{"version":"2.1.311","anchor":"memory-extraction-declare-task-option-added-default-off","canonical_anchor":"memory-extraction-declare-task-option-added-default-off","heading":"Background memory extraction can be made to run as a declared task","tier":"soon","area":"Memory","scope":"individual","heads_up":false,"url":"https:\/\/changelogs.core-directive.com\/v\/2.1.311\/e\/memory-extraction-declare-task-option-added-default-off","release_url":"https:\/\/changelogs.core-directive.com\/v\/2.1.311","markdown":"### Background memory extraction can be made to run as a declared task\n\nA new memory-extraction option, off by default, makes the background memory run register as a task that can be stopped\n\n**What**\n\nClaude Code can pull things worth remembering out of a conversation in the background. Its settings for this gain an option, `declare_task`, which is off by default. When it is on, the memory run registers itself as a task, with a way to stop it, before it starts.\n\nNothing in Claude Code turns this on. Only a setting sent by Anthropic's servers can.\n\n**Why**\n\nIf switched on, background memory extraction would appear as a declared task instead of running unseen.\n\n- Area: Memory\n- Names: `declare_task`\n- Tier: Nothing to try yet\n- Useful: 3\/5\n- Signal: 3\/5\n- Scope: individual\n- Heads-up: no\n- Present in the build but not switched on"}