agent-knowledge

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Long-term knowledge for AI agents. Conversations, documents, and decisions are auto-compiled into a structured knowledge base with source provenance, confidence tracking, and contradiction detection. Drop-in MCP server — Claude Code, Cursor, Codex, and any MCP-aware client connect with one config line.

Why

LLM memory today is either flat RAG chunks or a key-value preference cache. Neither answers "how did we get here?".

agent-knowledge adds a knowledge-compilation layer: raw material is decomposed into Claims and Evidence, claims about the same entity are merged into a Compiled Truth, and a timeline is kept append-only — rewritten holistically when new evidence arrives. Every fact is traceable to its source, timestamp, and confidence.

Before / After

Scenario: over 10 weeks the team revisits its frontend stack three times — Week 1 picks Vue, Week 6 evaluates React, Week 10 switches to React. All three meeting notes are in the agent's conversation history.

A new teammate asks the agent "what frontend are we on, and why?"

Without — RAG over chat history

The team decided to use Vue as the frontend framework.

Vector search returns the highest-similarity chunk (the earliest meeting note). No temporal awareness → stale answer.

With agent-knowledge — ak_query returns the entity (real vault YAML)

name: Frontend stack
entity_type: concept
compiled_truth:
  claims:
    - text: use React for the dashboard
      status: active
      confidence: 0.85
      evidence:
        - source_id: c3a9d1f2
          weight: 1.0
    - text: use Vue for the dashboard
      status: superseded
      confidence: 0.65
      evidence:
        - source_id: a1b2c3d4
          weight: 0.7
timeline:
  - date: 2026-02-01
    title: Decided on Vue
    source_id: a1b2c3d4
  - date: 2026-03-12
    title: Evaluated React
    source_id: b5e6f7a8
  - date: 2026-04-09
    title: Switched to React; Vue ecosystem limits
    source_id: c3a9d1f2

The agent now sees the current fact, the timeline, the sources, and the superseded prior claim in one call. Its answer naturally becomes "we're on React — switched from Vue in April due to ecosystem limits," with every fact traceable to a source.

Quick Start

pip install compiled-memory   # PyPI package; the Python module is `agent_knowledge`

ak init   ~/my-knowledge
ak ingest ~/my-knowledge --file ./meeting-notes.md
ak query  ~/my-knowledge "why did we pick React?"
ak dream  ~/my-knowledge       # offline consolidation
ak lint   ~/my-knowledge       # health check

Or run it as an MCP server, plugged into any MCP-aware client:

ak mcp ~/my-knowledge

Copy-paste configs for Claude Code / Cursor / Codex live in examples/mcp/; the full tool list is in docs/mcp-integration.md. Agents picking up this repo should read AGENTS.md first.

Architecture

┌─────────────────────────────────┐
│  Adapter Layer                  │  CLI · MCP · pull adapters
├─────────────────────────────────┤
│  UMSF Boundary                  │  unified data contract
├─────────────────────────────────┤
│  Knowledge Layer (core)         │  Compiler · Compiled Truth · Hooks · Dream
├─────────────────────────────────┤
│  Storage                        │  Vault (YAML) + EventIndex (SQLite)
├─────────────────────────────────┤
│  Search Layer                   │  Exact + BM25 + Graph + RRF + Reranker
└─────────────────────────────────┘

• Knowledge Layer — pure Python over local files, no external services
• Search Layer — zero dependencies by default; optional embedding model for stronger semantic recall
• Adapter Layer — UMSF unifies the boundary; a new agent adapter is ~80 lines

See docs/architecture.md.

Benchmark

LongMemEval-S (ICLR 2025) — 500 questions, ~48 sessions/question, ~115K tokens/question:

Zero vector dependencies — BM25 + Exact Match + RRF only. Full per-type breakdown in BENCHMARK.md.

Documentation

• AGENTS.md — project guide for AI agents
• docs/architecture.md — five-layer architecture and data flow
• docs/adapters.md — writing a new adapter
• docs/mcp-integration.md — MCP server integration
• BENCHMARK.md — benchmark reproduction
• examples/mcp/ — ready-to-use MCP client configs

License

MIT