---
title: "Investigation Memory"
sidebarTitle: "Memory"
description: "How Siclaw learns from past investigations to improve future diagnoses."
---

## Overview

Every deep investigation helps Siclaw get better at future investigations.

Siclaw stores:

- a human-readable investigation report
- a structured summary of the incident
- searchable memory used to improve future hypothesis generation

## How It Works

### Writing Memory

After an investigation finishes, Siclaw saves key facts such as:

- likely root cause
- affected services or resources
- important evidence
- recommended next steps

### Reading Memory

When a new investigation starts, Siclaw can look up similar past incidents and use them to improve hypothesis quality.

This makes repeated incident patterns easier to recognize over time.

<Warning>
Memory search works best with an [embedding provider](/configuration/providers#embedding). Without one, Siclaw still saves investigation history, but semantic recall is reduced.
</Warning>
