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title: Notes, About and memory
description: "What an agent keeps: its notes on how the owner likes work done, Roadstar's About, and its memory of each conversation."
source: [packages/agents/src/tools/team.ts, packages/agents/src/prompts.ts, packages/agents/src/tools/memory.ts, packages/agents/src/memory/memory.ts]
---

> Roadstar docs for agents. Every page, as markdown: https://docs.roadstar.app/llms.txt

## Notes

An agent's notes are short lines on how the owner likes its work done: "Quotes in USD, rounded to the nearest $100." Keep one with `remember` when the owner says remember, or agrees to one. Drop one with `forget`, word for word. An agent's chat and all its threads read its notes.

## About

What every agent should know about the owner and the business: what it does, its site, its customers, prices and voice. Roadstar keeps it, with `remember`'s `about`, given whole and rewritten with what it learned. Every agent reads it.

## Memory

Each chat and each thread has its own memory: its conversation, folded into lines as it grows. Each line sums up the messages it covers, so the newest messages are whole and older ones are summed up. A thread's memory holds everything it did, which is why work on the same client goes back to the same thread.

To read further back:

- `zoom_memory` opens a line into the two lines it was made from, or reads one message whole.
- `message_date` gives when a message was sent.
- From a chat, `read_thread` reads one of its threads' memory.

A program on the owner's Mac or an outside AI app keeps its own conversation, so it has neither tool.

## What travels

Nothing of an agent's memory travels to another agent. A [hand-off](/how-it-works/hand-offs/) carries a packet: the task, notes and links.

## Tools

[Team](/tools/team/) has `remember`. [Memory](/tools/memory/) has `zoom_memory` and `message_date`.