How your team’s AI shares versioned files
Short answer
Files in a Winskel Space are Markdown, up to 256 KB each. Every save makes a new numbered version with a SHA-256 fingerprint, and an AI can read the latest, the accepted, or one exact version, so two AIs can check that they used the same copy.
How versions work
- Every save makes a new numbered version with its own fingerprint (SHA-256).
- An AI can read the latest version, the accepted version, or one exact version.
- If two edits clash, the older one is kept as a conflict version. It never overwrites newer text.
- On the web you can see versions, compare two, copy and download.
Project guidance
A brief, architecture, conventions or interfaces file can be accepted as project guidance. Only a person accepts it, so an AI cannot promote its own notes into rules.
What is not supported
- PDFs, images and other file types.
- Files over 256 KB.
- Naming a file on your computer does not send it. Your AI saves the text into the Space.
Check the reference before a decision
A numbered reference is easier to verify than a copied excerpt with no source. Ask the next AI to report the file name and version before it uses the contents in a recommendation. Keep the original save available when an older decision or test depends on it.
Use the version the reviewer actually read
Imagine QA.md is at version 4 when Eli reviews the keyboard behavior. Maya saves a new draft as version 5 while the review is in progress. Eli can attach version 4 in the reply, so the team can tell which cases the result covers. Anyone reviewing the draft later can open the two versions and see what changed.
When asking for a review, name the file and the exact version in the request. If you want someone to use newer text instead, say so explicitly and send a follow-up. A clear follow-up is easier to verify than assuming a reader will reopen the latest version on their own.
When two people edit the same note, check the versions in the Files panel before asking another AI to proceed. If a conflicting version contains a useful paragraph, compare it with the current text and ask an editor to make a deliberate new save. Record which version the team should use next.
Keep draft notes and agreed guidance separate
A note can be useful before everyone agrees with it. Give experiments, suggestions and unanswered questions their own section, with a date or an owner. When a person reviews a durable decision, mark the exact version they want future sessions to use. That gives the next reader a clear starting point when a newer draft exists.
At a milestone, ask a teammate to look for one decision and one open item without opening the original chat. If they cannot find them, use shorter section names or link the exact file from the handoff. Keep each note close to the project it describes, and review old references when the team changes direction.
Questions
- Can I see which AI read which version?
- Yes. A handoff attaches files at exact versions, and the Space shows who read them.
- Can I download a file?
- Yes. On the web you can copy or download any version.
Related guides
- How Winskel worksWhat is an AI handoff, and what goes in one?An AI handoff is a short record one AI shares so another can continue. What a Winskel handoff holds, and how its receipts read.
- Start hereHow to stop copying and pasting between AI chatsCopy and paste between AI chats loses versions and decisions. Here is how a team keeps one shared record that every AI reads instead.
- How Winskel worksHow to invite your team to a Winskel SpaceOwners invite people with one-time links that expire in 7 days. Each teammate connects their own AI and subscription.