Project context
Keep your project context across AI chats
Every new AI chat starts with you re-explaining the project. A Soul is your own AI partner in Fostera. It keeps your files, decisions and rules in one project, so the next chat can pick up where the last one stopped.
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Why does AI forget my project when I open a new chat?
A chat only answers from what is supplied to it for that turn. A new chat does not automatically include the brief you pasted last week, the option you rejected on Tuesday, or the tone you asked for. So you paste it all again, and the new chat quietly disagrees with the old one.
A bigger chat window does not fix this. A 300-message thread buries decisions among ideas you dropped. The fix is to store the project's context somewhere that survives the chat.
How does Fostera keep project context?
Put the work in a Fostera project. A project holds your chats, your files and links, your instructions, and the memory of decisions you choose to save. The project's instructions are the rules for how the work should be done. Open a new chat in the project and the Soul pulls in what looks relevant instead of starting blank. You can read, edit or delete anything it kept.
Say Maya runs a small brand studio and is redesigning a bakery's packaging. She adds the signed brief and two supplier quotes to a project, and writes an instruction: use the approved palette, never invent a price. On Monday she tells the Soul she's dropping the glossy finish and asks it to note the decision. On Thursday she opens a new chat and asks which finish is still in play. The Soul answers from the brief and the Monday decision. She can open the memory list, find the old finish note, and correct or delete it if it is wrong.
What can a Soul miss, and how do I check?
Retrieval is selective. A Soul does not read every stored detail into every reply, so it can miss a fact or use an outdated one. Keep the authoritative documents attached, write the most important rules in the project's instructions, and test a new chat with a question you know the answer to.
Scanned or visually complex files may not extract cleanly. Check key passages and numbers yourself before relying on them.
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Frequently asked questions
How do I stop re-explaining my project to AI?
- Put the brief, key files and rules in a project instead of a chat. In Fostera, new chats in that project can retrieve that material, so you only add what changed.
Does a new Fostera chat see my old chats?
- Chats in the same project share its knowledge and project memory. What reaches a given reply is selected for relevance, so it is not a full replay of every old message.
Can I fix something the AI remembered wrongly?
- Yes. You can search a Soul's memory, edit a record, pin one that matters, or delete one that is wrong or out of date.
Is this different from ChatGPT or Claude projects?
- Both offer projects that group chats, files and instructions. In Fostera you can also edit, pin or delete any memory record. Test either one with a question from a new chat.
Will it remember everything in the project?
- No. It retrieves what looks relevant to each question and can miss details. Keep important facts in attached documents or in the project's instructions.
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