# Standing records: highlight, glossary and settings

The standing instructions, the highlight, glossary and settings records that Mana hands a connected agent, and how an agent asks for them.

When a client connects, Mana hands it the active `highlight/*`, `learning/glossary`, and `config/*` memories that you are allowed to read. This text is the standing instructions. The agent sees your organization's conventions before its first tool call. The text is bounded; when a key is omitted for size, the instructions name it. Any agent can ask for the same text again during a session.

In [ChatGPT](https://mana.scalarmind.com/docs/chatgpt.md) and [claude.ai](https://mana.scalarmind.com/docs/claude-ai.md), the agent asks for the standing instructions. The prompt or the instructions block of that guide tells it to ask.