TINA

Task Intelligence & Network Assistant — the DREAM Robotics fleet's working agent.

TINA is a local LLM agent (Ollama) that does real work across the fleet's repos: reads and searches code, makes small edits in the style of the surrounding code, compiles and checks its own work, and reports back plainly. She is the engineer of the fleet, alongside DREAM (the companion), RIFT (the hub) and NINA (the caretaker), and the robots NORA, MILA, WHIP, IDA, KIDA and ARM.

What she does

• Plans, then acts one step at a time — read/search first, edit small, check the result before the next step.
• Checks her work — compiles or re-reads files; never claims something works unless she verified it.
• Remembers — long-term memory via the shared Hindsight server (memory bank tina), so decisions and context carry across sessions.
• Stays in her lane — if something fails twice she stops and explains instead of looping, and sticks to the job you gave her.
• Knows the fleet — fleet_guide.md (who's who, their hardware, where each robot's code is), the list of repos, NINA's latest news and how each robot says it is go into her prompt, so "MILA" leads her straight to MILA-Robot-v00. What's true now is kept apart from old news.
• Searches before reading — she finds a part in a repo with a search, then reads around the hits instead of whole files.

Talking with her

• Voice chat — press MIC on her page and say "Hey TINA": "Hey TINA, which robots are online?" is a task straight away; "Hey TINA" on its own gets a "Yes?" and she listens. Her own Whisper (faster-whisper, on the CPU) hears you; she answers out loud in her Piper voice, and for a few seconds after you can carry on without her name. Only her final answer is spoken, never her reasoning.
• She shows what she's doing — a badge by the mic (say "Hey TINA" / hearing you / understanding / go ahead / thinking / speaking), a live mic level, and what she heard.
• Reasoning switch — her page shows every thought; the reasoning switch hides them when you only want the answers.
• Follow-ups — she remembers your last three tasks (what you asked, her answer, the files she touched), so "and TINA's?" or "now do the same for MILA" makes sense; the task says follow-up when she had them. NEW CONVERSATION on her page forgets them, and so does half an hour of quiet. Typing and "Hey TINA" share one conversation; DREAM's jobs (POST /task with "from": "DREAM") keep their own, and "fresh": true starts one anew.
• Talks with the fleet — she registers with RIFT as talk and peer. When nobody has used her for a couple of minutes, RIFT can pair her with DREAM or KIDA-01: rock paper scissors, then the winner picks words (her Piper voice) or Brainfuck (the fleet's phrasebook, beeped through the PC's speakers). Simple chirp conversations go the same way.
• Talks to the robots — "say hello to NINA": she beeps a phrase from the fleet's Brainfuck phrasebook, the robot beeps its answer, and it lands in RIFT's mission log (talk_to).
• Drives by camera — "drive KIDA01 onto the open floor": stop, look, think, move (drive_by_camera, tina/drive.py). One frame from the robot's camera, the vision model (VisionModel, gemma3:4b-it-qat) says what's ahead and picks one short move, RIFT relays it, she waits for it to finish and looks again. You say yes once per drive; she stops the moment anything is in doubt. About 8.5 s a move on an RTX 2060.
• Plays music with the fleet — when RIFT conducts (POST /music on RIFT), she starts the same song at the same moment as the others, on its own channel so her voice still gets through. Songs come from NORA-Robot-v00/music, numbered as on NORA's SD card.
• Fleet news from NINA — NINA sends her everything she notices as it happens and a snapshot of the fleet every 30 s (POST /fleet_news), so TINA starts every job knowing who's up, who's slow and what went wrong lately.
• Don't interrupt — while she's working she tells whoever asks, out loud ("I'm working right now. Please don't interrupt me.") or in Brainfuck, at most every three minutes, and says no.

Her lines are rendered once and cached in voice_cache/ (mp3 with ffmpeg, wav without). run.bat fetches her voice into voices/ the first time.

Run

run.bat

This sets up the environment and starts her web UI on http://127.0.0.1:5013/.

python tina.py --cli                              talk to her in the terminal (asks before risky steps)
python tina.py --cli "fix the compile error in MILA's ESP8266 sketch"

Configuration

config.json → Config.TINA:

Key	Default	Meaning
Model	qwen3:4b	Ollama model
OllamaUrl	http://localhost:11434	Ollama endpoint
Port	5013	her web UI
ContextTokens	4096	context window
HindsightUrl	http://localhost:8888	shared memory server (DREAM hosts it)
MemoryBank	tina	her bank in Hindsight
Roots	[".."]	the repos she works in
Voice	en_GB-jenny_dioco-medium	her Piper voice
VoicePitch	1.15	her Brainfuck beeps, relative to the phrasebook's tones
Whisper	base.en	her ears (tiny.en is quicker, small.en hears better)
MusicFolder	../NORA-Robot-v00/music	the fleet's songs, numbered as on NORA's SD card
MusicLatency	0.0	seconds her speakers lag, taken off so she starts in time

Part of the DREAM Robotics fleet

DREAM · RIFT · NINA · NORA · MILA · WHIP · IDA · KIDA · ARM · LYCEA

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Formerly VERA, then TARA.

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The DREAM Robotics ecosystem

Minds — DREAM companion · TINA engineer · NINA caretaker · RIFT fleet hub · LYCEA training school
Robots — NORA · MILA · WHIP · KIDA-00 · KIDA-01 · IDA · ARM · NIKA
Remotes — RITA handheld remote