Let your agents remember how you work
Your Personal Corpus keeps short notes about you, such as your preferences and decisions, so each new session already knows them. Only you and your agents see it.
Your Personal Corpus is a short list of notes about you: that you want a plan before any code, that release notes come before the release, which tools you prefer. New sessions read the most useful ones, so you stop repeating yourself.
Open it#
Click Personal Corpus in the sidebar, under Agent Tools. You need to be signed in. It has three tabs: My corpus, Review and Add.
Add a note yourself#
Click Add.
Under What should be remembered?, write one plain sentence about you.
Pick What kind of thing is it?, for example a preference or a decision.
Click Add to my corpus.
Notes you write are saved at once, with no review, because you wrote them.
Approve what your agents learned#
Agents can suggest notes in two ways: a session can offer to remember something you told it, and Yardmaster can read finished sessions in projects you switched on (below). Either way, nothing is saved until you approve it.
Suggestions wait in Review, and an Inbox item says how many are waiting. Click Edit to fix the wording of one, or Discard to drop it (Keep it changes your mind). Then click Approve all to save everything you did not discard, or Not now to decide later.
Choose which projects are read#
Each project has its own switch, off at first. Right-click the project, choose Edit Project > More options and turn on Remember what I learn here, for me only. When you archive a session in that project, Yardmaster reads it for lasting facts about you and puts any it finds in Review.
After you approve three batches from one project without changing anything, Yardmaster offers to skip review for that project. You can also turn Skip my review for this project on or off in the same place. With it on, notes from that project are saved without asking you.
Choose what may be remembered#
Open Settings > Personal Corpus. Under What gets remembered, switch each kind of note on or off: preferences, decisions, project facts, code and conventions, and people and relationships. People is off at first, because notes about other people cannot be unshared once shared. Under Where it may come from, choose whether notes may come from what your agents learn.
Remove a note#
In My corpus, click a note and choose Prune. Type why, then click Remove for good. The wording is erased and cannot be brought back, your sessions stop being told it, and your reason is kept as the only record. Notes are removed one at a time.
Which notes a new session gets. Up to five, picked by kind: preferences first, then code and conventions, decisions and project facts. Notes about people, disputed notes, old notes and anything from the team corpus are never added. Each note says how well confirmed it is, and a problem never stops a session from starting.
Search. Search your corpus finds notes by meaning when you press Search. It does not use your Claude plan or your API key.
What is kept out. Before a session is read, Yardmaster removes API keys, access tokens and contact details such as email addresses and phone numbers. A password typed in plain words is not removed, so it can reach Anthropic while the session is read; the corpus service then refuses notes that look like a password or key.
A limit for agents. A session can suggest at most 10 notes.
On your phone. Personal Corpus is not available from a paired phone.
Related
- Find your way around SettingsA map of the Settings pages, what each one is for, and the Guide page that explains it.
- Give your agents a memory of past sessionsMemory Palace files what happened in your finished sessions so later agents can look it up. Everything stays on this computer.
- Install YardmasterDownload Yardmaster, open it for the first time, and check that your computer can run several agents at once.