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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.
- **Survives its host**: the service binds `127.0.0.1:9122` and keeps running after the agent/editor that started it exits. It only stops when you stop it explicitly (or the machine reboots); a normal plugin/editor shutdown does **not** terminate the shared service.
- **Per-installation authentication**: `/embed` and `/mcp` require a per-installation secret. The first start creates `<data-dir>/service_auth.key` with mode `0600`; every caller must send it in the `x-nexus-service-key` header. `/healthz` stays intentionally open so host probes can check liveness without the secret.
- **Loopback-only rebinding guard**: `/embed` and `/mcp` both validate the `Host`/`Origin` headers and reject anything that is not `127.0.0.1:*` or `localhost:*`. The per-installation key is still required on both routes.
- **No self-update inside the running service**: the daemon has no built-in update tool. Updates are installed from the outside (package manager, wizard, or the explicit update script).
- **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.**

The local service on `127.0.0.1:9122` uses a per-installation secret (`x-nexus-service-key`) to protect `/embed` and `/mcp`. The secret is stored as `<data-dir>/service_auth.key` with mode `0600`; `/healthz` is the only open endpoint. Both `/embed` and `/mcp` also enforce the same `Host`/`Origin` allow-list (`127.0.0.1:*`, `localhost:*`).

> **What this protection does not cover:** the model assumes the machine's own user account is trustworthy. Anything running as the same user, any program with write access to `<data-dir>` (other plugins, backup tools, sync services such as Dropbox/iCloud), or any process that can read `service_auth.key` can impersonate a caller. Keep the data directory restricted and treat backups of it as sensitive.

- **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** (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|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": "local__Qwen3-Embedding-0.6B__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.)

#### Recall ordering and memory AI — your model, your endpoint

Two optional features let a chat model work on your memories: **recall ordering** (re-orders the
candidate pool of a search) and **memory AI** (consolidation). Both use the model and the endpoint
of the installation that runs them — `model.default` and the provider block of your agent
configuration, or the environment overrides named below. **Nothing is built in**: without a
configured model nothing is called at all, you get one warning per process, and the previous order
is kept.

- **Switch them in the dashboard.** The *Recall ordering* and *Memory AI* cards each carry a switch,
  show the model a call would use, and name the monthly cap.
- **Or over the endpoint.** `GET /api/settings/rerank` returns `enabled`, `reranker`, `pool`,
  `llm_model` and `llm_configured`; `POST` the same route with `{"enabled": true}` to switch it. The
  write is atomic, keeps every other key of your configuration and takes a timestamped backup
  first; invalid input answers `400` and leaves the file untouched.
- **Environment overrides.** `NEXUS_RERANK=0/1` and `NEXUS_RERANKER` for recall ordering;
  `NEXUS_RERANK_LLM_BASE_URL`, `NEXUS_RERANK_LLM_API_KEY` and `NEXUS_RERANK_LLM_MODEL` for its
  endpoint; `NEXUS_CONSOLIDATION=0/1` and `NEXUS_CONSOLIDATION_MODEL` for memory AI. The size of
  the candidate pool is `nexus-memory.rerank_pool` in your configuration.

**Every agent counts.** Reads and writes are counted in the store itself, not at one protocol edge,
so an agent that uses the library directly shows up in the dashboard too — an id the registry does
not know yet registers itself on first contact. A check that should not appear as an agent opts out
with `NEXUS_AGENT_SELFTEST=1`.

### 🔌 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` 🔄 | **Not available — neither as a tool nor as a CLI command.** A self-updating daemon that outlives its host is a security risk, so the service no longer polls or updates itself. Update with your package manager or from a shell in the checkout; `NEXUS_UPDATE_CHECK=1` only adds a notification in chat. | — |
| `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. With `nexus-memory.rerank: true` the candidate pool is re-ordered; `nexus-memory.reranker` picks who does it — `llm` (the default) sends the pool (`nexus-memory.rerank_pool`, each candidate cut to 300 characters) to a chat model, `cross-encoder` keeps the local model. The chat model's endpoint comes from `NEXUS_RERANK_LLM_BASE_URL` and `NEXUS_RERANK_LLM_API_KEY`, its name from `NEXUS_RERANK_LLM_MODEL`. When an answer is unusable the request is repeated once; if it stays unusable the reranker returns nothing and the caller keeps the vector-ordered list unchanged. 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 (`session` and `temp` = 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 🛡️** — A store only keeps what it is told. This one also 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, opt-in update notifications in chat (`NEXUS_UPDATE_CHECK=1` — the service itself no longer polls or updates itself), 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` reports the full status; the open `GET /healthz` deliberately answers only liveness (`status`, `qdrant`) so an unauthenticated caller learns nothing beyond "it is up".

**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.

---

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## 🧩 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 |
| **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 |
|---------|------|-----------|
| **v0.22.45** | 2026-11-01 | The dashboard showed every memory without a category as "uncategorized", so scanned documents and old notes read like unfinished work; they now carry a readable label. Windows also lost child process output whenever the console code page could not decode it, and three error paths crashed on the empty result |
| **v0.22.44** | 2026-11-01 | The guardrail blocked nothing on Windows: protected paths were compared in a form that never matched, so the deletes and writes it exists to stop went through. Separately, the automatic backup of the store now carries a real ACL there |
| **v0.22.43** | 2026-11-01 | The webhook store no longer loses subscriptions on Windows. Two processes writing five each produced eight, because the sidecar file lock was `flock` only and `fcntl` does not exist there |
| **v0.22.42** | 2026-11-01 | The `.env` holding the API keys was readable by every local account on Windows: `os.chmod` grants and denies nothing there. The store now removes ACL inheritance and keeps the current account plus SYSTEM |
| **v0.22.41** | 2026-10-31 | The suite runs on windows-latest as well; its first run found `import fcntl` at module scope in `fuel_chain`, which made the module unimportable there |
| **v0.22.40** | 2026-10-29 | The plugin names the agent `hermes` instead of leaving it `unidentified` when the environment variable is missing |
| **v0.22.39** | 2026-10-28 | The Hermes plugin now stamps `agent` and `instance` too, so the stamp reaches memories that are stored through the plugin and not only through the MCP server |
| **v0.22.38** | 2026-10-28 | Every installation keeps its own id file, so four Hermes profiles sharing one Nexus home get four ids. The shared `instance.json` of 0.22.36 and 0.22.37 is no longer read |
| **v0.22.37** | 2026-10-28 | A new installation id is derived from the installation's own home instead of being random, so four Hermes profiles sharing one data directory get four ids without any setup. An existing id is never recomputed |
| **v0.22.36** | 2026-10-28 | Every memory now records which agent and which installation stored it. `source` said where the information came from; nothing said who put it there, so a preference could be read without knowing whose it was, and two Hermes installations were indistinguishable. Old points return nothing for the new fields; no migration |
| **v0.22.35** | 2026-10-28 | Protected-path rules matched only on paths with forward slashes: on Windows, a rule guarding `C:\data\protected` let `rm -rf C:\data\protected\file.txt` and `rm -rf C:\data` through as an unprotected target. The comparison now goes by path component, which also fixes a protected root on macOS and Linux. Reported and fixed by Simin Yuan (@simin-yuan), with tests that run both path flavours on any host |
| **v0.22.34** | 2026-10-28 | The guardrail patterns for destructive commands no longer backtrack: `find -delete`, `git clean -f`, `dd of`, `DELETE`/`drop collection` and the `pip`/`npm`/`brew install` rules are linear now, so a long crafted command cannot stall the check that runs before every terminal command. Reported and fixed by Simin Yuan (@simin-yuan), with a test per pattern for the input that used to be the worst |
| **v0.22.33** | 2026-10-27 | The agent registry module loads on Windows: `fcntl` and `msvcrt` are optional, the registry lock is `flock` on POSIX and `msvcrt.locking` on Windows, and the setup flow and the test suite stop failing there; checked on a real Windows host, the old revision raised `ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'fcntl'` and the new one imports and registers |
| **v0.22.32** | 2026-10-25 | Wikilink scan in discovery rewritten as a single linear pass; the regex was quadratic on a crafted memory fact (64 002 bracket characters: about 6.5 s before, a few microseconds now); output verified identical on 24 edge cases and 200 000 random strings |
| **v0.22.31** | 2026-10-25 | Seven advisories closed across five packages: the lockfile moves certifi to 2026.10.23, filelock to 4.2.4, setuptools to 84.2.1 and opentelemetry-api to 1.45.1, which closes six of them, and the test runner moves to pytest 9, which closes the seventh (tmpdir handling); the full suite runs green on it; no runtime behaviour changed |
| **v0.22.30** | 2026-10-24 | The two maintenance daemons stay quiet on a fresh install — one INFO line instead of a stack trace and a false quality alarm when the collection does not exist yet; an unusable scroll reply is reported once as a clear warning; the test suite switches both daemons off |
| **v0.22.29** | 2026-10-24 | Model and endpoint for reranking and consolidation are read from the installation that runs them (nothing built in, no call without configuration); both features can be switched in the dashboard with a monthly cap line; access counting covers every path, unknown agents register themselves, self-checks opt out; dashboard assets carry the release version |
| **v0.22.28** | 2026-10-24 | Recall can be re-ordered by a chat model instead of the local cross-encoder (`nexus-memory.reranker`); on a fixed 20-question set against a live corpus the top-five hits went from 14 to 17 |

Older versions are in [CHANGELOG.md](CHANGELOG.md), and every version has a page under [releases](https://github.com/Neboy72/nexus-memory/releases).


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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): 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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## ⚠️ Note: The PyPI Package

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