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Make your Types smarter with guidance
A Type keeps similar capsules together. Give it a few lines of guidance and your AI knows exactly what to save there, and how.
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Ideas, guides, and perspectives from the Symbol team.
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RAG knows what you said. It doesn't know what's true.
RAG retrieves your documents, but it can't hold your pricing, policies or rules. The structural limits of retrieval-augmented generation, and what to run alongside it.
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Notion has the docs. Symbol has the context.
Notion MCP gives your AI access to your whole workspace. Symbol gives it the specific, named context that search can't reliably surface: the settled decisions, constraints, and conventions that actually change the answer.
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Why some shared prompts now come with a safety check
When you open a shared prompt, Symbol now scores it for safety and asks you to acknowledge the risk before revealing a high-risk one. Here's how it works, and why a score is a signal, not a guarantee.
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Improve your skills
Happy keeping your AI skills in GitHub? Keep doing that. If something about it quietly grates, here's an alternative we think is better.
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Linear has the ticket. Symbol has the backstory.
Linear tracks your work. Symbol holds the knowledge behind it: the decisions, constraints, and context your AI needs to give answers that are actually useful for your team.