Introducing: Cordary Now Remembers How You Like to Work

Every new chat with Cordary used to start from zero. If you'd told it last week that you run a casual astronomy club and like short replies, you had to say it again.

Now Cordary can remember. It keeps a few short notes about you and how you like to work, uses them in your later chats, and shows you exactly what it has kept.

What's new

• Cordary remembers a few things. Who you are, such as your role or whether you run a community casually or for work. Your style, such as how you name channels or how you like posts to read. And how you like to work with Cordary, such as asking before it deletes anything.
• You see every memory as it's saved. A line above Cordary's reply says what it remembered, changed or forgot. If you don't want it, press Undo.
• A Memory window with everything in it. Open Memory from the account menu to read your memories, forget one, or forget them all.
• Two switches. Use in chats decides whether Cordary uses your memories at all. Save new decides whether it adds more.
• For all your servers, or just one. A memory can apply to every chat you have, or only to chats about one server.
• Ask it to forget. Say "forget that" in a chat, and Cordary removes the memory.

What it looks like

Say you mention in a chat: "I run a casual astronomy club, and please keep your replies short." Cordary answers as usual, and above the reply you'll see something like:

Remembered: "Runs a casual astronomy club." Undo Memory

Next time you start a chat, Cordary already knows. It can fit its names, its tone and how much it explains to what you've told it.

Where to find it

Open the account menu at the bottom of the sidebar, then choose Memory. Each memory is one line with a coloured dot for its kind:

• About you
• Style
• How you work

Press a memory to open it. You'll see its full text, which chat it came from and when it was saved. Memories are grouped under All servers ("In every chat") and under each server that has its own ("Only in this server's chats"). A counter at the top shows how many you've saved out of 24.

If you don't see Memory in your account menu yet, it hasn't reached your account.

You're in control

• Only you can see your memories. Other people never see them, including other admins of the same server.
• You can't be surprised. Cordary shows every memory it saves, changes or forgets, right above its reply.
• You can forget one, or all. Use the bin beside a memory, or Forget all in the Memory window. Forgetting is permanent.
• You can turn it off. Switch Use in chats off and Cordary stops using your memories. Saving turns off too, because it can't save without using. Switching Save new off keeps what you have but stops it adding more.
• You decide what stays. Only Cordary writes memories, from what you say in a chat. You can't type one in or edit one by hand. If one's wrong, forget it or tell Cordary in a chat and it will update it.

What Cordary saves, and what it never will

Cordary saves a memory only when you ask it to remember something, or when you plainly say something about yourself or how you always want things done. It keeps each memory to one short sentence, and it saves at most two changes in a single reply.

Cordary is told never to save:

• Anything it read in your server, a template or its own tools. Only what you said.
• Anything about other people.
• Links, invites, tokens or other secrets.
• Sensitive details, such as health, religion, politics or sexuality. If you give a sensitive reason for a preference, it keeps the preference only. "Prefers short, easy-to-scan replies" is saved. The reason isn't.
• Details of one request. A memory is for what will still matter in a later chat.
• A wish to skip review. Every change Cordary makes still goes through your review, and no memory can change that.

The server also refuses any note that looks like a link or a secret, or that asks to skip review. And every memory is checked by Cordary's content check before it's saved. If the check flags the text, or can't run, it isn't saved, and you'll see "Didn't save this to memory."

Good to know

• New memories apply from your next chat. Cordary also knows what it saved earlier in the same chat, but the full set it uses is fixed when a chat begins.
• Your words in this chat win. Memory never overrides what you ask for now.
• Memory never decides who can see what. Access always follows your server as it is. A remembered naming style is used for servers without a pattern of their own. Where a server's channels already follow one, Cordary matches the server.
• There's a limit. Up to 24 memories, 160 characters each. When memory is full, you'll see "Memory is full. Forget one in Memory to make room."
• It's part of Cordary's own chat. An AI agent you connect yourself doesn't read or write your memories.
• Memories are sent to the AI that writes the draft. When memory is on, Cordary sends the memories that apply to a chat to its AI provider along with the conversation, the same way it sends your messages. They serve only your own chats. Our privacy policy has the details.
• They're kept until you forget them. Deleting a chat keeps what Cordary remembered in it, without the link back. Memories for one server are deleted with that server's data. Deleting your account deletes them all.

Why we built it

People who use Cordary tend to come back, and to bring a mood with them: this server is relaxed, that one is strict, I want short answers, ask me before you delete anything. Telling Cordary again each time is a chore.

We wanted memory to help without being a black box. So Cordary keeps it short and shows you every note it keeps, and you can see, forget or switch off all of it.

For a full walkthrough, read How to use Cordary's memory.