# Your first memory and your first search

Connect your agent, store one decision, and find it again from a new session.

## Connect your agent

Choose your agent in [the agent picker](https://mana.scalarmind.com/docs/start-here.md#connect-your-agent) and do its steps. Each agent also has its own guide: [Claude Code](https://mana.scalarmind.com/docs/claude-code.md), [Codex](https://mana.scalarmind.com/docs/codex.md), [OpenCode](https://mana.scalarmind.com/docs/opencode.md), [claude.ai](https://mana.scalarmind.com/docs/claude-ai.md), [ChatGPT](https://mana.scalarmind.com/docs/chatgpt.md) and [Any MCP client](https://mana.scalarmind.com/docs/any-mcp-client.md).

## Ask it to remember one decision

First choose who reads it. The agent stores a decision under a `learning/` key, and everyone in your organization reads that key. To keep it to yourself, ask for a `note/` key. Then say one real decision, in this shape:

```say
Remember this decision: we <the decision your team keeps repeating>, because <its reason>.
```

The Mana rules tell the agent to store your exact words.

## See its key and who reads it

The agent names the key, such as `learning/<slug>`. If it does not, ask it.

With no organization at sign-in, you have a personal space. You are its only member, so only you read it.

## Find it in Search

Sign in here with the account of your agent, and open **Search**. Your memory is in **Written this week**, newest first. Open it to see its key and its text.

Image: The Mana Library open on a demo memory: its key, title, author, date, four lines and readers.

A stored memory in the Library: its key, the day it was written, and who reads it.

## Ask a question that it answers

Start a new session or a new chat. In ChatGPT, turn on the Mana connector in the new chat and paste the prompt of [ChatGPT](https://mana.scalarmind.com/docs/chatgpt.md) again, because ChatGPT keeps the Mana rules for one chat only. Then ask:

```say
What did we decide about <the subject of your decision>?
```

The Mana rules tell the agent to search Mana first and to name each record it used. Look for your key in the answer. If it names no record, ask the agent to search Mana and answer again. From now on, every agent that you connect reads this memory.

Tip:

**Nothing was stored?** Check that the agent has the Mana tools: in Claude Code, `/mcp` shows the Mana server connected; in another agent, its guide shows where Mana is turned on. If you connected in this session, start a new session. If the tools are there, ask the agent to use `mana_remember_interaction`.