I specifically disabled claude memory in a project because it kept writing down thigns to memory that didn't need to be in memory, including severly wrong statements that then would confuse it later. At some point it got re-enabled automatically which had me ask claude itself to "turn it the fuck off" by which it promptly figured out that both ("autoMemoryEnabled": false, "autoDreamEnabled": false) are necessary and need to be at the user home settings, not in a project override (which is what I had with the original setup that eventually got ignored by a CC update).

I agree with other commenters here, if anything is worth being rememebered, it will be in code comments, git commit messages, CLAUDE.md or other formal documentation. The auto memory system just causes confusion and leaves stale and outdated information written down.

Its an interesting thought experiment as well, I originally thought that having the model write down memory files by itself would be a nice addition, but after playing around with it, it became clear to me that good as an idea turns out bad in practice because the model can't correctly gauge what deserves being stored as a memory.

Ugh, agentic _dreaming_. Why on earth would I want that?

> "turn it the fuck off" -> "autoDreamEnabled": false

So you told it don't go the fuck to sleep ;)