Claude Code adds Auto Dream memory cleanup

This is less "infinite memory" than memory hygiene, and that's exactly why it matters: long-lived coding agents fail when their notes drift, not when they lack raw storage. Auto Dream looks like a quiet reliability upgrade that should make Claude Code feel steadier after days or weeks of work.

• –The consolidation step does the boring-but-important work humans skip: deduping notes, deleting contradicted facts, and turning "yesterday" into an absolute date.
• –That turns memory into a curated project notebook, not a pile of self-referential chat crumbs.
• –The product docs still describe a bounded index plus topic files loaded on demand, so the win is curation, not limitless recall.
• –Because memory is project-scoped and machine-local, the benefit is consistency inside a repo, not some magical cross-project omniscience.
• –For power users, the payoff is fewer manual /memory cleanups and fewer stale architecture choices resurfacing weeks later.