GitHub - zaydmulani09/mnemo: Local-first AI memory layer for any LLM. Persistent knowledge graph, entity extraction, semantic retrieval. Works with Ollama, OpenAI, Anthropic, or any OpenAI-compatible backend.

Local-first AI memory layer for any LLM. Persistent knowledge graph, entity extraction, semantic retrieval — no cloud required.

What is mnemo? Most LLMs forget everything the moment a conversation ends. mnemo fixes that. mnemo is a sidecar service that watches every conversation you feed it, extracts named entities and relationships using an LLM, builds a persistent knowledge graph in SQLite, and injects relevant context back into future prompts — automatically, in under 50ms. It works with Ollama (fully local, free), OpenAI, Anthropic, or any OpenAI-compatible API. It ships as a single static binary with zero cloud dependency.

How it works your app │ ▼ POST /ingest ──► entity extraction (LLM) ──► knowledge graph (SQLite + petgraph) │ POST /retrieve ◄── scoring + ranking ◄── graph traversal + full-text search │ ▼ context_prompt ──► inject into your LLM prompt

You POST raw text to /ingest (a conversation turn, a document, a note). mnemo sends it to your configured LLM and extracts entities (people, tools, places, concepts) and the relationships between them. Entities are deduplicated by name+type, aliases are merged, and everything is written to SQLite. The in-memory petgraph is updated atomically. On POST /retrieve, mnemo runs a 6-stage pipeline: full-text chunk search → entity name search → graph expansion (BFS over the knowledge graph) → relation filter → score+rank → assemble a context_prompt string. You inject context_prompt into your LLM's system prompt.

Done.

Quickstart Path A — Docker + Ollama (fully free, recommended) git clone https://github.com/zaydmulani09/mnemo cd mnemo docker compose up -d

# Pull the llama3 model the first time (~4 GB) docker exec mnemo-ollama ollama pull llama3

# Verify everything is healthy curl http://localhost:8080/health Path B — Binary (Ollama or OpenAI running separately) cargo install --path crates/mnemo-api

# With Ollama export MNEMO_LLM_BASE_URL=http://localhost:11434/v1 mnemo-api

# With OpenAI export MNEMO_LLM_BASE_URL=https://api.openai.com/v1 export MNEMO_LLM_API_KEY=sk-... export MNEMO_LLM_MODEL=gpt-4o-mini export MNEMO_LLM_PROVIDER=openai mnemo-api Path C — Python SDK pip install mnemo-sdk from mnemo import MnemoClient

client = MnemoClient() # server at http://localhost:8080

# Store a memory client.ingest("I'm building a Rust vector database called vecdb")

# Get context for injection into your next LLM prompt print(client.get_context("what am I working on?"))

API Reference All endpoints accept and return application/json. Base URL: http://localhost:8080.

Method Path Description Request body Response

GET /health Server + DB + LLM status — HealthResponse

POST /ingest Store text, extract entities IngestRequest IngestResponse

POST /retrieve Retrieve ranked memory context RetrievalQuery RetrievalResult

GET /entities List entities (paginated) ?limit&offset Entity[]

GET /entities/:id Get entity by UUID — Entity

DELETE /entities/:id Delete entity (cascades) — {"deleted":true}

GET /entities/:id/neighbors Knowledge graph neighbors ?depth (max 5) GraphNode[]

GET /chunks List memory chunks (paginated) ?

limit&offset&session_id MemoryChunk[]

GET /chunks/:id Get chunk by UUID — MemoryChunk

DELETE /chunks/:id Delete chunk — {"deleted":true}

POST /search Full-text search entities + chunks {"query","limit"} {"entities","chunks"}

DELETE /wipe Delete all memory (irreversible) header: X-Confirm-Wipe: true {"wiped":true}

GET /stats Entity/chunk/graph counts + uptime — StatsResponse

Key request/response types:

Full endpoint documentation with curl examples: docs/api.md

Configuration Environment variables

Variable Default Description

MNEMO_DB_PATH mnemo.db SQLite database file path

MNEMO_PORT 8080 API server port

MNEMO_LLM_BASE_URL http://localhost:11434/v1 OpenAI-compatible LLM base URL

MNEMO_LLM_MODEL llama3 Model name for entity extraction

MNEMO_LLM_API_KEY ollama API key (any value works for Ollama)

MNEMO_LLM_PROVIDER ollama Provider type: ollama, openai, anthropic, custom

TOML config file Pass --config path/to/config.toml to mnemo-api. See mnemo.example.toml: db_path = "mnemo.db" port = 8080

[llm] provider = "ollama" base_url = "http://localhost:11434/v1" model = "llama3" api_key = "ollama" timeout_secs = 30 max_retries = 3 max_tokens = 2048 temperature = 0.1 Environment variables take precedence over TOML values. The active config source is reported in GET /health → config_source.

CLI Install: cargo install --path crates/mnemo-cli Usage: # Store a memory mnemo ingest "I use Neovim and prefer dark mode"

# Retrieve relevant context mnemo search "what editor do I use?"

# List all extracted entities mnemo entities

# Show entity detail + graph neighbors mnemo entity <uuid> --neighbors

# List memory chunks mnemo chunks

# Server health mnemo health

# Memory statistics mnemo stats

# Delete everything (prompts for confirmation) mnemo wipe

# Skip confirmation prompt mnemo wipe --yes

# Point at a non-default server mnemo --server http://192.168.1.10:8080 stats

Python SDK Install: pip install mnemo-sdk See sdk/python/README.md for the full API reference. Async example: import asyncio from mnemo import AsyncMnemoClient

async def main(): async with AsyncMnemoClient() as client: await client.ingest( "Alice is a principal engineer at Stripe working on payment infrastructure.", session_id="session-001", ) context = await client.get_context( "what does Alice work on?", session_id="session-001", ) print(context)

asyncio.run(main()) A working standalone example: examples/basic_usage.py

Architecture Four Rust crates wired together:

Crate Type Role

mnemo-core lib Entity extraction, graph ops, retrieval engine, DB layer

mnemo-api bin Axum REST API — thin handler layer over mnemo-core

mnemo-cli bin CLI tool using blocking reqwest against the API

mnemo-bench bin Performance benchmarks (12 suites)

Full architecture documentation: docs/architecture.md

Performance Benchmarked on Apple M2, SQLite WAL mode, in-memory petgraph. Debug build numbers — release build (--release) is 3–5× faster.

Operation Avg latency Throughput

Entity insert (SQLite) ~0.12 ms ~8,300 ops/s

Entity lookup by ID ~0.08 ms ~12,500 ops/s

Chunk insert ~0.14 ms ~7,100 ops/s

Full-text chunk search ~0.28 ms ~3,500

ops/s

Graph neighbor (depth=1) ~0.21 ms ~4,700 ops/s

Graph neighbor (depth=2) ~0.89 ms ~1,100 ops/s

Full retrieval pipeline ~4.2 ms ~238 ops/s

Run cargo run -p mnemo-bench to benchmark on your hardware.

Testing Rust cargo test --workspace # run all 122 tests make coverage # HTML coverage report (requires cargo-llvm-cov) make coverage-summary # summary to stdout Python SDK cd sdk/python && pytest tests/ -v Benchmarks cargo run -p mnemo-bench # all 12 benchmarks cargo run -p mnemo-bench -- --filter graph # graph benchmarks only cargo run -p mnemo-bench -- --json out.json # save results to JSON Current test counts: 122 Rust tests · 21 Python tests · 12 benchmarks

Contributing PRs welcome. Please run make fmt && make lint before submitting. Open an issue first for large changes. See CONTRIBUTING.md for full setup instructions, code style guide, and how to add a new LLM provider.

License MIT — see LICENSE