Claude Code Memory: Why You Keep Explaining the Same Thing to Claude (and the Five Layers That Fix It) (opens in new tab)

Last Updated on May 27, 2026 by Editorial Team Author(s): Rick Hightower Originally published on Towards AI. Part 7: The five layers of Claude Code memory that stop your AI from repeating its mistakes, and how to route each fact to the right one. You tell Claude Code that your project uses pnpm, not npm. You tell it the auth service signs JWTs with RS256, not HS256. You tell it tests live in tests/ and mirror the source path. Useful facts, all of them. Then tomorrow you open a fresh session, ...