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The model stops carrying you around and starts looking you up."})]}),e.jsxs("section",{className:"mx-auto max-w-3xl px-6 py-8 space-y-4 text-ink/80 leading-relaxed",children:[e.jsx("h2",{className:"font-serif text-2xl md:text-3xl text-ink !mt-4",children:"Carrying versus querying"}),e.jsxs("p",{children:["Built-in memory is ",e.jsx("em",{children:"carried"}),". Every saved fact is injected into every conversation whether it is relevant or not, which is exactly why it has to stay around 1,200–2,000 tokens. Multiply a larger bucket by hundreds of millions of users and the arithmetic stops working."]}),e.jsxs("p",{children:["An MCP memory server is ",e.jsx("em",{children:"queried"}),". Nothing is injected up front. When the model needs to know how you like documents structured, it calls a tool and asks. Cost scales with relevance rather than with the size of your history, which is why the ceiling effectively disappears."]})]}),e.jsxs("section",{className:"mx-auto max-w-3xl px-6 py-8 space-y-4 text-ink/80 leading-relaxed",children:[e.jsx("h2",{className:"font-serif text-2xl md:text-3xl text-ink",children:"What that changes in practice"}),e.jsx("div",{className:"overflow-x-auto rounded-xl border border-border/60",children:e.jsxs("table",{className:"w-full text-sm",children:[e.jsx("thead",{className:"bg-muted/40 text-ink",children:e.jsxs("tr",{children:[e.jsx("th",{className:"text-left p-3 font-medium",children:" "}),e.jsx("th",{className:"text-left p-3 font-medium",children:"Built-in memory"}),e.jsx("th",{className:"text-left p-3 font-medium",children:"MCP memory server"})]})}),e.jsxs("tbody",{className:"divide-y divide-border/50",children:[e.jsxs("tr",{children:[e.jsx("td",{className:"p-3 text-ink",children:"Size"}),e.jsx("td",{className:"p-3",children:"~8–12 short facts"}),e.jsx("td",{className:"p-3",children:"No practical ceiling"})]}),e.jsxs("tr",{children:[e.jsx("td",{className:"p-3 text-ink",children:"Setup"}),e.jsx("td",{className:"p-3",children:"None"}),e.jsx("td",{className:"p-3",children:"Developer mode plus a URL"})]}),e.jsxs("tr",{children:[e.jsx("td",{className:"p-3 text-ink",children:"Exportable"}),e.jsx("td",{className:"p-3",children:"No"}),e.jsx("td",{className:"p-3",children:"Yes — it is your store"})]}),e.jsxs("tr",{children:[e.jsx("td",{className:"p-3 text-ink",children:"Works in Claude too"}),e.jsx("td",{className:"p-3",children:"No"}),e.jsx("td",{className:"p-3",children:"Yes, same server"})]}),e.jsxs("tr",{children:[e.jsx("td",{className:"p-3 text-ink",children:"Survives a model change"}),e.jsx("td",{className:"p-3",children:"Not guaranteed"}),e.jsx("td",{className:"p-3",children:"Yes"})]}),e.jsxs("tr",{children:[e.jsx("td",{className:"p-3 text-ink",children:"Works on mobile"}),e.jsx("td",{className:"p-3",children:"Yes"}),e.jsx("td",{className:"p-3",children:"No — web only"})]})]})]})}),e.jsx("p",{children:"That last row is a real limitation, not a footnote. Developer mode is web-only, so an MCP-backed memory does not follow you to the phone. For most people the honest answer is to use both: built-in memory for the handful of facts that should always be present, MCP for the depth."})]}),e.jsx("section",{className:"mx-auto max-w-3xl px-6 py-6",children:e.jsxs("div",{className:"rounded-xl border border-border/60 bg-muted/30 p-5",children:[e.jsx("p",{className:"text-xs uppercase tracking-wider text-ink/50 mb-2",children:"Short answer"}),e.jsx("p",{className:"text-ink leading-relaxed",children:"MCP does not make ChatGPT's memory bigger. It makes the size of ChatGPT's memory stop mattering, by putting the real store outside and letting the model ask. 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