Anthropic Merges Claude Chat and Cowork Memory Into One Store, Enabled by Default on Free Tier
Anthropic·high signal
Anthropic unified the memory systems behind Claude chat and Claude Cowork so context learned in one surface carries into the other, and shipped a UI that lets users read, edit and delete individual memories. By default Claude refuses to store sensitive categories including health data, race, ethnicity, religion, politics and gender identity, with an explicit opt-in to enable them. Memory is on by default for Free, Pro and Max accounts, which makes this the first time cross-surface persistent memory ships to the free tier.