Memory
Also: Claude Memory, persistent memory
Memory is Claude remembering things about you across conversations. Your preferences, your role, your projects, decisions you have made — Claude retains this context and applies it automatically in future chats. You don't need to re-explain who you are or what you're working on every time. Available on all Claude tiers including Free. You can view and manage what Claude remembers in your settings.
In practice
You tell Claude your name and preferred working style at the start of a session. With Memory enabled, Claude stores that — so next week, it already knows. Without it, every session starts blank. Claude's Memory feature is what makes the assistant feel like it knows you rather than meeting you for the first time every conversation.
Related concepts
Where Memory shows up
2 articlesClaude now remembers things about you across conversations. Here is how it works, what to tell it to remember, and how to keep it useful.
Memory is now a list of editable topic files that Claude updates as you chat, shared across Claude and Cowork. Here is what it holds, what it still will not do, and how to keep it from going stale.