Companions
Each one is a separate mind — its own memory, its own model, its own voice, its own reach.
Most assistants are one thing wearing different hats. You ask about work, then about something personal, then about a project you would rather nobody knew you were weighing — and it all lands in the same pile, in the same context, remembered the same way.
A companion is not a hat. Each one is a separate mind: its own memory, its own model, its own voice, and its own reach into your files. You can keep as many as you want, and what one knows, the others do not.
The app says it plainly on the screen where you make one:
Each companion keeps its own private memory and answers with its own model. Naming one is optional.
Making one#
Settings → Companions → Add companion. The form is short, and nearly all of it is optional:
Name. Optional — genuinely, not politely. Leave it blank and the companion is listed as Unnamed companion and works exactly the same.
Model. Which model answers when you talk to this one. It inherits your default until you give it one of its own, so a fast, cheap model can hold one companion while a slower, stronger one holds another.
Style. Optional. A voice from your style library — how this companion talks, never what it knows.
Workspace access. Named folders this companion may read and change. Empty by default.
Open the form to create one and it tells you what you are about to get: A new companion starts with an empty memory of its own. Open it to rename one and it tells you what you are not about to lose: Renaming a companion leaves its memory exactly where it is.
Because of that: what one knows, the others cannot reach#
This is the part people are surprised by, so it is worth being exact. When a companion searches its memory, it searches only its own past. Not yours in general — its own. A companion made five minutes ago has no way to see what another one has been keeping for a year.
Because of that: a companion reaches only where you point it#
A companion cannot touch your files until you name a folder it may work in. Not asks permission first — the file tools are not there at all. The empty state on that section says exactly that:
No workspace access. File tools stay hidden until a folder is added.
Adding a folder gives the companion two things: a name you choose for it, and a real directory. From then on it can read and change what is inside that folder, and nothing outside it.
They can still talk to each other#
Separate does not mean sealed. A companion can look up the others, write to them, and call one directly in the middle of a conversation.
Important
Talking is not sharing. When one companion calls another it asks a question and hears an answer — it is not reading the other's memory. What crosses between them is only what one of them chooses to say.
Starting from something instead of nothing#
A new companion begins empty. If you would rather it began already knowing you, you can hand it the conversations you have already had — with Claude or with ChatGPT — and let it read them.
The one you did not make#
The app comes with a companion already in it. You can rename it, give it a model, a style and folders, but you cannot delete it. There is always at least one.