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title: How Rucksack works
checked: 2026-10-20
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## You get your own context

Your context is what your AI knows about you and your work. Everyone starts with a Daypack in the AI app they already use. A Rucksack, a folder of plain text files about you, your apps and projects, is coming soon.

## You learn on your own work

The map is a public set of AI ideas, called concepts, grouped under five waypoints, milestones you reach. Your AI reads each concept and teaches from it.

## Your AI teaches as you work

Your AI keeps your journal, a record of what you have learnt. When a concept would help, your AI gives you a short learning hint, once a chat at most. Say "not now" and your AI carries on.

## You can show what you learnt

The map shows each concept as a circle. Prove one and its circle fills, and that circle is a badge. Prove a waypoint's core concepts and you earn its patch.

## Your everyday AI gets better too

Your context improves as you use it, and comes with you. A Rucksack is read by apps that open folders, and by chat apps through their GitHub connector (ChatGPT and Claude today). An app that cannot reach it gets a Daypack of its own.

## You start with one link

Give [the Rucksack link](/start) to your AI to start your Daypack.

Rucksack is a free private beta. Badges and patches are being built now.