What's stored, and where
Memory lives on the Semantix server rather than on your machine — what that means for backups, for a second computer, and for deleting things.
Almost everything Semantix keeps is on your own disk, under ~/.semantix/ — your conversations, the
code index, your settings, your keys. The Privacy page lists all of it.
Memory is the exception. What the assistant remembers is kept on the Semantix server, against
your account, not in ~/.semantix/ and not anywhere else on your machine.
This is stated plainly because it's the sort of thing that is worse to discover than to be told.
What that buys you#
It follows you. Sign in on a second machine and the assistant already knows your projects. Local files can't do that.
It survives the machine. Reinstalling, reimaging, or losing the laptop doesn't lose it.
What it costs you#
A backup of your home directory does not include it. Everything else in ~/.semantix/ is
captured by an ordinary backup; memory isn't there to capture.
Deleting local files doesn't remove it. Clearing ~/.semantix/, deleting a conversation, or
uninstalling Semantix leaves what was remembered where it is.
There is no purge button. Turning Semantix Memory off in Privacy stops anything further being added and closes recall from your next message onward — but what's already stored stays stored. Switching it off is a way to stop adding, not a way to erase.
It leaves your machine to exist at all. That's not a side effect of the feature; it is the feature. If that isn't a trade you want to make, the honest answer is to leave it off.
Local only#
Local only mode is the blanket switch, and it wins over everything on this page. With it on, the server is off-limits in both directions — memory is not written and not read, regardless of what the Semantix Memory checkbox shows.
If you want the memory features, Local only has to be off. There is no partial version of this.
What isn't memory#
Two things get confused with it, and both are ordinary local storage:
Your conversations are in ~/.semantix/conversations.db on your machine. Reading back what was
said is conversation history, not memory, and it's a separate feature with separate rules.
The semantic notebook is a different switch on the Privacy page — a separate set of notes the agent keeps, also kept off your machine, also gated by Local only. Related, not the same.
Note
The privacy switches themselves — including this one — are stored against your account rather than on this machine, with a local cache that governs behaviour until the server's copy loads. On a shared computer that cache is not cleared by signing out. The Privacy page has the detail.