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You most likely are referring to the local jsonl files where claude has your sessions etc stored.

It could just be the memory features.

In my enterprise-seated account I see slightly different options available (vs. my personal account) in the Capabilities section:

  Search and reference chats
  Allow Claude to search for relevant details in past chats.

  Generate memory from chat history (Legacy)
  Allow Claude to remember relevant context from your chats. Memory includes your entire chat history with Claude.

The first option was defaulted to on, if I recall.

But it kind of conflicts with the contract we have with them. My company has an enterprise contract that says "no data retention" but then each user can decide to enable it unilateral?

If you're talking about Claude Code it's in ~/.claude/projects/<encoded dir name>/memory/MEMORY.md. So they're not really retaining it, it's just something that your harness loads in.

Not Claude Code. Claude in the browser

When using the browser, what Anthropic calls Claude.ai, the memory is stored on your account on their servers.

Claude code stores memory locally on the device, similar to how a developer stores notes.

Data retention is about storing your raw conversation data.

Capabilities and Privacy settings are used to manage memory and data retention.

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