--- title: "Agent profiles: persona, skills and memory for the assistant" description: "Biocompile agent profiles set how the assistant behaves, which skills and executables it may use, and which memories it keeps between conversations." url: https://www.biocompile.com/docs/agent-profiles/ section: "Projects and assistant" last_updated: 2026-10-23 app_url: https://app.biocompile.com/agent-profiles --- # Agent profiles: persona, skills and memory for the assistant > Biocompile agent profiles set how the assistant behaves, which skills and executables it may use, and which memories it keeps between conversations. Source: https://www.biocompile.com/docs/agent-profiles/. Index of all Biocompile documentation: https://www.biocompile.com/docs/index.md A Biocompile agent profile defines who the assistant is when it works for you: its persona, the skills and executables it may use, and the memories it can draw on later. Create one when a group or a kind of work needs the assistant to behave consistently, for example a concise profile for literature scans and a thorough one for analysis review. ## Manage profiles Open **Agents → Agent Profiles**. Each profile has its own tab. Choose **New** to create a profile, which starts as "New Agent". The actions on a tab duplicate a profile, as "Copy of" followed by its name, or delete it. Deleting asks for confirmation and cannot be undone. A tag shows who can use a profile: **Core**, **Org** or **Private**. A profile you cannot edit carries a **Read only** tag, and a profile managed in Git is marked **Git managed**. Each profile has panels for **Persona**, **Capabilities** and **Memory**. ## Persona The persona panel defines the profile's identity. Write what you would tell a new teammate about context, conventions and what matters most. You can also set: - **Style**: **Concise**, **Balanced** or **Thorough**. - **Autonomy**: **Ask first**, **Collaborative** or **Proactive**. - A profile image, icon and color. Upload a PNG, JPEG or WebP image of 5 MB or less. Choose **Save Changes** to keep your edits. ## Capabilities The capabilities panel sets what the profile may use: - **Skills**: select the [skills](https://www.biocompile.com/docs/skills.md) the profile is allowed to use. Biocompile skills are available to every organization; organization skills are the ones your organization created. - **Executables**: platform operations the agent can run. Required operations stay on; you can switch optional ones on or off for each profile. - **Organization pipelines**: allow the agent to discover and run organization pipelines it can access. An item that your [security policy](https://www.biocompile.com/docs/organization-security.md) or your personal preferences forbid is marked as blocked, and the label names the reason. ## Memory Memory holds preferences, lessons, references and facts that the agent can use in later conversations. Each memory shows its **Kind** (**Preference**, **Lesson**, **Reference** or **Fact**), its **Status** (**Active** or **Dormant**), its **Confidence**, its **Source** and when it was **Updated**. The source is **Manual** for a memory you added, **Reflection** for one the agent drew from a session, or **System**. - Choose **Add** to write a memory yourself. - Search the list with **Search memories...**. - Edit a memory, switch it on or off, or delete it. A deleted memory is removed from the profile and the agent no longer retrieves it. - Choose **Reflect recent** to have the agent review recent sessions of this profile that it has not reflected on yet. A message reports how many sessions it processed and how many memories it created. ## Use a profile in a conversation Choose a profile with the profile picker in the conversation. A conversation keeps its profile once it has started. ## Common questions ### Can I change the profile of a conversation that has started? No. A conversation keeps its profile once it has started. Start a new conversation to use another profile. ### Why is a skill or executable marked as blocked? Your organization's security policy or your personal preferences forbid it. The label names the reason. ### Does the agent forget a memory I delete? Yes. A deleted memory is removed from the profile and the agent no longer retrieves it. ## Related - [AI research assistant: ask your files and the literature](https://www.biocompile.com/docs/ai-research-assistant.md) - [Agent Skills: scientific workflows for the AI assistant](https://www.biocompile.com/docs/skills.md) - [Organization security: AI models, tools and EU processing](https://www.biocompile.com/docs/organization-security.md) ## Get access to Biocompile Biocompile is used in the browser at https://app.biocompile.com. It is free to start and no payment method is required: sign up at https://app.biocompile.com/signup?mc_cta=docs-md&mc_path=/docs/agent-profiles.md. If your team already uses Biocompile, ask an organization admin to invite you. Research teams that want hands-on setup can apply for the founder-led pilot at https://www.biocompile.com/pilot/. Questions: https://www.biocompile.com/contact/.