Cockpit — Quick Guide
What Is Cockpit?
Cockpit is a 3D knowledge graph navigator for the Akasha semantic universe. It renders atoms and their tensor connections as an interactive force graph. You navigate by warping to nodes, tuning the dimensional lens, and marking positions with beacons.
Basic Workflow
- Login with your pilot identity and passphrase
- Enter a target in the Helm and press WARP
- Tune the Dimensional Lens to filter the view
- Adjust Penetration Depth to control graph expansion
- Drop beacons to mark important positions
Views
| View | Purpose |
|---|
| Viewport ◎ | 3D force-graph of the semantic universe |
| Terminal ⌨ | Direct Akasha CLI — type commands and read results |
| Jobs ⚙ | Monitor background operations and their status |
Helm Navigation
Enter any atom ID, alias, or $it into the Helm Control input. Press Enter or click WARP to lock the focal point and render the local neighborhood.
Dimensional Lens
The Spectrum filter restricts which tensor types are rendered:
| Axis | Shows |
|---|
| ALL | Raw topology — every connection |
| STRUCTURE | Ontological is_a / part_of relations |
| EMOTION | Emotional resonance links |
| CONTEXT | Associative and referential links |
| TIME | Chronological and sequential links |
| STORY | Narrative structure links |
Penetration Depth (Scope)
The scope slider (1–5) controls how many hops from the focal node are rendered. Scope 1 shows only immediate neighbors. Scope 5 renders a deep neighborhood. Higher values may be slow on dense regions.
Telemetry Sensor
| Reading | Meaning |
|---|
| FOCAL LOCK | Currently targeted atom |
| DIMENSION AXIS | Active lens filter |
| PENETRATION SCOPE | Current depth setting |
| LOCAL ENTITIES | Nodes visible in the current render |
| ACTIVE TENSORS | Connections visible in the current render |
Trace Deck (Beacons)
Use the Trace Deck to drop beacons at the current focal position. Add an observation note to record why the position was marked. The wake stream shows navigation history in reverse chronological order.
Terminal
The Terminal view provides a direct CLI into Akasha. Type any command and press Enter or tap the ▶ button. Output appears inline. Use this for queries, lookups, and operations not available in the graphical HUD.
Jobs
Long-running operations are tracked as jobs. The Jobs view shows status and progress.
| Status | Meaning |
|---|
| RUNNING | Operation in progress |
| PENDING | Queued, not yet started |
| DONE | Completed successfully |
| FAILED | Terminated with error |
| CANCELLED | Manually stopped |
Meaning Instruments
The Meaning Instruments panel (magenta border, bottom-right of the cockpit deck) surfaces the semantic layer. All instruments operate on the current focal node.
| Instrument | What it does |
|---|
| ⊕ DREAM BRIDGES | Flagship: submits an async "sleep-on-it" job. When complete, ghost bridges (magenta) appear between the focal node and near-in-meaning / far-in-graph candidates. Click ✓ to confirm a bridge (writes a real link), ✗ to dismiss. Human approval is mandatory. |
| SIM | Semantic neighbours — overlays atoms that mean similar things (cyan ghost links). Based on distributional embedding similarity. |
| NODE.SIM | Structural neighbours — overlays atoms that are connected the same way (yellow ghost links). Based on random-walk structural embedding. |
| EMO | Emotion profile — shows a bar chart of the focal atom's emotion links in the Instruments panel. |
| PRESENT | Narrative — calls the Jataka narrator to produce a prose summary of the focal atom and its context. Appears in a floating overlay. |
| INGEST | Fetches a URL and ingests it into the graph, then re-scans the environment. |
| CLEAR | Removes all ghost overlay nodes and links; closes Dream and Narrative overlays. |
Note: TIME and STORY axes are marked [exp] — these filters are not fully wired in the current release and are provided for exploration only.