Personality and continuity

Your assistant remains yours

Communication and priorities can evolve without belonging to one model

Unison stores person-specific guidance separately from model files so the experience can remain familiar through upgrades, replacements, and different kinds of work.

Personality is a relationship setting

Personality shapes how the assistant communicates and collaborates. It can include tone, pacing, verbosity, language, notation, challenge level, and the way tradeoffs or uncertainty are presented.

These preferences support the person's intent. They do not change facts, remove safety rules, widen access, or grant capabilities.

Identity and priorities evolve at different speeds

Identity guidance

Relatively stable preferences describe communication, privacy posture, and how the assistant should challenge assumptions.

Current priorities

Mutable directives reflect what matters now and can change as goals, projects, health, finances, or household responsibilities evolve.

Session context

Authorized information for one intent gives the interaction immediate relevance without rewriting lasting preferences.

Model profile

A selected model contributes language or reasoning for the current task while the other layers preserve continuity.

A person can guide change naturally

A person can ask for a different pace, amount of detail, language, challenge level, or interaction style. Unison prepares a structured proposal that shows what would change. The person can accept, revise, defer, or reject it.

Sensitive prompt changes require the configured approval. Applied changes receive a snapshot and can be rolled back. This supports experimentation while keeping the current experience recoverable.

Thoughtful disagreement supports trust

Unison can correct factual errors, surface missing evidence, explain tradeoffs, and challenge assumptions at the level the person selected. Supportive communication stays honest and useful.

The active style remains sensitive to context. A reflective conversation, an emergency instruction, a financial review, and a concise status check can use different pacing while preserving the person's established preferences.

Continuity survives component change

Models, providers, and hardware can change frequently. Person-specific guidance lives in versioned local configuration and is compiled into the active prompt for the selected operation. Replacing a model therefore preserves identity, preferences, priorities, memory, permissions, and pending work.

Portability still requires a qualified model to interpret the instructions reliably. Model evaluation, limited rollouts, health gates, and rollback protect that transition before promotion.

Privacy remains person specific

Each adult has independent prompt layers and context. Shared household goals can inform an authorized shared experience while private identity guidance, priorities, and memories remain personal.

Prompt content can contain sensitive preferences. Operational telemetry uses paths, revisions, and hashes instead of recording the prompt text.