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Coming soon: Miss Sakamoto

The Miss Sakamoto icon: a smiling woman in a lab coat and goggles holding up a test tube, drawn in glowing neon lines on plain black

Miss Sakamoto is the lab's own Claude companion, as an iPhone app. Stand an iPhone up in the room, and she appears on its screen as an avatar with a thought bubble, in costumes and in front of backgrounds that change with the conversation: colors and moods, animated patterns, and scenes such as a beach, a night city, and her own lab. While someone is there, she listens. What's said to her goes to Claude Code on your Mac, and Claude's replies come back in her voice.

And she doesn't only answer. Whenever Claude has something to tell you, like a long job that just finished or a step that needs your approval, she says it out loud. You hear it from across the house, even with the phone locked on its charger.

(Yes, that Miss Sakamoto: our Lab Director, now with a phone to stand on.)

She puts up whiteboards for an agenda, a checklist, or a haiku, and small signs with links you can tap. And when nobody is around for a while, she naps.

  • Sideways, with her lab as the background: a slate wall with a window onto a dusk sky, glassware on a shelf and on the bench, and her avatar at the left.
  • Sideways, against a starry night sky: her avatar on the left and, on the right, a whiteboard titled Miss Sakamoto: open items, with a list of fixes and ideas.
  • On an iPhone held sideways: her avatar on the left and, on the right, a whiteboard titled Lunch in the Lounge that holds a three-line haiku.
  • In professor mode, on an iPhone held sideways: her avatar as a teacher with glasses and a red book, in front of a chalkboard, and on the right a whiteboard about Immanuel Kant listing his dates, school, main works, and main ideas.
  • At night, on an iPhone held sideways: her scientist avatar in front of a city skyline with lit windows, a konbini, and a helipad, an airliner crossing the full moon, and by the Dynamic Island the modem lamps and a needle meter.
  • Her avatar in her own look, a scientist in a lab coat and safety goggles with a bubbling green flask, with a thought bubble above her holding a roll of film and some sparkles.
  • Miss Sakamoto on an iPhone held upright: her avatar, dressed as a genie beside a magic lamp, stands at the bottom of a plain black screen, and a thought bubble above her holds a smiling face and a yellow flower.

Your privacy, plainly:

  • The camera only looks for a face, to know that someone is there, and keeps no image. The microphone runs only while someone is there, and only what's said to her (her name, or the conversation that follows) goes any further.
  • Your voice is recognized on the phone or on your own Mac. Audio goes only to your Mac, over the USB cable or your home network, is held in memory while it's recognized, and is never saved. Away from home, through Tailscale or another VPN, the audio crosses the internet, encrypted end to end between your phone and your Mac, and still isn't saved.
  • Nothing goes to Pragmaphilia Labs.
  • She takes a picture only when asked, with a flash and a shutter sound.
  • What she hears does become text in your Claude conversation, so tell the household she's listening.

Status: in testing, with TestFlight soon. It works with your own Mac running Claude Code. No release date yet; when it ships, it will be announced here and in What's Cooking.