How Clawless remembers (and forgets)

What you’ll learn

This is the lesson where Clawless stops feeling like a fresh stranger every time you open it. By the end you will have a working mental model of the memory system: the distinction between conversation history (the literal back-and-forth of one chat, bulky, stays inside that chat) and memory (distilled facts that travel across every conversation and every agent); the four tiers Clawless sorts memories into (Pinned, Insights, General, Decayed) and why each behaves differently; the three pathways for getting a fact into the panel (the background classifier, asking an agent explicitly, typing one in directly); the controls in the Memory panel (pin, edit, delete, source-badge, search, last-seen date); how memory shares across agents by default; and the practical privacy rule for deciding what should and should not be saved (anything that travels to the provider with every relevant message should not be a secret).

Before you start

Prerequisites: lesson 2, Your first conversation and picking a model, where you sent your first message. You need Clawless installed, the four-step onboarding finished, and ideally a few conversations behind you so the Memory panel has actual Insights to look at. The practice is a 15-minute hands-on in the Memory panel (review Insights, pin a fact, add one manually).

By the end, you’ll be able to

• Distinguish conversation history from memory and explain why memory travels across conversations while history does not
• Name the four memory tiers (Pinned, Insights, General, Decayed) and describe what determines which tier a memory lands in
• Use the three pathways (classifier auto, ask explicitly, add manually) to get a specific fact into the Memory panel
• Apply the privacy rule for deciding which facts should and should not be saved as memories
• Locate the Memory panel and adjust pin status, edit memory text, and trace a memory back to its source conversation

Time and difficulty

• Read time: about 11 minutes
• Practice time: about 15 minutes (open the Memory panel; review the Insights tier; pin one or two load-bearing facts; add one manual memory; search the panel; check a memory’s source badge and last-seen date)
• Difficulty: intro