What's stored, and where
Memory lives on the Semantix server rather than on your machine — what that means for backups, for a second computer, and how to delete it.
Almost everything Semantix keeps is on your own disk, under ~/.semantix/ — your conversations, the
code index, your settings, your keys.
Memory is the exception. What an agent remembers is kept on the Semantix server, against your
account, not in ~/.semantix/ and not anywhere else on your machine. So are the hand-off notes, the
whiteboard, and the agents themselves.
This is stated plainly because it's the sort of thing that is worse to discover than to be told.
What that buys you#
It follows you. Sign in on a second machine and the agent already knows your projects. Local files can't do that.
It survives the machine. Reinstalling, reimaging, or losing the laptop doesn't lose it.
What it costs you#
A backup of your home directory does not include it. Everything else in ~/.semantix/ is
captured by an ordinary backup; memory isn't there to capture.
Deleting local files doesn't remove it. Clearing ~/.semantix/, deleting a conversation, or
uninstalling Semantix leaves what was remembered where it is.
Turning the switch off doesn't remove it either. Turning Semantix Memory off in Privacy stops anything further being added and closes recall from your next message onward — but what's already stored stays stored. Switching it off is a way to stop adding, not a way to erase.
It leaves your machine to exist at all. That's not a side effect of the feature; it is the feature. If that isn't a trade you want to make, the honest answer is to leave it off.
Deleting it#
Two buttons, both in the Project Manager, both behind a confirmation that quotes the real numbers.
Clear memory, on an agent's row under the project's Agents section, deletes everything that agent remembers. The agent stays, with its name and its projects. For the project's default agent the ingest ledger is reset too, so a later ingest reads the history from the start.
Forget project, at the foot of a project's page, deletes the project from Semantix — its conversations, and the agents that work nowhere else, with their memory. An agent that also works in other projects is kept, and only what it remembers about this one goes. Your files on disk are never touched.
Neither can be undone.
Local only#
Local only mode is the blanket switch, and it wins over everything on this page. With it on, the server is off-limits in both directions — memory is not written and not read, regardless of what the Semantix Memory switch shows.
If you want the memory features, Local only has to be off. There is no partial version of this.
What isn't memory#
Your conversations are in ~/.semantix/conversations.db on your machine. Reading back what was
said is conversation history, not memory, and it's a separate feature with separate rules. The walker
and the bulk ingest read from them to write memory; they don't move them.
The code index, your settings and your keys are local files too — the Installation page has the full tree.
Note
The privacy switches themselves — including Semantix Memory — are stored against your account rather than on this machine, with a local cache that governs behaviour until the server's copy loads. The Privacy page has the detail.
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