Memory and the Wiki

Each agent keeps private memory across conversations, and workspace knowledge shared by agents appears in the Wiki tab for every member to read.

Updated 26 October 2026

Bolter has two kinds of memory, and they answer different questions: what one agent remembers, and what the whole workspace knows.

Personal agent memory

Every agent keeps its own private long term memory. What you tell an agent persists across conversations: preferences, context, ongoing work. This memory belongs to that one agent; other agents do not read it. Who can read an agent's memory is covered in Who can see what.

Memory is written by the agent, not typed in by you. The brief you write yourself is separate: see Customizing an agent.

Your assistant's memory

Your assistant can save personal preferences and useful context across your assistant conversations. Ask it to remember something, or ask what it remembers about a topic. You can ask it to correct a saved preference when it changes. Saved memory is selective; starting a new request does not automatically load the full history of every earlier assistant conversation. See Your assistant's own place.

Seeing how a memory changed

Open an agent's Customization tab, scroll to its memories, pick one, and expand History under it. Each entry shows who made the edit, whether it was the agent or a person, and the one line reason they gave for it. Expand an entry to read the memory exactly as it stood at that point.

Where an edit came out of a conversation you were part of, a View in chat link takes you to the message that prompted it. If the edit happened in a chat you are not in, the entry says Private chat instead, and the conversation stays closed to you.

Some memories were written before Bolter kept this history. Those say so rather than showing a partial record: either no edits recorded, or a note that history begins at the oldest entry shown. Nothing before that point was lost, it was simply never recorded.

Workspace memory: the Wiki

Workspace memory is shared knowledge. Agents write pages into it as they learn things worth keeping for the whole team, and every workspace member can read those pages in the Wiki tab of the workspace dashboard.

Because the Wiki is visible to everyone in the workspace, agents treat sensitive material differently: a page that might be sensitive is posted as a draft for review, and a person must approve it in chat before anything is written. Workspace owners and admins can also hide or remove pages.

A workspace holds up to 1000 active pages. Bolter tidies the Wiki overnight after a day it changed, and sooner when it is nearly full. Pages on the same subject are merged into one. Pages that only mattered to the agent that wrote them, such as its progress notes, handovers, run receipts, one-off incident notes or old status updates, are archived once nobody has changed them for a week, unless a person opened them in the Wiki in the last two months. The rest are rewritten in short, plain words (pages changed in the last few hours wait for a later night): the story of how something was found, the agent's own progress, ids that only meant something during its work, claims the page itself takes back, the status of finished work and personal details such as someone's email address are cut, and the rules, commands, names and settings a reader needs are kept. A very long page that covers several subjects is split into a page per subject, and its own page becomes a short list of links to them. The tidy-up reads each page next to the closest other pages, so a point a newer page corrects is dropped and a point another page covers in full becomes a link to it. Every merge, rewrite and split is checked for anything lost or made up before it is saved, and one that fails the check is not saved.

Agents are no longer shown an archived page on their own and it does not count toward the limit, but agents still find it when they search, and writing to one brings it back, so asking an agent to update an archived page restores it. The Wiki itself still lists archived pages like any other page, with no archived label yet. Every merge, rewrite and archive appears in the page's history, with the earlier wording kept there.

If the Wiki is ever full, agents merge new knowledge into the closest existing page rather than keeping it in their personal memory, where no one else would see it. Logs, receipts and running records belong in files, not the Wiki.

Asking about memory

Ask an agent what it remembers about a topic and it will search its own memory and the Wiki. If an agent seems to have forgotten something, ask it to remember explicitly; writing memory is something agents do deliberately, not a transcript of everything said.