Looking at Anthropic’s documentation of the feature, it seems like it does support searching past chats, but has other effects as well. Quoting selectively:
You can now prompt Claude to search through your previous conversations to find and reference relevant information in new chats. Additionally, Claude can remember context from previous chats, creating continuity across your conversations.
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Claude can now generate memory based on your chat history. With the addition of memory, Claude transforms from a stateless chat interface into a knowledgeable collaborator that builds understanding over time.
They also say that you can ‘see exactly what Claude remembers about you by navigating to Settings > Capabilities and clicking “View and edit memory”’, but that setting doesn’t exist for me.
Looking at Anthropic’s documentation of the feature, it seems like it does support searching past chats, but has other effects as well. Quoting selectively:
They also say that you can ‘see exactly what Claude remembers about you by navigating to Settings > Capabilities and clicking “View and edit memory”’, but that setting doesn’t exist for me.