See also: the AI Plays Pokemon project that went megaviral a year or so ago, using CNNs and RL instead of LLMs: https://github.com/PWhiddy/PokemonRedExperiments

> I believe that Claude Plays Pokemon isn't doing any of the memory parsing I spent a ton of time, they are just streaming the memory directly to Claude 3.7 and it is figuring it out

It is implied they are using structured Pokemon data from the LLM and saving it as a knowledge base. That is the only way they can get live Pokemon party data to display in the UI: https://www.twitch.tv/claudeplayspokemon

The AI Plays Pokemon project above does note some of the memory addresses where that data is contained, since it used that data to calculate the reward for the PPO.