Anthropic adds built-in memory to Claude Managed Agents

Anthropic says the memory layer mounts directly onto a filesystem and is optimized against its internal benchmarks for long-running agents.[1] Claude can use the same bash and code-execution capabilities that Anthropic says make it effective at agentic tasks.[1] The company says its latest models save more comprehensive, well-organized memories and are more discerning about what to remember for a given task.[1]

Anthropic says agents using memory can learn from every session and share what they have learned with one another.[1] Netflix agents, for example, carry context across sessions, including information uncovered over multiple turns and human corrections.[1] Memory stores can also be shared among multiple agents with different access scopes.[1] Anthropic says an organization-wide store can be read-only while per-user stores allow reading and writing, giving developers options for separating shared context from user-specific updates.[1] Multiple agents can work concurrently against the same store without overwriting one another.[1]

Developers can control what agents retain, and memory files can be exported and managed through the API.[1] Anthropic says developers can identify the agent and session associated with a memory, roll back to an earlier version, and redact content from memory history.[1] Memory updates appear in the Claude Console as session events.[1] Developers can get started through the Claude Console or Anthropic’s new CLI.[1] These controls give teams ways to inspect and manage memory, while leaving them responsible for deciding what agents should retain and how stores should be scoped.[1]

Anthropic says Rakuten uses memory in task-based, long-running agents to learn from sessions and avoid repeating past mistakes.[1] Rakuten says its agents delivered 97% fewer first-pass errors; cost was 27% lower and latency was 34% lower.[1] Wisedocs used cross-session memory to spot and remember recurring document issues, and document verification sped up 30%.[1] Ando is building a workplace messaging platform on Managed Agents to capture how each organization interacts.[1] Its founder, Sara Du, said memory lets the company stop building memory infrastructure and focus on its product.[1]