Your own machine, in plain language. The mode OSPal starts in when you ask for nothing else.
Basic mode points OSPal at the computer you are sitting in front of. You describe what you want in your own words, OSPal works out the commands, runs them with your permission and tells you what came back. It is the mode to reach for when the job is about this machine: installing something, finding out why a service will not start, reclaiming disk space, converting a pile of files, reading a log you would rather not read by hand.
OSPal is not one assistant with four settings. Each mode loads its own system prompt, its own set of tools and its own folder of skills, so the run is shaped for the work you are actually doing.
There is one system prompt per operating system -Debian and derivatives, Arch, Windows, macOS Intel and macOS Apple Silicon- and OSPal loads the one that matches, so the commands it proposes are the ones your system actually has.
The model is given message.send, shell.exec, script.run and skill.use, and nothing else: no remote execution and no fleet. Every executable call is validated against its schema and shown to you for approval before it runs.
Your skills live in ~/.ospal/basic/skills/ and reach a Basic run and no other. If you keep a handful of machines around, ~/.ospal/basic/endpoints.json adds inventory.search, remote.exec and remote.exec_stream without turning OSPal into a fleet manager.
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ospal -p "one question, one answer, no conversation"With no flags at all OSPal opens Basic mode: it asks for the provider, the model and the reasoning effort, and prints the address of the live web monitor of the run.
«nginx will not start after the last update; find out why and fix it»
«what is eating the disk under /var, and how much would I get back»
«rename every photo in this folder to the date it was taken»
«explain what this cron line does before you touch it»
Basic mode acts on the machine you run it on. Every call that could change something is shown to you first and waits: read it before you approve it. The whole run is written to a session file and mirrored in the local web monitor, so you can always go back and see exactly what was executed.
One install, four harnesses. Switching mode is a flag, and every plan includes all four.
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