07-08
12-step guide to persistent memory for Claude agents
A practical 12-step walkthrough for giving Claude agents persistent memory across sessions. Covers four layers: built-in Chat Memory, Project instructions, a lean memory file (CLAUDE.md), and Dreaming – a scheduled background process that consolidates and reorganized memory. Includes setup steps, API calls, and advice on filtering what to remember. Harvey reported ~6x task-completion rate improvement with Dreaming. Ideal for engineers building long-running agents.