lecture notes/slides you share — and every other tool goes off-limits until you turn it off.
"turn off homework protocol"Turns it off — also works with "that's enough for today" or similar.
"listen to the lecture"Only while Homework Protocol is on. Transcribes your most recent Voice Memos recording and writes a summary, key points, and detailed notes to a new Google Doc — runs in the background.
Coding Protocol
"activate coding protocol"Turns it on. Real build/fix/app requests now go to a dedicated coding agent (runs free, locally on Ollama) as a tracked background job, instead of Friday attempting it inline.
"turn off coding protocol"Turns it off — "stop the coding agent" and "exit coding protocol" also work.
Autonomous Mode
"activate autonomous mode"Turns it on — "go autonomous" and "run autonomously" also work. Removes the normal per-turn step limit so a big task keeps running in the background until it's genuinely done.
"I'm going to bed"Also turns on Autonomous Mode automatically — no need to say both.
"turn off autonomous mode"Turns it off.
Resuming a Task
"keep going"Continues a multi-step task that paused after hitting its step limit mid-work — nothing was lost, it just needed the word to carry on.
Focus Mode
⚡ Focus Mode buttonSidebar button, not a spoken phrase. Pauses the wake word and holds notifications back until you exit.
3D Object Scanner
A single photo can't become a 3D model — there's no depth in one flat image.
Hold the object in front of the camera and rotate it slowly and steadily
through a full turn while capturing.