What Tag knows

You can follow up in a Slack thread, ask Tag to find an earlier discussion, or give it a decision to remember. What it can use depends on the conversation, the files in its workspace, and the sources and tools configured for it.

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Mention Tag in the same thread when you want to build on an answer:

Maya10:42 AM

@Maya's Tag turn that into a one-week action plan.

Each Slack thread keeps one agent conversation, with Codex or Claude. A later mention in the same thread continues it, so earlier tool results and reasoning carry forward. Tag sends only the thread messages posted since its last reply.

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    First["First mention<br/>in a thread"] --> Conversation["One agent conversation<br/>(Codex or Claude)"]
    Later["Later mentions<br/>in the same thread"] --> Conversation
    Conversation --> Files["Earlier thread files<br/>and images Tag made"]
    Conversation -.->|4 idle hours or too large| Fresh["Fresh conversation"]

Only the person who started a conversation continues it; another requester in the same thread starts their own. A conversation starts fresh after 4 idle hours or when it grows too large. A fresh conversation reads one page of up to 30 thread messages, so restate an important detail if it seems lost.

Tag can also reopen files shared earlier in the thread and images it made before. See Use earlier files in a thread.

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Iris10:42 AM

@Iris's Tag find the launch decision in #product and compare it with the plan in your workspace. Show me which messages support the decision.

Tag can search another channel's history when it has been indexed and made available by the person running Tag. Inviting the bot to a channel does not automatically make all its history searchable.

The same applies to other indexed sources, such as project documents and issues. A source may be missing or its index may be out of date. If Tag cannot find something, that alone does not mean the discussion never happened.

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Rowan10:42 AM

@Rowan's Tag save our Friday report deadline in reporting-notes.md.

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Tag does not provide a dedicated saved-note command or local memory store. For a decision you need later, ask Tag to write it to a specific workspace file. To make that file searchable through MFS, the operator must include it in an indexed, permitted source. Saving a file and indexing it are separate steps; ask Tag to confirm what it actually completed.

Tag does not automatically save a note after every conversation. Files it writes in the workspace remain available while they are kept there, and indexed conversations can be searched without turning each one into a note.

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Tag runs your local Codex or Claude Code agent. The skills and MCP connections that the CLI loads can help it carry out a request, alongside installed commands. Availability depends on the account running Tag, the selected backend's configuration, and the tool's credentials and permissions.

For example, with the Google Workspace CLI (gws) installed and authenticated, and the Gmail skill available to the agent, you could ask:

Zara10:42 AM

@Zara's Tag find the latest email about the launch schedule and summarize what changed.

The skill explains how to use gws; the Google login determines which email it can access. Installing a skill alone does not grant access to an account. These tools use their own permissions, separately from the indexed-source settings.

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Tag began as a modified version of the Open Tag example in MFS and uses MFS to search indexed sources. See the project attribution for its origins and the memory reference for retrieval details.