diff --git a/_posts/2026-06-25-claude-memory-map.md b/_posts/2026-06-25-claude-memory-map.md new file mode 100644 index 000000000..06c3b190b --- /dev/null +++ b/_posts/2026-06-25-claude-memory-map.md @@ -0,0 +1,50 @@ +--- +title: A map of what Claude actually remembers +slug: claude-memory-map +date: 2026-06-25 09:00:00 -0400 +excerpt: Claude keeps separate memories in different places, and which ones + follow you around depends entirely on how you use it. So I built an + interactive map. +published: true +--- +Claude's memory is scattered across more places than most people realize — and +which memories follow you around depends entirely on *how* you're using it. A +standalone chat draws on your account-level memory; a chat inside a Project +draws on that Project's own store instead. Claude Code running in WSL keeps a +set of notes your Windows-side Claude Code never sees. Claude Code on the web +reads only the repo's `CLAUDE.md` and nothing else. Cowork has its own +per-project memory again. + +I kept having to re-derive all of this from memory — ironically — every time +someone asked me "wait, will it remember that?" So I built a small thing to +answer the question once: an interactive map of every place Claude stores +something, and how it flows in and out. + +Check the ways you actually use Claude and the diagram composes itself — no +pre-baked variants, it's generated live from your selection. There's a scope +lens to ask the two questions that usually matter ("what follows me across +projects?" vs. "what stays put?"), and a toggle for the full, official +Anthropic terminology when you want the precise names rather than the friendly +ones. It's one self-contained page; nothing you check is sent anywhere. + +The permanent home is here — **[Claude Memory Map](/tools/claude-memory-map/)** — +and it's embedded below so you can poke at it without leaving the page: + + +
+ + +The whole thing is open source — the +[code is on GitHub](https://github.com/Adam-S-Daniel/claude-memory-map) — and +every store, edge, and label traces back to documented Anthropic behavior +(where the docs and the shipping app disagreed, the app won). If you spot +something that's drifted out of date, a pull request or a note is very welcome.