Mnemosure

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An AI memory layer that says "I don't know" when it doesn't, and cites its source when it does. Qwen Cloud Global AI Hackathon · Track 1 (MemoryAgent)

Across many sessions of AI-assisted work, two failures compound: the assistant forgets decisions that were made, and it hallucinates ones that were not. Mnemosure is a source-grounded memory layer that attacks both.

Its core claim: it does not invent what it cannot remember, and it does not drop what it remembers.

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What it does

• Stores durable facts from a conversation — decisions, changes, failures, established facts — and throws away the chatter.
• Links memories over time: when a new decision overrides an old one, the old one is marked superseded; the reason for a change is linked back to the failure that caused it (because).
• Recalls with a confidence level and citations. When the evidence overrides an old memory, the answer corrects the old fact instead of repeating it. When there is no evidence, it answers "not in the record" instead of guessing.

Every answer comes back as one of three confidence levels — certain / vague / unknown — with the source of each cited memory.

Architecture

flowchart TB
    MCP["MCP server · stdio<br/>recall · remember · list_memories"]
    WEB["Demo web · FastAPI<br/>/ask · /memories · /results"]

    subgraph Ingest["Ingest (remember)"]
        direction TB
        S["Session text"] --> EX["Extract · qwen3.5-flash<br/>decision / change / failure / fact"]
        EX --> EMB1["Embed · text-embedding-v4 · 1024d"]
        EMB1 --> LINK["Link associations<br/>supersedes: cosine ≥ 0.35 → flash verdict<br/>because: failure, cosine ≥ 0.15 → flash is_cause"]
        LINK --> STORE[("memories.json<br/>(JSON warehouse)")]
    end

    subgraph Recall["Recall (recall)"]
        direction TB
        Q["Query"] --> EMB2["Embed query"]
        EMB2 --> COS["Cosine top-6<br/>superseded included"]
        COS --> RR["Rerank · qwen3-rerank<br/>top score under 0.15 → 'unknown'"]
        RR --> EXP["Associative expand<br/>supersedes / because · 2 hops"]
        EXP --> ANS["Answer · qwen3.7-plus · temp 0<br/>confidence + answer + citations"]
    end

    MCP --> S
    MCP --> Q
    WEB --> Q
    STORE -. retrieve .-> COS
    STORE -. expand .-> EXP

Ingest (mnemosure/memory/store.py): a session is passed to qwen3.5-flash, which extracts only what will matter later. Each memory is embedded, then two kinds of association are drawn — a lexical prefilter (cosine similarity) proposes candidates and the flash model makes the final call, so nothing is linked on surface similarity alone. Failures are never superseded (lessons are kept forever).

Recall (mnemosure/memory/recall.py): the query is embedded and the top candidates are pulled — including superseded ones, because correcting a stale belief requires finding it first. qwen3-rerank re-orders by relevance; if even the best hit is too weak, the answer is unknown rather than a guess. The surviving seeds are expanded two hops along their supersedes/because links, and qwen3.7-plus composes the final answer grounded only in that evidence (temperature 0). Broad "summarize everything" questions bypass top-K and ground on all active memories so nothing is dropped.

Models (Qwen Cloud / DashScope)

Role	Model	Endpoint
Brain (main answer)	qwen3.7-plus-2026-05-26	OpenAI-compatible /compatible-mode/v1
Brain (extract / judge / classify)	qwen3.5-flash	OpenAI-compatible /compatible-mode/v1
Index (embeddings, 1024-dim)	text-embedding-v4	OpenAI-compatible /compatible-mode/v1
Precision rerank	qwen3-rerank	Native /api/v1/services/rerank/...

The API key is read only from the environment (or .env) and is never hard-coded. Model IDs default to the values above; override them per-run with MNEMOSURE_MODEL_* env vars if a quota runs out — there is no automatic switching. Defaults live in mnemosure/config.py (the single source of truth).

Install

pip install mnemosure          # core library + MCP server
pip install "mnemosure[demo]"  # also pulls FastAPI/uvicorn for the demo web server

Then provide your Qwen Cloud key (export DASHSCOPE_API_KEY=...) and run the MCP server:

mnemosure-mcp                  # stdio MCP server

• A Qwen key is required at runtime — Mnemosure is a Qwen client (extraction, embeddings, rerank, answering all run on Qwen). Without a key the tools raise a clear error.
• Where memories are stored: an installed copy starts with an empty warehouse at ~/.mnemosure/memories.json. Override the directory with MNEMOSURE_DATA_DIR. (The pre-loaded NXTBot demo snapshot lives in this repository, not in the pip package — clone the repo to see it.)

Quick start (from source)

# 1) create and activate a project virtual environment
python3 -m venv .venv
source .venv/bin/activate

# 2) install dependencies
pip install -r requirements.txt

# 3) provide your Qwen Cloud (DashScope) key
cp .env.example .env        # then edit .env and set DASHSCOPE_API_KEY

# 4) verify all four models are reachable
python scripts/check_models.py

Run the demo

The repository ships with precomputed demo snapshots (under data/scenarios/<key>/), so the demo works right after cloning:

python scripts/run_demo.py      # → http://127.0.0.1:8000

It includes two scenarios — a pre-market trading bot and a mobile-app UI/UX redesign — that you can switch between. Each scenario also lets you expand its source conversations, so you can confirm the memories were extracted from real multi-session chats, not hardcoded. The memory warehouse and the before/after evaluation panels render straight from the snapshot — no API key needed to browse them. Only /ask (live grounded recall) calls Qwen and therefore needs a key. To regenerate a scenario's snapshot from scratch (consumes quota):

python scripts/gen_demo_data.py            # all scenarios (only missing ones)
python scripts/gen_demo_data.py uiux       # a specific scenario

Use it as an MCP server

Mnemosure exposes the memory layer over the Model Context Protocol, so any MCP-capable agent (Claude Desktop, Claude Code, …) can call it as a tool.

mnemosure-mcp                       # if installed via pip
python -m mnemosure.mcp_server      # equivalent, from a source checkout

Register it in your agent's .mcp.json (or equivalent). After pip install mnemosure, the console command is enough:

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "mnemosure": {
      "command": "mnemosure-mcp",
      "env": { "DASHSCOPE_API_KEY": "your-dashscope-api-key" }
    }
  }
}

Running from a source checkout instead of an install? Use "command": "/abs/path/.venv/bin/python", "args": ["-m", "mnemosure.mcp_server"], and add "PYTHONPATH": "/abs/path/to/repo" so the package is importable regardless of the launcher's working directory.

Tools:

Tool	Signature	Returns
recall	recall(query: str)	{confidence, answer, cited} — grounded answer with source-cited memory ids
remember	remember(session_text: str, date="", title="")	{stored: [...], count} — extracts decisions/changes/failures and auto-links supersedes/because
list_memories	list_memories(include_superseded=False)	list of active (or all) memories with source

Note: the server itself calls Qwen for classification, recall, and grounding — it is agent-agnostic but assumes a Qwen key is present (via env or .env).

Evaluation approach

Quality is measured by labeling each answer's behavior — accurate / omission / hallucination / noise / honest — alongside our three-way confidence (certain / vague / unknown), rather than a single opaque score. The whole pipeline (extraction, supersession judgment, scoring) runs at temperature 0 for reproducibility. The demo serves a fixed snapshot so results are stable across viewings.

See mnemosure/evaluation/ (harness.py, judge.py, label.py, baseline.py, answer_key.py).

Project structure

mnemosure/
  config.py           # models, endpoints, key loading — single source of truth
  qwen_client.py      # the only gateway to Qwen (chat / embed / rerank)
  mcp_server.py       # MCP tools: recall · remember · list_memories (stdio)
  memory/
    store.py          # ingest: extract → embed → link supersedes/because → save
    recall.py         # recall: embed → rerank → associative expand → grounded answer
    forget.py         # forgetting / relevance handling
    storage.py        # JSON-file memory warehouse
    models.py         # Memory / Association / Source dataclasses
  evaluation/         # harness · judge · label · baseline · answer_key
  demo/
    server.py         # FastAPI: /ask · /memories · /results · /sessions · /scenarios
    index.html        # single-page demo UI (scenario switcher + source-transcript viewer)
    scenarios.py      # scenario registry (sessions + answer keys + snapshot paths)
    sample_sessions.py# fictional scenarios (trading bot, UI/UX redesign) for demo & eval
scripts/              # check_models · gen_demo_data · run_demo · demo_* helpers
data/scenarios/<key>/ # per-scenario memories.json + results.json (demo snapshots, committed)

Deployment

An Alibaba Cloud deployment guide (containerized) is being added in a follow-up commit.

License

MIT.