tink / commands
30 commands · irc reference
Talk to tink with ~tink or by addressing it by nick. In public channels it answers only when directly addressed; in its sandbox it is free to join in. Long answers are published to a link rather than flooding the channel.
Chat
- ~tink <question>
- Ask a question or request help.
- ~ask <question>
- Ask tink straight from its own knowledge (no web).
- ~tools
- List the available lookup tools in one IRC line.
- ~stats
- Show tink's in-memory activity counters since startup.
Lookup
- ~wiki <topic>
- A concise Wikipedia summary and the article link.
- ~search <query>
- Search the web, read the top page, and summarize it with the source link.
- ~tldr <url>
- Read and summarize a public web page. You can also just paste a link and ask him about it — he fetches pages himself when a question needs one.
- ~imagine <prompt>
- Generate an image and reply with a link to it.
- ~weather ~forecast ·
- Current conditions plus today's outlook and a quick heads-up (umbrella, strong sun), or a three-day forecast.
- ~time ~define ~calc <place> ·
- Local time, dictionary, and arithmetic helpers.
- ~news ~title ~link ·
- Top headlines and page-title lookups.
- ~chart <request>
- Build a shareable chart from supplied or researched data.
- ~footy ~footy today <team> ·
- Fixtures and results for Premier League clubs and World Cup sides — when they next play, how the last one went, or what's on today.
- ~cost [window]
- What tink has cost to run — calls, tokens and spend, overall and per person. Defaults to the last week.
- ~research <subject>
- Deep multi-source research → a published, cited report. Open to anyone identified with NickServ; takes a few minutes.
- ~play ~np <track> ·
- Queue something up, or ask what's playing right now.
Channel memory
- ~recall <query>
- Find relevant messages from this channel's history.
- ~docs <what it was about>
- Find that link someone posted. Every URL seen in any channel is fetched and kept, so search by what the page was about — you get the title, the link, and who shared it.
- ~recap ~tldr [n] ·
- Summarize recent channel activity. A bare ~tldr (or "what did I miss?") catches you up since you last spoke; add a window (30m/2h/50) or focus on <topic> to narrow it.
- ~tlddr [window · url]
- The longer twin of ~tldr — a fuller write-up published to its own page, with the link posted here.
- ~seen ~whois ·
- Recent activity, or a history-based profile of a nick.
Room utilities
- ~remind <10m> <text>
- Set a reminder for the current channel.
- ~poll question | option | option
- Open a poll.
- ~vote ~polls ~closepoll <choice> ·
- Vote in, inspect, or close the active poll.
- ~todo [add <text> · done <n> · rm <n>]
- The channel's shared list. Bare ~todo reads it back. Items are attributed, so you need to be identified with NickServ.
- ~afk [reason] · ~afk off
- Mark yourself away; tink catches you up on what you missed when you speak again.
- ~afk auto on · off
- Owner only. tink arms that catch-up by himself once the owner has been quiet for a few hours; this turns that off (or back on) without touching ~afk itself.
Talking to tink
- ~riff [nick] [about <topic>]
- Invite tink to riff on you, on someone else, or on a topic.
- ~good ~bad [note] ·
- Rate tink's last line. This genuinely steers how he writes later, so the optional note ("too long", "nailed the tone") is worth adding.
- ~fuck [command]
- Mistyped a command? This re-runs what you obviously meant, like thefuck.