Android guides

Each guide does one thing, in the order you would do it. To understand how the parts fit together first, start with How TALOS for Android works.

• Set up TALOS the first time The first-run setup, step by step — language, your name, the PIN, a model, what TALOS may do on its own, and long work in the background.
• Connect a cloud model Save a provider key — or sign in with OpenRouter, or point TALOS at your Ollama server — test a model, and make it the one that answers.
• Run a model on the phone Find a model this phone can hold, check its variants, download it, and let TALOS find the fastest engine — then answer with no network at all.
• Choose what TALOS may do Set the three powers, switch single tools on and off, decide how long an approval lasts, and take back every “always”.
• Call TALOS from anywhere Make TALOS the phone’s assistant, choose the gesture or keys that open it, turn on “hey TALOS”, and use the bar over any app.
• Connect TALOS to the phone Pair the bridge once through wireless debugging, reconnect after a restart, and understand what it can reach.
• Turn on web search Choose the service that answers TALOS’s searches, give it a key or an address, and allow the query to leave the phone.
• Use the Library in chats Bring files in, attach them to a message, decide how much of the Library a chat may read — for every chat, one chat, or the next message.
• Review what TALOS remembers Approve a memory in the chat, add one by hand, give it a kind and a scope, pause it, correct it or delete it.
• Run a deep research Ask one question, review the plan before anything is spent, choose the writer and the checker, follow the run, and read a report whose every claim is checked.
• Schedule a task Write a task with its checklist, then let it repeat on its own — once, every day, on chosen days or at an interval — and hear back only when something changed.
• Dictate, listen, and use your own voice Speak instead of typing, have replies read aloud, and train a personal voice from twelve phrases — all on the phone.
• Start a Code session Connect the bridge, open a coding session that runs on the phone, choose its model, and follow its commands, approvals and changes.
• Back up and restore Export everything into one file encrypted with a passphrase, keep it where you choose, and bring it back — merging, replacing or skipping what is already there.
• Lock TALOS with a PIN Turn on the app lock, whose PIN encrypts your chats and documents; unlock with biometrics; keep TALOS out of screenshots and the app switcher.
• Keep long work running Let TALOS work with the screen off, so researches, model downloads and scheduled tasks reach the end — and the extra steps some phones ask for.
• Check what works on this phone Run Doctor’s checks, read what a chat has seen, test a local model before relying on it, and copy a report that carries no keys, messages or documents.