causal-memory

An agent memory system with a causal core — facts, temporal state, and decision → outcome causal edges on one local SQLite store. Agents recall what happened, when it was true, why it worked — and what would happen if they acted differently.

pip install causal-memory

Requires Python ≥ 3.9. Prebuilt wheels: macOS (Apple Silicon + Intel), Linux x86_64 (manylinux_2_28), Windows x64. No API key needed for the default setup.

30-second quickstart

from causal_memory import CausalMemory

# One local SQLite file is the whole store. Created on first use.
mem = CausalMemory("~/.local/share/causal-memory/causal.db")
# or CausalMemory.in_memory() for a throwaway store

# Write: record a decision → outcome as a typed causal edge
mem.record_decision(
    "used Redis mutex for cache stampede protection",
    "deadlock under load",
    "caused",            # caused | enabled | prevented | no_effect
    "concurrency",       # task tag — how you retrieve this later
)

# Read: BM25 full-text retrieval works out of the box
print(mem.search_causal(query="cache stampede protection"))

# Ask before acting: forward simulation over recorded outcomes
print(mem.intervention_query("skip the test suite before shipping"))

Every method mirrors one of the 14 MCP tools and returns plain text that agent frameworks (LangChain, LlamaIndex, Hermes, …) can feed straight back to the model. See the full method list on GitHub.

Configuration

Everything is optional and configured via environment variables:

Without embedding/LLM variables the package degrades gracefully: retrieval is BM25-only and remember stores raw text instead of extracted facts. You can add them later — the store format is the same.

What this package is (and isn't)

• ✅ The Python library: embed causal memory in your own agent, script, or framework integration.

• ✅ The MCP server command: the same pip install also drops a causal-memory console script on your PATH — point your MCP client config straight at it, no Rust toolchain needed:

  {
    "mcpServers": {
      "causal-memory": {
        "command": "causal-memory"
      }
    }
  }
  

  The console script is the full CLI: bare causal-memory runs the MCP stdio server; subcommands cover configuration (setconfig / getconfig / config-path), maintenance (stats, sleep, migrate, …) and import/export. See causal-memory --help.

• ❌ Not a hosted service — everything runs against a local SQLite file you own.

Links

• GitHub (full docs, benchmarks, architecture): https://github.com/JingxuanC/causal-memory
• Changelog: https://github.com/JingxuanC/causal-memory/blob/main/CHANGELOG.md
• License: Apache-2.0