--- title: "Memory: What Your AI Remembers Between Sessions" url: "https://plugpress.co/docs/ai-memory.md" canonical: "https://plugpress.co/docs/ai-memory/" published: "2026-08-01" modified: "2026-08-01" author: "Fahim" description: "Saddle stores facts about your WordPress site between AI sessions. Your own notes always apply, while AI-written notes wait until you pin them." tags: - "Saddle" --- # Memory: What Your AI Remembers Between Sessions **Every new AI session starts from nothing.** Memory fixes the tedious part of that — the facts you’d otherwise re-explain every time. “The pricing page is called Plans.” “We never publish on Fridays.” “Our founder’s name is spelled Fahím.” **Saddle → Memory** holds those facts on your site, so any connected assistant has them from the first message. ![Saddle Memory screen showing the add a note form and the auto-include switch for AI-written memory](https://plugpress.co/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/saddle-memory.png) *Your own notes go to every session. Anything the AI wrote itself stays recall-only unless you pin it or turn the switch on.* ## How do I add something? Type it into **What to remember**, optionally give it a short name, and click **Remember this**. Notes you write yourself are told to every session automatically — no pinning, no configuration. Good entries are specific and durable: - “The pricing page is ‘Plans’ (page 42) — update it, never create a new one.” - “Case studies always go in the Stories category, never Blog.” - “Product name is one word: Saddle. Not ‘the Saddle plugin’ in headings.” Things that change weekly don’t belong here — that’s what asking is for. ## Can the AI remember things on its own? Yes, and this is where Saddle is deliberately careful. An assistant can save its own notes as it works. But **what an AI writes into memory is text that will later be fed back to an AI** — including, potentially, text it picked up from a page it was reading. That’s a route for instructions to smuggle themselves into future sessions. So AI-written entries are treated differently: they are **recall-only**. They exist, and an assistant can find them by searching, but they are not automatically injected into every conversation the way your own notes are. You can promote one at any time by **pinning** it. A pinned entry behaves exactly like one you wrote yourself. Pinning is owner-only — an AI cannot pin its own note. ## What does the auto-include switch do? The **AI-written memory** card has one switch: *auto-include AI-written memory*. Turn it on and the assistant’s own top entries get injected into every session alongside yours. It’s **off by default**, and off is the safer setting. If you find yourself pinning the same kinds of entries repeatedly, turning it on is reasonable — just know what you’re trading. | Entry type | In every session? | Findable on search? | | --- | --- | --- | | Yours | Always | Yes | | AI-written, pinned by you | Always | Yes | | AI-written, not pinned | Only if auto-include is on | Yes | ## How much gets sent to each session? There’s a budget, because memory competes with the actual conversation for room. Pinned entries go first, then your own notes, then — if auto-include is on — the AI’s own entries ranked by how recent and how important they are, until the budget is used up. Recency decays over about a week, so a note from yesterday outranks one from last month unless it’s pinned. A site can hold up to 500 entries. The practical advice: **pin the handful that always matter.** Pinned entries aren’t subject to the ranking. ## How do I remove something? Delete it on the Memory screen. An assistant can also forget an entry, but that’s a destructive action, so it goes through the [approval gate](/docs/safe-deletions/) — it previews and asks first. ## FAQ ### Is memory shared between my connected apps? Yes. It lives on your site, not in any one app, so Claude and ChatGPT see the same facts. ### Is this the same as my AI app’s own memory? No, and they don’t sync. Your AI app’s memory is about you across all your chats; Saddle’s memory is about this site, available to whatever connects to it. ### Does memory need a particular access level? Reading memory works at **Just reading**. Writing needs **Reading & writing**. You can turn the memory tools off entirely on the Permissions screen. ### Should I put credentials or private data in it? No. Everything in memory is intended to be read by an AI and sent to whatever app is connected. Treat it as notes, not a vault. ### What’s the difference between memory and instructions? Memory is facts about your site. [Instructions](/docs/guidance-and-skills/) are rules about behaviour. “The pricing page is called Plans” is memory; “always save drafts for review” is an instruction. ## Related guides - [Guidance and Skills](/docs/guidance-and-skills/) - [Permissions and access levels](/docs/permissions-access-levels/) - [The activity log](/docs/saddle-activity-log/) - [Safe deletions and the approval gate](/docs/safe-deletions/)