Tiered Memory, The Vault, and Safer Recoveries

We're starting 2026 with a massive upgrade to Genie's core architecture. This update isn't just about new features—it's about making Genie deeper, safer, and more organized.

We’ve overhauled how Genie remembers, how you manage your conversation history, and how we protect your data. Let’s dive in.

🧠 Tiered Memory: Personal vs. Contextual#

Until now, Genie's memory was mostly flat. If you told Genie your name in one chat, it might remember it later, but it was mixed in with random facts about that specific coding problem you were solving.

We've introduced a Tiered Memory System with Auto-Promotion:

1. Conversation Scope: Detailed facts, code snippets, and context specific to the current chat. These stay isolated so they don't pollute other conversations.
2. User Scope (The "Core"): When Genie detects high-confidence personal facts (like your preferred tech stack, your name, or project preferences), it auto-promotes them to your User Profile.

What this means: You can start a brand new chat, and Genie immediately knows you prefer TypeScript over JavaScript and Tailwind over CSS, without you saying a word. But it won't hallucinate variable names from that unrelated project you worked on last week.

🗄️ The Vault: Your Complete History#

We've completely redesigned how you access past conversations. Say hello to The Vault.

Found under Settings > Vault, this is your command center for memory management. It's not just a list anymore; it's a powerful tool to:

• Search across all your past conversations.
• Filter by Active, Archived, or Deleted status.
• Track exactly how many messages are in each chat (we fixed those counters to be 100% accurate!).

⏰ 30-Day Recovery Window#

Accidentally deleting a chat used to be final. Not anymore.

We've implemented a Soft Delete system with a 30-Day Recovery Window.

• When you delete a conversation, it moves to the "Deleted" tab in The Vault.
• You have 30 days to restore it with a single click.
• A color-coded badge shows you exactly how many days are left before permanent deletion.
• After 30 days, our automated cron job wipes it forever to keep your data clean.

Safety first, always.

🔒 True Chat Isolation#

We heard your feedback about "message bleeding"—where snippets of an old conversation would eerily appear in a new one.

We tracked this down to an over-zealous cloud sync merging strategy. We've completely rewritten the synchronization logic:

• Conversation-Scoped Sync: Every sync event is now strictly bound to its specific Conversation ID.
• Storage Isolation: Browser session storage is now namespaced per conversation.

Start a new chat, and it is truly a blank slate.

🤖 Researcher Agent Enhancements#

Our Researcher Agent just got smarter. We've integrated a Reinforcement Learning Loop:

• It now "learns" from successful searches.
• If a specific search strategy yields good results, it remembers that pattern for next time.
• It can extract knowledge from successful API calls and store them for future reference.

Under the Hood#

For the developers curious about the technical details, we pushed 22 files and over 3,000 lines of code in this update, including:

• SQL Migrations: New schemas for memory_bank, learning_patterns, and knowledge_graph.
• Vector Search: Optimized pgvector queries for retreiving the right memory at the right time.
• Performance: Direct SQL counting for message stats instead of expensive joins.

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Try it Now#

The update is live! Check out Settings > Vault to see your history in a whole new way, or start a new conversation to test Genie's improved memory.

Happy coding! 🚀