Memory

Memory is what Fluso carries forward between chats. Your preferences, durable facts about your work, and a working sense of what each project has been up to. It loads quietly with every message so you do not have to explain yourself twice. Durable memory follows a stricter rule than you might expect: it saves stable things, not everything. A preference you have stated, a fact about your team, a decision you made inside a project. On top of that sits working memory, which keeps the recent thread of the work itself — so a new chat in a project picks up where the last one left off.

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Three layers

Global preferences. User-level things that should apply everywhere. Your timezone, the response style you have asked for, workflow choices, standing instructions like “always show me drafts in plain text”. These live in preferences.md in your workspace, where you can read them. Project context. Facts, decisions, conventions, and preferences that belong only to the project you are in. The Q3 roadmap decision. The naming convention you agreed with the team. The pricing approach for this client. Each project keeps its own context.md. Project working memory. An automatic, short-lived record of what the conversations in a project have been doing: the current state of each, open items, files touched. Fluso keeps it up to date on its own, so asking “where did we leave off?” in a new chat gets a real answer. The split matters because Fluso is careful about scope. Project material stays in the project. One client’s notes do not surface inside another client’s chat.

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How it loads

With every message, Fluso pulls in three things as background context:

• Your global preferences
• The current project’s context
• The project’s recent working memory

Memory is context for the conversation, not a script. Your current message still drives the response.

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How it updates

Two paths. Both are conservative on purpose. You ask explicitly. Say “remember this”, “forget this”, “add this to project context”, or “update my preference” and Fluso edits preferences.md or the project’s context.md directly. Clear intent only. A passing line like “I like detailed answers” is not treated as a memory write; that kind of inference goes through the other path. Background learning. After each reply, a background pass updates the project’s working memory. When something durable shows up — a stated preference, a clear correction, a convention you keep repeating, a decision — it also adds that to your preferences or the project’s context, marked as auto-saved and deduplicated against what is already there. Anything that looks like a secret or credential is dropped rather than saved. If nothing durable came up, it writes nothing durable. The guardrail on explicit updates exists for a reason. Vague or accidental wording should not mutate the layer that follows you across every chat.

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What gets saved

• Stable preferences you have stated.
• Durable facts about your work, your team, the projects you run.
• Decisions, conventions, and patterns inside a project.
• The recent state of each project’s work, in working memory.

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What does not get saved

• Greetings and small talk.
• Temporary instructions for a single chat.
• Guesses Fluso is not confident about.
• Secrets, credentials, or anything that looks like one.

One-off task details stay out of the durable files too. They live in working memory while the work is fresh, then fall away instead of following you forever.

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Reading and correcting it

Memory is yours to read. Ask “what do you remember about me?” or “what’s in this project’s context?” and Fluso reads the files back to you. preferences.md and each project’s context.md sit in your workspace as plain markdown you can open yourself. Corrections work the same way: “forget my old timezone”, “that decision was reversed, update the context”. If you want a clean slate for a project’s working memory, ask Fluso to reset it.

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What memory is not

Memory is not a full transcript archive. Fluso does not keep every message you have ever sent in context. It keeps the curated layer of things worth carrying forward: preferences, durable facts, project context, and a short summary of recent work. If you need the exact text of an old conversation, open the thread — it is still there in the sidebar. Memory is what helps the next chat start in the right place.

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Next

For the patterns that build a useful memory layer over time, see Going deeper.