Memories and skills in Wave
Memories and skills give Wave durable context beyond a Product Area's settings. Memories are what Wave learns from your team's feedback and decisions. Skills are processes your team writes down. Wave follows a skill when a task matches it.
Review memories
Wave records preferences, decisions, and recurring patterns it learns about a Product Area, for example "Prioritize frontend bug fixes in high-intent conversion flows." It uses those memories in future investigations and plans for that area.
To review them, open the Product Area, click Configure, and open Memories. Each memory shows the date Wave recorded it.
Memories belong to the Product Area. Global Agent doesn't use Product Area memories.
Create a skill
A skill is a reusable set of instructions for a task your team does often, such as how to write an experiment plan or which checks to run before a release.
- In Wave, click Settings and open Wave settings > Skills.
- Click New skill.
- Describe the process your team follows.
- Choose where the skill applies: the whole workspace, a project, or selected Product Areas.
Wave uses the skill when a task matches it.
Assign skills to a Product Area
To view or change the skills assigned to one Product Area, open the Product Area, click Configure, open Skills, and click Manage skills.
Choose between memories, skills, and instructions
| Use | For |
|---|---|
| Product Area instructions | Durable guidance for one Product Area: where to look, how to plan, and how coding agents implement. |
| Skills | A repeatable process that applies to selected Product Areas, a project, or the whole workspace. |
| Memories | Preferences Wave learned from your feedback. Review them to confirm Wave learned the right lesson. |
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