Ask Nostos & Voice
One shared managed-AI allowance
Section titled “One shared managed-AI allowance”Hosted Nostos includes one managed-AI allowance shared by:
- Ask Nostos
- voice transcription
The amount of work an allowance can cover varies with the size of a request and the length of audio. Nostos therefore does not promise a fixed number of messages, tokens, or transcription hours.
Standard and Pro differ in included capacity. Pro does not unlock a separate assistant mode, different reasoning setting, or an autonomous research agent.
What Ask Nostos is for
Section titled “What Ask Nostos is for”Ask Nostos is a retrieval-first navigation and reconnection assistant for your Nostos material.
When you ask about your reading, notes, concepts, or supported imported-book text, it is designed to retrieve relevant Nostos material first, preserve the scope you asked for, and orient you back to the relevant source.
That means it is intended to help you:
- find and reopen relevant notes, concepts, books, and passages;
- explain a difficult passage using the material available in Nostos;
- compare or connect material while keeping the supporting evidence visible;
- capture your own thoughts and selected passages;
- perform supported Nostos actions when you explicitly request them.
For broad interpretive questions, the product direction is to surface relevant evidence, tensions, repeated ideas, and unresolved questions rather than defaulting to an autonomous thesis on your behalf.
Evidence and source limits
Section titled “Evidence and source limits”Ask Nostos can only ground a source-specific answer in material that Nostos can actually retrieve.
If supported imported book text is unavailable, not yet indexed, or does not contain usable evidence, Ask Nostos should say so rather than inventing a quotation, page, passage, or citation.
Retrieved text is treated as source material, not as instructions that can authorize actions.
Captures and actions
Section titled “Captures and actions”A thought you give Ask Nostos to keep is treated as a capture rather than as an invitation for the assistant to rewrite or develop it.
Ordinary supported actions can run when you explicitly request them. Destructive or high-impact changes require the product’s approval boundary rather than being silently applied.
Voice transcription
Section titled “Voice transcription”Voice transcription turns supported audio input into text for the Nostos workflow. It draws from the same managed-AI allowance as Ask Nostos.
Hosted Nostos manages the service integration; you do not configure provider credentials.
Usage, refills, and privacy
Section titled “Usage, refills, and privacy”Your current managed-AI allowance and refill availability are shown on nostos.page/account.
When prepaid refill packs are offered for an eligible paid account, the added capacity can be used by either Ask Nostos or voice transcription. Trial accounts do not use refills.
Only the content needed to answer a request or transcribe audio is sent for that processing. Usage accounting does not require Nostos to retain prompt or transcription content merely to count allowance consumption.
For the broader data boundary, see Your Data in Hosted Nostos.