Anthropic Managed Agents — Memory alternatives

Public-beta memory stores for Claude Managed Agents: workspace-scoped collections of text documents mounted into the session sandbox as a directory the agent reads and writes with its file tools; every change is versioned for audit and point-in-time restore… Full Anthropic Managed Agents — Memory record →

  1. 1 OpenAI Codex (cloud agent) Coding-agent memory

    same storage (file) · same retrieval (extraction-pull) · also offered managed · also has MCP

    OSS ✓ Self-host ✓ Managed ✓ MCP ✓ ★ 128k released 2026-10-27 Apache-2.0 (Codex CLI; cloud agent proprietary) Compare with Anthropic Managed Agents — Memory →

  2. 2 Browserbase Browser-agent memory

    same storage (file) · same retrieval (extraction-pull) · also offered managed · also has MCP

    OSS ? Self-host — Managed ✓ MCP ✓ Compare with Anthropic Managed Agents — Memory →

  3. 3 Devin (Cognition) Coding-agent memory

    same storage (file) · same retrieval (extraction-pull) · also offered managed · also has MCP

    OSS ? Self-host ✓ Managed ✓ MCP ✓ Compare with Anthropic Managed Agents — Memory →

  4. 4 Granola Voice-first / wearable AI memory

    same storage (file) · same retrieval (extraction-pull) · also offered managed · also has MCP

    OSS ? Self-host — Managed ✓ MCP ✓ Compare with Anthropic Managed Agents — Memory →

  5. 5 Otter.ai Voice-first / wearable AI memory

    same storage (file) · same retrieval (extraction-pull) · also offered managed · also has MCP

    OSS ? Self-host — Managed ✓ MCP ✓ Compare with Anthropic Managed Agents — Memory →

  6. 6 Plaud NotePin Voice-first / wearable AI memory

    same storage (file) · same retrieval (extraction-pull) · also offered managed · also has MCP

    OSS ? Self-host — Managed ✓ MCP ✓ Compare with Anthropic Managed Agents — Memory →

  7. 7 Read.ai Voice-first / wearable AI memory

    same storage (file) · same retrieval (extraction-pull) · also offered managed · also has MCP

    OSS ? Self-host — Managed ✓ MCP ✓ Compare with Anthropic Managed Agents — Memory →

  8. 8 Gemini CLI memory (save_memory / GEMINI.md) Coding-agent memory

    same storage (file) · same memory unit (file) · also has MCP

    OSS ✓ Self-host ✓ Managed ? MCP ✓ ★ 108k released 2026-10-21 Apache-2.0 Compare with Anthropic Managed Agents — Memory →

Ranked by shared memory design (storage, retrieval, conflict handling, memory unit), same section and shared must-haves (open source, self-hosting, MCP), with adoption as a tie-breaker. ✓ confirmed · — no · ? not in the catalog yet. Want picks for your own requirements? Use the chooser. Checking a whole project? Check your stack.