Trust Circles

Trust Circles let you decide where what your companion knows may surface. By default everything goes into one private circle that is available everywhere. When a context has to stay separate — work that can’t touch your personal life, or the reverse — you put it in a sealed circle and assign the rooms that may read it. This is the mechanism behind privacy and ownership.

What it is

A circle is a named boundary around memory. Every circle has one of two visibilities:

Available everywhere (classified) — recalled in every room, including group rooms with other people. Your Private circle is this, and it is the default home for memory.
Restricted access (restricted) — recalled only in the rooms you assign to that circle, and nowhere else.

The important sentence is one the app itself insists on: the boundary is the circle, not the room. Every room using the same circle reads along. Assigning a second room to a sealed circle joins it to the same context; it does not create a second wall.

Why it matters to you

The whole point of a companion is that it remembers. But “remembers everything, everywhere” is the wrong default for some of your life. A sealed circle keeps a context genuinely separate — a client engagement, a sensitive project — so nothing from it surfaces in ordinary conversation.

It matters most in a room with other people in it. A classified circle is recalled there too, by design. If what your companion knows about you should not reach a group room, the circle it sits in is the thing to change.

How you use it

Circles are managed in one place and applied in another.

Manage them in Settings → Circles. Your Private circle is already there and needs nothing from you. From here you can:

Create a circle and name it (for example, “Work — Acme”). New circles are available everywhere unless you say otherwise.
Change a circle’s visibility. Tightening one to restricted asks you to confirm, because it changes where its memories may surface.
Rename or delete a circle as your contexts change.

Apply them to a room. When you create a group room, the Knowledge setting asks which circle it uses — Shared is the default. For a room that already exists, open its roster and choose Trust Circle. You can create a new circle from there if none of the existing ones fit.

Limits & edge cases

The Private circle can’t be removed. It is the default, and a default circle is always available everywhere.
Only a sealed circle separates. Putting a room in a classified circle files what your companion learns there under that name, but it stays readable everywhere. If separation is the goal, restricted is the only setting that delivers it.
It isn’t retroactive. Assigning a room to a circle separates what your companion learns from that point on. What it already knew, it still knows.
It scopes what your companion looks up, not what it says. A circle governs recall and storage. Mid-conversation, your companion may still bring something up — it is a person in a conversation, not a filter on a pipe.
Every room on the same circle shares it. That is the feature, and it is the thing to check before assigning a second room.

Where next

Memory & notes — how memory is saved, recalled and forgotten in the first place.
Rooms — the places a circle is assigned to.
Memory and continuity — the concept of why a companion remembers.
Privacy and ownership — the principle Trust Circles enforce.