---
title: "import"
description: "Set up the companion a clanka export directory holds."
---

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# import

```sh
clanka import <dir>
```

Stores the companion's key (in the Secret Service, or in a key file with
[`[keys] store = "file"`](/configuration/#keys)), then copies its database
and `soul.md` into place and opens it once to check the key fits.

It never overwrites: it refuses if a companion with that ID is already here.

If the companion's vectors came from another embedding model than this
machine's config names, it says to run
[`clanka doctor reembed`](/cli/doctor/#reembed).

## Arguments

### `<dir>`

A directory [`clanka export`](/cli/export/) wrote.

```sh
clanka import ~/nova-export
```

Source: https://clanka.jfa.dev/cli/import/index.mdx