How Dropstone remembers you
Dropstone keeps a persistent memory that follows your account across chat, the CLI, and the SDK. Correct it once and it should not need correcting again, anywhere you use it.
Most AI assistants start every conversation from zero. You explain your preferences, they follow them for one session, and next time you explain them again.
Dropstone does not work that way. It keeps a memory that belongs to your account, and that memory is the same whether you are in a chat at chat.dropstone.io, in the CLI on your laptop, or calling the SDK from your own code. Dropstone calls this Continuity: one memory, carried across every surface, learning as you work.
This page explains what that memory is, how it gets filled, and where it shows up. The rest of this section goes deeper on each part.
Note
Memory requires being signed in. Nothing is stored for anonymous use, and nothing is stored in an incognito chat.
What gets remembered
Dropstone keeps three things.
Lessons you have taught it. When you correct it, reject an approach, or say how you want something done, it records that. These come in two kinds, rules and facts, and the difference decides how often each one comes back.
Things it has studied. You can ask Dropstone to read a page, a document, or a specification and keep what it learned, with the source attached. The next time that subject comes up, it uses what it already knows instead of searching again.
Context from past conversations. It keeps short summaries of what you have worked on together, so it can pick up a thread you left a week ago without you restating it.
How it fills up
You do not have to say "remember this." Dropstone records a lesson the moment you correct it or state a preference, and shows it in the conversation so you know it took:
It also records what it learned after finishing a piece of work, if there is something durable in it: a convention it discovered in your project, a gotcha it hit, an approach that worked. It records the general lesson, not the one-off detail.
How an agent learns as it works covers this in more depth.
Where it shows up
Before Dropstone starts on a task, it checks its memory for anything relevant and brings it into the conversation. When a memory changes what it does, it says so in one line, so you can see that something was remembered rather than guessed:
It does not announce memories that changed nothing, and it never claims to remember something it cannot point to.
Because memory belongs to your account and not to one app, a rule you set in the CLI applies in chat, and something it learned in chat is available to the SDK. Memory across chat, CLI, and SDK explains how that works.
You are in control
Ask "what do you remember about me?" at any time and Dropstone lists everything, rules separately from facts. Ask it to forget something and it stops applying it. The details are in See what Dropstone has learned and Change or forget a memory.
Memory is private to your account unless you are in an organization and choose to share a specific memory with your team. Memory in teams and organizations covers that, and Memory and your privacy covers what is stored and what is not.
Related articles
- Rules and factsDropstone keeps two kinds of memory. Standing rules apply to every task without being searched for. Facts are recalled only when they are relevant. Here is why the difference matters and how it decides.
- How an agent learns as it worksDropstone is a self-learning agent. It records what it learns from corrections, from finished work, and from sources you ask it to study, and it uses that the next time without being told. Here is the loop.
- Memory across chat, CLI, and SDKDropstone memory belongs to your account, not to one app. A rule you set in the CLI applies in chat, and something learned in chat is available to the SDK. One memory, every surface.
- See what Dropstone has learnedAsk Dropstone what it remembers and it lists everything, standing rules separately from facts. You can also ask what memory it used on a specific reply. Nothing is hidden from you.
- Memory and your privacyWhat Dropstone memory stores, what it never stores, who can see it, and how to keep something out of it. Memory is private to your account and you can see and remove all of it.