Claude's memory now works across both chats and Cowork sessions - Engadget

Plus, Anthropic is giving users more control over what memories Claude saves. Since last summer, Claude has had the ability to remember past conversations, but often those "memories" have been fragmented. Sometimes by design, and at other times due to limitations in Claude's architecture. That's partly changing today, with Anthropic releasing a major update to its memory feature set. The company's models can now access and carry over memories across both Claude the chatbot and Claude Cowork. Cowork, if you need a reminder, is the computer use agent Anthropic released at the start of the year. You can use it to automate rote tasks you repeat often through the day. "When Cowork runs a task in the cloud, what Claude remembers from your chats is there, and vice versa," says Anthropic. In practice, this means you'll need to repeat yourself less often when using Cowork since Claude will have access to context from your chats. Today's update is well-timed since it builds on a recent upgrade Anthropic released for its Claude for Chrome browser extension where it made Cowork available through the plugin. Since that change, conversations you have in the Chrome side panel now become part of y