I installed before accounts were required

Since this release, Sibyl Memory needs an account on every plan, Free included. If you installed an earlier version, here is what changes for you and what to do. Nothing you stored is deleted at any point.

First, update

$ sibyl update --apply

Then restart your AI app so it loads the new version.

You had already signed in with sibyl init

Your computer needs to reach your account once to finish setting up. Connect to the internet and use your agent as usual; setup finishes by itself on the first check-in. To do it right away:

$ sibyl refresh

Until that first check-in, the memory tools answer: "Sibyl Memory needs to reach your account once to finish setting up on this computer, and it could not connect. Connect to the internet and try again; setup finishes by itself." sibyl status shows setup not finished · connect to the internet once to finish setup.

You never signed in

Run this once on the computer. It opens a sign-in page in your browser; the free plan needs no card.

$ sibyl init

Until you do, the memory tools in Claude Code, Codex, Hermes and the SDK answer that an account is needed. Your memory is still on disk, and you can read it at any time without an account:

$ sibyl memory list
$ sibyl memory search "atlas"

Your memory from before sign-in

Memory written on this computer before you signed in moves into your account by itself, the first time a signed-in agent uses the store (or at sibyl init). The move happens locally, in one transaction, sends nothing anywhere and deletes nothing. The first memory result afterwards says so once, for example: "12 memories written before sign-in were moved into your account on this computer."

If your account already holds an entry with the same name, your account's entry is kept and the moved one is renamed with (before sign-in) at the end, so both stay readable.

When the move does not happen by itself

If this memory store has held another account, the automatic move is skipped, so one person's memory is never folded into another's by accident. Move it yourself; the command asks first:

$ sibyl memory adopt

In a script or any non-interactive shell, add --yes to answer the question.

More than one computer on Free

Free covers one computer and Pro up to 2. If you activated several computers on Free before the limit applied, the memory tools stay readable everywhere, but new memories save only on the computer that signed in most recently. Sign the others out with sibyl devices revoke or at the account page, or move to Pro. Run sibyl status to see where you stand.

What did not change

• Your memory content never leaves the computer. The account check-ins carry account metadata only.
• Your memory.db stays where it was. Nothing is deleted when you update, sign in, or sign out.
• The free plan still gives you the full memory system with a 5 MB local cap.

See Tiers & access for the exact network behavior and the CLI reference for every command on this page.