mem01

Self-hosted long-term memory for AI agents.

mem01 extracts durable facts from conversation, stores them as beliefs with an explicit lifecycle (ADD / UPDATE / SUPERSEDE / INVALIDATE / MERGE), and retrieves a token-budgeted, conflict-filtered context block on each turn. Writes may call an LLM once per batch; reads do not call an LLM.

Deploy	Self-hosted (your infrastructure)
Store	PostgreSQL + pgvector
Interfaces	HTTP API, Python SDK
Requirements	Docker (recommended), OpenAI-compatible API key for extraction/embeddings

Product intent and constraints: PRODUCT.md.

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Architecture

Agents / apps
     │  HTTP or Python SDK
     ▼
┌──────────────────┐      ┌─────────────────────────┐
│  mem01 API       │─────▶│  PostgreSQL + pgvector  │
│  (FastAPI)       │      │  beliefs + embeddings   │
└──────────────────┘      └─────────────────────────┘

Path	Behavior
Write (remember)	Messages → LLM extraction → belief ops → embed → Postgres
Read (recall)	Embed query → vector search + scope filters → conflict rules → token packer → context string

Default model stack (configurable): OpenAI chat for extraction, text-embedding-3-small (1536-d) for vectors. Anthropic is supported for extraction; embeddings still need an embedding provider.

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Quick start

1. Configure

cp .env.example .env

Set at least:

OPENAI_API_KEY=sk-...

Docker Compose sets DATABASE_URL for the API container. Host-side Python tools should use:

DATABASE_URL=postgresql://mem01:mem01@localhost:5433/mem01

2. Run the stack

docker compose up -d --build

Service	Address
API	http://localhost:8080
OpenAPI	http://localhost:8080/docs
Health	http://localhost:8080/health
PostgreSQL	localhost:5433 (user / password / db: mem01)

3. Call the API

curl -s http://localhost:8080/v1/remember \
  -H 'Content-Type: application/json' \
  -d '{
    "user_id": "user_1",
    "messages": [{"role": "user", "content": "I live in San Francisco."}]
  }'

curl -s http://localhost:8080/v1/recall \
  -H 'Content-Type: application/json' \
  -d '{
    "user_id": "user_1",
    "query": "Where does the user live?",
    "max_memory_tokens": 800
  }'

Stop:

docker compose down

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HTTP API

Method	Path	Description
GET	/health	Process liveness
POST	/v1/remember	Ingest messages; extract and apply belief operations
POST	/v1/recall	Retrieve a budgeted memory block for a query (include_history optional)
POST	/v1/history	Full belief timeline (active + superseded + invalidated)
POST	/v1/correct	Supersede a belief by id with a corrected value
POST	/v1/forget	Invalidate a belief by id

Request shapes

POST /v1/remember

{
  "user_id": "user_1",
  "project_id": "optional",
  "messages": [
    {"role": "user", "content": "..."},
    {"role": "assistant", "content": "..."}
  ]
}

POST /v1/recall

{
  "user_id": "user_1",
  "query": "Where does the user live?",
  "max_memory_tokens": 800,
  "k": 20,
  "include_history": false
}

• Default (include_history: false): active only — single current truth for the agent.
• include_history: true: also returns superseded/invalidated, labeled as [active] / [superseded] so temporal questions (“before SF?”) work without polluting every turn.

POST /v1/history

{
  "user_id": "user_1",
  "include_invalidated": true,
  "limit": 100
}

Chronological audit timeline (no vector search). Use for admin UI, medical-style charts, or “show me what changed.”

POST /v1/correct

{
  "memory_id": "bel_...",
  "new_value": "User lives in Oakland",
  "confidence": 0.95
}

POST /v1/forget

{
  "memory_id": "bel_...",
  "reason": "optional"
}

Interactive schema: http://localhost:8080/docs

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Python SDK

python3 -m venv .venv
source .venv/bin/activate
pip install -e ".[dev,openai]"

Ensure Postgres is running (docker compose up -d or your own instance) and DATABASE_URL is set in .env.

from mem01 import MemoryClient, create_belief_store
from mem01.embeddings.openai_embedder import OpenAIEmbedder
from mem01.llm.openai_compat import OpenAICompatLLM

store = create_belief_store()  # requires DATABASE_URL → Postgres + pgvector
client = MemoryClient(
    store=store,
    embedder=OpenAIEmbedder(),
    llm=OpenAICompatLLM(),
)

client.remember(
    [{"role": "user", "content": "I prefer TypeScript."}],
    user_id="user_1",
)
block = client.recall("language preference", user_id="user_1", max_memory_tokens=800)
print(block.text, block.tokens_used, block.latency_ms)

Method	Description
remember(messages, user_id=...)	Extract ops and persist
recall(query, user_id=..., max_memory_tokens=800)	Retrieve packed context
correct(memory_id, new_value)	Supersede by id
forget(memory_id)	Invalidate by id

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Configuration

Variable	Required	Description
OPENAI_API_KEY	For real extract/embed	OpenAI (or compatible) API key
DATABASE_URL	For API / SDK	postgresql://... (Docker host: port 5433)
MEM01_EMBEDDING_DIM	No (default 1536)	Must match embedding model dimensions
OPENAI_BASE_URL	No	Custom OpenAI-compatible base URL
MEM01_LLM_MODEL	No	Extraction model name
MEM01_EMBED_MODEL	No	Embedding model name

Neon: use a Neon connection string as DATABASE_URL (include sslmode=require). No application code changes.

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Belief model (summary)

Stored units are beliefs, not raw chat chunks. Operations:

Op	Effect
ADD	Insert active belief
UPDATE	Revise content/confidence in place
SUPERSEDE	New active belief; previous marked superseded
INVALIDATE	Soft-delete (excluded from default recall)
MERGE	Collapse duplicates into one canonical belief

Scopes: user, project, agent, session. Default sharing is user- and project-level.

Full design: PRODUCT.md.

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Development

# Stack
docker compose up -d --build

# Tests (unit tests use an in-process store; Postgres tests need DATABASE_URL)
source .venv/bin/activate
pip install -e ".[dev,openai]"
pytest

# Postgres integration tests
export DATABASE_URL=postgresql://mem01:mem01@localhost:5433/mem01
pytest tests/test_postgres_store.py

Repository layout:

Path	Role
src/mem01/	Library and API
src/mem01/api/app.py	FastAPI application
src/mem01/store/postgres_store.py	Postgres + pgvector backend
docker-compose.yml	API + database
examples/basic_usage.py	CLI walkthrough

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Status

Component	Status
Belief store + ops	Implemented
Write path (extract → apply)	Implemented
Read path (search → conflict → pack)	Implemented
HTTP API + Docker Compose	Implemented
MCP server	Not yet
Background consolidation	Not yet
Multi-tenant hosted SaaS	Out of scope for v1

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License

See repository license file when published.