Definition
Plain language
The moment an assistant's conversation is wiped, so anything it wants to remember must be written down first.
As stated in the literature
The point between episodes where conversational context is discarded and only externalized memory (a notebook, file, or store) survives; carrying a stated plan across it is a distinct failure mode from failing to form the plan.
Why it matters: It separates two very different failures — never forming a plan versus forming one and losing it — which matters for any assistant expected to work across many sessions.
For example, an assistant decides at the end of a session to renew a key contract next month, but never writes it down, so the next session starts with no idea that plan ever existed.
Heard on the show
“… What breaks is the transmission from a stated plan to an executed action across an amnesia boundary — the intent gets written down, and then the next stranger picks up the clipboard and firefights …”Episode 245 — Fifteen Models Ran Football Clubs for Twenty Years, and Size Didn't Decide It