memU journal

Ideas, releases, and the evolution of memU

Product decisions, implementation notes, and practical thinking about personal memory across agents.

Articles marked Earlier-version content are preserved for historical context and may not describe the current memU architecture or setup.

319 articles

Cover for ChatGPT Pro 500 and the Pro 200 Cut: What Changed

Current memU

memU Team

Oct 3, 2026AI Models

ChatGPT Pro 500 and the Pro 200 Cut: What Changed

OpenAI added a $500 ChatGPT Pro tier and lowered what $200 buys. What changes for existing subscribers, the dates, and how to keep your context portable.

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Cover for What Are OpenAI Dots? Always-On Agents and Memory

Current memU

memU Team

Oct 3, 2026AI Agents

What Are OpenAI Dots? Always-On Agents and Memory

OpenAI dots are always-on ChatGPT agents with their own cloud computer. What they do, who gets them, what they cost and how their memory works.

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Cover for Claude Sonnet 5.5: Benchmarks, Pricing and When to Use It

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memU Team

Sep 30, 2026AI Models

Claude Sonnet 5.5: Benchmarks, Pricing and When to Use It

Claude Sonnet 5.5 keeps Sonnet 5's $2/$10 price and nears Opus 5.5 on agent benchmarks. We cover the migration traps and the real cost per task.

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Cover for memU Gives the Ability to Remember Back to the Agent Itself — Across Sessions, Across Agents, Across Devices

Current memU

memU Team

Jul 17featured

memU Gives the Ability to Remember Back to the Agent Itself — Across Sessions, Across Agents, Across Devices

The harness has moved into the model. memU's July release deletes the pipelines, prompts, and LLM retrieval chains: the agent decides what to remember; memU just stores, embeds, and retrieves — in 474 lines, with zero LLM calls.

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Cover for Anthropic Agent Skills Turn Markdown into Reusable Claude Playbooks — But Packaged Skills Are Not Company-Wide Memory

Earlier-version content

MemU Team

Apr 01featured

Anthropic Agent Skills Turn Markdown into Reusable Claude Playbooks — But Packaged Skills Are Not Company-Wide Memory

Claude Agent Skills package runbooks and guardrails as reusable files. Static skills still need MemU for memory of real outcomes across teams.

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Cover for Claude Code Evaluation Harnesses Score Agent PRs and Diffs — But Harness Metrics Without Memory Retest the Same Edge Cases

Earlier-version content

MemU Team

Apr 01featured

Claude Code Evaluation Harnesses Score Agent PRs and Diffs — But Harness Metrics Without Memory Retest the Same Edge Cases

CI harnesses around Claude Code make agent quality measurable. Without MemU, harness scores do not compound into long-term debugging memory.

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Cover for Claude Projects Keep Long Chats Scoped — But Project Context Is Not a Shared Agent Memory Layer

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MemU Team

Apr 01featured

Claude Projects Keep Long Chats Scoped — But Project Context Is Not a Shared Agent Memory Layer

Claude Projects organize files and instructions for long threads. MemU adds API-addressable memory across chat, code agents, and automation.

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Cover for Claude Computer Use Automates Browsers and Desktops — But Ephemeral UI State Is Not Durable Operational Memory

Earlier-version content

MemU Team

Apr 01featured

Claude Computer Use Automates Browsers and Desktops — But Ephemeral UI State Is Not Durable Operational Memory

Claude Computer Use drives real UIs for legacy systems. MemU persists selector maps and outcomes when portals redesign overnight.

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Cover for CLAUDE.md Gives Claude Code a Repo Constitution — But Static Markdown Cannot Remember Yesterday's Merge Conflicts

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MemU Team

Apr 01featured

CLAUDE.md Gives Claude Code a Repo Constitution — But Static Markdown Cannot Remember Yesterday's Merge Conflicts

CLAUDE.md teaches repositories to Claude Code fast. MemU remembers migrations and incidents that markdown alone never updates automatically.

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Cover for Amazon Bedrock Serves Claude Inside VPCs for Regulated Teams — But Isolated Deployments Multiply Memory Silos

Earlier-version content

MemU Team

Apr 01featured

Amazon Bedrock Serves Claude Inside VPCs for Regulated Teams — But Isolated Deployments Multiply Memory Silos

Bedrock brings Anthropic Claude into private clouds. MemU offers a controllable memory plane across VPC-bound agent fleets.

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Cover for Claude Code Slash Commands Standardize Team Workflows — But Macros Do Not Learn From Prior Command Outcomes

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MemU Team

Apr 01featured

Claude Code Slash Commands Standardize Team Workflows — But Macros Do Not Learn From Prior Command Outcomes

Slash commands compress multi-step Claude Code flows. MemU stores failures and overrides so shortcuts get smarter over time.

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Cover for Anthropic Prompt Caching Slashes Claude Latency and Cost — But Cached Prefixes Are Not Semantic Long-Term Memory

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MemU Team

Apr 01featured

Anthropic Prompt Caching Slashes Claude Latency and Cost — But Cached Prefixes Are Not Semantic Long-Term Memory

Prompt caching cuts token spend on stable Claude prefixes. MemU holds facts that change weekly; caching holds text that stays stable.

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