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Memory is a workspace-wide summary the Cogno agent reads on wake. It’s a single Markdown document that captures the durable context of your workspace, so the agent works from an up-to-date picture instead of each event in isolation. Cogno keeps Memory current on its own, and you can edit it directly whenever you want to correct or add context.

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What Memory is

Memory holds the persistent context for one workspace — the background the Cogno agent draws on when it makes sense of new events and proposes work. It’s stored and edited as Markdown, and it lives at Settings → Memory. Two things keep Memory current:
  • Cogno updates it automatically. As new events arrive from your connected tools (Slack, GitHub, meetings, and more), Cogno revises Memory to reflect what changed.
  • You can edit it directly. Open the editor to fix, trim, or add context by hand.
Memory is workspace-wide: one shared document per workspace, not per person. See Concepts for how Memory fits the wider loop.
Memory describes what is going on. For rules Cogno must always follow — which channels to ignore, what a deliverable needs, assignment defaults — write Instructions at Settings → Instructions instead.

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Edit your Memory

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Open Settings → Memory

Go to Settings → Memory. Cogno shows the current Memory rendered as Markdown, with a character count and the Last updated timestamp. If nothing has been written yet, you’ll see Memory is empty. Click Edit to add content.
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Select Edit

Select Edit to open the Markdown editor.
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Write in Markdown

Edit the text directly. Memory supports Markdown — use headings, lists, and emphasis to keep it structured and easy for the agent to read. A workspace’s Memory can hold up to 4000 characters.
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Preview or revert as you go

Select Preview to see the rendered Markdown, or Revert to discard your changes and restore the last saved version.
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Save

Select Save. Cogno confirms with Saved. and updates the Last updated timestamp.
Keep Memory concise and current. It’s context the agent reads on every wake, so a tight, accurate summary beats a long one. Capture durable facts — active projects, key decisions, who owns what — rather than transient detail the agent already picks up from events. You have 4000 characters to work with.

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Editor states

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Limits