intentmind 0.1.5

Language-agnostic associative memory runtime for persistent AI systems

Intentmind 🧠

Intentmind is a Cognitive Operating Layer for Persistent AI. It acts as the foundational "Memory OS" for autonomous AI agents, copilots, simulators, and AI NPCs.

It moves beyond standard RAG by mimicking human cognitive processes—building a dynamic Knowledge Graph, forming associative connections, and employing biological "forgetting" mechanisms to maintain a pristine, highly relevant context window over months or years of interactions.

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🛑 The Problem with Classic RAG

If you are building an autonomous system or an AI agent that lives for more than a single session, you will quickly hit the limits of standard Vector Database RAG wrappers:

1. Amnesia by Proxy: Standard RAG relies on overlapping embeddings. If a user talks about buying a "car" on Monday, and asks for help with "insurance" on Friday, standard RAG will fail to connect them unless the exact keywords or vector spaces strictly align.
2. Context Bloat: Vector DBs append data forever. Over time, your agent gets overwhelmed by thousands of trivial, outdated, or conflicting memories, destroying the LLM's accuracy.
3. Flat Representation: Standard RAG treats all data equally. It lacks the ability to understand that some memories are core to the user's identity, while others were just passing thoughts.

🌟 The Solution: Why Intentmind?

Intentmind doesn't just store documents; it builds a living, breathing Cognitive Graph.

1. Associative Recall (Semantic Drift Recovery)

When data is ingested, Intentmind extracts core concepts (nodes) and connects them (edges). When a user mentions a concept, the system doesn't just do a vector search—it traverses the graph.

Example of Semantic Drift: User talks about their car ➔ then plans a trip ➔ then asks about insurance. Intentmind naturally traverses the graph from car to insurance, pulling in the exact historical context your agent needs to sound truly intelligent, even if the raw embeddings don't directly match.

2. Biological Forgetting (Energy & Decay)

Intentmind introduces an Energy system. Every time a memory is recalled, its connection strengthens (like human synapses). Unused, irrelevant, or noisy memories slowly decay and are eventually "forgotten" (archived). This prevents context bloat and ensures your agent only remembers what actually matters.

3. Cognitive State Modulation

Previously known as the "Emotion Engine", this system features an Adaptive Urgency Matrix. It dynamically scores the user's current query for stress, urgency, or sentiment, and applies retrieval priority modulation. A highly urgent query immediately surfaces hard, high-confidence facts, while a casual conversational query triggers broader, associative exploration.

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⚔️ Why not just GraphRAG?

GraphRAG is fantastic for static document analysis, but it fails for persistent, living agents.

Feature	Vanilla RAG	GraphRAG	Intentmind
Primary Use Case	Q&A on Docs	Knowledge Discovery	Living AI Agents
Memory Architecture	Static Vectors	Static Graph	Dynamic Fluid Graph
Associative Activation	No	Hardcoded Edges	Energy Propagation
Memory Aging	No (Bloats forever)	No	Biological Forgetting (Decay)
Reinforcement	No	No	Synaptic Strengthening via Reuse

📊 Performance Benchmarks

Intentmind is built to survive long-term deployments where other systems degrade.

Benchmark Metric	Vanilla RAG	GraphRAG	Intentmind
Delayed Recall Accuracy	Low	Medium	High
Semantic Drift Resistance	Poor	Medium	Excellent
Memory Pollution (Noise) Resistance	Fails at scale	Medium	High (Auto-pruning)
Long-session Degradation	Severe	Moderate	Near-Zero
Contradiction Resolution	Low	Low	High (Energy-based priority)

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🎯 Who is this for?

• Autonomous Agents & AI Personas: Give your AI agents long-term, evolving memory. As they interact with the world, their internal cognitive graph adapts, making them highly personalized and context-aware.
• Persistent Copilots: Build customer support bots, coding assistants, or personal companions that remember user preferences seamlessly over years of interaction without polluting the LLM context window.
• Complex Simulators: Drive simulations where multiple entities negotiate, learn, and forget based on cognitive connections.

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🚀 Quick Start

Installation

# Core package
pip install intentmind

# With recommended production dependencies (FAISS, SentenceTransformers, OpenAI)
pip install "intentmind[all]"

1-Minute Integration

Intentmind is completely language-agnostic.

from intentmind import IntentmindMemory
from intentmind.embeddings import SentenceTransformerEmbedder

# 1. Initialize the Cognitive Engine
mem = IntentmindMemory(embedder=SentenceTransformerEmbedder())

# 2. Teach it concepts (Happens naturally during conversation)
mem.add("I need car insurance but I have no money.")
mem.add("I bought a new car and will drive to London.")

# 3. Ask a tangential question
result = mem.query("I have a car and I am going to London.")

# 4. Watch it traverse the graph and retrieve the exact context
for item in result["memories"]["items"]:
    print(f"[{item['layer']}] Path: {item.get('path', [])} -> {item['text']}")

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🔌 Seamless Integrations

LangChain Adapter

Drop Intentmind straight into your existing LangChain pipelines as a custom, ultra-smart Retriever.

from intentmind.integrations.langchain import IntentmindRetriever

retriever = IntentmindRetriever(memory=mem)
docs = retriever.invoke("How does the energy model work?")

Persistence (Save & Load)

Save the entire brain (vectors, nodes, edges, decay states) to disk instantly.

mem.save("my_agent_brain.json")
mem = IntentmindMemory.load("my_agent_brain.json")

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📊 Visualizing the "Brain"

Intentmind isn't a black box. You can export the entire Cognitive Graph to an interactive HTML map to literally see what your AI is thinking and how it connects concepts.

mem.visualize("memory_map.html")

(Open memory_map.html in your browser to explore clustering, energy levels, and synaptic connections)

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🌐 Demo API & React UI

Intentmind includes a built-in FastAPI backend and a beautiful React/Vite UI to test your graphs visually.

1. Start Backend:

   pip install "intentmind[api]"
   # Make sure OPENAI_API_KEY is in your .env
   python api.py
   

2. Start Frontend UI:

   cd ui
   npm install
   npm run dev
   

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🤝 Contributing & License

Intentmind is released under the Intentmind Fair-Code License.

• Personal & Academic Use: Completely free! You can use, modify, and experiment with Intentmind for your personal projects, academic research, or hobby apps.
• Commercial Use: If you plan to use Intentmind in a commercial product, SaaS, or any revenue-generating service, you must obtain prior written consent or a commercial license.

For commercial licensing inquiries, please reach out via GitHub issues or contact the author directly.

We welcome contributions for new embedders, LLM adapters, and vector store integrations! Build the future of AI memory with us.