Open WebUI Memory (33 KB)

Open WebUI Memory & Personalization — Essentials (20 min, self-paced)

Your model remembers things now, whether you told it to or not — Open WebUI's memory system stores facts, preferences, and context about a user across separate conversations. Native Tool Calling was upgraded from a passive injection trick into an active, model-managed long-term memory, and this course is the difference between "AI just knows my dosage weight" and "Wait, whaaaat ? How does it know that?"

Covers what memory stores, the eight built-in tools models use to read and write it, how memories are typed and grouped, how admins enable and constrain the feature, and how the data is scoped and protected—because a memory system nobody can turn off is a feature request wearing an Alien-style xenomorph costume.

8 formative questions, an 8-question final assessment, 75% to pass.

Sources: Open WebUI documentation — Memory & Personalization and Environment Variable Configuration; example model names refreshed against live docs, 2026-09-12.