Field Watch — Lab

Anthropic / Claude

Last updated 20 October 2026

Why it matters

Provides models, context-management features and a memory tool whose storage is implemented by the client application. The storage and its permissions belong to the surrounding system, not the model weights. Since 23 April 2026, Claude Managed Agents also offer hosted memory stores in public beta: memories are stored as files that can be exported, shared across agents with read-only or read-write scopes, and tracked in an audit log. In the Claude app, memory from chat history has been available on all plans, including free, since 2 March 2026.

Primary sources

Status

ActiveFrontier model lab — context & memory features

Date observed: 2026-07-05

Last verified: 2026-10-20

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Last updated: 2026-10-20

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