Plain-language definitions of the concepts behind code-anchored context, repo memory, and AI-native engineering.
Context drift is when written documentation no longer matches the code it describes — the docs say one thing, the system does another.
Code-anchored context is team knowledge attached directly to the files and globs it describes, instead of living in a separate wiki.
Repo memory is durable team knowledge about a codebase — decisions, gotchas, invariants — that persists across sessions, people, and AI agents.
AGENTS.md is a convention for a repository file that tells AI coding agents how to work in that codebase — the agent-readable counterpart to a README.