Every Tool Vox Can Use on Your Desktop
Vox isn't just a chatbot that lives on your desktop — it's an operator that controls your desktop. Under the hood, it has built-in local tools, server tools, and support for unlimited custom tools and MCP servers — 47+ out of the box. Here's what each one does.
File System Tools
Read any file on your machine
Opens and reads the contents of any file on your local disk. Supports text files, documents, code, and more.
Create or overwrite files
Writes content to a file path on your machine. Creates the file if it doesn't exist, or updates it if it does.
Browse folder contents
Lists all files and subdirectories in a given path. Includes file sizes and modification dates.
Remove files and folders
Deletes a file or directory from your machine. Always asks for confirmation before destructive operations.
Temporary workspace
Returns a temporary directory path for intermediate work — useful for multi-step operations that need staging space.
Document Generation
Generate .docx files
Creates professional Word documents with formatted headers, sections, and content. Real .docx files, not templates.
Generate PDF reports
Creates PDF documents — invoices, reports, summaries, contracts. Properly formatted and print-ready.
Generate .pptx slide decks
Creates PowerPoint presentations with title slides, data slides, and structured content from your data or descriptions.
Email & Contacts
Send emails natively
Sends email through your native email client (Mail.app, Outlook, Thunderbird). Supports attachments, CC, and BCC.
Read your inbox
Reads unread or recent emails from your native email client. Returns sender, subject, date, and preview.
Read full email content
Retrieves the complete body of a specific email for detailed analysis or response drafting.
Access your address book
Searches your native contacts by name, email, or organization. Used to resolve recipient names in email commands.
Screen & System
Screenshot with vision
Captures your full screen and analyzes it with a vision model. Understands dashboards, errors, forms, and any visual content.
Execute shell commands
Runs terminal commands on your machine. From 'ls' to complex build scripts — anything your shell can do.
Knowledge Base
See what's indexed
Lists all documents currently in your local knowledge base with their indexing status and metadata.
Read an indexed document
Retrieves the content of a specific indexed document from your knowledge base.
Full-text search
Queries your knowledge base using SQLite FTS5 full-text search. Returns relevant passages with source attribution.
Server-Side Tools
Search the web
Searches the internet using the Brave Search API. Returns relevant results with titles, URLs, and snippets.
Read any webpage
Fetches and extracts the main content from any URL. Strips navigation and ads, returns the article text.
Run code in a sandbox
Executes Python, JavaScript, or shell scripts in an isolated Docker container. No access to your local system.
Background agents
Spawns a long-running background task that works autonomously. Used for research, analysis, and complex multi-step workflows.
Custom Tools
Discover tools on demand
Searches your entire tool library — built-in tools, custom tools, and all synced MCP tools — by semantic similarity. The agent calls this automatically when it needs a capability not already in its toolset.
Create and save tools
Lets the agent itself create, update, or delete custom tools. If the agent writes a useful script during a task, it can save it permanently so future tasks can reuse it without rewriting.
You can also create your own tools manually from the Tools panel — JS functions, HTTP webhooks, or desktop actions. They join the same library and are discovered by the agent the same way.
These tools work together. A single voice command might use five or six tools in sequence — that's what makes Vox an operator, not a chatbot.
Put Vox to work on your computer.
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