Questions before context.
Short answers about ownership, privacy, setup, projects, and what Holoself deliberately does not do.
Is Holoself an AI memory service?
No. Holoself is a local-first whole-person context protocol. Markdown stays canonical. It helps tools resolve relevant context but does not provide hosted memory.
Does Holoself create multiple personas?
No. Holoself models one whole person. Lenses control relevance, depth, and privacy for tasks such as career, publishing, technical, leadership, interview, general, or private work.
Does it copy my whole profile into every project?
No. A linked project stores read-only link metadata and local index, proposal, and report directories. Self files are not copied by default.
Who owns project discoveries?
Execution artifacts remain project-owned. A reusable discovery can become a proposal to canonical self. You decide whether to approve, reject, defer, or later supersede it.
Can a project silently update canonical self?
No. Approval shows target, affected files, evidence, and proposed diff, then requires explicit confirmation and runs validation.
Is Holoself private?
It runs locally and requires no hosted account. Privacy still depends on where you store files and which local tools you grant access. Holoself is not encryption software or a filesystem sandbox.
Can I sync the self folder?
Yes, using storage you trust, but sync is outside Holoself. A cloud drive or private Git host adds its own access, retention, and breach risks.
What happens if I delete an index?
Nothing happens to canonical Markdown. The deterministic index is local acceleration data and can be rebuilt.
Does secret filtering make it safe to store credentials?
No. Secret detection is defense-in-depth and cannot catch every format. Do not store passwords, tokens, private keys, or connection strings in context.
Which AI tools are supported?
Holoself provides packets for Pi, Claude Code, Codex, generic workflows, and optional Obsidian/Claude use. Machine-readable JSON supports other local adapters.
Is the npm package published?
Yes. Install the official holoself-ai@0.8.0 package, or use a reviewed checkout of the official source repository.
Is semantic or vector search required?
No. Current retrieval is deterministic and local. Optional semantic search may be added later but cannot become source of truth.