Palimpse for ChatGPT
ChatGPT remembers you. Your project needs more.
ChatGPT’s memory is built around you: your preferences, your habits, facts you mentioned in earlier chats. It makes every conversation smoother, and Projects group your chats and files. But the state of the work still resets: the decisions, the open tasks, the history of how it changed.
Palimpse adds the missing half: a project state ChatGPT can read at the start of every conversation and update at the end.
Memory about you is not the state of your project.
Both matter. They just answer different questions: who you are, and where the work stands.
What ChatGPT memory holds
- Facts about you
- Your preferences and habits
- Things you said in earlier chats
- Projects that group chats, files and instructions
Genuinely useful. But it all stays inside ChatGPT, per account: no decisions with their rationale, no tasks that persist until closed, no history a teammate or another tool can read.
What a project needs
A project context should include the decisions and their rationale, the work still open, the documents that carry durable knowledge, and the history of how the project changed over time.
- Decisions that keep their why and can supersede earlier ones
- Tasks and open threads that stay visible until closed
- Documents versioned, with provenance for every change
- A history your whole workspace can read
AI memory helps an agent remember facts. Project continuity helps a project preserve its state, history and rationale so that someone or something else can pick it back up later.
Resume briefed. Leave a record.
Pick the project back up in a fresh conversation.
Open a new ChatGPT conversation and ask it to pick up your project. Through Palimpse, it calls catch_up and gets the current state before the work begins: open tasks first, then what changed since your last visit, then the durable facts the project has learned.
“Pick up the project where we left off.”
Open tasks
Finish the onboarding copy. The search issue is still unresolved.
Since your last visit
Two sessions: the pricing page shipped and the positioning document was rewritten.
Latest decision
Signup stays a single step. The two-step variant was ruled out, and the reason is on record.
Project memory
The copy voice is direct and concise. Early access is invite-only.
No pasted summaries, no scrolling through old chats. The briefing is the current state of the project, not your recollection of it.
Log the session before you close the tab.
When the work stops, ChatGPT logs the session to Palimpse: a summary of what happened, the decisions made along with the alternatives that were rejected, the documents touched, the tasks opened or closed. The conversation ends. The project moves forward anyway.
The next session starts from that new state. Yours, or a teammate’s. In ChatGPT, or somewhere else entirely.
Decisions preserve the why. Open work preserves the present. Documents preserve the knowledge. Sessions preserve the movement.
Switch tools without leaving the context behind.
The project you keep in Palimpse is not locked to ChatGPT. The same history is readable from claude.ai, Claude Code, Cursor and any compatible MCP client. Draft in ChatGPT today, refactor in Cursor tomorrow, let a teammate take over next week: everyone resumes from the same state, and every session records who moved the work.
Project continuity is the ability to resume a project with its current state, history and rationale intact, regardless of which human, AI, tool or session picks it up next.
What is project continuity? How Palimpse is built with Palimpse
Connect ChatGPT to Palimpse.
Palimpse is a standard MCP server with OAuth. No exports, no copy-paste rituals.
Add the connector
In ChatGPT, add Palimpse as an MCP connector and paste your workspace’s
/api/mcpURL.Authorize in the browser
ChatGPT opens Palimpse’s OAuth flow. Approve it once; there are no keys to copy around.
Ask for the project
Start a conversation and ask ChatGPT to catch up on your project. It begins briefed.
Your next ChatGPT conversation can start briefed.
Free for solo, early access for teams. Connect once, and the project stops resetting every time the chat does.