Hermetic local memory for coding agents: provenance-mandatory capture, honest recall, zero sockets.
Hermetic local memory for coding agents: provenance-mandatory capture, honest recall, zero sockets.
Your coding agent forgets you between sessions, so you spend every morning re-explaining decisions it was there for. Bolt a memory onto it and you usually trade that for something worse: asked a question it has nothing solid for, the memory hands back something plausible anyway, and your agent goes and edits your code with it.
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| Tool | What it does |
|---|---|
| memory_ingest | capture with a birth certificate: no source + anchor, no storage. |
| memory_retrieve | recall as evidence: grounded, missing_evidence, or an honest abstain. |
| memory_digest | session-start projection: what you know, what's ready, what's blocked. |
| memory_relate | the five edges you reach for daily, out of nine declared: supersedes, derived_from, witnesses, blocks, and falsifies (a disproven fact stops grounding recall, but the evidence stays). The other four — proposes, part_of, |
| memory_forget | tombstones with audit, never silent deletion. |
| memory_extract | text → candidate memories over the closed 10-kind set; advisory, stores nothing |
| memory_classify | kind / scope / authority / taint labels; optionally persisted as a sidecar |
| memory_import | one-shot import of native sources (CLAUDE.md, AGENTS.md, memory dirs); born tainted |
| memory_get | one full capsule by id, with GET-only fact time, relations, |
| memory_list | compact index with project fences |
| memory_bootstrap | cold-start pack: your constraints FIRST (never capped), the one next action, decisions, traps — in ≤1500 tokens |
| memory_alias | teach recall synonyms the store then honors |
| memory_vector | attach caller-fed embeddings (optional cosine lane; no embedder inside) |
| memory_visual | deterministic Mermaid projections (dag / relations / tiers / sessions), plus an MCP Apps view |
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