# New proposal: \`remember\`
**URL:** https://forums.testdriver.ai/t/new-proposal-remember/21
**Category:** News
**Created:** [May 15, 2025, 3:35pm UTC](https://forums.testdriver.ai/t/new-proposal-remember/21 "2025-05-15T15:35:56Z")
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### Author:  [@jennings](https://forums.testdriver.ai/u/jennings)
#### Post date: [May 15, 2025, 3:35pm UTC](https://forums.testdriver.ai/t/new-proposal-remember/21/1 "2025-05-15T15:35:56Z")
You might want to pull a title, date, or other status off the page and have the AI use it later.
With our proposed `remember` command, now you can ask TestDriver to remember specific things about what it can see on the screen for use later.
This proposed syntax will allow the AI to set `OUTPUT` variables for use in later steps. See the video and YAML below for an example.
https://www.loom.com/embed/aca10e8ccf324224927f29f87f2ed6d8?sid=2aa616bb-172d-4393-b114-7420c91dbb3a
```yaml
version: 5.6.7
steps:
- prompt: search for the current track in spotify
commands:
- command: focus-application
name: spotify
- command: remember
output: track
description: the track now playing in spotify
- command: hover-text
text: What do you want to play?
description: the spotify search bar
action: click
- command: type
text: ${OUTPUT.track}
```
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### Author:  [@Eric](https://forums.testdriver.ai/u/Eric)
#### Post date: [May 15, 2025, 8:34pm UTC](https://forums.testdriver.ai/t/new-proposal-remember/21/2 "2025-05-15T20:34:23Z")
I think this works since `remember` isn’t an action so much of it is as a dynamic reference. One potential limitation is that this assumes `string`, but is there a need for something like:
```yaml
- command: remember
output: items
description: Everything in my grocery list
```
(I think this is why text extraction often has some concept of schema to help the LLM identify structure, casting, and validation)
If you’re interested in prior art, [Reference | Cucumber](https://cucumber.io/docs/gherkin/reference/#scenario-outline) uses `` which works well for handling _N_ values and a data table of known values (e.g. a list of users to run this flow against)
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### Author:  [@jennings](https://forums.testdriver.ai/u/jennings)
#### Post date: [May 18, 2025, 5:53pm UTC](https://forums.testdriver.ai/t/new-proposal-remember/21/3 "2025-05-18T17:53:44Z")
Yes, I think supporting different types is a great idea! Though, then we also need a function to loop through them 🙂