Anthropic Managed Agents — Memory
https://platform.claude.com/docs/en/managed-agents/overview
Mounts memory as files on a managed filesystem; Claude reads and writes via the same bash/code-execution tools used for agentic tasks. Unit of storage is a file — inspectable, editable, exportable by developers. Full audit log per session. Memory beta launched April 23, 2026, two weeks after Managed Agents itself launched April 8.
At a glance
- Type
- Filesystem-backed cross-session persistent memory
- Tier
- T3
- Section
- Platform-provider memory
- Created
- 2026-04-08 (Managed Agents GA); 2026-04-23 (Memory beta added)
- Latest release
- not applicable — not OSS
- License
- not applicable — not OSS
- GitHub
- not applicable — no GitHub repo
- Pricing
- Claude API token rates + $0.08 per session-hour for Managed Agents
- Funding
- Anthropic $12.4B+ raised; $40B valuation
Taxonomy
- storage
- file
- retrieval
- extraction-pull
- persistence
- cross-session
- update
- agent-controlled
- unit
- file
- governance
- inspectable
- conflict
- none
When to use
Optimised for: filesystem-as-memory + tool-driven persistence
Anti-fit: not for non-Claude providers
Pros & cons
Pros
Filesystem metaphor aligns with Claude's existing tool-use primitives; no separate embedding pipeline; human-auditable without special tooling.
Cons
Memory granularity and eviction policy not yet documented publicly; filesystem-as-memory has known scalability limits at large knowledge volumes; beta status means API surface may change.
Claims & capabilities
Rakuten reported 97% fewer first-pass errors, 27% lower cost, 34% lower latency in early-adopter usage.
Technical surface
- API surface
- not applicable — research paper
- Backend storage
- not applicable — research paper
- Deployment
- Managed-only (hosted Anthropic infrastructure)
- Embedding model
- not applicable — research paper
- Multi-tenancy
- not applicable — research paper
- MCP
- native (first-party) — Anthropic created MCP
- A2A
- not supported
- OpenTelemetry
- OpenTelemetry traces via Anthropic Console + OTLP export for Enterprise
Similar systems
Other platform-provider memory in the catalog, ranked by inbound references.
- AWS Bedrock AgentCore Memory T2
AWS managed memory service for agents running on Bedrock AgentCore. Native integrations with LangChain/LangGraph and Strands. Drives long-running MCP servers + agent workloads.
- Anthropic Claude Memory T1
Memory tool API + consumer "Memory" feature + Auto Dream consolidation. Document-as-memory rather than extracted-fact-as-memory.
- Cloudflare Agent Memory T2
Managed persistent memory service for AI agents on Cloudflare's edge. Beta-launched April 2026. Sits alongside Workers AI / Vectorize as the memory tier of the Cloudflare agent stack.
- Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform Memory Bank (rebrand of Vertex AI Memory Bank) T1
GA at Google Cloud Next 2026 (2026-04-22). Vertex AI rebranded as Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform; Memory Bank now "Agent Platform Memory Bank" with new continuous event-streaming + automated memory generation triggered by configurable criteria (event count or idle time). Backed by Agent Runtime that supports long-running agents that maintain state for days. Note: separate "Memory Profiles" feature reported in TheNextWeb but not surfaced in official Google Cloud release notes — treated here as unconfirmed.
- Google Gemini Memory T1
Personal Context setting + Personal Intelligence packing. Memory import from ChatGPT/Claude (Mar 2026).
- Grok Memory (xAI) T1
Extracts and persists facts from past conversations; applies them to future responses. Per-memory deletion UI; user can also clear all.
Related systems
References (1)
- Anthropic Claude (foundation models) depends on at runtime — adjacent-infrastructure cell: requires Claude API + managed filesystem