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CrewAI memory integration via Hindsight - persistent memory for AI agent crews

Project description

hindsight-crewai

Persistent memory for AI agent crews via Hindsight. Give your CrewAI crews long-term memory with fact extraction, entity tracking, and temporal awareness.

Features

  • Drop-in Storage Backend - Implements CrewAI's Storage interface for ExternalMemory
  • Automatic Memory Flow - CrewAI automatically stores task outputs and retrieves relevant memories
  • Per-Agent Banks - Optionally give each agent its own isolated memory bank
  • Reflect Tool - Agents can explicitly reason over memories with disposition-aware synthesis
  • Simple Configuration - Configure once, use everywhere

Installation

pip install hindsight-crewai

Quick Start

from hindsight_crewai import configure, HindsightStorage
from crewai.memory.external.external_memory import ExternalMemory
from crewai import Agent, Crew, Task

# Step 1: Configure connection
configure(hindsight_api_url="http://localhost:8888")

# Step 2: Create crew with Hindsight-backed memory
crew = Crew(
    agents=[
        Agent(role="Researcher", goal="Find information", backstory="..."),
        Agent(role="Writer", goal="Write reports", backstory="..."),
    ],
    tasks=[
        Task(description="Research AI trends", expected_output="Report"),
    ],
    external_memory=ExternalMemory(
        storage=HindsightStorage(bank_id="my-crew")
    ),
)

crew.kickoff()

That's it. CrewAI will automatically:

  • Query memories at the start of each task
  • Store task outputs to Hindsight after each task completes

Memories persist across crew runs, so your crew learns over time.

Per-Agent Memory Banks

Give each agent its own isolated memory bank:

storage = HindsightStorage(
    bank_id="my-crew",
    per_agent_banks=True,  # Researcher -> "my-crew-researcher", Writer -> "my-crew-writer"
)

Or use a custom bank resolver for full control:

storage = HindsightStorage(
    bank_id="my-crew",
    bank_resolver=lambda base, agent: f"{base}-{agent.lower()}" if agent else base,
)

Reflect Tool

CrewAI's storage interface only supports save/search/reset. To give agents access to Hindsight's reflect (disposition-aware memory synthesis), add it as a tool:

from hindsight_crewai import HindsightReflectTool

reflect_tool = HindsightReflectTool(
    bank_id="my-crew",
    budget="mid",
    reflect_context="You are helping a software team track decisions.",
)

agent = Agent(
    role="Analyst",
    goal="Analyze project history",
    backstory="...",
    tools=[reflect_tool],
)

When the agent calls this tool, it gets a synthesized, contextual answer based on all relevant memories — not just raw facts.

Bank Missions

Set a mission to guide how Hindsight processes and organizes memories:

storage = HindsightStorage(
    bank_id="my-crew",
    mission="Track software architecture decisions, technical debt, and team preferences.",
)

Configuration

Global Configuration

from hindsight_crewai import configure

configure(
    hindsight_api_url="http://localhost:8888",  # Default: production API
    api_key="your-api-key",                     # Or set HINDSIGHT_API_KEY env var
    budget="mid",                               # Recall budget: low/mid/high
    max_tokens=4096,                            # Max tokens for recall results
    tags=["env:prod"],                          # Tags for stored memories
    recall_tags=["scope:global"],               # Tags to filter recall
    recall_tags_match="any",                    # Tag match mode: any/all/any_strict/all_strict
    verbose=True,                               # Enable logging
)

Per-Storage Overrides

Constructor arguments override global configuration:

storage = HindsightStorage(
    bank_id="my-crew",
    budget="high",       # Override global budget
    max_tokens=8192,     # Override global max_tokens
    tags=["team:alpha"], # Override global tags
)

Examples

See the CrewAI memory example in the Hindsight Cookbook for a complete working demo with a Researcher + Writer crew.

Configuration Reference

Parameter Default Description
hindsight_api_url Production API Hindsight API URL
api_key HINDSIGHT_API_KEY env API key for authentication
budget "mid" Recall budget level (low/mid/high)
max_tokens 4096 Maximum tokens for recall results
tags None Tags applied when storing memories
recall_tags None Tags to filter when searching
recall_tags_match "any" Tag matching mode
per_agent_banks False Give each agent its own bank
bank_resolver None Custom (bank_id, agent) -> bank_id function
mission None Bank mission for memory organization
verbose False Enable verbose logging

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