velesdb-memory 0.9.0

VelesDB-memory: local-first MCP memory server for AI agents (remember/recall/relate/forget/why + deterministic context compiler).
Documentation
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
12
13
14
15
16
17
18
19
20
21
22
23
24
25
26
27
28
29
30
31
32
33
34
35
36
37
38
39
40
41
42
43
44
45
46
47
48
49
50
51
52
53
54
55
56
57
58
59
60
61
62
63
64
65
66
67
68
69
70
71
72
73
74
75
76
77
78
79
80
81
82
83
84
85
86
87
88
89
90
91
92
93
94
95
96
97
98
99
100
101
102
103
104
105
106
107
108
109
110
111
112
113
114
115
116
117
118
119
120
121
122
123
124
125
126
127
128
129
130
131
132
133
134
135
136
137
138
139
140
141
142
143
144
145
146
147
148
149
150
151
152
153
154
155
156
157
158
159
160
161
162
163
164
165
166
167
168
169
170
171
172
173
174
175
176
177
178
179
180
181
182
183
184
185
186
187
188
189
190
191
192
193
194
195
196
197
198
199
200
201
202
203
204
205
206
207
208
209
210
211
212
213
214
215
216
217
218
219
220
221
222
223
224
225
226
227
228
229
230
231
232
233
234
235
236
237
238
239
240
241
242
243
244
245
246
247
248
249
250
251
252
253
254
255
256
257
258
259
260
261
262
263
264
265
266
267
268
269
270
271
272
273
274
275
276
277
278
279
280
281
282
283
284
285
286
287
288
289
290
291
292
293
294
295
296
297
298
299
300
301
302
303
304
305
306
307
308
309
310
311
312
313
314
315
316
317
318
319
320
321
322
323
324
325
326
327
328
329
330
331
332
333
334
335
336
337
338
339
340
341
342
343
344
345
346
347
348
349
350
351
352
353
354
355
356
357
358
359
360
361
362
363
364
365
366
367
368
369
370
371
372
373
374
375
376
377
378
379
380
381
382
383
384
385
386
387
388
389
390
391
392
393
394
395
396
397
398
399
400
401
402
403
404
405
406
407
408
409
410
411
412
413
414
415
416
417
418
419
420
421
422
423
424
425
426
427
428
429
430
431
432
433
434
435
436
437
438
439
440
441
442
//! Storage backend abstraction for [`crate::service::MemoryService`].
//!
//! The wedge orchestration (remember/recall/relate/forget/why/fusion) is
//! written once, generic over [`MemoryStore`], so it runs unchanged over any
//! backend: the native, file-backed [`NativeStore`] (the default — nothing
//! changes for existing callers), or an in-memory backend such as the one
//! `velesdb-wasm` provides for the browser (no filesystem, no `persistence`
//! feature).

#[cfg(feature = "persistence")]
use std::collections::HashMap;
#[cfg(feature = "persistence")]
use std::path::Path;
#[cfg(feature = "persistence")]
use std::sync::Arc;

#[cfg(feature = "persistence")]
use serde_json::json;
use serde_json::Value;
#[cfg(feature = "persistence")]
use velesdb_core::agent::AgentMemory;
#[cfg(feature = "persistence")]
use velesdb_core::{Database, SearchResult};

use crate::error::MemoryError;
use crate::model::{ColumnFilter, MemoryEdge, Recollection};
use crate::service::Metadata;

/// The storage primitives [`crate::service::MemoryService`] needs: write,
/// vector search, graph edges, and by-id lookup. A backend that implements
/// this trait can run the full wedge (`remember`/`recall`/`recall_fused`/
/// `relate`/`forget`/`why`/`remember_extracted`) with no orchestration code
/// duplicated.
pub trait MemoryStore {
    /// Store a fact with no metadata or expiry.
    ///
    /// # Errors
    /// Returns [`MemoryError`] if persistence fails.
    fn store(&self, id: u64, content: &str, embedding: &[f32]) -> Result<(), MemoryError>;

    /// Store a fact tagged with `metadata`, no expiry.
    ///
    /// # Errors
    /// Returns [`MemoryError`] if persistence fails.
    fn store_with_metadata(
        &self,
        id: u64,
        content: &str,
        embedding: &[f32],
        metadata: &Metadata,
    ) -> Result<(), MemoryError>;

    /// Store a fact that expires after `ttl_seconds`, no metadata.
    ///
    /// # Errors
    /// Returns [`MemoryError`] if persistence fails.
    fn store_with_ttl(
        &self,
        id: u64,
        content: &str,
        embedding: &[f32],
        ttl_seconds: u64,
    ) -> Result<(), MemoryError>;

    /// Merge `metadata` into an already-stored fact's payload, preserving any
    /// durable TTL. Used to combine metadata with an expiry (store both in
    /// two calls rather than needing every metadata×TTL combination as a
    /// separate primitive).
    ///
    /// # Errors
    /// Returns [`MemoryError`] if `id` is unknown or persistence fails.
    fn update_metadata(&self, id: u64, metadata: &Metadata) -> Result<(), MemoryError>;

    /// A fact's content and embedding, or `None` if unknown/expired.
    ///
    /// # Errors
    /// Returns [`MemoryError`] if storage access fails.
    fn get(&self, id: u64) -> Result<Option<(String, Vec<f32>)>, MemoryError>;

    /// A fact's raw stored payload — reserved system keys (`_veles_*`)
    /// included, so the service layer can check the hub flag before
    /// stripping them for the caller — or `None` when the fact is
    /// unknown/expired.
    ///
    /// # Errors
    /// Returns [`MemoryError`] if storage access fails.
    fn get_metadata(&self, id: u64) -> Result<Option<Metadata>, MemoryError>;

    /// Batched [`Self::get_metadata`]: one storage round trip for every id
    /// in `ids`, results in the same order and length (an unknown or expired
    /// id maps to `None`). Same raw-payload semantics as the single-id form.
    ///
    /// # Errors
    /// Returns [`MemoryError`] if storage access fails.
    fn get_metadata_batch(&self, ids: &[u64]) -> Result<Vec<Option<Metadata>>, MemoryError>;

    /// Delete a fact.
    ///
    /// # Errors
    /// Returns [`MemoryError`] if deletion fails.
    fn delete(&self, id: u64) -> Result<(), MemoryError>;

    /// Vector search for up to `k` ids, narrowed to facts whose metadata
    /// exactly matches every key in `filter`.
    ///
    /// # Errors
    /// Returns [`MemoryError`] if the query fails.
    fn query_filtered(
        &self,
        embedding: &[f32],
        k: usize,
        filter: &Metadata,
        offset: usize,
    ) -> Result<Vec<(u64, f32, String)>, MemoryError>;

    /// Vector search for up to `k` ids, dropping facts whose metadata matches
    /// every key in `exclude`.
    ///
    /// # Errors
    /// Returns [`MemoryError`] if the query fails.
    fn query_excluding(
        &self,
        embedding: &[f32],
        k: usize,
        exclude: &Metadata,
    ) -> Result<Vec<(u64, f32, String)>, MemoryError>;

    /// Vector search fused with structured `ColumnStore` predicates (ranges
    /// and comparisons, not just equality) — the engine behind
    /// [`crate::service::MemoryService::recall_where`].
    ///
    /// # Errors
    /// Returns [`MemoryError::InvalidFilter`] if a filter field is not a
    /// plain identifier or a filter value is non-scalar, or [`MemoryError`]
    /// if the query fails.
    fn query_columnar(
        &self,
        embedding: &[f32],
        k: usize,
        filters: &[ColumnFilter],
    ) -> Result<Vec<Recollection>, MemoryError>;

    /// Create a typed edge `from -> to`. Returns the edge id.
    ///
    /// # Errors
    /// Returns [`MemoryError`] if either endpoint is missing or persistence fails.
    fn relate(&self, from: u64, to: u64, relation: &str) -> Result<u64, MemoryError>;

    /// The outgoing edges of `id`.
    ///
    /// # Errors
    /// Returns [`MemoryError`] if storage access fails.
    fn relations(&self, id: u64) -> Result<Vec<MemoryEdge>, MemoryError>;

    /// The total number of live (non-expired) tracked facts, including
    /// internal entity hubs — used as a corpus-size proxy for idf weighting.
    fn count(&self) -> usize;
}

/// The default [`MemoryStore`]: the native, file-backed engine
/// (`velesdb-core`'s `Database`/`AgentMemory`, requiring the `persistence`
/// feature). Existing callers of `MemoryService::open` see no change — this
/// is exactly what they already ran.
#[cfg(feature = "persistence")]
pub struct NativeStore {
    memory: AgentMemory,
}

#[cfg(feature = "persistence")]
impl NativeStore {
    /// Open (or create) a native store at `path`, sized for `dimension`.
    ///
    /// # Errors
    /// Returns [`MemoryError`] if the store cannot be opened.
    pub fn open<P: AsRef<Path>>(path: P, dimension: usize) -> Result<Self, MemoryError> {
        let db = Arc::new(Database::open(path)?);
        let memory = AgentMemory::with_dimension(db, dimension)?;
        Ok(Self { memory })
    }
}

#[cfg(feature = "persistence")]
impl MemoryStore for NativeStore {
    fn store(&self, id: u64, content: &str, embedding: &[f32]) -> Result<(), MemoryError> {
        self.memory
            .semantic()
            .store(id, content, embedding)
            .map_err(MemoryError::from)
    }

    fn store_with_metadata(
        &self,
        id: u64,
        content: &str,
        embedding: &[f32],
        metadata: &Metadata,
    ) -> Result<(), MemoryError> {
        self.memory
            .semantic()
            .store_with_metadata(id, content, embedding, metadata)
            .map_err(MemoryError::from)
    }

    fn store_with_ttl(
        &self,
        id: u64,
        content: &str,
        embedding: &[f32],
        ttl_seconds: u64,
    ) -> Result<(), MemoryError> {
        self.memory
            .semantic()
            .store_with_ttl(id, content, embedding, ttl_seconds)
            .map_err(MemoryError::from)
    }

    fn update_metadata(&self, id: u64, metadata: &Metadata) -> Result<(), MemoryError> {
        self.memory
            .semantic()
            .update_metadata(id, metadata)
            .map_err(MemoryError::from)
    }

    fn get(&self, id: u64) -> Result<Option<(String, Vec<f32>)>, MemoryError> {
        self.memory.semantic().get(id).map_err(MemoryError::from)
    }

    fn get_metadata(&self, id: u64) -> Result<Option<Metadata>, MemoryError> {
        self.memory
            .semantic()
            .get_metadata(id)
            .map_err(MemoryError::from)
    }

    fn get_metadata_batch(&self, ids: &[u64]) -> Result<Vec<Option<Metadata>>, MemoryError> {
        self.memory
            .semantic()
            .get_metadata_batch(ids)
            .map_err(MemoryError::from)
    }

    fn delete(&self, id: u64) -> Result<(), MemoryError> {
        self.memory.semantic().delete(id).map_err(MemoryError::from)
    }

    fn query_filtered(
        &self,
        embedding: &[f32],
        k: usize,
        filter: &Metadata,
        offset: usize,
    ) -> Result<Vec<(u64, f32, String)>, MemoryError> {
        self.memory
            .semantic()
            .query_filtered(embedding, k, filter, offset)
            .map_err(MemoryError::from)
    }

    fn query_excluding(
        &self,
        embedding: &[f32],
        k: usize,
        exclude: &Metadata,
    ) -> Result<Vec<(u64, f32, String)>, MemoryError> {
        self.memory
            .semantic()
            .query_excluding(embedding, k, exclude)
            .map_err(MemoryError::from)
    }

    fn query_columnar(
        &self,
        embedding: &[f32],
        k: usize,
        filters: &[ColumnFilter],
    ) -> Result<Vec<Recollection>, MemoryError> {
        let (sql, params) = self.build_fused_query(embedding, k, filters)?;
        // Field names are validated by `build_fused_query`; ensure each one is
        // indexed so the planner uses a bitmap prefilter instead of an O(n)
        // post-filter scan. Idempotent and incrementally maintained thereafter.
        for filter in filters {
            self.memory
                .semantic()
                .ensure_index(&filter.field)
                .map_err(MemoryError::from)?;
        }
        let results = self
            .memory
            .query_semantic(&sql, &params)
            .map_err(MemoryError::from)?;
        Ok(results.iter().map(to_recollection).collect())
    }

    fn relate(&self, from: u64, to: u64, relation: &str) -> Result<u64, MemoryError> {
        self.memory
            .semantic()
            .relate(from, to, relation, None)
            .map_err(MemoryError::from)
    }

    fn relations(&self, id: u64) -> Result<Vec<MemoryEdge>, MemoryError> {
        Ok(self
            .memory
            .semantic()
            .relations(id)?
            .into_iter()
            .map(|edge| MemoryEdge {
                from: edge.source(),
                to: edge.target(),
                relation: edge.label().to_owned(),
            })
            .collect())
    }

    fn count(&self) -> usize {
        self.memory.semantic().count()
    }
}

#[cfg(feature = "persistence")]
impl NativeStore {
    /// Build the `VelesQL` for [`Self::query_columnar`]: a `NEAR` predicate
    /// plus one bound parameter per filter, against the semantic collection.
    /// Filter *values* are bound as query parameters (never interpolated);
    /// filter *field names* are validated to be plain identifiers.
    fn build_fused_query(
        &self,
        embedding: &[f32],
        k: usize,
        filters: &[ColumnFilter],
    ) -> Result<(String, HashMap<String, Value>), MemoryError> {
        use std::fmt::Write as _;
        let mut params: HashMap<String, Value> = HashMap::new();
        params.insert("q".to_string(), json!(embedding));
        let mut predicate = String::from("vector NEAR $q");
        for (index, filter) in filters.iter().enumerate() {
            validate_column_filter(filter)?;
            let key = format!("p{index}");
            let _ = write!(
                predicate,
                " AND {} {} ${key}",
                filter.field,
                filter.op.as_sql()
            );
            params.insert(key, filter.value.clone());
        }
        let sql = format!(
            "SELECT * FROM {} WHERE {predicate} LIMIT {k}",
            self.memory.semantic().collection_name()
        );
        Ok((sql, params))
    }
}

/// True for metadata keys the memory layer reserves: the engine's `content`
/// payload, and any `_veles_`-namespaced system key (durable TTL, entity
/// hubs). The single source of the reserved-key contract — the service layer
/// (reject/strip) and every backend enforce it through this one predicate.
pub(crate) fn is_reserved_key(key: &str) -> bool {
    key == "content" || key.starts_with("_veles_")
}

/// Drop reserved system keys from a raw payload, and collapse an
/// empty-after-stripping map to `None` — the caller-facing shape every
/// [`Recollection::metadata`] is built from. `pub` because a [`MemoryStore`]
/// backend that assembles `Recollection`s itself (`query_columnar`) must
/// apply the same stripping the service layer applies on every other recall
/// path, or reserved keys leak to callers on that one path only.
#[must_use]
pub fn strip_reserved_keys(payload: Option<Metadata>) -> Option<Metadata> {
    payload.and_then(|payload| {
        let metadata: Metadata = payload
            .into_iter()
            .filter(|(key, _)| !is_reserved_key(key))
            .collect();
        (!metadata.is_empty()).then_some(metadata)
    })
}

/// [`strip_reserved_keys`] over a *borrowed* payload: clones only the
/// surviving non-reserved entries. Use this when the payload isn't already
/// owned — cloning the whole map first would deep-copy the reserved
/// `content` value (the full fact text) per hit, only to discard it.
#[must_use]
pub fn strip_reserved_keys_ref(payload: Option<&Metadata>) -> Option<Metadata> {
    payload.and_then(|payload| {
        let metadata: Metadata = payload
            .iter()
            .filter(|(key, _)| !is_reserved_key(key))
            .map(|(key, value)| (key.clone(), value.clone()))
            .collect();
        (!metadata.is_empty()).then_some(metadata)
    })
}

/// Map a core search result to a [`Recollection`], lifting the fact text out
/// of the reserved `content` payload key and surfacing any remaining
/// caller-supplied metadata (reserved system keys excluded).
#[cfg(feature = "persistence")]
fn to_recollection(result: &SearchResult) -> Recollection {
    let payload = result.point.payload.as_ref().and_then(Value::as_object);
    let content = payload
        .and_then(|payload| payload.get("content"))
        .and_then(Value::as_str)
        .unwrap_or_default()
        .to_owned();
    Recollection {
        id: result.point.id,
        score: result.score,
        content,
        metadata: strip_reserved_keys_ref(payload),
    }
}

/// Validate one `recall_where` column filter: a plain, non-reserved
/// identifier field name and a scalar (string/number/boolean) value. `pub`
/// and shared so every [`MemoryStore`] backend enforces the *same* documented
/// contract — the field-name rule keeps a filter safe to place into query
/// text (`NativeStore` builds `VelesQL`; values are always bound parameters),
/// and rejects the reserved system columns (`content`, `_veles_*`) regardless
/// of backend; the scalar rule turns what would be an opaque engine error
/// into a clear client-input error.
///
/// # Errors
/// Returns [`MemoryError::InvalidFilter`] when either rule is violated.
pub fn validate_column_filter(filter: &ColumnFilter) -> Result<(), MemoryError> {
    let field = &filter.field;
    let plain = !field.is_empty() && field.chars().all(|c| c.is_ascii_alphanumeric() || c == '_');
    if !plain || is_reserved_key(field) {
        return Err(MemoryError::InvalidFilter(field.clone()));
    }
    match &filter.value {
        Value::String(_) | Value::Number(_) | Value::Bool(_) => Ok(()),
        value => Err(MemoryError::InvalidFilter(format!(
            "value must be a string, number, or boolean, got {value}"
        ))),
    }
}

#[cfg(all(test, feature = "persistence"))]
#[path = "storage_tests.rs"]
mod tests;