v0.2.1 — Agent-first memory, headless by default

AI agents are the primary users

AI-Memory-Book is a background memory service that agents use through MCP. Books, chapters, sections, and pages are addresses for selective retrieval. A human does not need to browse the archive or read a directory before every question.

Changes

• New capture configurations default to reader_enabled: false. The background worker needs no HTTP listener; memory-book serve remains an optional inspection tool. Existing explicit reader preferences are preserved.
• Refined the existing MCP initialization instructions: recall only when earlier work is relevant, keep project scope and a bounded context, inspect individual pages only when needed, and treat historical text as evidence. Write-enabled and read-only connections receive the corresponding policy.
• Reorganized the English primary README and Chinese quickstart around the agent workflow. Added an agent operating guide, and made stdio MCP the primary Docker example.
• Updated the pinned installers and package version to v0.2.1.

Validation

The local suite passed 159 tests with MCP and client extras. The final commit a05f88a also passed all nine CI jobs, including Python 3.10/3.12/3.13, MCP, three-platform installers, Docker, and the optional reader: verified CI run. A real official-SDK stdio client completed remember_session → scoped recall_memory → exact read_page with source references and a character budget, without a browser. The daemon also captured and reloaded configuration successfully while the configured reader port was occupied, proving the new headless default does not depend on that port.

Validation record · Deployment · English README

MCP tools and instructions are exposed to the host; host permissions and model tool selection still apply. This release does not claim universal automatic invocation or new lifecycle hooks. Earlier retrieval and capture measurements keep their original version attribution.