Make things

Build a website

• Say: “Build me a one-page site for my bakery”.
• How it works: she builds it in Documents\Lila Sites, checks how it looks on a computer and a phone, fixes what she finds, opens it, and tells you which details she made up (such as prices or opening hours) so you can replace them.
• Good to know: with your own keys, a build uses about 10,000 ElevenLabs credits.

Write a text or code file

• Say: “Write a packing list for a weekend away as a text file”.
• How it works: she shows you the exact contents and saves them after you approve: up to 10 files and 120 KB at a time, in a new folder inside %APPDATA%\Lila\runtime\data\lila-artifacts. She doesn’t overwrite your files.

Make an Excel, Word, PowerPoint or PDF fileEarly

• Say: “Make a spreadsheet of my September statement in Downloads, by category with a total”, “Turn my trip notes into a five-slide deck”.
• How it works: Claude makes the file in a sandbox at Anthropic, from your request and any of your files she finds in Desktop, Documents or Downloads (up to 5, 20 MB each). It takes half a minute to two minutes. The finished file is saved in Documents\Lila Files, never over an existing file, and she can open it for you. She then asks Anthropic to delete your files and the finished file there; Anthropic keeps the sandbox’s copies for up to 30 days.
• Good to know: this needs Lila Cloud (your account or a pairing code), and your own files can be used only by the person at the computer, not from your phone.

Turn a video into a paper

• Say: “Write a paper about lecture.mp4 in Downloads”. Or use Settings > Screen and privacy > What Lila sees > Video to paper: drop in a video or paste its path, then press Write paper.
• How it works: her hearing transcribes the sound on your computer, and Google Gemini reads frames from the video and writes. The paper, with its figures and an outline, is saved in your Documents folder under Lila Papers.
• Tested on: one real 50-minute lecture. Longer videos and computers without a graphics card haven’t been tried yet.

Ask about your papersEarly

• Say: “What papers have you written?”, “Open the lecture paper”, “Explain section 3 of the lecture paper”, “Quiz me on my lecture paper”.
• How it works: she lists the papers she’s written, opens one by its title or the video’s name, and reads its overview or a section before summarising, explaining or quizzing you. Her window lists every paper with Open and Folder buttons.

Write in your voiceEarly

• Say: “Learn how I write from my essay in Documents”, “Rewrite the lecture paper in my voice”.
• How it works: she studies your own documents (Word, PDF, Markdown, LaTeX, plain text or web pages), notes your habits, and writes papers the way you write. Rewriting a saved paper keeps the previous version. Whatever voice she writes in, she avoids stock phrases and never uses em dashes.

Hand a job to CodexEarly

Codex is a coding tool from OpenAI that runs on your computer. With its command-line version installed and signed in, Lila can hand coding jobs to it.

• Say: “Get Codex to build me a simple to-do list app”.
• How it works: she shows you the exact task, and nothing goes to Codex until you approve. The task and any files Codex reads go to OpenAI. While it builds she keeps chatting, and can line up your next request, which waits until you say “send it” or tap Send.

Make an imageEarly

• Say: “Make me a picture of a fox reading a newspaper”.
• How it works: she shows you the exact prompt (the description the image is made from). After you approve, it goes to Google Gemini’s image service, and the picture is saved on your computer.