# Anthropic explains agent memory components and dreaming for Claude

> Original title: The components of agent memory

- Source: Anthropic Research
- Published: 2026-11-06T05:00:00.000Z
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- Original: https://www.anthropic.com/research/components-of-agent-memory

## Summary

Anthropic describes how Claude keeps memory notes between sessions and uses a process it calls dreaming to review transcripts, correct wrong notes, and build wikis. Its evaluations compare memory-writing rules, the Pokémon Red and CL-Bench tasks, and a wiki built from 350,000 files, where scores on 25 questions rose from 13% to 48% as dreaming scaled from two sessions to 128.

## Why it matters

The post separates memory capture from offline consolidation, with evaluations showing how note quality and wiki structure change agent performance.