THE IDEA
Here’s what you need to know.
If ChatGPT already knows your projects, your style, and your preferences, you do not have to start from scratch in Claude. Claude has a built-in import that pulls all of that context across. Here is the exact process.
See the visual breakdown
- 1
Start the import in Claude
- 2
Copy Claude's prompt
- 3
Run it in ChatGPT
- 4
Paste the export back into Claude
PUT IT INTO PRACTICE
Follow the steps.
Tick off each step as you go. Your progress is saved on this browser.
- STEP 01
Go to Claude in a browser on a computer.
- STEP 02
Profile icon, then Settings, then Capabilities, then “Import memories from other AI providers”, then Start Import.
- STEP 03
Claude hands you a special prompt built to pull your context out of ChatGPT. Copy the whole thing.
- STEP 04
Open a new ChatGPT chat (memory on, desktop, a thinking model if you have one). Paste the prompt and send.
- STEP 05
It generates a structured export of what it has learned about you. Copy all of it, with nothing cut off.
- STEP 06
Return to Claude's import box and paste it in. Claude processes it and starts using it.
A FEW THINGS THAT HELP
Get more out of it.
- Review the export first and delete anything personal or outdated before importing.
- No built-in import on your AI? Use the Memory Export Prompt to do the same thing by hand.