Quick Start

1. Install Silk and launch it. The Silk icon appears in your menu bar or system tray.

2. Grant permissions when the onboarding screen appears — Microphone and Screen Recording (macOS).

3. Open the panel by clicking the Silk icon in your menu bar.

4. Press Ctrl+Space to start listening, speak your question, then press Ctrl+Space again to stop. (It’s a toggle, not a hold.)

5. Silk responds — spoken aloud, with a small blue triangle on screen pointing at anything relevant.

Try these first

Here are some things to try right away:

Ask about your screen:

“What does this error mean?”

“Where’s the setting to change the font size?”

“Explain what this code does.”

Ask general questions:

“What’s the difference between a monad and a functor?”

“Give me a regex that matches email addresses.”

Launch a background agent:

“Research the best Tailwind CSS component libraries and save a summary to my desktop.”

“Write a Python script that renames all the JPEGs in my Downloads folder by date taken.”

Tip

Silk’s responses are tuned for listening, not reading — short, direct, no bullet points. If you want more detail, just say “go deeper” or “explain more.”

Customize your experience

Open the panel and click the gear icon to:

• Choose how to power Silk: your Claude or ChatGPT plan, or an OpenRouter key
• Change the AI model
• Select the TTS voice
• Choose your microphone
• Enable or disable memory and skills
• Connect MCP servers