deep-memory-agent

Factory for building LangChain deepagents equipped with episodic, semantic, and procedural memory.

Memory is a small wiki of plain markdown files — readable, diffable, versionable with git — that the agent maintains itself: it records what happened, supersedes what is no longer true, and consolidates recurring patterns into durable knowledge.

The tree lives at the virtual path /memory/, served by a deepagents backend. No tool in this package touches the host filesystem directly, so the same agent runs unchanged against a directory on disk, ephemeral thread state, or a remote store.

📖 Documentation: https://giurlanda.github.io/deep-memory-agent/

Installation

pip install deep-memory-agent

Quickstart

Two factories, one tree. The manager writes; the search agent cannot.

from deep_memory_agent import create_memory_manager_agent, create_memory_search_agent

manager = create_memory_manager_agent("claude-sonnet-5", memory_dir="./memory")
manager.invoke(
    {
        "messages": [
            {
                "role": "user",
                "content": "Remember that I manage Python projects with uv.",
            }
        ]
    }
)

recall = create_memory_search_agent("claude-sonnet-5", memory_dir="./memory")
recall.invoke(
    {"messages": [{"role": "user", "content": "Which package manager do I use?"}]}
)

Each factory takes either memory_dir — the default on-disk wiring — or a ready-made backend. Exactly one of the two is required; passing both raises.

The memory tree

/memory/
├── index.md                      router for the whole tree
├── preferences.md                how the user wants the agent to behave
├── episodic_memory/              what happened
│   ├── index.md
│   ├── events/YYYY-MM.md         sharded by month
│   ├── feedbacks/YYYY-MM.md
│   └── errors/YYYY-MM.md
├── semantic_memory/              what is true
│   ├── index.md
│   ├── facts.md
│   └── rules.md
└── procedural_memory/            how things are done
    ├── index.md
    └── <slug>.md                 one file per procedure

Every entry carries YAML frontmatter, so provenance travels with the content and a newer statement can explicitly retire an older one:

---
id: mem_2026-08-24_9f3a1c
created: 2026-08-24T10:15:00+00:00
type: semantic
category: facts
source: user_message
confidence: high
tags: [pricing, acme]
supersedes: mem_2026-06-01_4b2e77
summary: ACME moved to the Enterprise plan
---

ACME switched from the Team plan to Enterprise on 2026-08-24.

Three rules keep the tree from degenerating into an append-only log:

• Indexes are routers, never content — one line per file, so the agent can decide what to load without loading everything.
• Semantic memory is superseded, not appended — a changed fact produces a new entry that retires the old one, which stays on disk as history.
• Episodic memory is sharded by month — no single file outgrows the context window.

Consolidation

Episodic memory on its own is a log. consolidate_memory reads recent episodes and promotes what has hardened into facts, rules or procedures. It is a plain function, so it can be scheduled from ordinary code; the manager agent also exposes it as the memory_consolidate tool.

from deep_memory_agent import build_memory_backend, consolidate_memory

backend = build_memory_backend("./memory", for_deep_agent=False)
result = consolidate_memory(backend, "claude-sonnet-5")

for_deep_agent=False is what makes the backend usable outside an agent: the default wiring parks non-memory paths in LangGraph thread state, which is only reachable from inside a graph execution.

Episodes are never deleted: consolidation only adds durable knowledge and supersedes what it contradicts.

See examples/ for runnable scripts, or the docs.

Scope of this version

Memory is file-based and retrieval is lexical (case-insensitive substring over summary, body and tags). The structured frontmatter is what makes a stronger index — BM25, embeddings — addable later without changing the files themselves. Automatic decay, locking between concurrent writers and vector retrieval are out of scope; keeping a single writer over the tree is the manager agent's job.

Development

This project uses uv for dependency management.

uv sync --all-extras
uv run pytest
uv run ruff check .
uv run ruff format .

License

MIT — see LICENSE.