Default Summary

The Summaries tab selects the default summary generation setting for the platform. A summary setting describes how prior conversation history is condensed into a concise summary that preserves the information needed to continue, and this tab chooses the single one that acts as the organization-wide default. It is gated by the UPDATE_MEMORY_SETTING permission.

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This is a single-select picker. The header shows Selected 1/1 and a Maximum allowed selected of one, because there can be only one default summary setting at a time. Choosing a new one replaces the previous selection.

Selecting the default

The tab is a search-and-add layout. Use the search field to find available summary settings, then add one into the selected slot. Because the selection is capped at one, adding a setting when one is already selected swaps it. Once you are happy with the choice, Save writes it as the platform default; Reset discards your change and reloads the currently saved default. Protean ships a general-purpose option you can use out of the box, for example protean-generic-summary-generation (Max Size 250), which compresses earlier conversation history while keeping the context needed to carry on.

This default matters because it is the summary setting agents use to condense conversations by default. When an agent needs to shorten a long conversation and does not specify its own summary setting, it falls back to the one chosen here, so this single selection shapes how summarization behaves across the whole platform. Change it when you want every agent's default summarization behavior to follow a different summary setting.

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The summary settings themselves (their prompts, sizes, and other configuration) are authored and maintained in the Memory feature. This tab only chooses which existing summary setting is the platform default; it does not create or edit them.

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If you are unsure which summary setting to make the default, start with protean-generic-summary-generation. It is the general-purpose option Protean provides.