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title: "OpenAI Memory: Behind the Walled Garden"
url: https://mdfy.app/ycd02zOQ
updated: 2026-05-04T22:07:00.921Z
source: "mdfy.app"
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# OpenAI Memory: Behind the Walled Garden

ChatGPT's "Memory" feature is closed. Memories live in OpenAI's database,
shaped by their extraction model, only retrievable inside ChatGPT.

## What that means in practice
- Switch to Claude → memories don't follow
- Want to inspect what's stored → opaque
- Want to deploy "what ChatGPT knows about my project" to Cursor → can't

## The lock-in
Memory is the new vendor lock-in. Whoever owns your memory layer owns
the multi-AI workflow. mdfy bets on the opposite: memory you author,
URLs you paste anywhere.