Chapter 8. Context, Memory, Knowledge and State
In this section
- Chapter 8. Context, Memory, Knowledge and StateHow to tell where an AI Worker's answer came from, what to do with a long conversation, how to set up a project on Claude or ChatGPT, and how to own approved knowledge and keep every copy of it current.
- 8.1 Five places an answer comes fromWhere an AI Worker's answer can come from, the question each source answers, and which sources may decide a question about a rule or about a payment.
- 8.2 Context: what the worker sees nowWhat an AI Worker can use when it writes its next reply, why a long conversation loses details, and why a bigger window does not solve it.
- 8.3 Restart, summarize or persistThree ways to handle a long conversation with an AI Worker, chosen by what you need to keep, and where each kind of information belongs.
- 8.4 Memory and SSoRWhat an AI product remembers about you, what it must never be trusted with, and the separate record that remembers one piece of work.
- 8.5 Configure the workspace: instructions, knowledge and connectorsHow to set up the shared space an AI Worker answers from: its standing instructions, its files and its links to other systems, and how to keep each one current.
- 8.6 KSoR: what is officially trueHow a company keeps the rules it has approved: each rule written once, an approval that is recorded, and three statuses a rule can have.
- 8.7 Become a knowledge ownerThe management job of deciding which knowledge an AI Worker may treat as approved, and five habits that keep that knowledge correct and current.
- 8.8 The same setup on today's toolsHow Anthropic's and OpenAI's own pages, and three open-source tools, let you set up the same project, the differences that change your setup, and what stays the same.
- 8.9 Skills and plugins: who approved the steps?How to choose, test, approve, keep current and retire a skill the AI Worker follows, including one written outside the company, and how a skill differs from a connector, a plugin and project instructions.
- Lab 8: where each answer comes fromChapter 8's lab: find where each of the AP Worker's four wrong answers came from, put each kind of information in its own place, load the project with approved concepts only, carry one approved change through every copy, check each task against its own key, and prove the setup in a new project of your own.
- Check yourselfRecall and practice for the whole chapter: the flashcards, and a final quiz round from all nine concepts.