Helping your AI understand your taste with the Imprint tool

Imprint is a living project memory of intent, preferences, and design decisions. It helps later conversations recover relevant understanding without treating every one-off change as a permanent rule.

Ground what Popmelt learns

When collaboration suggests a reusable learning, Popmelt may ask you to ground it:

You remain the authority. Provisional explanations are advisory; your explicit instructions and accepted product decisions take precedence.

Inspect the evidence

Choose Imprint (I) to review the project's understanding. Filter grounded, emerging, and challenged explanations. Expand an explanation to inspect its rationale, related understanding, concrete expressions, and grounding evidence, or reopen its source thread.

The panel is for inspection. Changes to understanding are proposed and grounded through collaboration in threads, not authored directly from this panel.

Use context in ordinary agent conversations

Core can pair project-bound Codex conversations with the same memory through its bundled ambient plugin. Inspect the installation from your project first:

npx @popmelt.com/core codex status

With your permission to change personal plugin configuration, your agent can install or update the bundle:

npx @popmelt.com/core codex install

Follow the reported restart instructions after active work finishes, then start a new project-bound conversation. Confirm that the new session has loaded the plugin's context and tools; installed files alone don't prove activation. You can also choose toolbar-only use.

An experimental native Claude Code plugin is available through claude status, claude install, and claude doctor after npx @popmelt.com/core. It is a local Code integration, not a promise of support in Claude Chat, Cowork, or cloud sessions. The toolbar works independently of this optional plugin.

Point and discuss

With the ambient integration active and your app running, point to an element and ask your agent what you're looking at. It can inspect that target, read a saved thread, or retrieve relevant project context without submitting a new comment.

Focus is a timestamped snapshot, not continuous vision. Keep the intended target selected or point again. If several pages are active, clarify which one you mean. Reading a draft does not authorize its execution.

When more than one project store applies, choose the writable primary store and any read-only mounts explicitly. Directory proximity does not grant write authority.

Imprint and conversation history live with the project under .popmelt/. Context required for an agent request is passed to the selected AI provider; local storage does not mean the whole collaboration is offline: if you aren't hosting the LLM you're using locally, your data is still passing through your provider as usual.

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