Frequently Asked Questions

General

What is Gnosis Memory?

Gnosis is a remote cloud MCP (Model Context Protocol) memory server. Gnosis gives AI assistants like Claude, ChatGPT, and Gemini persistent memory that carries across conversations, sessions, and even different AI providers. Instead of your AI starting from scratch every time, Gnosis remembers your preferences, project context, and working patterns.

How is Gnosis different from Claude's built-in memory or ChatGPT's memory?

Native AI memory is limited and locked to one provider. Gnosis removes those limits with semantic vector search across your entire history, accessible from any MCP-compatible client. Switch from Claude to ChatGPT? Your memories come with you.

What can I store in Gnosis?

Anything text-based that you want your AI to remember: project context, coding preferences, architectural decisions, meeting notes, research findings, personal preferences, task checklists, team knowledge. Memories are plain text with topic tags for organization.

Gnosis is not a file store. It holds the short, structured facts your AI needs to pick up where you left off, not documents.

Do I need to manually create memories?

No. Your AI creates memories automatically during conversations. When you mention a preference, make a decision, or work through a problem, your AI stores the relevant context. You can also create, edit, and delete memories from the web dashboard.

What does "MCP" mean?

Model Context Protocol — an open standard that lets AI assistants connect to external tools and data sources. Gnosis uses MCP as the communication layer, which means any AI client that supports MCP can use Gnosis without special integration work.

Does Gnosis work in languages other than English?

Yes — 100+ languages natively. Both the embedding model and the reranker support multilingual content out of the box. You can store memories in any language, search across languages, and mix languages freely.

A memory stored in Japanese can be found with an English query. No configuration or language packs required.

Who is Gnosis for?

Anyone who uses AI assistants regularly and is tired of re-explaining themselves. Developers who switch between Claude Code, Cursor, and Copilot. Researchers who want notes searchable by meaning. Teams sharing context across projects, and power users who want their AI to remember them between sessions.

Is Gnosis suitable for business or sensitive data?

Gnosis is currently in Early Access without a formal SLA or uptime guarantee. Your data is encrypted at rest with per-user keys that never touch the storage service; with Advanced Protection (user PIN), Gnosis cannot decrypt your memories. We recommend evaluating whether the current service level meets your requirements.

The post-launch roadmap includes SOC 2 attestation, HIPAA controls audit, business-tier SLAs, and shared collections for team use. See the Terms of Service for Early Access terms and the Security page for architecture details.

Setup

Gnosis is designed to be running in under a minute. No installs, no Docker, no config files — just a URL and a sign-in.

How do I set up Gnosis?

Point your AI client at https://gnosismemory.com, sign in with Google, and you're done. Most clients support auto-discovery — enter the URL and the client handles the rest.

See the platform-specific setup guides for step-by-step instructions covering 13+ supported clients.

Do I need to install anything?

No. Gnosis is a remote cloud service. There's no Docker, no local database, no config files. Just a URL.

What if I lose access to my Google account?

Gnosis authenticates through Google OAuth. If you lose access to your Google account, you cannot access your memories until Google account access is restored. Gnosis cannot bypass Google's authentication. We recommend enabling two-factor authentication on your Google account.

Privacy and Security

Gnosis is built around a principle: your memories belong to you, and the service should not be able to read them. The encryption architecture enforces this structurally, not just by policy.

Can you read my memories?

It depends on whether you've set a PIN. Memory content is encrypted at rest either way. With Advanced Protection (user-set PIN, OPAQUE zero-knowledge), Gnosis cannot decrypt your memories — this is architectural, not a policy promise. Without a PIN, Gnosis and Cloudflare acting together hold the key material and can decrypt; that content can be disclosed if Gnosis is served with a valid subpoena or court order.

Your account information (email, name) and usage metadata are accessible to Gnosis for service operation. During Early Access, the engineering team retains programmatic access for service operations like database migrations, but this access is never used to read user content and will be removed at general availability.

See the Security page → for the full technical explanation.

What about vector embeddings?

Embeddings are stored unencrypted because similarity search requires mathematical operations on raw vectors. However, embeddings are lossy mathematical projections — useful for matching, but the original text cannot be directly decoded.

Gnosis treats embeddings as sensitive data. An embedding is one-way: it matches similar text, but the original text cannot be reconstructed from the vector.

What data does Gnosis collect?

Account info from Google (email, name, profile picture), your encrypted memories, vector embeddings, and basic usage data (API call counts, timestamps). See the Privacy Policy for the complete list.

Data and Portability

Gnosis provides full JSON export at any time and publishes deletion timelines for both memory content and backups below.

Can I export my data?

Yes. You have the right to export all your memories and account data at any time while the service is operational.

Can I delete my memories?

Yes — individual memories or your entire account. Account data and memories are permanently removed from production systems within 30 days. Deleted data may persist in encrypted backups for up to 90 days until naturally replaced.

Usage logs are retained for up to 90 days per the Privacy Policy, then permanently deleted.

Billing

Do I need a credit card to sign up?

No. The free Starter tier requires no payment information. Sign in with Google and you get 500 memories with full semantic search and AES-256 encryption — no card, no trial period, no automatic conversion to a paid plan when you hit the limit.

We only ask for a card when you choose Plus, Pro, or one of the supporter tiers on the Pricing page.

How much does Gnosis cost?

The free Starter tier includes up to 500 memories with full semantic search and encryption — no credit card required, free forever. Plus ($5/mo) adds 5,000 memories and task tracking. Pro ($10/mo) adds agents and shared collection contributions.

See the Pricing page for the full breakdown.

What happens if I hit the free tier limit?

Your existing memories stay intact and searchable. You can delete older memories to make room, export everything, or upgrade to Plus for 5,000 memories. Gnosis never deletes your data for staying on a free plan.

Will I lose my memories when pricing changes?

No. Your memories are yours regardless of plan changes. If you exceed the free tier limit after beta, your memories are preserved — you just can't add new ones until you free up space or upgrade. You can always export your data.

Why is Gnosis so much cheaper than alternatives?

Gnosis doesn't run LLM inference — your AI does all the thinking. We handle storage, search, and retrieval, which are orders of magnitude cheaper than generation. That's why our pricing is lower than memory services that run server-side inference.