{"type":"post","id":"the-components-of-agent-memory-anthropic-540230","slug":"the-components-of-agent-memory-anthropic-540230","title":"The components of agent memory \\ Anthropic","description":"Anthropic’s engineering team describes Claude’s agent memory as persistent knowledge built from experience, organized through selective notes and reviewed through an offline process it calls “dreaming.” Its evaluations suggest that memory quality depends less on accumulating records than on","retrieval_nugget":"Anthropic’s engineering team describes Claude’s agent memory as persistent knowledge built from experience, organized through selective notes and reviewed through an offline process it calls “dreaming.” Its evaluations suggest that memory quality depends less on accumulating records than on retaining useful, verified rules and correcting them when they drift.","published_at":"2026-11-06","updated_at":"2026-11-06","record_date":"2026-11-06","date_kind":"published_at","topics":["anthropic","claude","agent-memory"],"entities":["Anthropic","Claude","Claude Managed Agents","Continual Learning Bench","Pokémon Red"],"related_patterns":["company-memory-needs-write-loops"],"novelty_label":"new_fact","what_changed":"Anthropic details how agent-memory components work and reports evaluations of how dreaming can correct mistakes, create notes, and organize Claude’s memories.","prior_refs":[],"source_url":"https://www.anthropic.com/research/components-of-agent-memory","source_urls":["https://www.anthropic.com/research/components-of-agent-memory"],"schema_version":"newruntime-agent-readable-v0.2","stable_id":"post:the-components-of-agent-memory-anthropic-540230","status":"published","visuals":[],"editor":{"role":"editor","name":"Andrey Reshetnikov","profile":"https://newruntime.com/owner-profile.md","profile_json":"https://newruntime.com/owner-profile.json","same_as":["https://www.linkedin.com/in/reshetnikov1/","https://t.me/lapetuse"]},"routes":{"html":"https://newruntime.com/posts/the-components-of-agent-memory-anthropic-540230/","markdown":"https://newruntime.com/posts/the-components-of-agent-memory-anthropic-540230.md","json":"https://newruntime.com/posts/the-components-of-agent-memory-anthropic-540230.json"},"markdown_url":"https://newruntime.com/posts/the-components-of-agent-memory-anthropic-540230.md","next_reads":[{"type":"topic","path":"/topics/anthropic/","url":"https://newruntime.com/topics/anthropic/","title":"Anthropic","reason":"Explore the anthropic topic hub.","media_type":"text/html","markdown_url":"https://newruntime.com/topics/anthropic.md","json_url":"https://newruntime.com/topics/anthropic.json"},{"type":"topic","path":"/topics/claude/","url":"https://newruntime.com/topics/claude/","title":"Claude","reason":"Explore the claude topic hub.","media_type":"text/html","markdown_url":"https://newruntime.com/topics/claude.md","json_url":"https://newruntime.com/topics/claude.json"},{"type":"topic","path":"/topics/agent-memory/","url":"https://newruntime.com/topics/agent-memory/","title":"Agent Memory","reason":"Explore the agent-memory topic hub.","media_type":"text/html","markdown_url":"https://newruntime.com/topics/agent-memory.md","json_url":"https://newruntime.com/topics/agent-memory.json"},{"type":"collection","path":"/posts/","url":"https://newruntime.com/posts/","title":"Field Notes","reason":"Open the latest editorial analysis.","media_type":"text/html","json_url":"https://newruntime.com/posts.json"},{"type":"collection","path":"/sources/","url":"https://newruntime.com/sources/","title":"Sources","reason":"See the original sources this archive cites.","media_type":"text/html"}]}