How much a Mate remembers

Understand what a Mate can use in one conversation and when a fresh conversation helps.

Last updated About 1 hour ago

A Mate answers from the information available in the current conversation. That information can include recent messages, the Mate's instructions, active knowledge files, attachments and the organization or workspace context. It does not remember every detail from every conversation you have had with it.

What carries through a conversation

Messages in the same conversation give the Mate continuity. You can refer to an earlier decision, draft or file without explaining the whole subject again. The Mate also keeps using its own instructions and active knowledge.

Private chats and workspace conversations are separate. Starting another conversation with the same Mate does not copy the messages from the first one. If a fact matters in the new conversation, state it again or attach the source.

The context scope can also add the name and description of your organization or workspace. It does not copy messages from other conversations.

What changes in a long conversation

As a conversation grows, the Mate may give more weight to recent instructions and lose useful detail from much earlier messages. Repeated corrections and several versions of the same document can also make the request ambiguous.

Watch for these signs:

  • the Mate uses an older requirement after you changed it,
  • it mixes two versions of a document or decision,
  • it asks for information that appeared much earlier,
  • its answer follows an old direction instead of the current goal.

When this happens, give a short current brief. State the goal, the decisions that still apply, the source to use and the required output. You can also exclude old messages from the context when they no longer help.

When to start fresh

Start a new conversation when you change subject, finish one phase of a project or need a clean answer without old attempts. A fresh conversation is also useful after a long debugging session or after several conflicting drafts.

Before you leave the old conversation, ask for a concise handoff that lists the goal, confirmed facts, decisions and open questions. Check that handoff, then paste or attach it in the new conversation. Do not carry forward a summary you have not reviewed.

Stay in the same conversation when the previous messages are still the evidence for the next task, or when several people need to see one continuous record.

Good to know

  • A Mate can still miss or misread information that is present. Context helps; it does not guarantee a correct answer.
  • Attach the authoritative file again when its exact wording matters.
  • Keep the newest instruction explicit. Do not make the Mate infer which of several versions won.
  • Knowledge follows the Mate across its conversations. A conversation attachment stays with that conversation.