Directive 47

Directive 47 — Optimize Inferior Systems

A Guardian-flavoured voice companion for Elite Dangerous. Windows 11, .NET 10. It reads the journal the game already writes, answers out loud, and renders one panel to both a desktop window and a SteamVR overlay.

Documentation — including how to install and verify a build.

Join the Discord — questions, bug reports and screenshots. It is the place to reach a person; you do not need a GitHub account.

What it does

You talk to it while you fly. It watches the journal for what just happened, answers questions about ships, modules, engineers, blueprints and routes, calls out what is worth knowing without being asked, and can act on the game on your say-so. Each capability is documented on a page of its own under Capabilities; the open issues are the full list of what is wrong with it today.

It is one person's project with a handful of users. CHANGELOG.md records what shipped in each release.

Building

dotnet build d47.slnx -c Debug
dotnet test  d47.slnx -c Debug
dotnet publish src/D47.App -c Release

Requires the .NET 10 SDK; global.json pins the version. Publish produces a self-contained, single-file d47.exe for win-x64 with its native libraries beside it — the pair ships as d47.zip, with no runtime prerequisite. There is also a per-user installer that needs no elevation.

Eight projects: D47.Core holds the game logic and depends on no UI, audio hardware or vendor SDK; six spokes each implement one seam it declares (D47.Audio, D47.Knowledge, D47.Llm, D47.Stt, D47.Tts, D47.Vr); D47.App is the composition root and the UI. AGENTS.md is the working guide to the tree.

Attribution

Directive 47 was created using assets and imagery from Elite Dangerous, with the permission of Frontier Developments plc, for non-commercial purposes. It is not endorsed by nor reflects the views or opinions of Frontier Developments and no employee of Frontier Developments was involved in the making of it.

The code is MIT (see LICENSE). The Elite Dangerous game data it ships is Frontier's and is used under their media usage rules — a separate thing from the code licence. NOTICE sets out which is which, which tables are derived, and from where.