Search & Memory

The workspace includes a search system that goes beyond file text search.

• Search modes: code (file contents), files (file names), memory (captured session data), or everything (code and memory together).
• Search scopes: the current session, all sessions for the current project, or across all registered projects, depending on mode.
• Match modes: literal or regex.
• Saved searches and recent searches are persisted per project.
• Ask AI can answer questions using the retrieved results as context, or re-sort exact matches by relevance, depending on settings.

Ask AI is off by default. The shipped setting is provider: 'none', and with that in place nothing is sent anywhere. Turning it on means supplying your own provider and key, and the request then goes from your machine straight to that provider. Search over code, files, and memory works without it.

Session memory

Manifold captures session data locally and stores it per project in SQLite:

• interactions: prompts sent and responses received.
• observations: facts the agent noted during a session.
• session summaries: compressed overviews used when resuming long sessions.

That memory powers search and gives the agent relevant history when a session is resumed.