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What Context Hints are

Context Hints are a plain-text field in Preferences → Context Hints where you describe your role, priorities, and recurring pain points. Vantic loads this at the start of every session and uses it to frame insights more precisely to your situation. They are not a configuration file. They are not instructions to the Pattern Engine. They are context for the conversational interface — the same way you might brief someone before a meeting.

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What to include

Keep it direct. The 500-character limit is intentional — it forces prioritisation. Useful things to include:
  • Your role and what it involves day-to-day
  • The workflows you care most about fixing
  • Known pain points you want Vantic to focus on
Example:
I run recruitment for three clients simultaneously. My biggest time sink is chasing candidates between ATS and email. I care most about where I’m losing time on non-billable coordination.
Things not worth including:
  • General business background that does not affect your workflows
  • Preferences about how Vantic communicates (tone, length)
  • Information that would change frequently — update the hints when it changes

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What Context Hints do not do

Context Hints do not feed the Pattern Engine and do not affect how your Friction Score is calculated. An insight that would require treating your hints as observed signal data will not be surfaced. If Vantic surfaces a pattern that contradicts your hints — for example, if you describe a smooth process that the Pattern Engine flags as high-friction — the pattern data takes precedence. Hints annotate and frame. They do not override what Vantic observes.

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Updating your hints

Edit or clear Context Hints at any time from Preferences → Context Hints. Changes take effect at the start of your next session. There is no version history — the current hints are what Vantic uses.