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Memory and knowledge

What your agent remembers, what you teach it, and how to change either.

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Knowledge as folders#

The Knowledge tab opens like folders: Documents your agent reads, Lists it keeps up to date, Memory, and How you write.

  • On your computer
  • From your phone
  • Since 0.3.3
Where it is
On the agent's Knowledge tab.
From your phone
Archie Mobile groups documents by the same folders.
Limits
  • Documents are files your agent reads and never changes.

Your agent's first questions#

When you first open Archie, your agent asks a few questions about your work, starting with the first thing you say, so it can help you better.

  • On your computer
  • From your phone
  • Since 0.3.8
Where it is
On the first run, in the agent's chat: the card Let me tell you what I do (on Archie for Teams, Let me tell you about the business and my team), and Stop the questions.
How to use it
  1. Press Let me tell you what I do, or just type.
  2. Answer its questions. If your first message asks for something, your agent does that first.
  3. Press Stop the questions to end them early.
From your phone
The first run happens on the computer. On a chat app, the questions start when you claim your agent.
Limits
  • Whether your first message asks for something is the AI's judgment, so it can miss. Asking again gets it done.
  • Your answers go to your AI company like any message.
  • It stops after 12 messages, a second job, a question of yours, or Stop the questions, and keeps what was said by then.
  • On the free tier its own turns are not counted, but a job asked for in your first message is one of the day's 20.

What your agent keeps#

At the top of an agent's Knowledge tab, Archie counts its lists, documents, and things it remembers about you, and shows the latest list changes with Undo.

  • On your computer
  • From your phone
  • Since 0.3.8
Where it is
At the top of the agent's Knowledge tab, headed with the agent's name, such as What Ember keeps.
How to use it
  1. Open the agent's Knowledge tab.
  2. Under Saved lately, press Open or Undo beside a change.
From your phone
Archie Mobile's Documents screen opens with the same three counts, without Saved lately.
Limits
  • Saved lately shows list changes only: the five newest not yet taken back.
  • Entries added from a card or an import are not in it. Undo those on the Jobs tab.
  • Undo after forgetting a memory line puts it back as a new line, dated this month.

What your agent remembers about you#

Your agent keeps a short list of what it has learned about you. You can read every line, add one, change one, or delete one.

  • On your computer
  • From your phone
  • Since 0.3.0
Where it is
On your agent's Knowledge tab, under Memory. Each line has a pencil, Change this, and a cross, Forget this, and Clear all is at the bottom.
How to use it
  1. Open your agent's Knowledge tab and choose Memory.
  2. Press the pencil beside a line to change it, or the cross to forget it.
  3. Type in the box to add a line yourself.
From your phone
On the owner's phone, Archie Mobile shows the same Memory under More, then Documents, while the computer running Archie is on.
Limits
  • It carries only what has come up lately. Older lines go to a file it looks back at when your words match one.
  • The look back is a match on words, with no AI call of its own.
  • What it remembers goes to your AI company with your messages.
  • The file is on your computer, and Otian AI cannot see it.

Bring in what ChatGPT, Claude or Gemini knows about you#

Archie gives you one sentence to send ChatGPT, Claude or Gemini. Paste its answer back, tick the lines to keep, and your agent remembers them.

  • On your computer
  • From your phone
  • Since 0.3.11
Where it is
On your agent's Knowledge tab, under Memory, press Bring in what it knows about you. In Archie, the first setup screen also has a card, Bring in what ChatGPT knows.
How to use it
  1. On your agent's Knowledge tab, under Memory, press Bring in what it knows about you.
  2. Copy the sentence Archie gives you and send it to ChatGPT, Claude or Gemini.
  3. Paste its answer back and press Show me the lines.
  4. Tick the lines to keep and press Remember these.
From your phone
On the owner's phone, Archie Mobile has the same screen under More, then Documents, then Memory, while the computer running Archie is on.
Limits
  • Archie never talks to ChatGPT, Claude or Gemini. It reads the text you paste, once.
  • About 25 to 30 short facts fit in what it carries. The rest goes to older memory, and the screen shows which before you press.
  • A line with a password, a card number, or a Social Security or account number is never kept. An address or a health detail comes over if you tick it.
  • Kept lines go to your AI company with your messages, as everything in memory does.

Your small files, checked for what you ask#

When you ask about something, Archie looks through your small files, like a price sheet or a page of notes, for lines that mention it, and hands them to your agent before it answers. No extra AI call is made.

  • On your computer
  • From your phone
  • Since 0.3.11
Where it is
Nothing to switch on. It reads the files on your agent's Knowledge tab.
From your phone
It works on messages from your phone too, because the files are read on the computer.
Limits
  • Only small files, about 24 KB of text or less and the 20 newest, and at most three lines a message. A longer document is your agent's to open.
  • It compares words, so a line worded differently from your question is missed.
  • What it finds goes to your AI company with your message, like everything else in it.
  • Your agent is told to open the file before saying something is not in it, and it can still skip that.