logseq-matryca-parser 0.3.0

The Logos Protocol: Deterministic Logseq AST parsing for Matryca.ai.

🔱 Logseq Matryca Parser (The Logos Protocol)

Stop feeding broken Markdown to your AI.

Turning a forest of local plain-text files into a unified semantic powerhouse.

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📘 READ THE ARCHITECTURE (LLM OS Vision)

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🌐 The Vision: Virtual Centralization vs. Binary Lock-in

The PKM (Personal Knowledge Management) world is currently forcing users to make a painful choice between Data Longevity and AI Power.

• Vanilla Logseq / Obsidian is a "Forest" of decentralized Markdown files. It guarantees the Lindy effect (plain-text lasts forever) and perfect Git versioning, but standard AI chunkers treat it like a blender, destroying the outliner hierarchy.
• Tana is a centralized "Tree". It offers incredible semantic power, but traps your brain in a proprietary cloud database.
• The new Logseq DB (SQLite) aims for database speed, but at a huge cost: it locks your notes inside a binary .db file. You lose human-readable files, you lose line-by-line Git diffs, and you lose the immortality of plain-text.

🔱 The Matryca Solution: The Best of Both Worlds

Logseq Matryca Parser is the ultimate bridge. It allows you to keep your sovereign, future-proof Markdown files, while synthesizing a Virtual Global Graph in RAM at runtime.

It acts as the strict File System Driver for your LLM OS. By using a deterministic Stack-Machine to parse your outliner topology, it feeds LangChain or LlamaIndex with the exact parent-child context of every single block.

You get the reasoning power of a centralized relational database, without sacrificing the plain-text soul of your Second Brain in Logseq.

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⚖️ The PKM Landscape

Feature	Vanilla Markdown	Matryca Parser	Logseq DB (SQLite)	Tana
Data Format	Plain-text (.md)	Plain-text (.md)	Binary (.db)	Proprietary Cloud
Version Control	Perfect (Git)	Perfect (Git)	Poor (Binary blob)	None
Data Structure	Decentralized Forest	Virtually Centralized Graph	Relational Database	Centralized Tree
AI Readiness	Low (Linear Chunks)	High (Topological AST)	TBD (Requires SQL)	High (Proprietary)
Sovereignty	100% Local	100% Local (Sovereign AI)	100% Local	Cloud-Only

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🧭 Matryca vs. naive framework loaders

Capability	Typical LangChain / LlamaIndex Markdown loaders	Matryca (LOGOS + SYNAPSE + graph)
Parent–child context	Character or heading splits; children often orphaned from parents	True outliner AST: every block carries parent_id, path, left_id and visits in deterministic tree order
Block references ((uuid))	Treated as opaque text or dropped	Resolved against LogseqGraph; optional embed expansion and Obsidian [[Page#^anchor]] export
Property inheritance	Page-level frontmatter at best	get_effective_properties: page + ancestor outline keys merged top-down (Org-mode style), then exposed on enriched chunks
Live sync	Re-read whole tree or poll	LogseqGraph.start_watching() (optional watchdog): per-file invalidation — re-parse one page, purge stale UUIDs from registries, refresh backlinks

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🚀 The Problem

Standard RAG pipelines treat your notes like a blender. They chop Markdown into random shards, destroying the parent-child hierarchy that makes Logseq powerful.

graph TD
    Raw[(Logseq Markdown\nFiles)]

    subgraph Standard RAG
        Blender[Standard Text Splitter\n'The Blender']
        Chunk1[Chunk 1: Orphan text]
        Chunk2[Chunk 2: Lost context]
        Blender --> Chunk1 & Chunk2
    end

    subgraph Matryca Parser
        Architect[Logos Engine\nStack-Machine]
        Parent[Parent Node\n+ Properties]
        Child[Child Node\n+ Task State & Time]
        Architect --> Parent --> Child
    end

    Raw --> Blender
    Raw --> Architect

    classDef bad fill:#fee2e2,stroke:#ef4444,color:#000;
    classDef good fill:#dcfce7,stroke:#22c55e,color:#000;
    class Chunk1,Chunk2 bad;
    class Parent,Child good;

🔱 The Solution

Logseq Matryca Parser is a deterministic Stack-Machine engine that acts as the File System Driver for your LLM. It preserves the true topology of your thoughts, ensuring AI understands spatial hierarchy, time, and block-lineage—including structured task state and first-class temporal attributes you can query in downstream graph databases and GraphRAG engines without re-parsing raw Markdown.

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⚡ Recent superpowers (Waves 4–11)

Obsidian-native export

Compile an entire Logseq graph into an Obsidian vault layout: YAML frontmatter from page properties, list body preserved, Logseq ((uuid)) links rewritten to [[Page#^anchor]], and trailing ^block-id on referenced blocks. Namespace titles become nested folders (e.g. Projects/AI/Demo.md).

matryca-parse export /path/to/logseq/graph /path/to/obsidian/vault --format obsidian

Note: Wikilinks currently use the Logseq page title (e.g. [[Target#^…]]). Vault files may live under namespace folders (Projects/AI/Demo.md). Obsidian usually resolves unique titles; aligning link text to folder paths is a possible future refinement.

Live incremental watcher

LogseqGraph supports surgical file invalidation (optional dependency: pip install 'logseq-matryca-parser[watch]'). start_watching() runs a recursive watchdog observer: on created / modified under pages/ or journals/, only that file is re-parsed; stale synthetic UUIDs are purged from _node_registry and scrubbed from _backlink_registry—no full-graph cold reload.

Fluent topological queries

Filter the global node registry with a chainable API (tags, task state, ancestry under a parent UUID):

from logseq_matryca_parser.graph import LogseqGraph

graph = LogseqGraph.load_directory("/path/to/logseq/graph")
hits = (
    graph.query()
    .has_tag("idea")
    .under_parent("aaaaaaaa-bbbb-cccc-dddd-eeeeeeeeeeee")
    .is_task_state("TODO")
    .execute()
)

Agent-Native X-Ray Mode (Token Optimization)

For autonomous LLM agents, passing raw Markdown into the context window wastes thousands of tokens on 36-character UUIDs, hidden id:: properties, drawers, and collapsed directives that carry no immediate semantic signal. X-Ray mode compresses the parsed AST into ultra-dense, zero-fluff plain text: each block becomes {indent}[{alias}] {clean_text}, with heavy Logseq UUIDs replaced by sequential integer aliases ([0], [1], …) held in a session registry. On typical outlines this can reduce context consumption by up to ~35× compared to dumping full block payloads.

matryca-parse agent-read /path/to/graph --tag idea
matryca-parse agent-read /path/to/graph --query "quantum"

The agent reads cheap topology now; the registry resolves aliases back to sovereign UUIDs when you wire targeted writes.

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🏗️ Core Capabilities

Feature	Description
LOGOS Engine	Deterministic AST parsing. No regex-guessing. Handles id::, aliases, and multiline blocks.
Advanced Task Extraction	Task state (TODO / DOING / …), priority markers [#A]–[#C] promoted to task_priority, and SCHEDULED / DEADLINE Logseq timestamps normalized to UTC Unix epoch seconds on scheduled_at / deadline_at for temporal graph and retrieval pipelines.
SYNAPSE Adapter	Native exports for LangChain and LlamaIndex with automated lineage metadata; context-enriched chunks with breadcrumbs, embed expansion, and inherited properties.
FORGE	JSON, clean Markdown, and Obsidian vault serialization (ObsidianForgeVisitor, ForgeExporter.to_obsidian_markdown).
LENS Visualizer	60FPS interactive graph rendering (10k+ nodes) with Glassmorphism HUD.
Agent-Native Printing Press	agent_press.py: SessionAliasRegistry maps session aliases ↔ block UUIDs; to_xray_markdown emits token-minimal outline text for autonomous agents (matryca-parse agent-read).
Sovereign AI	100% Local. Zero telemetry. Private by design.

Data model — LogseqNode task fields

Each AST block is a LogseqNode. Alongside task_status, the parser surfaces priority and schedule metadata as typed fields (epoch integers are seconds since Unix epoch, UTC):

{
  "uuid": "6ba7b810-9dad-11d1-80b4-00c04fd430c8",
  "task_status": "TODO",
  "task_priority": "A",
  "scheduled_at": 1641600000,
  "deadline_at": 1641772800,
  "clean_text": "Cut v0.3.0 release"
}

Marker syntax ([#A], SCHEDULED: <...>, DEADLINE: <...>) is stripped from clean_text so embeddings stay clean; the promoted fields carry the structured signal for downstream graph databases and GraphRAG engines.

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🛠️ Quickstart

# Install from GitHub (PyPI distribution tracked on roadmap)
pip install git+https://github.com/MarcoPorcellato/logseq-matryca-parser.git

# Optional: filesystem watcher for live incremental graph updates
pip install 'logseq-matryca-parser[watch]'

# 1. Visualize your local graph (LENS)
matryca-parse visualize /path/to/logseq/graph my-map.html

# 2. Export for AI / RAG (SYNAPSE)
matryca-parse export /path/to/logseq/graph output --format langchain

# 3. Context-enriched LangChain JSON (graph + inheritance + embed expansion)
matryca-parse export /path/to/logseq/graph output --format langchain-enriched

# 4. Obsidian vault (YAML frontmatter + ^ block ids)
matryca-parse export /path/to/logseq/graph output --format obsidian

Python API

from logseq_matryca_parser.logos_parser import LogosParser
from logseq_matryca_parser.synapse import SynapseAdapter

# Parse to AST
page = LogosParser().parse_page_file("page.md")

# Export to LangChain with lineage metadata
docs = SynapseAdapter.to_langchain_documents(page.root_nodes, source_name=page.title)

🤖 Agentic Write Access (Append-Only)

Agents such as Hermes or OpenClaw can record structured notes into a Logseq graph without rewriting existing pages. The helper logseq_agent_write only opens the weekly agent page in append mode ("a"), writes a new bullet (journal link + optional tag links + body), and never truncates or replaces prior content—so routine logging cannot wipe blocks that already live in that file.

Point it at your graph’s pages directory and config.edn so journal titles match Logseq’s :journal/page-title-format (including ordinal days when you use do in the pattern).

from logseq_matryca_parser import logseq_agent_write

result = logseq_agent_write(
    "Summarized user intent and proposed next steps.",
    config_path="/path/to/logseq/config.edn",
    pages_dir="/path/to/logseq/pages",
    context_tags=["agent/hermes", "#session"],
)
assert result["status"] == "success"
# result["path"] → e.g. .../pages/2026-18-agent.md

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🗺️ Roadmap

• Desktop GUI: Standalone app for non-technical users. (Join the RFC)
• Obsidian Adapter: Native CLI export (--format obsidian) with YAML frontmatter and ^ block anchors.
• Ollama Integration: One-click local RAG setup.

☕ Support & Enterprise

Logseq Matryca Parser is open-source. If it powers your pipeline, consider a star ⭐ or a sponsorship!

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Need custom RAG integrations or consulting? Contact: [e-mail]

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