Use casesChoose your setup
Use cases

Choose your setup

Keep one record across the agents you use. Start from a local project, a browser conversation, or a recurring job. A repository is optional.

Find your starting point

Start in a local project

Install Stele and sign in, open your project in your coding agent, and run /stele:start or your agent's equivalent start skill. Choose the existing Stele project if another agent already created it. Otherwise, create one.

The start flow connects the folder to the shared record. If you have existing code, docs, or session history, it can guide you through backfill. Then ask a question about a saved decision and check that the answer cites its record.

Already installed? Keep working

In a supported local agent, Stele can offer setup when it notices an unconnected project. Accept that offer to choose or create the shared project. You can also ask directly:

Paste into your coding agent

Check whether this folder is connected to Stele. Help me connect it to the right existing project, or create one if needed. Tell me what is ready and what still needs setup.

Installation connects Stele to the agent; project setup identifies which record this work belongs to. If you have no local folder, use the browser flow below. You do not need to create a repository.

Start entirely in ChatGPT or Claude

  1. Connect Stele in your AI app and sign in.
  2. Ask the agent to list your Stele projects and choose the right one. If you have none, give the new project a name and describe the work.
  3. Share an initial goal, decision, or constraint worth remembering.
  4. Ask the agent to save it, then retrieve it in a fresh conversation using the same project.
Paste into your connected agent

Set up Stele for this work. List my projects so we can choose one, or help me create one. I work entirely in this app. Ask what my next agent should know, save the useful context, and show me how to retrieve it in a new conversation.

A project can hold research, company operations, or planning. If you already have notes, transcripts, or reports, ask the agent to seed the record from those sources.

Tell the hosted agent when to use Stele

A connection makes Stele's tools available. It does not install the local hooks that automatically retrieve context. Include the project and a request to read and save context in your conversation, or in reusable instructions where your host supports them. Those instructions do not grant access to other chats or files.

Share context between local and hosted agents

Connect each agent separately and give it access to the same Stele project. Use the same account, or invite the other account to the project. Reuse the project's exact slug; creating another project with a similar name creates a separate record.

Paste into the second agent

Use Stele project <project-slug>. Recall the current goals, recent decisions, and open work before we continue. Save new decisions and useful outcomes to that same project, and cite the records you use.

Replace the placeholder with the slug returned when your agent lists your projects. Save a useful fact with one agent and ask the other to retrieve it. This checks sharing in both places. Stele shares what agents write to the record; it does not copy entire conversations or synchronize source files.