Descript's Underlord Now Remembers Your Editing Preferences Across Projects.

Descript announced on LinkedIn that its AI editing assistant, Underlord, can now remember how users prefer to edit videos. The update introduces "Underlord instructions," a feature that stores editing preferences so creators no longer need to paste the same long prompt into every new project.

The change targets a common workflow pain point: users who maintain detailed, multi-paragraph prompts to configure Underlord's behavior at the start of each project. Those instructions might cover everything from pacing preferences to caption styling, transition choices, or even brand guidelines. Now, those details can be saved once and referenced automatically across all projects.

Users add their editing preferences to Underlord instructions within their account settings. Once saved, the AI co-editor references those instructions in every new project without requiring manual input. The feature acts as a project-level memory layer, letting Underlord apply consistent editing choices based on stored user preferences rather than one-off prompts.

The update comes after Descript added Claude Fable 5 to Underlord for video-aware editing and shipped 70 updates during a 48-hour customer telethon that focused on user-requested features. The company has been steadily expanding Underlord's capabilities since its launch, adding model options, tone controls for AI speakers, and now persistent editing memory.

Descript positions the feature as a time-saver for creators with established editing styles or brand requirements. Instead of maintaining a text file with prompts or re-entering instructions for each video, users configure their preferences once and let Underlord apply them automatically. The approach mirrors how developers use system prompts in AI coding tools like Cursor or Windsurf, where project-level instructions guide the AI's behavior across sessions.

Persistent instructions lower the friction for using AI editing assistance consistently. For solo creators, it means less setup time per project. For teams, it offers a way to encode shared editing standards that Underlord can reference when multiple people work on content. The feature also makes Underlord more practical for creators producing serialized content, where each episode should match a consistent style and structure.

The update is available now to all Descript users with access to Underlord. Users can add or edit instructions at any time, and changes apply to future projects. Existing projects continue using whatever prompts or instructions were active when they were created.