[jrockway]

If you're talking about Claude Code it's in ~/.claude/projects/<encoded dir name>/memory/MEMORY.md. So they're not really retaining it, it's just something that your harness loads in.

[gonzalohm]

Not Claude Code. Claude in the browser

[sharken]

When using the browser, what Anthropic calls Claude.ai, the memory is stored on your account on their servers.

Claude code stores memory locally on the device, similar to how a developer stores notes.

Data retention is about storing your raw conversation data.

Capabilities and Privacy settings are used to manage memory and data retention.