Load-Bearing: Meaning in Agent Memory
“Load-bearing” means something that is actively holding up a decision or assumption — if you removed it, things would change or break. Origin in agent memory context The phrase appears in Claude Code memory-writing guidance: Project memories decay fast, so the why helps future-you judge whether the memory is still load-bearing. What it means in practice A memory (or comment, or piece of code) is load-bearing if the reason behind it still applies. If the underlying constraint — a deadline, a stakeholder ask, an incident, an invariant — is gone, the memory is no longer load-bearing. It becomes historical trivia, and acting on it can mislead. ...