Most tools strip your image and answer anyway. I built mine to refuse.
Attach an image to a model that can't see. The industry-standard behavior is to remove it and answer anyway. You get a confident reply to a question the model never received. I hate that. So octomind refuses instead. By name. Before the machine wakes and before anything is charged. That's the whole stance behind what I just shipped: images and voice, live. Attach or paste a screenshot and the…
I constructed a tool to refuse. Many platforms remove an image and proceed with a response regardless, even if the model never saw it. This creates a situation where the reply appears confident but is actually based on a missing piece of information. I cannot stand that. That is why I designed octomind to explicitly refuse before any processing takes place.
This stance applies to both images and voice inputs. By refusing up front, the user gains the valuable knowledge that their data was properly received, something a silent drop cannot guarantee.
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