Definition
Plain language
The four basic things you can do to a stored record: create it, read it, change it, or delete it.
As stated in the literature
Create, Read, Update, Delete — the canonical operations on persistent data; contrasted in Auto-Dreamer with wholesale region-rewriting memory management, where the consolidator synthesizes a fresh replacement set instead of editing entries one at a time.
Why it matters: It names the basic vocabulary of working with stored data, so designers can reason clearly about what any data system must support.
For example, a contacts app lets you add a new contact, look one up, edit a phone number, or remove a contact entirely.
Heard on the show
“The intuitive way to build this is what you'd call CRUD-style memory management.”Episode 064 — When Agent Memory Stops Being a Database and Starts Being a Skill