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Trust Circles

Trust Circles let you control which memories your companion can recall and store in a given moment. By default everything goes to one private circle that’s always on. When a context must stay separate — work that can’t touch your personal life, or the reverse — you put it in a walled circle that’s loaded only when you choose it.

What it is

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

  • Classified — always loaded. Your Private circle is classified and is the default; new memories go here and your companion recalls from it in every conversation.
  • Restricted — hard-walled. A restricted circle’s memories are only recalled when that circle is the active one for the turn. When a restricted circle is active, it walls the conversation off: classified circles aren’t mixed in.

Scoping happens per turn. Each exchange resolves to a circle, and recall and storage for that turn stay inside it. A turn in a walled work circle can’t surface a memory from your private life, and what you tell your companion there is stored in that circle, not the default.

Why it matters to you

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The whole point of a companion is that it remembers. But “remembers everything, everywhere” is the wrong default for some of your life. A restricted circle lets you keep a context genuinely separate — a client engagement, a sensitive project — with the confidence that nothing from it bleeds into ordinary conversations, and nothing ordinary bleeds in. You get continuity where you want it and a wall where you need one.

How you use it

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Open Settings → Circles.

  1. Your Private circle is already there, always on. You don’t have to do anything to use it — it’s the default home for memory.
  2. Create a new circle, give it a name (for example, “Work — Acme”), and choose its visibility. A new circle defaults to classified; set it to restricted to make it a wall.
  3. Rename or delete circles as your contexts change.
  4. To work inside a walled circle, make it the active circle. While it’s active, your companion recalls and stores only within it.

Limits & edge cases

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  • The Private circle can’t be removed. It’s the default and is always classified.
  • Restricted means inactive-by-default. A walled circle contributes nothing until you make it active for the turn — that’s the wall working as intended.
  • Memory written in a circle stays in that circle. Moving a conversation into a walled circle doesn’t retroactively pull in your earlier private memories.

Where next

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