How Claude remembers your project changedmemory
Nearest release: v2.1.299, published an hour before upstream edited the page. Shown because the two are within 24 hours of each other. Nothing here says the release caused the edit.
Upstream edited this page at 14 Oct 2026 01:27 UTC, give or take a minute or two: the time comes from Anthropic’s own sitemap rather than from a commit. This site recorded the change at 14 Oct 2026 01:37 UTC.
Upstream edited
Recorded here
Lines+1added
Lines−1removed
From line
369
where the diff opens
First seen
14 Aug 2026
this site's first read of the page
Recorded edits43to this page, all time
The whole hunk
from line 369, old and new numbered
/
from line 369
369369
370370* **At session start**: every `AGENTS.md` and `.claude/AGENTS.md` in your working directory and the directories above it. In an interactive session you see a line such as `no CLAUDE.md found; AGENTS.md loaded: /home/you/repo/AGENTS.md` in the conversation
371371* **As Claude works in subdirectories**: a subdirectory's `AGENTS.md`, when Claude opens a file there with the Read tool and that subdirectory has none of the three `CLAUDE.md` files of its own
372* **Inside each `AGENTS.md`**: [`@path` imports](#import-additional-files) are expanded, [`claudeMdExcludes`](#exclude-specific-claude-md-files) patterns apply, and subagents that [skip project instructions](/docs/en/sub-agents#what-loads-at-startup) skip these files too
372* **Inside each `AGENTS.md`**: [`@path` imports](#import-additional-files) are expanded, [`claudeMdExcludes`](#exclude-specific-claude-md-files) patterns apply, and subagents that [start without project instructions](/docs/en/sub-agents#what-loads-at-startup) start without these files too
373373* **Not read**: `AGENTS.local.md`, `AGENTS.override.md`, or anything under a `.agents/` directory
374374
375375<Note>
No line in this hunk matches that.