Unclear What the account-related value holds and what it is used for is not clear.
What
When you turn auto memory on or off, through the toggle in /memory or by changing the setting, Claude Code no longer writes only autoMemoryEnabled. It also merges an account-related value into your user settings at the same time. This part may not be present in every build of Claude Code.
Why
Your user settings may gain an extra account-related entry when you switch auto memory.
Names in the bundleautoMemoryEnabled/memory
Documented inclaude-code/agent-sdk/claude-code-features
The entry above is what we published on the day. These lines were added later, as Anthropic's own pages caught up, and they sit beside the original rather than replacing it.
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Anthropic's documentation has since written up autoMemoryEnabled, on How Claude remembers your project.
To toggle it, open `/memory` in a session and use the auto memory toggle, which saves `autoMemoryEnabled` to your user settings at `~/.claude/settings.json`.memory see the edit
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A small documentation edit on How Claude remembers your project touched a line naming autoMemoryEnabled after this was published.
To toggle it, open `/memory` in a session and use the auto memory toggle, which saves `autoMemoryEnabled` to your user settings at `~/.claude/settings.json`. To turn it off for a single project, set `autoMemoryEnabled` in that project's se…memory see the edit
Added since
A small documentation edit on How Claude remembers your project touched a line naming /memory after this was published.
To toggle it, open `/memory` in a session and use the auto memory toggle, which saves `autoMemoryEnabled` to your user settings at `~/.claude/settings.json`. To turn it off for a single project, set `autoMemoryEnabled` in that project's se…memory see the edit
Confirmed since
Anthropic's documentation has since written up /memory, on All settings.
When [`autoMemoryDirectory`](#automemorydirectory) comes from the project's `.claude/settings.json`, or from a `.claude/settings.local.json` [treated as repository-supplied](/docs/en/permissions#when-your-local-settings-file-needs-trust), …settings-reference see the edit
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What the account-related value holds and what it is used for is not clear.
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Anthropic's documentation has since written up /memory, on All settings.