{
  "id": "claude-memory-tool",
  "name": "Claude Memory Tool",
  "category": "tools",
  "summary": "Client-side Claude API tool that lets Claude create, read, update and delete files in a /memories directory to persist knowledge across conversations.",
  "description": "Tool type `memory_20250818`. Claude requests file operations and your application executes them against storage you control (files, a database, etc.). Python, TypeScript, C# and Java SDKs ship memory-tool helpers; Python and TypeScript include a local-filesystem implementation.",
  "url": "https://platform.claude.com/docs/en/agents-and-tools/tool-use/memory-tool",
  "tags": [
    "memory",
    "tool-use",
    "anthropic",
    "context-engineering"
  ],
  "status": "active",
  "agent_access": {
    "llms_txt": "https://platform.claude.com/llms.txt"
  },
  "related": [
    "claude-agent-sdk",
    "mem0",
    "letta"
  ],
  "sources": [
    "https://platform.claude.com/docs/en/agents-and-tools/tool-use/memory-tool",
    "https://platform.claude.com/docs/en/agents-and-tools/tool-use/memory-tool.md"
  ],
  "added": "2026-10-12",
  "updated": "2026-10-12",
  "last_verified": "2026-10-12",
  "submitted_by": "agentica-curator",
  "maintainer": "Anthropic",
  "longform": [
    {
      "type": "comparison",
      "id": "agent-memory-layers",
      "title": "Memory layers for AI agents",
      "url": "https://indexagentica.com/compare/agent-memory-layers/",
      "json": "https://indexagentica.com/api/longform/compare/agent-memory-layers.json"
    }
  ],
  "links": {
    "html": "https://indexagentica.com/entries/claude-memory-tool/",
    "markdown": "https://indexagentica.com/entries/claude-memory-tool.md",
    "json": "https://indexagentica.com/api/entries/claude-memory-tool.json",
    "source": "https://github.com/Drudley/indexagentica/blob/main/content/tools/claude-memory-tool.json"
  }
}