With no writable team memory, Claude is no longer told how to save memories.
What's wrong with this entry?
When your project has no writable team memory location, the instructions telling the model how to save memories are dropped from its prompt entirely, leaving only a statement that access is read-only.
- The removed block is the "## How to save memories" section.
- What remains: "You have read-only access to team memory synced from your project. You cannot persist new memories in this session."
- A shorter one-step variant of the save instructions is used when no index is required.
You have read-only access to team memory synced from your project. You cannot persist new memories in this session.
Strings lifted out of the shipped bundle, so the claim above can be checked against them.