Lead · Beginners
Memory doesn't save your health, beliefs, or politics by default — that's not the system being overly cautious, it's you deciding whether to hand that over in the first place.
Grace Patel
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August 29, 2026
If you've only recently started using Claude, you may have noticed something: in some conversations, Claude seems to already "know" a project's status or how you like to be addressed, without you re-explaining it. That's not a coincidence — it's Claude's Memory feature, newly launched in August 2026. Understanding how it works, what gets saved by default, and what doesn't is worth sorting out...