Personal vault
Your personal vault captures how YOU work - not any specific project, but the patterns, preferences, and instincts you bring to every codebase. It travels with you across jobs, tools, and machines.
What it stores
- Your preferred code style and conventions
- How you approach problems (top-down vs bottom-up, etc.)
- Tool preferences and workflow habits
- Recurring patterns you apply regardless of project
How it's scoped
The personal vault lives at ~/.fai/ - outside any specific project. It
accumulates knowledge from every session across every codebase you work in.
What it produces
After synthesis, the personal vault exports FAI-PERSONAL.md. Any AI you
connect via fai reads this alongside the project knowledge - so your personal
context travels into every new project automatically.
How it relates to other vaults
Your personal vault is the second knowledge vault (alongside the project vault). While the project vault grows from project-specific sessions, the personal vault grows from your patterns across ALL sessions on any project.