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AI Managed Decks

AI Managed Deck features are available on the Scholar plan and require a connected AI assistant. See Enabling Flipnem MCP in Claude for how to connect Claude Desktop to your Flipnem account.

Enabling AI Management

An AI-managed deck has the Agent managed flag enabled, shown with a 🤖 badge on the Decks page. Only AI-managed decks allow an AI agent to create sub-decks and add or delete cards — normal decks are read-only from the agent's perspective, preventing accidental modifications.

To enable AI management on a deck, open the deck's ⋯ menu → Deck Details → AI section → toggle Agent managed on.

Source Notes

When the AI calls get_deck_info, Flipnem returns all Source Notes attached to that deck. This gives the agent the raw material to work from — the poem, passage, chapter, or outline you want to learn — without you having to paste it into the chat every session.

See Source Notes for how to add them to a deck.

AI Instructions (Deck Memory)

Each deck has an AI Instructions field — also referred to as the deck's memory. This field is returned to the AI on every get_deck_info and get_due_cards call, so anything stored there automatically applies in every future session without you having to repeat it.

What to store here

Card and deck creation preferences. Tell the AI how you want your cards structured and ask it to save those preferences. Examples:

  • "Always create cloze cards for vocabulary, not Q&A"
  • "Keep cards short — one fact per card, no compound questions"
  • "Organize sub-decks by chapter, not by topic"
  • "Use the person-action-object system for all memory palace cards"

Mnemonic instruction: If you have memory tips for a deck you could put them here. For example: "I'm using the memory palace from my apartment". Note that you can also set a card level mnemonic as well.

Deck-specific context. Any background the AI should know when working with this deck:

  • The exam this deck is preparing for and its format
  • Your current level ("I'm a beginner — keep explanations simple")
  • Pacing preferences ("Focus reviews on cards rated Hard or Again")

How to set it

You can write directly in the AI Instructions field in Deck Details → AI, or simply tell Claude what you want it to remember and ask it to save it:

"Remember that for this deck I want all vocabulary cards as cloze deletions, and I'm using a memory palace based on my apartment. Save that to your instructions."

Claude will call update_deck_instructions and the preferences will persist across all future sessions.