Your user profile
Editing the profile Cerevisor maintains about you, what's editable, the current-focus block, the auto-managed fields.
Your profile is the most-injected piece of memory. It's what every agent in every workflow sees about you in its system prompt.
Open the Memory view from the title bar, then click the User tab.
Layout
The User tab shows:
- Your current focus in a callout at the top (auto-managed; see below).
- A structured facets panel (typed fields; see below).
- The profile editor: your
profile.md, with a toggle between a rendered preview and the raw markdown.
Behind the scenes Cerevisor also keeps a profile.json derived from the markdown; it powers filtering and the data-inventory view. You never edit it directly — it stays in sync automatically.
What's in a profile
The profile has four fixed sections (they're required — validation flags a profile that removes a heading), plus the auto-managed Current focus block at the top:
## Current focus
<!-- harness-current-focus:open -->
Documentation refresh, EU funding cycle
<!-- harness-current-focus:close -->
## Domain encoding
Industries you work in, vocabulary, acronyms, competitive landscape, regulatory context.
## Work calibration
Preferred shapes of work: research briefs, code reviews, memos, decks.
## Behavioural preferences
When to challenge vs execute, technical depth default, preamble tolerance, tone.
## Artefact patterns
The shapes of output you repeatedly produce and keep.
What you write inside each section is entirely up to you — free-form markdown. Empty sections are fine to start with; the harness's proposals will suggest additions over time.
The current-focus block
Notice the HTML comment fences:
<!-- harness-current-focus:open -->
...
<!-- harness-current-focus:close -->
This block is auto-managed by the harness. After each run, meta-cognition can update what it thinks your current focus is, based on what you've been doing. The new text is written between the fences.
If you edit the block manually, the harness backs off — auto-updates skip for one cycle so your edit sticks. After that, auto-updates resume.
If you don't want the harness updating this block at all, turn off Meta-cognition enrichment in Settings → Memory (the same LLM pass that writes the narrative also writes the focus block; the block is re-created if you just delete it).
Structured facets
The facets panel exposes a few typed fields used by Cerevisor's structured datapoints:
| Field | Type | Purpose |
|---|---|---|
seniority |
enum | Used to calibrate response complexity. |
companySize |
enum | Used by industry-aware recommendations. |
industries[] |
array (max 3) | Tags. |
primaryWorkModalities[] |
array (max 3) | Tags (research, writing, design, code, ops, etc.). |
countryCode |
ISO-2 | Used by funding scouts and similar. |
primaryLanguage |
ISO-2 | Influences response language defaults. |
yearsExperienceBucket |
enum | Calibration. |
expertiseTags[] |
array (max 8) | Tags. |
All optional and empty by default. Invalid values are rejected at save time. None of them leave your machine.
Editing
Switch the editor to raw-markdown mode, make your changes, and click Save. Validation runs on save — the four section headings must stay present.
Resetting
The User tab has a Reset button that wipes the profile back to the empty default template. Prior versions remain restorable from History, so a reset is never destructive.
Memory history
Click History in the User tab to browse past versions of your profile. You can restore any past version, or just compare to see what's drifted.