> ## Documentation Index
> Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://docs.usesyndicate.org/llms.txt
> Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further.

# Data, storage, and updates

> Where your data lives, what syncs to the cloud, and how app updates work.

## 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:

| OS            | Path                               |
| ------------- | ---------------------------------- |
| Windows       | `%APPDATA%\Syndicate\local-store\` |
| macOS / Linux | `~/.config/syndicate/local-store/` |

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.

## 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.

## 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.

## 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.

## 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.