thread-recall

Part of the Governed Agent Stack: free, on-prem building blocks for an AI agent you can point at a real database and audit.

Governed, on-prem conversation memory for AI agents. It stores what an agent should remember across turns — per-thread history and optional semantic recall — and makes that memory governable: PII can be masked before it is ever written, and every write can be mirrored into a tamper-evident audit log.

The default backend is SQLite with embeddings as JSON and cosine in Python: zero dependencies, works immediately, nothing leaves the building. A Postgres + pgvector backend (for scale) is the next step; the scoring logic is backend-agnostic so it drops in cleanly.

This is the write-side companion to sql-steward. sql-steward is the read-only query gateway and stays read-only; thread-recall is where agent state lives, kept separate on purpose.

Quickstart

pip install thread-recall
thread-recall demo

from thread_recall import Memory

mem = Memory("agent.db")                      # or ":memory:"; mask=True / audit=True optional

mem.remember("thread-42", "user", "How much MRR did the pro plan make?", embedding=embed(q))
mem.remember("thread-42", "assistant", "Pro plan MRR was 297.")

mem.recent("thread-42", k=10)                 # last 10 turns, chronological
mem.search("thread-42", embed("revenue"), k=5) # nearest turns by embedding

Why it's "governed"

• PII masked on write. Memory(..., mask=True) runs content through pii-veil before it is stored, so raw personal data never lands in the memory store. No-op if pii-veil isn't installed.
• Tamper-evident audit. Memory(..., audit=True) mirrors every write into an agent-blackbox hash-chained ledger, so "what did the agent choose to remember" has a checkable answer. No-op if agent-blackbox isn't installed.
• On-prem by default. SQLite file on your disk; embeddings generated by whatever local model you choose. Nothing is sent out.

API

Embeddings are supplied by the caller (generate them with any local model). thread-recall stores and scores them; it does not call out to any embedding service itself.

Roadmap

• Postgres + pgvector backend for scale and native nearest-neighbour (the SQLite backend computes cosine in Python, fine for thread-scoped recall, not for millions of rows).
• A thin LangGraph adapter, to use thread-recall alongside a LangGraph checkpointer.

Develop

git clone https://github.com/Pawansingh3889/thread-recall
cd thread-recall
pip install -e ".[dev]"
pytest -q

License

MIT