Claude's shared memory has no wall between chat and Cowork

Anthropic on Tuesday unified the memory of its Claude chatbot and Cowork assistant into a shared memory. It set the system to leave out delicate topics like health, politics, and gender identity unless a user turns them on.

The change applies to anyone on Claude’s Free, Pro, or Max plans, where memory is now on by default and follows the user between casual chat and automated work tasks.

One memory that travels between chat and Cowork

Cowork, the assistant Anthropic built to do office work like turning a spreadsheet into a report, and Claude’s conversational chatbot kept separate memories of a user.

Anthropic said the two now share one memory. A detail that was mentioned in chat is available when Cowork later runs a task in the cloud, and anything that surfaced during a Cowork job flows back the other way.

The update removes the need to rebrief an AI on facts it should have. Anthropic’s own example has Cowork writing an update for a manager, and knowing who she is and how she likes updates written because the user told the chatbot earlier.

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