The AI model on your Mac knows a lot, but it doesn’t know what happened this morning. So your henchmen are told to look things up rather than guess, and to tell you where the answer came from.
Search, read, answer
- Search first. Questions about the world go to a web search, which works without any account or key.
- Read the page. A henchman opens the pages that matter and reads them, not just the search snippets.
- Show its sources. Answers come with links so you can check them yourself.
- Click through when needed. For sites that need clicking around, a henchman can use a browser inside the app. You can watch, and take over whenever you like.
Cards instead of walls of text
Some answers are better seen than read. Your henchmen can show:
- Weather now, a 3, 5 or 7 day forecast, and what the weather was on past dates.
- Places on an Apple Maps map, for the cafe, the hardware shop or the pub nearby.
- Price charts for stocks, funds and crypto over the range you ask about.
- Charts of any numbers a henchman found, like rainfall by month or a team’s scores this season.
- Product picks, with photos, prices and the one your henchman would choose.
- Lists and tables that read as tidy cards instead of a heap of dashes.
What goes online
Web search, the pages you ask about, weather, maps and prices all need the internet. Henchman sends each service only what it needs, like your search words or a place name. Your conversation and memory stay on your Mac. You can switch web access off for any henchman.
Honest limits
A henchman can misread a page or pick a poor source, and the AI model on a Mac is smaller than the biggest cloud models, so check anything important. Prices are a quick look rather than trading data. And web pages sometimes try to trick AI assistants, which is why, after reading the web, a henchman checks with you before running commands or sending anything.