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# Knowledge Base

Knowledge Base saves **what matters from your conversations** so Vibe can recall it later. Instead of restating your preferences, projects, and context at the start of every chat, you explain once and Knowledge Base **carries that context forward**.

Less repetition means **more relevant responses and more productive conversations**. Knowledge Base also surfaces what it knows when you search for a specific detail, so you can find a fact or preference without scrolling back through old conversations.

:::info
Knowledge Base is the successor to [Memories](/vibe/chat-legacy/memories) and is available in Vibe Work. If you used Memories in Chat, your existing memories will migrate into Knowledge Base as a knowledge topic. Knowledge Base is Work mode only for now; Chat Memories remain available until the migration completes.
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<SectionTab as="h2" sectionId="how-it-works">How it works</SectionTab>

Think of Knowledge Base as a self-organized notepad: it saves what you explicitly ask it to save, and picks up recurring information from your conversations as a second mode. Two mechanisms decide what gets stored.

- **Explicit saving**: use keywords such as "remember" or "save" to tell Vibe to store a specific fact. For example, *"Remember that I work with TypeScript,"* or *"Save that my team uses Linear for tracking."* This is the mode that works best for anything you want to recall reliably.
- **Implicit saving**: Vibe also detects recurring details that would be useful later, such as your preferred formats or the tools you rely on, and stores them on its own.

As you chat, Vibe reviews your knowledge at each turn in a conversation and decides which knowledge entries are relevant to the current task. Retrieval is non-deterministic: the same knowledge isn't used in every conversation, only when it fits the request.

You can see when this happens. Vibe displays a **read** pill when it consults your knowledge and a **write** pill when it saves a new entry. These pills appear inline in the chat, so you always know when Knowledge Base is active.

:::info
Knowledge Base captures information from your conversations and supports markdown and text content. You manage everything through the chat interface; there's no separate API for knowledge entries.
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<SectionTab as="h2" sectionId="get-started">Get started</SectionTab>

Knowledge Base is enabled by default. To set it up for the first time:

1. In the sidebar, click `Context`.
2. Click `Knowledge`.
3. Click the `Get Started` button to test it with a first conversation.

:::tip
Once set up, Knowledge Base runs in the background. You don't need to switch it on for each conversation. You can turn it off in your `Privacy` settings or from the `Knowledge` page.
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<SectionTab as="h2" sectionId="manage">Manage your knowledge</SectionTab>

All your knowledge entries appear in the `Knowledge` section, where you can review and control what's stored. You can also enable Knowledge Base and delete all your knowledge from the action button at the top right of the knowledge page, in addition to your `Settings`.

- **List**: open the `Knowledge` section to see every knowledge entry Vibe has saved, with a title and description for each.
- **Edit**: highlight the information you want to change and ask the model to refine it. For example, *"Make this more specific,"* or *"Add that I now use PostgreSQL."* You can't edit the text of a knowledge entry directly; changes go through the model in chat.
- **Delete a topic**: click the three dots `...` at the top right of the knowledge page and select the delete option to remove an entire topic.
- **Delete a single entry**: ask Vibe directly in the conversation to remove a specific fact. For example, *"Forget that I mentioned my location."*
- **Delete all**: remove every knowledge entry at once from the action button at the top right of the knowledge page or from `Settings`. This action is irreversible.
- **Export**: export your data at any time from `Settings` for a live copy of what's stored.

You can also ask Vibe directly in a conversation to remove, correct, or modify any knowledge entry.

<SectionTab as="h2" sectionId="turning-off">Turn off Knowledge Base</SectionTab>

To turn off Knowledge Base for your account, click your organization name at the bottom left of the sidebar, then `Privacy`. In the `Personalization` section, deactivate `Knowledge` ("Allow Vibe to automatically save and organize key insights from your chats."). You can also toggle it off from the `Knowledge` page. Your existing knowledge entries stay visible, but they no longer influence responses until you turn the feature back on.

:::caution
Turning off Knowledge Base doesn't delete your stored knowledge entries. To remove them, use `Delete all knowledge` before deactivating.
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<SectionTab as="h2" sectionId="privacy">Privacy and data</SectionTab>

Knowledge Base is designed to give you control over what's stored and how it's used.

- **Sensitive data is off by default.** Knowledge Base doesn't save sensitive personal information (such as political opinions, religious beliefs, or health details) unless you turn on `Sensitive data in Knowledge`. Highly sensitive information is never saved. Memories migrated from Chat stay as they are. For details, see [Sensitive data](#sensitive-data).
- **Transparency.** When a fact is added to your knowledge, it's indicated as a Knowledge Base entry, so you can always see what's been saved.
- **No inference or new information.** Knowledge Base captures information from your conversations; it doesn't infer or create new information on its own. It's a source of context to support Vibe's responses, not a separate reasoning step.
- **No autonomous action.** Knowledge Base doesn't let Vibe take actions on its own. Vibe remains bound by your Connector permissions and the same approval prompts as any other task.
- **Organization-level control.** Workspace admins can disable Knowledge Base for everyone in the organization:
  1. Open the admin console at `admin.mistral.ai/vibe/preferences`.
  2. Go to the `Tools` section.
  3. Turn off `Knowledge` ("Allow users to save and use personal Knowledge across conversations in Work mode").

  When disabled, Knowledge Base is unavailable to all members.

<SectionTab as="h2" sectionId="sensitive-data">Sensitive data</SectionTab>

By default, Knowledge Base doesn't save sensitive personal information. To let it save some sensitive information about you, such as health details, turn on `Sensitive data in Knowledge`.

To turn it on, click your organization name at the bottom left of the sidebar, then `Privacy`, and turn on `Sensitive data in Knowledge`. This setting appears only when Knowledge Base is on, and it applies only to information saved after you turn it on.

The following table lists the sensitive information that Knowledge Base saves when the setting is on, and the information that it never saves.

| Saved when the setting is on | Never saved |
| --- | --- |
| Race or ethnic origin | Government identifiers, such as Social Security, passport, national identity, or tax ID numbers |
| Political opinions | Criminal records |
| Religious or philosophical beliefs | Financial account numbers, banking information, and payment details |
| Trade union membership | Passwords, secrets, credentials, and tokens |
| Genetic and biometric data | Sensitive information about other people |
| Health and medical details | |
| Sex life or sexual orientation | |

When the setting is on, Vibe saves sensitive information about you under the same rules as any other knowledge: when you ask it to, or when the information is clearly meant to last. Each time it saves sensitive information, Vibe tells you without repeating the value. It never infers sensitive information that you haven't shared.

When the setting is off, Vibe doesn't save sensitive information, even if you ask it to. The first time you share sensitive information about yourself in a conversation, Vibe tells you that it wasn't saved and points you to the setting. You can still discuss any topic. The setting only controls what Knowledge Base stores.

:::info
Turning off `Sensitive data in Knowledge` doesn't delete knowledge entries already saved. To remove them, ask Vibe in a conversation or delete them from the `Knowledge` page.
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<SectionTab as="h3" sectionId="sensitive-data-admin">Admin controls</SectionTab>

Admins can prevent members from turning on `Sensitive data in Knowledge`. When an admin turns it off, the setting stays off for every member that it applies to, and they can't turn it back on. Members can see which admin turned it off.

- **Organization**: in the admin console at `admin.mistral.ai/vibe/privacy`, turn off `Sensitive data in Knowledge`.
- **Workspace**: in the workspace settings, open `Chat Settings` and turn off `Sensitive data in Knowledge`.

The organization setting takes precedence over the workspace setting.

<SectionTab as="h2" sectionId="related-features">Related features</SectionTab>

Knowledge Base works alongside other sources of context in Work:

- **[Custom instructions](/vibe/work/custom-instructions)**: set persistent preferences such as tone, format, and role that apply across every task.
- **[Projects](/vibe/work/projects)**: group conversations and context around a team, customer, or initiative.
- **[Connectors](/vibe/work/connectors)**: let Work read from and act in connected tools such as email, calendar, Slack, and Notion.