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 is 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 your communication preferences, your time zone, you 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, meaning 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.
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.
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.