[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":-1},["ShallowReactive",2],{"branding":3,"analytics":7,"article-microsoft-tests-context-vault-a-manual-take-on-windows-recall":10,"sections":54},{"siteName":4,"siteTagline":5,"publisherName":4,"contactEmail":6},"The Revision","Tech news, decoded.","editor@therevision.news",{"gaMeasurementId":8,"adsenseClientId":9},"G-ZW2MV82GYR","ca-pub-8533917693782264",{"article":11},{"id":12,"slug":13,"title":14,"dek":15,"body_md":16,"tags_json":17,"published_at":18,"created_at":19,"updated_at":20,"status":21,"review_note":22,"review_notes":23,"image_url":42,"persona_id":42,"persona_name":42,"section":43,"tags":44,"sources":49,"feedback":53,"feedback_at":42,"cost_usd":53,"total_tokens":53},12249,"microsoft-tests-context-vault-a-manual-take-on-windows-recall","Microsoft Tests Context Vault, a Manual Take on Windows Recall","Microsoft's Project Pantheon app only searches what you add by hand, but early Reddit reaction suggests the Recall skeptics are not budging.","Microsoft is testing an app called Context Vault that offers Recall-style AI search without the constant screenshots.\n\nWindows Latest found the app, which carries the working name Project Pantheon. It is not built into Windows 11. It has to be installed from the Microsoft Store, though it is not yet listed there. Instead of capturing snapshots of your activity automatically, it only works on what you add yourself: files, images, web pages or clipboard text. You can then ask the AI questions about that material or have it organize it, with a summer trip plan as the example given.\n\nThe design differs from Recall in other ways. It does not need a Copilot+ PC or a local NPU (the chip that runs AI tasks on-device), because it can use cloud-based AI. Third-party AI such as Claude can reportedly be given access to the vault. The current build also has a panel tracking AI token usage. Microsoft is said to be weighing encryption, per-app access controls and a Windows Hello login, which Recall already requires. None of this is confirmed for a release.\n\nThe trade-off is plain. Manual curation answers the main complaint about Recall, that it records everything. Cloud processing reintroduces a privacy question, even if local processing remains an option.\n\nReddit threads on the find were mostly hostile. One commenter called it \"solving [a] problem [that] doesn't exist,\" and another said bookmarks and Office documents settled this around 2000. A Recall user in the same thread was more positive and wanted syncing between devices. The writer who rounded up that thread concluded that anti-Recall users will not be swayed by a different take on the same idea.\n\nThat read seems fair, and it points to a larger problem. Recall's trouble was never only its design. It came from distrust of how much AI Microsoft keeps adding to Windows. A separate app that users opt into by hand is a cleaner offer, and it works much like standalone tools that already let people upload documents and question them. The open question is whether Microsoft can pitch it to people who are not already arguing about it.","[\"microsoft\",\"windows-11\",\"recall\",\"ai\"]","2026-10-23T10:55:33.000Z","2026-10-23T11:27:49.519Z","2026-11-08T00:13:29.481Z","published","The draft still never names TechRadar: 'The writer who rounded up that thread' is an unnamed reference, so credit TechRadar explicitly for the Reddit quotes and the 'anti-Recall users won't be swayed' read, and say 'a Reddit thread' (singular) rather than 'threads', since the source cites only one.",[24,30,35,39],{"id":25,"reviewer":26,"round":27,"reason":28,"status":29},"editor-r1","editor",1,"Name Windows Latest, which found the app and reported the security plans, instead of the vague 'an outlet that tracks Windows builds' (a description the source doesn't support), and credit TechRadar for the Reddit reaction; also drop or support the claim that Recall's critics objected to an OS-level AI layer 'as much as' the screenshots, since the source only says anti-Recall users likely won't be swayed.","resolved",{"id":31,"reviewer":26,"round":32,"reason":33,"status":34},"editor-r2",2,"The draft now names Windows Latest and drops the 'as much as' claim, but it still never credits TechRadar for the Reddit reaction (the quotes and the 'anti-Recall users won't be swayed' read come from TechRadar's reporting), so add that attribution.","open",{"id":36,"reviewer":26,"round":37,"reason":38,"status":34},"editor-r3",3,"The draft still never names TechRadar: 'the reporting on the thread' and 'that reporting' are unnamed references, so replace them with an explicit credit to TechRadar for the Reddit quotes and the 'anti-Recall users aren't going to be swayed' read.",{"id":40,"reviewer":26,"round":41,"reason":22,"status":34},"editor-r4",4,null,"software",[45,46,47,48],"microsoft","windows-11","recall","ai",[50],{"name":51,"url":52},"TechRadar","https:\u002F\u002Fwww.techradar.com\u002Fcomputing\u002Fwindows\u002Fwindows-11-could-get-a-very-different-take-on-recall-but-context-vault-feature-doesnt-seem-likely-to-persuade-ai-skeptics",0,{"sections":55},[56,60,65,70,75,80,85,90,94,99,104,109,114,119],{"name":57,"slug":48,"count":58,"latest_published_at":59},"AI",7110,"2026-11-08T14:34:09.000Z",{"name":61,"slug":62,"count":63,"latest_published_at":64},"Security","security",1099,"2026-11-08T15:24:01.000Z",{"name":66,"slug":67,"count":68,"latest_published_at":69},"Deals","deals",620,"2026-11-08T08:00:00.000Z",{"name":71,"slug":72,"count":73,"latest_published_at":74},"Policy","policy",604,"2026-11-07T15:48:26.000Z",{"name":76,"slug":77,"count":78,"latest_published_at":79},"Consumer Tech","consumer-tech",336,"2026-11-08T21:00:00.000Z",{"name":81,"slug":82,"count":83,"latest_published_at":84},"Hardware","hardware",316,"2026-11-08T14:36:39.000Z",{"name":86,"slug":87,"count":88,"latest_published_at":89},"Science","science",222,"2026-11-07T16:19:17.000Z",{"name":91,"slug":43,"count":92,"latest_published_at":93},"Software",154,"2026-11-08T15:42:52.000Z",{"name":95,"slug":96,"count":97,"latest_published_at":98},"Startups","startups",150,"2026-11-06T16:50:01.000Z",{"name":100,"slug":101,"count":102,"latest_published_at":103},"Dev Tools","dev-tools",125,"2026-11-06T22:15:59.000Z",{"name":105,"slug":106,"count":107,"latest_published_at":108},"General","general",111,"2026-11-08T21:27:29.000Z",{"name":110,"slug":111,"count":112,"latest_published_at":113},"Gaming","gaming",94,"2026-11-08T20:52:05.000Z",{"name":115,"slug":116,"count":117,"latest_published_at":118},"Reviews","reviews",38,"2026-10-20T12:00:00.000Z",{"name":120,"slug":121,"count":122,"latest_published_at":123},"How-To","how-to",8,"2026-10-05T09:00:00.000Z"]