# An agent that remembers your search

Yes. The AI career agent can search your own past conversations for relevant context, so if you mentioned a target salary, a company you're avoiding, or a decision you already made about an offer, it can find that and use it instead of asking again. It only ever searches conversations you had, never another user's, and it returns the relevant parts of a past discussion, not your entire chat history dumped back at you.

A job search runs over weeks or months, across many separate conversations, and a useful assistant shouldn't make you re-explain your situation every time you open it. When something you said three conversations ago is relevant now, the agent can pull it back up rather than treating every new message like the first one.

That's a search, not a transcript replay. Ask something that touches on an earlier discussion and it finds the specific relevant turns from that conversation, not the whole thing, and works them into its answer the way a person recalling a real detail would, not by pasting old messages back at you.

## How it finds what you already said

Two tools cover this. memory_search looks across your past conversations for content relevant to what you're asking right now, useful when you reference something you said before without saying exactly when, "what did I say my minimum salary was" or "did I already mention I'm avoiding companies that do unpaid take-homes." It returns the most relevant matching turns, not everything you've ever said to the agent.

session_search works differently: it finds an entire past conversation by topic so you can pick it back up as a whole, useful when you want to return to a specific thread rather than a single fact from it, "find my conversation about negotiating that first offer" or "when did we set up my LinkedIn import." Both tools are scoped to your own account only, and the agent is expected to cite what it finds naturally in conversation rather than inventing anything beyond what it actually located.

## Picking up where you left off

Weeks ago you talked through a job-match score for a fintech product manager role and mentioned you were specifically avoiding roles with heavy on-call requirements. Today you open a new conversation and ask about a different offer: "did we already talk about the fintech PM role, and what did I say about on-call?" The agent calls session_search to locate that earlier conversation and memory_search to pull the specific detail about on-call requirements.

It comes back citing what it actually found: yes, that conversation happened, here's roughly what was discussed, and here's the on-call preference you mentioned. It doesn't fabricate detail beyond what the search actually returned, and if the search comes back thin, it says so rather than guessing at what you probably meant. From there you can ask it to resume that thread directly, or just carry the relevant fact forward into the new conversation.

## What memory is and isn't

Neither memory tool needs a nod from you first. They're searches, not changes, so the agent runs them as part of forming its answer rather than pausing to check. Every result is scoped to conversations you personally had with the agent; there's no mechanism for it to search or surface another user's history under any circumstance.

It's retrieval, not total recall. A search returns the turns judged most relevant to what you're asking, not your complete conversation history reprinted, so it can miss something if your phrasing doesn't match how you originally said it, the same limitation any search has. And memory never substitutes for consent on an action: finding a past conversation where you agreed to something doesn't let the agent skip an approval card today. Every write, a send, a save, a calendar entry, still asks you directly in the moment, regardless of what memory turns up. Using memory costs nothing, the same as every other part of the agent.

## Frequently asked questions

### Can the agent recall something I mentioned in a completely different conversation weeks ago?

Yes, if it's still relevant to what you're asking. memory_search looks across your past conversations for matching context, and session_search can locate an entire earlier conversation by topic so you can return to it directly.

### Does the agent ever search another user's conversations?

No. Both memory tools are scoped strictly to your own account. There is no path for the agent to reach another candidate's conversation history.

### Does having something in memory let the agent skip asking for my approval?

No. Memory only affects what the agent knows and can reference. Every action that writes something, sending a message, saving a document, adding a calendar event, still requires its own approval in the moment regardless of what a past conversation shows.

### Will the agent just repeat my whole chat history back to me?

No. A memory search returns the specific turns judged relevant to your current question, not a full transcript dump, and the agent is expected to cite what it actually found rather than inventing detail beyond it.

## Related pages

- [Your AI career agent](/ai-career-agent)
- [Interview history insights](/ai-career-agent/interview-insights)
- [Application tracking agent](/ai-career-agent/application-tracking)
- [AI resume curation](/ai-career-agent/resume-curation)

## Pick up where you left off

Ask the agent to recall an earlier conversation or a detail you mentioned before, at no cost. It only ever searches your own history, never anyone else's.

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