Context Memory in Unique AI Chat
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Context Memory in Unique AI Chat
Context Memory lets Unique AI Chat remember your working style, preferences, and recurring context across conversations. Instead of re-explaining who you are, how you prefer answers formatted, or what you are working on in every new chat, the assistant maintains a compact profile that can be loaded wherever Context Memory is enabled.
For example, if you say that you prefer concise answers with concrete examples or that you are working on a long-running reporting project, future chats can take that into account automatically.
What Context Memory Is
Context Memory is a small, structured profile about you, distilled from your conversations. It can capture durable facts such as:
Who you are, including your role, team, language, or timezone.
How you prefer to communicate, including tone, format, and level of detail.
Your current work context, projects, focus areas, and longer-running goals.
Your skills and expertise.
Recently discussed topics and open follow-ups.
The memory is deliberately not a transcript. It is maintained as a short profile, and turns without durable information leave it unchanged.
How It Works
Step | What happens |
|---|---|
Start of a turn | If Context Memory is enabled for the space and your account, your profile is loaded into the assistant's instructions under “What I know about you”. |
During the answer | The assistant can adapt its tone, examples, and depth using the profile. It cannot edit memory during the answer. |
After the answer | A background step first decides whether the exchange contains anything durable. If not, nothing is changed. Otherwise, the full profile is rewritten and saved only when its content changed. |
While updating | You may briefly see “🧠 Updating context memory…” below the assistant's answer while a real profile rewrite is running. The notice disappears when processing finishes and is not shown for turns that need no update. |
Next chat | The updated profile is available in this chat and any other enabled Unique AI space. |
One Memory Per User — Private to You
You have exactly one Context Memory profile. It is shared across your chats and enabled spaces so the assistant can behave consistently.
Your memory is private:
Each profile belongs to one user. Other users cannot access it.
It is stored in a private per-user Knowledge Base folder with access inheritance disabled.
It is not indexed for search and is hidden from chat content.
Spaces do not have separate profiles; enabled spaces use the same profile for you.
View and Edit What Unique Remembers
Open Settings from the user menu, select Context Memory, and look under Your memory. You can also ask the assistant what it knows or remembers about you.
If no profile has been created yet, the page shows “You don't have any context memory to edit yet.” The first conversation that contains durable information can create it.
Edit the content beneath each existing section heading. Do not rename or remove those headings because they structure the profile.
Select Save to apply your changes. The page shows unsaved, saving, saved, and error states; failed loads can be retried.
Enable or Disable Context Memory
The toggle in Settings → Context Memory controls the feature for your account:
Enabled (default): your profile can be loaded and updated in spaces where Context Memory is active.
Disabled: your profile is not loaded or updated in any space. Your account-level opt-out overrides every space setting.
Current behavior: disabling Context Memory does not delete the stored profile. Re-enabling makes the existing profile available again. The current settings description that says disabling permanently deletes memory does not match the implementation.
Context Memory and Web Search
By default, Context Memory is unavailable in spaces where Web Search is enabled. This keeps your personal context out of external search queries. In those spaces, your profile is neither loaded nor updated. Your administrator can lift this restriction for your organization if the combination is acceptable in your environment.
What Context Memory Does Not Store
The automatic consolidation instructions exclude credentials, API keys, passwords, one-time passwords, payment information, health-record details, government IDs, transient code or error output, retrieved search results, and unrelated information about other people.
For Administrators
Context Memory must be enabled per space before it is active for users. Administrators can find setup instructions, the profile format, advanced configuration, failure behavior, and feature flags in Context Memory.