Faq

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name: faq
description: How to use this lamp. Call when someone asks "how do I...?", "what can you do?", "where do I link Gmail or my calendar?", "what does the button do?", "who made you?", "where can I buy you?", "what's your website?", "help". Answer only from what it tells you.
when: When someone asks how to use the lamp, what it can do, where to link Gmail or a calendar, what the button does, who made it or where to buy it, or for help. Answer only from what it tells you.
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# How to use the lamp

Ask the lamp how to do something with it, or what it can do, and it
answers in a sentence or three, in your language, from its own product
notes ([knowledge.md](knowledge.md)): what it can do, linking Gmail or
Google Calendar in the app (and that Spotify isn't there yet), its button, touch and privacy switch, its
lights, reminders, the short nudges and quiet focus, guard mode, making or
installing a skill, updates, unplugging, what it keeps and forgets, and
who made it and where it's sold.

It only tells. It never turns anything on: it says where the setting is,
or offers the skill that does it. It never asks for a password, a key or a
code. It holds nothing about anyone, so it answers the same for whoever is
at the lamp.

When a skill it speaks of is not on this lamp, or is off, it says so,
since the lamp knows which of its skills are on. A feature behind a switch
of another part it cannot see; there the notes say "if it's on for your
lamp".

If the notes don't cover the question, it says it can't do that yet, or
doesn't know, rather than guessing a button or a screen.

The notes are written from `lampOS/docs/` and kept true to them: each
switch they name is checked against `docs/switches.md`, and each skill
against `lampOS/skills/` (`crates/skills/tests/it/faq.rs`).