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Local-first by design

Your workspaces are stored on your machine, not in the cloud:
  • Teams and solo workspaces (names, working folders, configuration)
  • Agents (Souls, tool settings, memory, configuration)
  • Chat history, chat uploads, team messages, task boards, and activity logs
  • App settings
Storage location: Back up that folder to back up your workspaces. There is no automatic cloud sync of workspace content; a second machine starts with its own empty set of workspaces.

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What touches the cloud

  • Your account: authentication, profile, tier, and limits live with your Syndicate account.
  • Provider calls: agent runs go to the provider you connected (Claude, OpenAI, Google, GitHub Copilot), under that provider’s terms.
  • Feedback: what you submit through the feedback form.

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Credentials and secrets

  • Your Syndicate session and MCP secrets are encrypted with OS keychain-backed storage; they are never written to plain-text settings files.
  • Provider credentials are managed by each provider’s CLI in its own home-directory files, the same as using those CLIs directly.

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Updates

Syndicate checks for updates automatically (shortly after launch and periodically while running) and from Settings, General, Check for updates.
  • When an update is ready, a banner and the settings page show Restart now. One click installs and relaunches.
  • Updates download and install in place on both Windows and macOS (mac builds are signed and notarized). If you are on a mac version older than 1.7.43, the first update opens the download page once; everything after that is fully in-app.
Version status messages you may see: update available, downloading, “ready to restart”, up to date, or an error with details.

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Resetting

Signing out (Settings, Account) clears your session on the machine but keeps local workspace data. Deleting a team removes that team’s data permanently; project files in its working directory are never deleted by Syndicate.