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Manage Memory

Silicon Worker has long-term memory and can remember your preferences, common workflows, and project context across sessions. This guide helps you see what it has remembered, tell private from global memory, deliberately make it remember or forget something, and understand how that memory is used in later tasks.

To understand the concept first, see Memory.

Private vs. global memory

Memory comes in two layers with different scopes:

  • Private memory: belongs to a specific expert role. It's for preferences and lessons that only matter for one kind of work — for example, your "Researcher" expert's writing conventions, which won't affect other roles.
  • Global memory: shared across roles. It's for things you want Silicon Worker to remember in any situation, such as how to address you, your preferred language, or general habits.

In short: keep general preferences global, and keep specialized lessons with the relevant expert.

See what it has remembered

  1. To view an expert's private memory, open the Experts page, open that expert, and you'll see what it has remembered for its own work.
  2. Global memory is the shared part that applies across every session.

In the memory list you can see each entry's content and whether it's stable long-term information or a lesson summarized from past tasks.

Make it remember a preference

The simplest way is to just tell it in conversation. For example, "Reply in English from now on" or "My project's codename is Apollo" — Silicon Worker will store that kind of information in memory for future reference.

Put it at the right layer

If you want a preference to apply to only one expert, tell it while using that expert; if you want it to apply to all roles, state it as a general preference.

Make it forget or correct something

When a memory is no longer needed, or your preference has changed:

  1. Just tell it in conversation, e.g. "Forget the earlier codename — it's Mercury now" or "You no longer need to ask me to confirm the time each time."
  2. You can also review and clear entries you no longer need from the memory list.

After a correction, Silicon Worker will go by the new information.

Clear with care

Deleting a memory loses the related preferences and lessons accumulated so far, and you'll have to restate them if needed. Only clear what you truly no longer need.

How memory is used

Whenever a task begins, Silicon Worker automatically recalls the memories most relevant to the current situation and takes them into account, producing results that fit your habits better. You usually don't need to do anything.

Memory both accumulates automatically along the way (for example, summarizing useful lessons from a task's conclusion) and can be maintained by you — telling it to remember something, or clearing what's no longer needed.

Data stays local

Like all other data, memory is stored on your own computer. See Tools & risk levels for details.