abmind

Persistent memory system for AI agents — store, recall, consolidate, and forget.

Built for multilingual agents that run 24/7 — not a vector DB wrapper. SQLite-backed, 4-layer recall (FTS5 + trigram + embeddings + consolidated summaries), overnight sleep maintenance, injection detection, context orchestration, and a classification system inspired by NATO Admiralty Codes.

Version: 0.2.7 | Docs: Wiki | License: Apache 2.0

Install

See the installation guide for setup instructions, prerequisites, and configuration.

Architecture

┌─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐
│                         INGEST                                   │
│  message → recordMessage() → messages table → inline extraction │
│                                    ↓                            │
│                          extracted_memories                      │
│                     (typed, classified, scored)                  │
└─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘
                              ↓
┌─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐
│                         RECALL                                   │
│  query → 4-layer search:                                        │
│    S1: FTS5 full-text (English)                                 │
│    S2: FTS5 full-text (original language)                       │
│    S3: trigram fuzzy match                                      │
│    S4: semantic embedding (cosine similarity)                   │
│  → ranked, deduplicated, classification-gated                   │
└─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘
                              ↓
┌─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐
│                     SLEEP (nightly maintenance)                   │
│  daily-summary → extraction → retrospective → topic-assignment  │
│  → darwinism (promote/demote/merge) → translation → emotion-arc │
│  → consolidation → garbage collection                           │
└─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘

Features

Agglutinating Language Support

Most memory systems tokenize on word boundaries — catastrophic for Japanese, Turkish, Hungarian, and other languages where a single word carries dense meaning. Japanese has no spaces ("食べさせられなかった" = "was not able to be made to eat"), Turkish compounds freely ("yapabildiklerimizdenmişsinizcesine" = "as if you were among those we could do"), Hungarian packs sentences into one word ("megcsináltattam" = "I had it done by someone"). abmind uses trigram fuzzy search alongside FTS5, so recall works regardless of morphology, word boundaries, or compounding. Store in any language, recall in any language.

Credential Vault

When your agent receives a secret (API key, token, password):

1. Encrypts it at rest (AES-256-GCM) as a SECRET memory (class 3)
2. Immediately redacts the raw credential from conversation history
3. Only the owner can retrieve it (classification-gated recall)
4. Backups and exports never contain raw credentials

Your agent remembers secrets without leaking them.

Multi-Resolution Context

Context assembly at three zoom levels — 3× more coverage in the same token budget:

• Recent — full verbatim conversation (last N turns)
• Session — compressed per-turn atoms (ABM-L format, 3× token reduction)
• Long-term — thematic summaries + recalled memories from weeks/months ago

The agent remembers last week's decisions AND this morning's details.

Sleep Maintenance (Dreamy)

Nightly background process that curates memory like human sleep:

• Extracts facts, decisions, preferences from the day's conversations
• Consolidates daily → weekly → quarterly summaries
• Detects contradictions ("you said X last week but Y today")
• Prunes stale memories (Memory Darwinism — unused memories fade)
• Promotes frequently-recalled memories, demotes stale ones
• 10-14 LLM calls per cycle, fully autonomous

Recall (4 layers, ranked)

• FTS5 — full-text search on English and original content
• Trigram — fuzzy matching for typos, partial words, agglutinating morphology
• Embeddings — semantic similarity via Ollama or any OpenAI-compatible endpoint
• Consolidated summaries — weekly/quarterly rollups searchable as memories

Results ranked by relevance across all layers. No single layer is a bottleneck.

Classification (NATO Admiralty Codes)

• Classification — 0 (public) → 1 (internal) → 2 (confidential) → 3 (secret/encrypted)
• Trust / Integrity / Credibility — per-memory quality scores
• Access control — recall filters by user clearance level automatically
• Multi-user isolation — each user's memories scoped, no cross-user leakage

Injection Detection

• 14 detection categories (prompt injection, jailbreak, role hijack, etc.)
• Blocks malicious input before it enters the memory store
• Configurable sensitivity per category

Works Everywhere

Not locked to one CLI or framework:

| Path | Use for | |---|---| | abTARS | In-process memory for the autonomous bridge | | Hermes Agent | Plugin-compatible memory backend | | OpenClaw | Native memory slot replacement | | Library (import { MemoryManager } from "abmind") | Any Node.js agent | | MCP server (abmind mcp) | Editors + hosts with MCP support | | CLI (abmind store/recall/...) | Shell scripts, automation | | Agent hooks | Kiro CLI, Claude Code, Gemini CLI, Codex |

CLI

# Store and recall
abmind store --translated "User prefers dark mode" --memory-type preference --chat-id 0
abmind recall --translated "dark mode" --chat-id 0

# Sleep (overnight consolidation)
abmind sleep --level normal --force    # ~10-14 LLM calls, full pipeline
abmind sleep --level basic --force     # 1 LLM call, frontier model required

# MCP server (editor integration)
abmind mcp

# Utilities
abmind memory-stats
abmind wake-up
abmind edit --memory-id 42 --boost

LLM Configuration for Sleep

Set ABMIND_LLM_CMD — must contain {PROMPT_FILE}:

export ABMIND_LLM_CMD='kiro-cli chat --no-tool-use < {PROMPT_FILE}'
# or: 'cat {PROMPT_FILE} | claude -p'
# or: 'cat {PROMPT_FILE} | gemini -p'

MCP Server

abmind mcp     # starts stdio MCP server

Add to your host's MCP config:

{ "mcpServers": { "abmind": { "command": "abmind", "args": ["mcp"] } } }

Works with kiro-cli, Claude Code, Codex CLI, Gemini CLI, Cursor, OpenCode, and any MCP-compatible host.

Library Usage

import { MemoryManager, loadMemoryConfig, recallSearch, buildWakeUp } from "abmind";

// Initialize
const config = loadMemoryConfig(); // reads ABMIND_HOME, defaults to ~/.abmind
const memory = new MemoryManager(config);

// Store a message
memory.recordMessage({
  role: "user",
  content: "I prefer dark mode and hate notifications",
  timestamp: Date.now(),
  userId: "alice",
  sessionId: "alice:telegram",
});

// Recall relevant memories
const results = await recallSearch(memory.getRecallDeps(), {
  translated: ["dark mode", "preferences"],
  userId: "alice",
  limit: 5,
});
console.log(results.memories); // ranked by relevance across all 4 layers

// Build wake-up context for a new session
const wakeUp = buildWakeUp(memory, "alice");
// → structured context: recent topics, key facts, emotional state, pending items

Data Location

Default: ~/.abmind/. Override via ABMIND_HOME.

~/.abmind/
├── memory/
│   ├── memory.db          # SQLite (messages, extracted memories, embeddings)
│   ├── daily/             # per-day narrative summaries
│   └── sleep/             # sleep audit logs
└── prompts/sleep/         # optional — override the 14 step prompts

Contributing

git clone https://github.com/aksika/abmind.git
cd abmind && npm install && npm run build && npm test

Link for local development:

cd your-consumer && npm i file:../abmind

License

Apache-2.0