Anthropic Unifies Claude's Memory Systems, Enabling Real-Time Context Sharing Across Chat and Cowork

Anthropic unifies Claude's memory systems across Chat and Cowork, enabling real-time, bidirectional context sharing by default for Free, Pro, and Max users, while automatically excluding sensitive topics like health and politics from storage.

• Anthropic merges the memory systems behind Claude chat and Claude Cowork, enabling context to flow bidirectionally between the two, with the feature turned on by default for Free, Pro, and Max plan users across web, desktop, and mobile.
• Memory now updates in real time during conversations rather than waiting until a conversation ends, meaning details shared mid-chat are immediately available in future sessions without users needing to issue explicit save commands.
• Sensitive topics such as health, politics, and gender identity are excluded from memory storage by default and require manual opt-in, while certain data like government ID numbers and immigration status are permanently blocked from being stored, and Claude Code remains outside this unified memory system entirely.