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title: Memories and skills in Wave
description: "Review the preferences Wave remembers about a Product Area, and give Wave reusable skills for tasks your team does often."
product: general
lang: en
last_updated: 2026-11-12
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# Memories and skills in Wave

Memories and skills give Wave durable context beyond a Product Area's settings. Memories are what Wave learns from your team's feedback and decisions. Skills are processes your team writes down. Wave follows a skill when a task matches it.

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## Review memories

Wave records preferences, decisions, and recurring patterns it learns about a Product Area, for example "Prioritize frontend bug fixes in high-intent conversion flows." It uses those memories in future investigations and plans for that area.

To review them, open the Product Area, click **Configure**, and open _Memories_. Each memory shows the date Wave recorded it.

Memories belong to the Product Area. Global Agent doesn't use Product Area memories.

## Create a skill

A skill is a reusable set of instructions for a task your team does often, such as how to write an experiment plan or which checks to run before a release.

1. In Wave, click **Settings** and open _Wave settings > Skills_.
2. Click **New skill**.
3. Describe the process your team follows.
4. Choose where the skill applies: the whole workspace, a project, or selected Product Areas.

Wave uses the skill when a task matches it.

## Assign skills to a Product Area

To view or change the skills assigned to one Product Area, open the Product Area, click **Configure**, open _Skills_, and click **Manage skills**.

## Choose between memories, skills, and instructions

| Use | For |
| --- | --- |
| [Product Area instructions](https://amplitude.com/docs/wave/tuning-opportunities#write-durable-instructions) | Durable guidance for one Product Area: where to look, how to plan, and how coding agents implement. |
| Skills | A repeatable process that applies to selected Product Areas, a project, or the whole workspace. |
| Memories | Preferences Wave learned from your feedback. Review them to confirm Wave learned the right lesson. |