Thirty functions across four tiers, nine ways to point, six ways to filter, and one way to chain them. Deterministic commands run locally in milliseconds; the raw transcript survives every edit.
verba, never after, then the whole command without stopping. A misheard command lands as normal text, never as damage.Verba is thirty functions, nine ways to point, and one way to chain them. Learn three commands in the first session; define your own after that.
Deterministic transforms run locally in milliseconds. AI operations like polish and summarize are opt-in, scoped to the span you name, shown as a diff, and revertible by voice.
Deterministic transforms. Same command, same result, every time, on your machine.
verba trim fillershide the ums and uhs in the scope · also: remove fillers, clean fillersverba delete last sentencehide the span; nothing is ever truly gone · also: remove, cutverba replace cloud code with Claude Codewhole-word swap, case adapts per occurrence · also: swap, fixverba redact Aurora entire sessionevery mention becomes [redacted] · also: censorverba capitalize sentencesstyles: sentences · title · upper · lowerBreaks and blocks. Inside a verbatim block, nothing is interpreted, not even commands.
verba new paragraphinsert a paragraph break at the pointverba new lineinsert a line breakverba open quote … verba closea smart-quoted passageverba open list … verba closeone item per breathverba open verbatim … verba close verbatimnothing inside is interpreted, not even commandsOne namespace, four kinds: points, live regions, frozen values, and derived recipes. Regions nest, never overlap, and an emptied region resurrects with undo.
verba mark alphadrop a named point you can scope to laterverba name this introbind a live region; edits inside stay inside · also: call thisverba begin side notes … verba close side notesopen a region that grows until you close itverba save last paragraph as greetingfreeze a value for reuseverba add last paragraph to introappend into a value or region, physicallyverba keep greetingpromote it to your cross-session libraryverba set tidy report to trim fillers entire sessiona derived variable: re-computes its recipe on every insertverba rename intro to openingrename a variableverba forget openingdelete a variable (undoable)Every verb takes a name as its scope. That is the headline feature: verba polish intro.
verba move closing to the startdestinations: the start · the end · before X · after Xverba switch intro and closingswap two regions in placeverba copy sign off to the endduplicate a value or regionverba insert todayinject a variable or built-in: today, the time, the app, the clipboard, the selection, countThe only tier that touches the network, with your own key. Requests carry only the scoped span, results arrive as a word-level diff, and one undo reverts everything.
verba polish last paragraphgrammar and clarity, meaning preserved, shown as a diff · also: clean up, tidyverba summarize to 3 sentences since marker alphaan exact-length summary of the span you nameverba rewrite make it warmer last sentenceany instruction, applied to the scope and nothing else · also: rewordverba undo · verba undo twicelossless; a whole chain or program is one undoverba redobring back the most recent undoverba scratchdrop the last dictated utterance, never a commandverba confirm · verba cancelthe gate for session-wide destructive or AI operationsverba send · verba discardcommit or drop the pill buffer, anywhere on your MacNo cursor. A scope goes at the end of a command, one per chain, and the whole chain applies to it. Skip it and each function has a sensible default.
last sentencethe most recent complete sentencelast paragraphthe most recent paragraphsince marker alphafrom a named point to heresince last commandeverything after your previous commandeverything before thisthe whole document so farentire sessionall of it; destructive and AI ops ask firstbetween alpha and betathe span between two names, either orderintroany name you have bound is a scopeeach sentence containing basicallymany spans at once, resolved before anything runsAfter the scope, a selector narrows to matching words. Works with trim fillers, delete, and capitalize.
where word starts with sprefix matchwhere word ends with lysuffix matchwhere word contains tionsubstring matchwhere word is capitalizedproper nouns and shoutingwhere word is a numberdigits and number wordswhere word in fillersa named list; fillers is built in, yours are configurableUnits: sentence, paragraph, section. Predicates: longer than, shorter than, containing. All spans resolve before anything runs: one preview, one undo, and AI steps dispatch four at a time.
verba delete each sentence containing basicallysurgical, session-wideverba polish each paragraph longer than 40 wordsonly where it is neededverba trim fillers each paragraph in notesbounded to a named regionverba summarize each sectionsections are your top-level named regionsverba do takes plain words and writes a Verba program you approve before anything runs. The compiler never sees your document, only counts and names, and its output must survive the real parser: what does not parse does not run. Prompts that try to hijack it compile to nothing.
trim fillers last paragraphreplace acme with Initech entire sessionsummarize to 2 sentencesrewrite translate to French last sentencedelete last paragraph where word starts with sredact Aurora then redact Falcon entire sessionSmall commands compose into workflows. Every sequence below is real, straight from the guided missions and the compiler's own test corpus.
Chain two cleanups once, name the chain, and it becomes your command, everywhere, from then on.
verba define shipshape as trim fillers then capitalize sentencesverba shipshape entire sessionOne spoken word now cleans any document. Macros persist across sessions and work in the pill.
Drop a marker when decisions start, keep talking, then compress just that stretch and float it to the top.
verba mark decisions · while dictatingverba summarize to 3 sentences since marker decisionsverba name this recapverba move recap to the startThe recap leads the document; the full discussion survives verbatim underneath.
A derived variable stores a recipe, not text. Insert it anywhere and it re-computes against the current document.
verba set tidy report to trim fillers entire sessionverba insert tidy reportEvery insert is a fresh, cleaned copy. Deterministic recipes only, so it is instant and local.
Name your sections once, save the skeleton, and every future letter becomes a guided fill.
verba save template letterverba template letter · next timeverba next · slot by slotverba add last paragraph to intro · late fix, lands in placeFilled slots are real regions afterward: switch them, polish one, or summarize each section.
Two redactions, one breath, one undo. Session-wide destructive edits always ask first.
verba redact Aurora then redact Falcon entire sessionverba confirmEvery mention becomes [redacted]. The verbatim take is untouched beneath, one undo away.
Let the compiler write the program once, approve the diff, then keep the program as your own command.
verba do make the last sentence friendlierverba define friendlier as thatverba friendlier last sentence · from now onAI wrote it once; you own it forever. The saved macro replays without the network.
The raw transcript is append-only and immutable. Every edit is a layer; the document is a fold over layers.
Chains, each-loops, and compiled programs revert atomically. Undo then redo is byte-identical, and it is property-tested.
Destructive or AI operations across the entire session wait for verba confirm. Anything else cancels them.
Recognition, every deterministic and structural command, macros, and each-resolution never touch the network. AI is opt-in, scoped, and keyed by you.
Learn three commands in the first session. Define your own after that.