What Is Personal Context?
Personal Context is a private, structured document about your role, responsibilities, and priorities that grows automatically over time and helps your agents give you better, more relevant responses.
How Do I Set It Up?
Click on your profile icon in your settings.
Click on the pencil in your personal context and start writing. You will see your Company Context, which your administrators have set up.
Examples of Personal Context
Personal Context can explore multiple areas:
Your Role: Things like your title, responsibilities, strategic initiatives, success criteria, institutional knowledge, key cross-functional relationships and common obstacles or tasks.
Your working style: Things like your communication preferences, your time zone, your writing style, your learning style, domain knowledge and technical skill level.
Your tools: Integrations you've connected to elvex, how you like to use them and what you use them for.
How Context Gets Updated
As you have conversations in elvex, the system analyzes each one in the background and extracts new information about you. This includes things you've explicitly mentioned, like your job title, the team you work in, what you're currently working on, or how you prefer to work.
This process happens automatically after a conversation has been idle for 5 minutes. If elvex thinks a conversation contains nothing new, your context stays unchanged. When your Personal Context is updated, you'll receive a notification linked back to the conversation that triggered it.
What Context Gets Captured
elvex organizes your context around two main areas:
Your role: title, function, core responsibilities, recurring workflows, and deliverables
Your goals: active projects and initiatives, including their status, stakeholders, and scope
Over time, this builds into a structured profile that agents can draw on to understand your context without you having to re-explain it.
How Agents Use Context
At the start of each new conversation, eligible agents automatically retrieve your Personal Context before responding. It's available in the background — you don't need to reference it or paste it in. Agents use it to frame their answers around your actual situation rather than responding generically.
Context and your token window: Because Personal Context is loaded at the start of every conversation, it counts toward your context window from the very first message. A typical Personal Context uses roughly 5–20% of your available window before you've typed anything. This is normal — but if your context has grown large over time, you may notice your window filling up faster than expected. See Managing your Personal Context size below.
Viewing and Editing
You can view your Personal Context at any time by clicking on your profile icon in the bottom left corner, then navigating to Personal Context. Each update is versioned, so you can see the full history of changes, compare versions, and restore an earlier version if needed.
You can also edit your context directly; useful if you want to correct something, remove outdated information, or add something that hasn't come up in conversation yet.
Managing Your Personal Context Size
Because Personal Context is automatically updated after every conversation, it can grow significantly over time — especially if you use elvex frequently. A large Personal Context isn't a problem for response quality, but it does consume more of your context window at the start of each conversation.
Signs your Personal Context may be too large:
Your context window shows 15–25%+ usage at the start of a brand new conversation
You're hitting "Model context is full" errors earlier than expected in conversations
How to trim it:
Click your profile icon in the bottom left corner
Navigate to Personal Context
Look for and remove:
Completed or cancelled projects that are no longer active
Old role information that no longer applies
Verbose or repetitive entries that could be condensed
You can edit it manually, or ask the AI directly: "Please review my personal context and remove anything that's outdated or no longer relevant. Keep it concise."
Aim to keep your Personal Context focused on your current role and active projects. Think of it as a living document — a periodic review every few weeks keeps it accurate and lean.
What Personal Context Isn't
It's not shared with anyone else in your organization; it's private to you.
It doesn't restrict what agents can discuss or do; it informs their responses, it doesn't constrain them.
It doesn't replace an agent's system prompt or configured instructions; those will always take precedence.