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 <img src="docs/images/nexus-logo-horizontal-no-slogan.png" alt="Nexus Memory" width="400"/>
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Your agents forget. Your context gets lost. Your setup knowledge is scattered across chats, tools and repos.

**Nexus Memory gives every agent one persistent, self-hosted memory they all share.**

Hermes • OpenClaw • Claude Code • Codex • Cursor • Cline • Roo Code • GitHub Copilot • Pi • Continue • Odysseus • Kilo Code …and more!


### Why not just use a CLAUDE.md?

Every agent community runs into the same wall: the notes file. It works — until it doesn't.

- **A notes file forgets.** You write it by hand, your agent reads it only in that one project, and it grows until nobody reads it. No search, no priority, no memory of where a fact came from.
- **Nexus remembers on its own.** Facts are stored as they come up — no "remember this" required — and recalled automatically in the next session. Across every project, every agent, one shared brain.
- **The honest bottom line:** For one small project, a text file is fine. It gets serious when you run multiple agents across weeks of context — that's when you want a memory, not a sticky note.


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> **🤖 Bot Self-Install:** Tell your agent: *"Read AGENTS.md and install Nexus Memory."* It does the rest.

---

## Architecture: Three Paths, One Brain

Nexus Memory offers three integration paths: **Native Plugin** (automatic memory), **MCP Server** (manual tools), and **Serve Daemon** (standalone HTTP). All three read and write the **same Qdrant collection**: same vectors, same metadata, same access levels.

> **Key insight:** A memory stored by Hermes via the native plugin is immediately visible to OpenClaw via its plugin and to Claude Code via MCP, and vice versa. One brain, many agents.

| Path | Best for | Setup | Memory mode |
|------|----------|-------|-------------|
| **Native Plugin** | Hermes Agent, OpenClaw, Claude Code | `./scripts/install_hermes_plugin.sh`, `install_openclaw_plugin.sh`, or `install_claude_plugin.sh` | **Automatic**: auto-recall + auto-capture + guardrails, no manual tool calls |
| **MCP Server** | Claude Code, Cursor, Codex, any MCP agent | `nexus-memory` (stdio) | **Manual**: the agent calls `recall` / `remember` explicitly |
| **Serve Daemon** | Any agent, always-on | `nexus-memory serve` (HTTP, default since v0.21.0) | **Automatic** + stays up when no agent runs |

### Standalone Serve (daemon mode)

```bash
nexus-memory serve                      # Streamable HTTP on 127.0.0.1:9122
curl http://127.0.0.1:9122/healthz      # → {"status":"ok","qdrant":true,...}
```

- **Additive, not a replacement**: stdio and both native plugins work exactly as before.
- **Installed as an OS service** (`scripts/install_serve.sh`): launchd / systemd user unit / Windows scheduled task, idempotent, and re-asserted on every update (fail-open — a failed install never breaks stdio or the plugins).
- **Self-healing**: with `RunAtLoad` + `KeepAlive` it survives reboots and crashes.
- **Consolidation leader election**: when several instances run (daemon + agent), an advisory `flock` elects one leader — the consolidation daemon runs once, followers take over on failover.
- Existing installs are **not** migrated or reconfigured — the service install is safe to re-run.

---

## 🤖 Quick Start

### Tell your agent to install it

Send this prompt to any MCP-compatible agent:

```
Read https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Neboy72/nexus-memory/main/AGENTS.md and follow the installation instructions.
```

Your agent checks the prerequisites (including Qdrant), installs everything, configures the provider and verifies — zero manual steps.

### Prerequisite: Qdrant (required)

Nexus stores all memories in [Qdrant](https://qdrant.tech) — a local vector database. It must be running before the server starts.

```bash
docker run -d -p 6333:6333 -v qdrant_data:/qdrant/storage --name qdrant qdrant/qdrant
```

No Docker? [Official Qdrant install](https://qdrant.tech/documentation/guides/installation/), on macOS via Homebrew:

```bash
brew install qdrant
QDRANT__SERVICE__HTTP_PORT=6333 QDRANT__STORAGE__STORAGE_PATH=$HOME/qdrant-storage qdrant
```

(The brew binary is configured via environment variables, not CLI flags.) Or point Nexus at any existing Qdrant with `NEXUS_QDRANT_HOST` + `NEXUS_QDRANT_PORT`. Verify with `curl http://localhost:6333/healthz`.

### Install

```bash
# Requires Python 3.11+ (check: python3 --version — macOS ships 3.9!)
git clone https://github.com/Neboy72/nexus-memory.git ~/nexus-memory
cd ~/nexus-memory
python3 -m venv venv && source venv/bin/activate
pip install -e .
./scripts/install_hermes_plugin.sh     # or: install_openclaw_plugin.sh
nexus-memory                           # or: nexus-memory serve (daemon), nexus-memory webui
```

> **The installer builds the plugin's own venv for you.** Hermes runs Nexus as a *memory provider*, and only Hermes' plugin manager reads `pip_dependencies` from `plugin.yaml` — the provider path does not. So the installer creates `~/.nexus-memory/plugin-venv` and installs the runtime dependencies there. The plugin adds that venv to its own import path at startup, which is why nothing is ever written into Hermes' interpreter (it may be pipx- or system-managed and read-only).
>
> If a dependency ever goes missing anyway, the plugin heals itself: the "missing package" verdict expires (default 60 s), the next probe retries the import, and the *running* process recovers without a restart. The repair command in the warning text targets the plugin venv, never your Hermes install.

### 🛠️ Embedding Provider (default: local, no key, no extra software)

**The default is local — and it works on a machine with nothing installed.** Nexus embeds locally through **HuggingFace**: `sentence-transformers` ships as a normal dependency and downloads `Qwen/Qwen3-Embedding-0.6B` (~1.2 GB, cached after the first use) — 1024d, multilingual. Nothing leaves your machine, no account, no API key. **Ollama is not required.**

- **Ollama is not part of the automatic path.** It is extra software that not every machine has, so the automatic path never depends on it. If you run Ollama and want to use it, choose it explicitly: `NEXUS_EMBEDDING_PROVIDER=ollama` (then `ollama pull qwen3-embedding:0.6b`).
- **A cloud provider** (Voyage, OpenAI, Google, Jina) is only used when you name it explicitly — `NEXUS_EMBEDDING_PROVIDER=<name>` plus its key. A key alone is not enough, and there is no silent cloud fallback.
- **Not sure?** `python3 -m nexus_memory.wizard` scans your machine, lists every provider with its status and recommends one.

> **The two plugins that talk to Qdrant *directly*** — Claude Code and OpenClaw — ask the local service for their vectors (`POST /embed` on `nexus-memory serve`), so they embed with the same model as everything else: local HuggingFace, nothing to install. If you want a different provider, name it explicitly (`NEXUS_EMBEDDING_PROVIDER=ollama|voyage|openai|google|jina`).

→ Full provider table: [🧩 Embedding Providers](#embedding-providers).

#### Upgrading an existing installation

Since the collection model moved into Qdrant as a **named vector**, a collection created by an older version is *unnamed*, and the engine cannot tell which model built it — same dimension, different model is invisible to Qdrant. Rather than guess (which would silently mix two vector spaces), the engine stops with a clear error and asks who BUILT the collection.

```bash
python3 scripts/detect-legacy-collection.py
```

It reads your collection, works out the vector size, prints the exact `legacy_collections` entry to paste into `~/.hermes/nexus/config.json`, and does nothing else. An *empty* collection needs no entry (it is recreated correctly on the next start), and neither does one that is already *named* — the tool says so in both cases.

```json
{ "legacy_collections": { "nexus": "voyage__voyage-4__1024" } }
```

The value is the **builder** (`<backend>__<model>__<dim>`), never the model you wish to use from now on.

### 🌐 Web Dashboard (optional)

```bash
nexus-memory webui        # → http://127.0.0.1:9121
```

Connected agents, memory graph with filters, inspector for every memory, drift status. From a repo checkout: `python3 dashboard/server.py --port 9121`. (The legacy graph-only `webui/` UI was removed in v0.18.7.)

### 🔌 Platform Configuration

Every MCP-compatible agent uses the same stdio config — only the file differs:

```json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "nexus": { "command": "python3", "args": ["-m", "nexus_memory.mcp_server"] }
  }
}
```

| Agent | Config file |
|---|---|
| Hermes Agent | `~/.hermes/config.yaml` → `mcp_servers: {nexus: {command: nexus-memory}}` , then `hermes gateway restart` |
| OpenClaw | `~/.openclaw/openclaw.json` → `mcp.servers.nexus-memory` (nested under `env`) |
| Claude Code | `~/.claude/settings.json` or `.mcp.json` |
| Codex CLI | `~/.codex/config.toml` → `[mcp_servers.nexus]` |
| GitHub Copilot (VS Code) | `.vscode/mcp.json` |
| Cursor | Settings → Features → MCP Servers → Add: name `nexus`, command `python3`, args `-m nexus_memory.mcp_server` |
| Cline / Roo Code · Kilo Code · Pi · Continue.dev · Odysseus | same JSON as above, in the agent's own MCP config |

---

## MCP Tools

| Tool | Description | Parameters |
|------|-------------|------------|
| `remember` 💾 | Store a memory | `text` (req), `category` (req, default `fact`), `access_level`, `source`, `source_url`, `confidence`, `effective_from` (Hermes plugin also accepts `salience`) |
| `recall` 🔍 | Hybrid search (BM25 + Vector + RRF) | `query` (req), `limit`, `filter_level`, `as_of` (point-in-time query) |
| `forget` 🗑️ | Delete a memory | `memory_id` (req) |
| `update` ✏️ | Update in-place, preserve metadata | `memory_id` (req), `text`, `modified_by` |
| `subscribe` / `unsubscribe` / `list_subscriptions` 🔔 | Manage webhooks for memory events | see below |
| `health` ❤️ | Server status, embedding, update availability | none |
| `check_update` / `do_update` 🔄 | Check for a newer version / backup + pull + install + restart | `confirm` (req, must be `true`) |
| `backup` / `restore` 💾 | Export all memories to JSON / restore from a backup | `backup_path`, `reembed` (optional) |
| `guardrail_check` 🛡️ | Check whether an action is safe before running it | `command` (req), `tool_name`, `tool_input` |
| `guardrail_override` 🔓 | Record an override with audit trail | `command` (req), `reasoning` (req, min 10 chars), `matched_rules`, `agent_id` |
| `graph_traverse` · `find_entities` · `get_subgraph` · `get_related` 🔗 | Graph queries: multi-hop traversal, entity lists, subgraphs, 1-hop neighbours | `fact_id` / `entity_type`, `max_depth`, `relation` |
| `fact_history` 🕰️ | Supersession chain of a memory | `memory_id` (req), `max_depth` |
| `cost_routing_stats` / `cost_routing_explain` 💰 | Embedding-provider routing statistics and decisions | `category` (req, for explain) |

### Memory Categories

`category` is **required** on `remember`; the server applies `"fact"` as a backward-compatible default if a client omits it or sends an unknown value.

| Category | Scope | Use case |
|----------|-------|----------|
| `fact` ✅ | Permanent | Verified facts, decisions (default) |
| `belief` 🤔 | Drift-prone | Assumptions that may change over time |
| `session` 🔄 | Ephemeral | Current conversation context |
| `rule` 📏 | Permanent | Operating rules, policies |
| `preference` ❤️ | Permanent | User likes, dislikes, habits |
| `procedure` 🔧 | Permanent | Workflow steps, how-to sequences |
| `temp` ⏳ | Temporary | Short-lived notes, TTL-managed |

### Access Levels

| Level | Visible to | Example |
|-------|-----------|---------|
| 🟢 `public` | All agents | Project knowledge, technical info |
| 🟡 `trusted` | Approved agents only | Personal preferences, habits |
| 🔴 `private` | Owner only | Financial data, medical notes, bills |

Enforced at the MCP tool level. (Store real credentials in a secret manager, not in memory.) A missing or unknown level is always read as the **most** restrictive one, never as `public`.

**Default: `private`.** An entry is stored closed unless a level is named at save time, and every agent
you connect yourself is registered as `private` (the owner level). Narrowing an agent down to `trusted`
or `public` is a deliberate step in the dashboard — and it applies immediately, to old and new memories alike.

---

## ✨ What it does

**Auto-recall & auto-capture 🔄** — The native plugins inject relevant memories before every turn and extract new facts after every turn; the MCP server offers the same as explicit `recall` / `remember`. The injected block is capped at `NEXUS_PREFETCH_CHARS` (default **2400**, ~600 tokens, up to 10 hits). That matters: the block is stamped into the turn it arrived on and is **replayed with every later turn**, so on a metered API you pay for it again on each request. Raise the budget when *correct* facts get cut off — not when the wrong ones show up (that is a filing problem, not a budget problem). The prefetch is a head start, not a guarantee; an explicit `recall` is never budget-capped.

**Retrieval 🛡️** — Hybrid search blends **BM25 + vector + Reciprocal Rank Fusion**, so adversarial text that ranks high semantically but contains garbage cannot take over. An optional cross-encoder rerank (Voyage API when a key is set, free local model otherwise; `nexus-memory.rerank: true`) puts the best candidates in the right order. Sloppy queries are rewritten into concrete search terms before embedding (`v0.19.0`, hit rate 67% → 75% on live data, fail-open in every failure mode, `NEXUS_REWRITE=0` as an emergency brake).

**Quality gates 🚪** — The quality of recall is decided at ingestion: only what the user actually said becomes a durable fact about them, task state that expires in a conversation or two is never stored, a passing remark is capped so it decays, and text that looks like an embedded instruction is stored but flagged and demoted below the recall threshold. Poisoned entries can never outrank genuine rules.

**Memory dynamics 🧠** — Ranking is brain-inspired: every recall hit reinforces a memory (log-capped, max ×4), unused memories lose 5% of ranking weight per month down to a floor of 30% (forgotten ≠ deleted), and salience (0.0–1.0, ≥ 0.8 is decay-immune) marks what matters. Dynamics act only as a tie-breaker inside equal semantic relevance — they never override the reranker.

**Retention & drift 🧹** — Per-category TTLs purge stale entries during SICA runs (`temp` = 1 day, `session` = 7 days by default); everything else stays forever. Drift detection scores stale entries and old patterns 0–10 (🟢 < 1 healthy, 🟡 1–3 attention, 🔴 > 3 action).

**Knowledge graph 🔗** — Entities and 11 typed relations live alongside the vectors (`category="entity"`), so the agent can ask "what connects to X?" instead of only "what is similar" — and auto-recall fetches 1-hop neighbours of the top hits, tagged `[graph:<relation>]`, all three plugins, access-level filtered, capped at 5. Relations between facts are discovered automatically (no manual edges), with hub scores, isolation scores and knowledge gaps on top.

**Consolidation 🧬** — A background daemon (part of the server, no cron) distills raw conversation dumps into atomic, self-contained facts with resolved pronouns and anchored dates, and resolves contradictions at write time (supersede, never delete). It hitchhikes on your existing LLM config: it knocks on these doors in this order and takes the first one that opens —

1. local Ollama — free, model from `NEXUS_CONSOLIDATION_MODEL`
2. your own endpoint — `NEXUS_FUEL_BASE` + `NEXUS_FUEL_KEY` (model via `NEXUS_FUEL_MODEL`, default `gpt-5.6-luna`)
3. `OPENROUTER_API_KEY` (model via `NEXUS_FUEL_MODEL_OPENROUTER`)
4. `OPENAI_API_KEY` (model via `NEXUS_FUEL_MODEL_OPENAI`)
5. `NOUS_API_KEY` (model via `NEXUS_FUEL_MODEL_NOUS`)

Only local Ollama is probed up front; a keyed door stays "ready" until the call actually succeeds (a key is an expectation, not a certainty). With no door open the daemon sleeps and knocks again on the next tick — memories stay unsorted, and the dashboard now says exactly that instead of naming a model you cannot reach. The monthly cap `NEXUS_FUEL_BUDGET_USD` (default $5) covers the paid doors only; local Ollama is free and never counted. There is deliberately no "just use my main chat model" shortcut: sorting would then eat the paid quota your real conversations need. Consolidated facts inherit the source memory's `access_level`; guardrail-override audit entries are never consolidated.

**Fact lifecycle 🧬** — Append-only state machine: `pending → canonical | deprecated | rolled_back`. Every revision carries `fact_id`, `version_id`, `content_hash`, `supersedes` and a mandatory `decision_event` — no silent overwrites, no zombie facts. `create_pending()` / `promote()` / `deprecate()` / `rollback()` drive it; a reranked update no longer stays findable by its refuted wording.

**Active guardrails 🛡️** — The only memory layer that does not just store knowledge but guards it: before a destructive operation (`rm -rf`, `drop`, `kill -9`, `recreate_collection`, `find -delete`, `git clean -fdx`, `pip uninstall`, `dd`, …) the guardrail checks Qdrant for stored protection rules and blocks if the target matches. Rules are memory-driven, not hardcoded — storing "never delete ~/that-directory/" registers it. When rules cannot be loaded, destructive checks **block** (fail closed); when Qdrant itself is unreachable they degrade to allow, so they never block work by accident. Overrides require written reasoning and are kept as private audit memories.

**SICA self-improvement 🔄** — Automatic memory hygiene: detects stale temp memories (> 7 days), low-confidence entries (< 0.5) and contradiction groups, deletes what is disposable, and turns the rest into suggestions — duplicate entities become merge reviews (oldest wins, nothing auto-deleted), contradictions become one deterministic insight each. Harness-independent: any plugin can call `run_sica()`. Skill export turns clustered canonical facts into a ready `SKILL.md`.

**Operations 💾** — Automatic backup every 6 hours (payload + vectors, last 7 kept), a safety backup before every update, update notifications in chat, and a self-report layer that notices a broken agent (missing dependency, silence from a plugin that used to call back) and shouts through a webhook or a macOS notification instead of failing quietly. `health` and `GET /healthz` surface the same status.

**Token & cost hygiene ⚡** — Repeated queries are served from an embedding cache (L0), prefetch has an env-tunable token budget, and cost-aware routing sends premium categories to high-quality providers and ephemeral ones to local embeddings when both are configured.

---

## 📊 vs Other Memory Solutions

Compared on what the memory layer *itself* does — not on how it is hosted:

| Capability | **Nexus Memory** | Walrus Memory | mem0 | Honcho | agentmemory |
|---|:---:|:---:|:---:|:---:|:---:|
| Semantic search | ✅ local or cloud | ✅ via API | ✅ cloud | ✅ pgvector | ✅ Gemini |
| Hybrid BM25 + Vector + RRF | **✅** | ❌ | ✅ multi-signal | ❌ | ❌ |
| Drift detection (scored) | **✅ 0–10** | ❌ | ❌ * | ❌ | ❌ |
| Anti-poisoning / source tiers | **✅** | ❌ | ❌ | ❌ | ❌ |
| Provenance (source, confidence, history) | **✅** | ✅ on-chain | ❌ | ❌ | ❌ |
| Fact lifecycle (append-only, rollback) | **✅** | ❌ | ❌ | ❌ | ❌ |
| Temporal validity (`as_of` recall) | **✅** | ❌ | ❌ | ❌ | ❌ |
| Ingestion-time consolidation | **✅** | ❌ | ❌ | ❌ | ❌ |
| Knowledge graph + analytics | **✅** | ❌ | ❌ | ❌ | ❌ |
| Active guardrails (memory-driven) | **✅** | ❌ | ❌ | ❌ | ❌ |
| Memory dynamics (reinforcement/decay) | **✅** | ❌ | ❌ | ❌ | ❌ |
| Native plugins (Hermes, OpenClaw, Claude Code) | **✅ all three** | ❌ | OpenClaw | OpenClaw | Hermes |
| Any MCP agent | **✅** | ❌ | ❌ | ❌ | ✅ |
| Self-hosted, no account | **✅** | ❌ blockchain | ❌ cloud | ❌ cloud | ❌ cloud |
| Cost | **free** | WAL token | subscription | subscription | API costs |
| Setup | **1 command** | signup + SDK | API key + signup | Postgres + pgvector | 30+ min + OAuth |

*\*mem0 lists staleness as an "open problem" in their 2026 report but does not ship a solution.*

Nexus is not the only memory project — it is the one that keeps everything in one place: hybrid retrieval, provenance, fact lifecycle, temporal validity, consolidation, graph analytics, access control and guardrails, running on your own machine with no account.

---

<a id="embedding-providers"></a>

## 🧩 Embedding Providers

One server, several backends, same API. The **automatic path is local** — HuggingFace, installed with the package (`sentence-transformers`), model `Qwen/Qwen3-Embedding-0.6B`, 1024d, ~1.2 GB on first use. Ollama is **not** automatic; it is available when chosen explicitly. Cloud providers are only ever used on explicit choice (`NEXUS_EMBEDDING_PROVIDER=<name>` **plus** the key).

| Provider | Type | How to enable | Dims |
|----------|------|---------------|------|
| **HuggingFace** 🏠 | Local | default — nothing to configure (override the model with `NEXUS_HF_MODEL`, e.g. `BAAI/bge-m3`) | 1024 |
| **Local service** 🔌 | Local | what the two direct-Qdrant plugins (Claude Code, OpenClaw) use: `POST /embed` on `nexus-memory serve` — same model, no setup | 1024 |
| **Ollama** 🦙 | Local | `NEXUS_EMBEDDING_PROVIDER=ollama` + `ollama pull qwen3-embedding:0.6b` | 1024 |
| **Voyage** ☁️ | Cloud | `NEXUS_EMBEDDING_PROVIDER=voyage` + `VOYAGE_API_KEY` | 1024 |
| **OpenAI** ☁️ | Cloud | `NEXUS_EMBEDDING_PROVIDER=openai` + `OPENAI_API_KEY` | 1536 |
| **Google / Vertex AI** 💚 | Cloud | `NEXUS_EMBEDDING_PROVIDER=google` + `GOOGLE_API_KEY` | 768 |
| **Jina** 💜 | Cloud | `NEXUS_EMBEDDING_PROVIDER=jina` + `JINA_API_KEY` | 1024 |

Whichever you pick, **one collection belongs to one model**: the engine stores the model's fingerprint with the collection and refuses to mix, because vectors from different models are not comparable.

---

## 📦 Release History

| Version | Date | Highlight |
|---------|------|-----------|
| **v0.22.24** | 2026-10-12 | The dashboard stops presenting a window as the whole store — full counts in graph and legend, a working search route, and the two faults "collection missing" and "Qdrant down" finally named separately |
| **v0.22.23** | 2026-10-11 | The plugin reaches its own venv for every dependency again — a host with a partial environment no longer loses the agent's memory silently |
| **v0.22.22** | 2026-10-10 | One embedding path for every plugin (the local service), and the engine revision is one full commit sha a guard test closes the chain around |
| **v0.22.21** | 2026-10-10 | Five access-level gaps closed from the external review — every missing or unknown level now reads as the *most* restrictive one |
| **v0.22.20** | 2026-10-10 | Conversation history is private: `sync_turn` had stored every turn as `public` |
| **v0.22.19** | 2026-10-10 | Two more silent failures in the Claude Code write path (POST→PUT repair) |
| **v0.22.18** | 2026-10-10 | The Claude Code plugin could read from memory but never write to it |
| **v0.22.17** | 2026-10-10 | The memory provider could not embed at all when Hermes called it |
| **v0.22.16** | 2026-10-10 | Four engine fixes that existed only in the build copy now reach the shipped tree |
| **v0.22.15** | 2026-10-10 | Trust heuristic: more generic without becoming looser |
| **v0.22.14** | 2026-10-10 | A leak marker in the OpenClaw thought filter that could never fire |
| **v0.22.12** | 2026-10-04 | The update check is now opt-in, off by default (catalog requirement) |
| **v0.22.11** | 2026-10-04 | A catalog install would have shipped a provider without its engine |
| **v0.22.10** | 2026-10-04 | The plugin manifest declared the wrong hooks, which would have failed catalog admission |
| **v0.22.9** | 2026-10-03 | A memory outage could be invisible to every check and survive `/new` — it now heals itself |
| **v0.22.8** | 2026-10-02 | The documented prefetch budget was three revisions out of date |
| **v0.22.7** | 2026-10-02 | A corrected memory no longer stays findable by its refuted wording |

<details>
<summary><strong>Earlier releases</strong> — one line each (full notes: <a href="CHANGELOG.md">CHANGELOG.md</a>)</summary>

| Version | Date | Highlight |
|---------|------|-----------|
| **v0.22.6** | 2026-09-30 | False-alarm fix: the OpenClaw reachability probe warned "NOT WORKING" while Qdrant was healthy. Now 15 s per attempt with exactly one retry. 5 new tests. |
| **v0.22.5** | 2026-09-30 | Shutdown race: the prefetch thread was never joined and could hit the closed Qdrant client, leaving a silently empty memory block. 11 regression tests. |
| **v0.22.4** | 2026-09-30 | Contract fix: the OpenClaw thought filter had never worked (verdict in `message`, host reads `content`). Detection extracted into `scanReasoningLeak()`. |
| **v0.22.3** | 2026-09-30 | Self-report parity across Claude Code and OpenClaw; installers build the OpenClaw bundle instead of shipping an empty plugin |
| **v0.22.2** | 2026-09-30 | Self-report: plugins and server speak up when memory breaks — resilient imports, per-agent self-checks, server watchdog, `self_report` in healthz |
| **v0.22.1** | 2026-09-25 | Review-fix round: serve self-kill guard, dreaming marker timing, verdict stage wired, honest archive report, install armour |
| **v0.22.0** | 2026-09-25 | Sleep cycle: dreaming (recurring playbooks) + archive-forgetting (backup-then-forget), memory-worthiness filters, injection hardening |
| **v0.21.0** | 2026-09-23 | Standalone becomes the default: `install_serve.sh`, the wizard installs the daemon, every update re-asserts the service |
| **v0.20.2** | 2026-09-22 | Standalone independence: `nexus-memory serve` (Streamable HTTP + healthz), launchd service with leader election + HA failover |
| **v0.20.1** | 2026-09-16 | Post-release verification: a proven prompt-injection bypass closed, session-scan/clamp hardening, 22 findings from the third scan |
| **v0.20.0** | 2026-09-16 | Review campaign complete: all 513 findings closed (15 critical/high, 258 medium, 240 low), 26 waves with a proof-carrying test file each |
| **v0.19.1** | 2026-09-13 | Memory quality gates: junk filtered at ingestion, salience follows confidence, poisoned entries flagged and demoted |
| **v0.19.0** | 2026-09-13 | Query rewriting: sloppy queries rewritten before embedding, hit rate 67% → 75% on the live-store bench |
| **v0.18.7** | 2026-09-09 | Legacy web UI removed; `nexus-memory webui` starts the current dashboard |
| **v0.18.6** | 2026-09-07 | Auto-scoping parity across all three plugins |
| **v0.18.5** | 2026-09-07 | Auto-scoping: the memory organises itself, zero user setup |
| **v0.18.4** | 2026-09-07 | Scopes: project/agent areas — one scope per memory, prefetch is gated, search stays global |
| **v0.18.3** | 2026-09-06 | Quality hardening wave: all 36 medium-severity review findings fixed |
| **v0.18.2** | 2026-09-06 | Security hardening wave: 40 high-severity findings — fail-closed guardrails, opt-in dedup sweep, no silent cloud fallback, locked fuel budget, 0600 key files |
| **v0.18.1** | 2026-09-06 | Consolidation security: inherited `access_level`, guardrail-override entries excluded from distillation |
| **v0.18.0** | 2026-09-06 | Ingestion-time consolidation + multi-station fuel chain |
| **v0.17.0** | 2026-09-04 | `qwen3-embedding:0.6b` as preferred local provider (LongMemEval-S: 66/72/75% vs bge-m3 62/71/73%) |
| **v0.16.0** | 2026-09-03 | Temporal fact validity: point-in-time recall (`recall as_of`) |
| **v0.15.0** | 2026-09-03 | Memory dynamics: reinforcement, decay, salience |
| **v0.14.1** | 2026-09-02 | Trust service as an in-process daemon (belief trust recompute, governance order: retraction > user override > user confirmation) |
| **v0.14.0** | 2026-09-02 | In-process self-maintenance: dedup sweep with JSON backup before every delete |
| **v0.13.5** | 2026-08-31 | Self-monitoring health-audit daemon (30-day read-only dedup/health audit) |
| **v0.13.4** | 2026-08-31 | HuggingFace direct route for local embeddings (bge-m3 via `sentence-transformers`) |
| **v0.13.3** | 2026-08-31 | bge-m3 as preferred local provider: dynamic dimension probe, modern `/api/embed` endpoint |
| **v0.13.2** | 2026-08-30 | Prefetch slot-replacement race fix; prefetch capacity doubled (10 hits / 2400 chars) |
| **v0.13.1** | 2026-08-30 | OpenClaw plugin update check; update-notification parity across agents |
| **v0.13.0** | 2026-08-31 | Point-in-time queries (`as_of`), supersede reason in the deprecated payload, skill-health monitor |
| **v0.12.0** | 2026-08-30 | Latency benchmark (p50 485 ms / p95 610 ms), embedding cache L0, prefetch token budget |
| **v0.11.0** | 2026-08-30 | Superseded-by recall skip, automatic entity enrichment on `remember`, lifecycle filter before rerank |
| **v0.10.0** | 2026-08-30 | Cross-encoder reranking (auto: cloud key or free local), per-category retention policies, SICA reflect insights |
| **v0.9.1** | 2026-07-27 | Discovery content-dict handling, SICA session-storage dimension mismatch fixed |
| **v0.9.0** | 2026-07-27 | Graph-boosted auto-recall in all three plugins, SICA self-improvement cycle, SkillGraph caching |
| **v0.8.0** | 2026-07-25 | Cost-aware routing: tier-based provider selection for categories |
| **v0.7.0** | 2026-07-25 | Knowledge-graph layer: entity extraction, 11 typed relationships, multi-hop traversal via NetworkX |
| **v0.6.0** | 2026-07-25 | Session→memory pipeline: native fact extraction at session end, categorisation, confidence scoring |
| **v0.5.1** | 2026-07-25 | Auto-supersession: automatic deprecation of near-identical facts (similarity > 0.90) with full trace |
| **v0.5.0** | 2026-07-25 | Active guardrails: memory-driven prevention of destructive actions |
| **v0.4.3** | 2026-06-19 | Confidence scores and brain pages in recall (trust, evidence count, lifecycle status) |
| **v0.4.2** | 2026-06-19 | Automatic TTL/expiry per memory category, expired memories filtered in recall |
| **v0.4.1** | 2026-06-19 | Auto-backup every 6 h, update notifications, pre-update safety backup, backup/restore tools |
| **v0.4.0** | 2026-06-19 | OpenClaw native plugin, three-way architecture, time decay, `procedure` category |
| **v0.3.0** | 2026-06-18 | Hermes native memory provider + embedding wizard, auto-prefetch and auto-sync |
| **v0.2.5** | 2026-06-13 | `is_success()` replaces raw `status_code == 200` (29 sites), CI audit workflow |
| **v0.2.4** | 2026-06-12 | Web UI with live D3.js graph, drift ampel, stats cards |
| **v0.2.3** | 2026-06-08 | Auto-update tools, agent-managed self-restart, macOS setup fixes |
| **v0.2.2** | 2026-06-08 | Source-URL verification on recall, hybrid-search score fixes |
| **v0.2.0** | 2026-06-07 | Feature parity with the v2.8.0 core: categories, provenance, guardrails, access control, hybrid search, drift detection |
| **v0.1.0** | 2026-06-07 | Initial release: MCP server with four tools, Qdrant storage, access control, local-only security |
</details>

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## 🔧 Troubleshooting

| Symptom | Check | Fix |
|---------|-------|-----|
| `mcp_nexus_*` tools missing | `grep 'nexus' ~/.hermes/logs/agent.log` | Restart the gateway |
| Qdrant not running | `curl http://127.0.0.1:6333/healthz` | `brew services start qdrant` |
| Hybrid search missing | `pip list \| grep bm25s` | `pip install bm25s` |
| Embedding fails | `nexus-memory` prints the provider it chose | Install the backend it names, or pick one with `NEXUS_EMBEDDING_PROVIDER` |
| Collection error after upgrading | `python3 scripts/detect-legacy-collection.py` | Paste the printed `legacy_collections` entry into the config |
| ModuleNotFoundError | Check `PYTHONPATH` | Set `PYTHONPATH=/path/to/nexus-memory` |

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## 🧪 Tests

```bash
pytest tests/ -q     # the full suite (see the badge above for the current count)
```

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## 📋 Requirements

- Python 3.11+
- Qdrant v1.12+ on `localhost:6333`
- One embedding provider — **the default is local, needs no key and no extra software**:
 - **🏠 HuggingFace (default)**: ships with the package, downloads `Qwen/Qwen3-Embedding-0.6B` on first use (1024d, multilingual, ~1.2 GB, then cached)
 - **🦙 Ollama (explicit choice only)**: `NEXUS_EMBEDDING_PROVIDER=ollama` after `ollama pull qwen3-embedding:0.6b` (1024d)
 - Cloud instead of local (only when named explicitly, together with its key): Voyage (1024d), OpenAI (1536d), Google/Vertex AI (768d), Jina (1024d)
- Want to pick interactively? `python3 -m nexus_memory.wizard` scans your machine and recommends one.

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## 📜 License

MIT: use it, modify it, ship it.

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