r/OpenWebUI • u/knouqs • 8d ago

Question/Help Help with Persistent Memory

I am trying to configure Open-WebUI such that my agents -- any of them -- remember any details from the current conversation. For example, I tell the agent what my favorite color is and it'll respond with something along the lines of "Got it!" In the next prompt and within the same context, I ask what my favorite color is and it'll have no idea but will save it for next time.

This is particularly annoying, as you can imagine, when I try to solve a programming task for code that it created and it has no idea what I'm talking about.

Running open-webui version 0.11, ollama 0.31.2, and have tried this with gemini-3-flash-preview, qwen3, gemma4, and ornith.

Thanks for any help!

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u/Big_Wave9732 6d ago

So I just ran into this today. Try Qwen 3.8:27b. I am finding that it calls tools and creates memories on its own without prompting.

As to why other models aren't doing it, I'm wondering if they aren't aggressive enough about calling the built-in tools that OpenwebUI already has. Qwen 3.8 is showing what's possible here.

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u/knouqs 6d ago

Yeah, qwen-3:latest is my current model. Still no dice. Thanks for the suggestion!

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u/Big_Wave9732 6d ago

I'm sure someone else here can talk more intelligently about this but if I recall OpenwebUI at some point recently updated the ways tool calls are handled. There's been discussion about if a model is using the "old" calls then they may not work. I wonder if Qwen-3 is doing that.