Claude Managed Agents Introduce Memory Preservation Through Periodic 'Dreaming'

Thu, 07 May 2026 01:49:00 +0200

At the Code with Claude developers' conference, Anthropic introduced a new feature for Claude Managed Agents called 'dreaming.' This process allows agents to review recent events and identify information worth preserving in memory to assist with future tasks and interactions. The feature is currently in research preview and is limited to Managed Agents on the Claude Platform. Managed Agents are designed as a higher-level solution for users who need multiple agents collaborating on tasks or projects over extended periods. Dreaming operates as a scheduled process, where past sessions and memory stores are analyzed, and significant patterns or important details are curated for long-term memory. This approach addresses a key limitation in large language models (LLMs): restricted context windows, which can result in the loss of important information during long projects. While traditional LLMs use compaction to maintain relevant details in an ongoing conversation, dreaming extends this by a