An authored settings draft
The project dialog offers Blank, Research, Writing, Engineering, Meeting notes. Presets provide starting instructions; the settings below show an authored draft.
Starting
Start blank or choose a preset.
What builds up
Instructions, files and chats in one project.
Instructions
Written once
Save standing instructions in Project settings for chats in the project.
Files
Added as the work needs them
Keep reference files with the project. Selected readable passages can provide context for a question.
Threads
Accumulate on their own
Earlier project chats can supply selected, bounded excerpts for a later question.
What gets sent
How project context is assembled.
Project chats can use saved instructions and selected passages from files and earlier chats, within access and context limits. Files and past chats enter as reference data.
- HeaderThe project name and available description.
- InstructionsSaved project instructions within the context limit.
- FilesFile names and available summaries, with selected readable passages when they fit.
- ThreadsThe most relevant earlier chats, title plus a bounded recent excerpt.
- BoundaryFiles and past chats are passed as untrusted reference material.
Ranking and budget
Scored against your question, then trimmed to fit.
- Files and chats ranked against the question.
- Selected readable passages within the context limit.
- Bounded excerpts from earlier project chats.
- File content may be partial or omitted.
Over time
Manage a project as the work changes.
- StarStar a project beside its name. Sort the gallery by starred first, last update, creation date, or name.
- CopyDuplicate creates another project with its description and instructions. Export downloads project settings and available file information as JSON.
- DeleteDelete permanently removes the project and its knowledge files, including the uploaded file contents, and cannot be undone. Its conversations move to All Chats.
Choose which memories a project can use.
In Project settings, turn off “Use memories from outside this project” to limit remembered facts and past-chat search to this project when those features are enabled.