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title: "Documentation — how Metis works · Avioverse"
description: "The Metis manual: memory, importing what another assistant knows, the Brain, the modules it can read and write, and the approvals that keep you in control."
url: "https://avioverse.aero/docs"
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Documentation

# How Metis works

Metis is the assistant built into Avioverse. It reads the regulations, your own records and the live web, quotes what it found, and asks before anything leaves or is destroyed. This manual covers setting it up, teaching it about you, and where you can reach it.

11 pages · about 42 minutes end to end [Start reading](https://avioverse.aero/docs/what-metis-is)

## Start here

What Metis is, what it will and will not do, and the first hour of setting it up.

1. [What Metis is The assistant built into Avioverse — what it reads, how it answers, and where it stops. 4 min](https://avioverse.aero/docs/what-metis-is)
2. [Setting up: the first conversation The short interview that grounds every later answer — and why skipping it costs you more than it saves. 3 min](https://avioverse.aero/docs/setting-up)

## Memory and the Brain

Teaching it who you are — by hand, by conversation, or by importing what another assistant already knows — and where longer-form knowledge lives.

1. [How memory works Personal context for conversations, longer notes fetched when relevant, and controls to inspect and edit saved memory. 4 min](https://avioverse.aero/docs/memory)
2. [Bringing what you already know in Three ways to fill memory — typing it, saying it in conversation, or transferring what another AI assistant already knows about you. 3 min](https://avioverse.aero/docs/importing-memory)
3. [The Brain Where your longer-form knowledge lives — one screen, one graph, notes that link to each other and that Metis can read and add to. 4 min](https://avioverse.aero/docs/brain)

## Where you talk to it

The full chat, the chat beside a document, and the modules it can read and write. What each surface can see.

1. [Where you can talk to it The full chat, the chat beside a document, your browser and your phone — one assistant, four ways in, and what each one can see. 4 min](https://avioverse.aero/docs/chat-surfaces)
2. [The modules it can reach Module by module — what Metis can read, what it can write, and what stays yours to do by hand. 6 min](https://avioverse.aero/docs/modules)
3. [The browser extension Metis working inside the pages you already have open — authority portals, your ERP and forms — with action previews and approval controls. 5 min](https://avioverse.aero/docs/browser-extension)

## Staying in control

Approvals, undo, working depth, unattended watches, and who owns your data.

1. [Approvals, undo and your data What pauses for your yes, what can be reversed, how outside content is handled, and who owns what. 3 min](https://avioverse.aero/docs/approvals-and-undo)
2. [Working depth, schedules and watches How hard it thinks about a question, and how to have it work while you are not there. 3 min](https://avioverse.aero/docs/depth-and-watches)
3. [Backups and recovery How we protect your records and files, what to expect during recovery, and the records you should keep yourself. 3 min](https://avioverse.aero/docs/backups-and-recovery)

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