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Disk and files

How a plori agent's persistent disk works: the account disk pool, the files panel, what persists, and buying more space.

Every plori agent works on a real, persistent disk. Files it writes today are there next week, in the next conversation, without you doing anything.

One account disk, shared by your agents

Your account has one disk, and all your agents draw from it. Its size is your plan's included disk plus any extra you have bought:

Plan Included disk
Free 1 GB
Pro 20 GB
Power 50 GB

Disk within your plan is free, including while agents sleep. Need more? Buy extra by the gigabyte at $0.10 per GB per month from your dashboard, on any plan. It is billed daily from your balance, prorated. Drop it anytime and the charge stops.

The account disk is a hard cap. When your agents' files reach it, further writes stop, like any full disk, rather than running up a surprise bill. Free up space or buy more and they continue.

What persists?

Everything on the disk. An agent that built you a report keeps the report, its notes, any repos it cloned, and any tools it installed for the job. When the agent wakes for the next conversation it opens the same disk. Deleting an agent permanently erases its files.

The files panel

Each agent's dashboard page has a Files panel where you can work with its disk directly:

  • Browse the agent's directories.
  • Open and edit text files in a built-in code editor. Saves are conflict-safe: if the agent changed the file while you had it open, you choose whether to reload, keep your version as a download, or overwrite.
  • Upload files to the agent's disk, so you can hand it a spreadsheet or a codebase to work on.
  • Download any file. Binary and oversized files are download-only.
  • Delete a file. An Undo restores it if you deleted the wrong file.
  • Publish a directory as a website at your-name.plori.site. See Publish a site.

Browsing never wakes a sleeping agent: the panel reads the disk directly, whether the agent is awake or asleep. For a bigger cleanup, ask the agent in chat.

Attach a PDF in chat

Use the paperclip in an agent conversation to attach a PDF and ask questions about it. The file is stored on that agent's disk, so you can refresh the page or ask a follow-up without uploading it again. The agent can inspect selected text, tables, charts, and scanned pages.

The Files panel and chat serve different purposes. In Files, PDFs are download-only and never open as an inline preview. In chat, the agent reads the attached document with a restricted local tool. The original PDF is not copied into the conversation or published at a public URL.

Why a real disk matters

A repository or report saved to the agent disk remains available in a later conversation. Save intermediate results there if another task will need them. File persistence does not preserve a running process or its RAM. See what persists between tasks for the difference between saved files, memory notes, and process state.