Personal memory

Personal memory is a memory of your own, apart from every project. Your connectors feed it, the Alexein desktop app and the AI assistants you connect, such as Claude, ChatGPT or Cursor, read and save to it, and only you can read it: not the other members, not an Owner, and no project's key.

It lives on the memory platform, My memory at memory.alexein.ai. One Alexein account signs in to both it and the developer console at app.alexein.ai: sign up there, or sign in with the account you already have. Each keeps its own organisations, and the console has no personal memory.

It is separate from projects. A project holds your app's app users, and every key of the project reaches all of them. Personal memory is outside every project, so a project key cannot reach it, even one from a project you work in.

Who has itCopy Anchor Link

• Whoever creates an organisation on the memory platform has personal memory on from the start, on the organisation's free seat for its first month, with the default daily cap of $0.50.
• An Owner or Admin gives it to anyone else: in the invite dialog, or later under My memory › Settings › Members with the Personal button on a member's row, themselves included. Turned on, it takes a free seat.
• An Owner whose own is off turns it on from My memory with Turn on my personal memory.

While yours is off, My memory says so and tells you to ask an Owner. If yours is on in another of your organisations, it offers to switch to that one.

SeatsCopy Anchor Link

Personal memory is sold apart from the organisation's plan, as seats: $13 a seat a month, plus applicable tax. Each seat is one member's, and includes every month:

An Owner or Admin buys seats under My memory › Billing and assigns them to members. Every organisation gets one seat free for its first month: the first personal memory that needs a seat takes it, which in a new organisation is its creator's.

• Personal memory never counts against the organisation's plan, and the plan's usage never includes it. A seat's allowance is its holder's alone, not pooled with other seats. Past it, their memory is refused with 402, as a plan is: see Plan limits.
• A seat moved to another member keeps its usage for the month.
• Personal memory without a seat is refused with 403 seat_required, and My memory › Settings › Members shows Needs a seat. Its memory is kept, and works again once a seat is assigned; a seat bought or freed goes to whoever has waited longest. Forget and correct still run.

CreditsCopy Anchor Link

Chat in the desktop app uses credits from its holder's seat. Each answer uses credits for what it took, so dearer models use more. My memory › Settings › Models shows each model's rate against GPT-6 Luna at 1× (Sonnet is about 20×, Opus about 40×) and the credits of a typical answer. Routines, such as briefs, alerts and reminders, use the seat's credits too. Web search in the desktop app is free.

• A seat's 4,000 credits start again on the 1st, and stay with the seat when it moves. Nothing carries over.
• Past them, the seat uses the organisation's credits, which an Owner or Admin buys under My memory › Billing in packs: 10,000 credits for $10, 25,000 for $25 or 100,000 for $100, plus applicable tax. Bought credits never expire.
• When the seat's and the organisation's are both used, chat stops until more are bought or the month starts again. Memory itself keeps working.

My memory › Billing shows each seat's credits used this month and the organisation's credits.

Who can read itCopy Anchor Link

Only you. My memory shows your memory to you alone, your connections to it are listed only on your own pages, and no project's key reaches it. Owners and Admins see whether a member has personal memory and its cap, under My memory › Settings › Members; they never see what it holds. What you forget in it is never named: the audit log notes that you erased something in your memory, never what.

CollectionsCopy Anchor Link

Your memory is kept in collections. The main one is me: your connectors save to it unless you name another, and so do the desktop app and the AI assistants you connect, so they all read one memory. claude.ai and ChatGPT always save to me.

Another collection keeps one app's memory apart, such as work or side-project: choose Keep it in a separate collection when you connect an app, or name it in a coding agent's X-Alexein-User header in place of me. Nothing moves between collections.

While me is your only collection, My memory does not mention collections at all. Once there are more, it shows a Collection switch, and Privacy lists every collection, each with what it holds and an Erase button.

See, correct and forgetCopy Anchor Link

My memory has a page for each:

Each fact's menu has three choices:

• Where it came from shows the messages memory read the fact from, with who said them and when.
• Correct… shows what memory knows now and asks What is true instead. Memory drops the old fact for good and keeps your words as a note it reads like anything else. The message it came from stays.
• Forget… shows what goes and what stays before anything goes. Choose Just this fact, and the message it came from stays, but memory will not learn the fact from it again; or This fact and the message it came from, which erases the message too, with every copy and everything memory read from it.

Nothing forgotten can be brought back. A connector that sends a forgotten message again adds it again.

Under Privacy, Forget something specific searches what was said or what memory knows, and forgets the whole conversation each choice came from. Erase your memory (or Erase the work collection, once there is more than one) deletes everything it holds; to erase all of it, you type erase to confirm. Your connectors and keys stay, and keep adding from then on: disconnect them first to stop that.

Download a copy, under Privacy, exports everything your memory holds as one JSON file: what was added, what was learned, and earlier versions of anything corrected.

Daily capCopy Anchor Link

Each member's personal memory has a daily cap in USD, $0.50 to start, on learning facts from what it adds and on search's check. An Owner sets it under My memory › Settings › Limits, in the Personal memory section, from more than $0 up to $100. What it spends is not counted against the organisation's daily budget. My memory › Usage shows today's spend against your cap.

Past its cap for the day, your memory learns facts from new connector items tomorrow, and search answers without its check. Chat in the desktop app is not held to the cap: it uses the seat's credits.

What reaches itCopy Anchor Link

Personal keysCopy Anchor Link

Under My memory › Keys you create keys of your own, Read and write or Read. A personal key reaches your memory and nothing else: no project's key reaches yours, and yours reaches no project. Only you see your keys.

A personal key reaches every collection of your memory, and X-Alexein-User names which one, as it names an app user on a project key: send me for the main one. Any AI assistant works the same way: the server URL, the personal key as the bearer, and X-Alexein-User: me. My memory › AI assistants shows the setup for each assistant, filled in with your key. The desktop app needs no key to be copied: it signs in through your browser.

Turned off, or a member leavesCopy Anchor Link

When an Owner turns a member's personal memory off, or the member is removed from the organisation, everything that reaches it stops at once: their personal keys are revoked, their connectors disconnected and the apps they signed in to it disconnected. Its memory is kept for 30 days, so turned back on in that time it is all there. After 30 days it is erased.

RelatedCopy Anchor Link

• Get started: sign up for My memory and connect your first assistant.
• Settings & billing: seats, credits and My memory's Settings, page by page.
• The desktop app: Alexein on your computer, on your personal memory.
• Members & roles: who gives personal memory, and what each role can do.
• Connectors: the apps that feed it.