TencentDB-Agent-Memory

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✨ Highlights

TencentDB Agent Memory = symbolic short-term memory + layered long-term memory.

• Symbolic short-term memory offloads heavy tool logs and condenses them into compact Mermaid symbols, cutting token usage and improving task success.
• Layered long-term memory distills fragmented conversations into structured personas and scenes, instead of flat vector piles.

When integrated with OpenClaw, it cuts token usage by up to 61.38%, improves pass rate by 51.52% (relative), and raises PersonaMem accuracy from 48% to 76%.

Memory Capability	Benchmark	OpenClaw Success	With Plugin	Relative Δ	OpenClaw Tokens	With Plugin Tokens	Relative Δ
Short-term	WideSearch	33%	50%	+51.52%	221.31M	85.64M	−61.38%
Short-term	SWE-bench	58.4%	64.2%	+9.93%	3474.1M	2375.4M	−33.09%
Short-term	AA-LCR	44.0%	47.5%	+7.95%	112.0M	77.3M	−30.98%
Long-term	PersonaMem	48%	76%	+59%	—	—	—

These results are measured over continuous long-horizon sessions, not isolated turns. For example, SWE-bench runs 50 consecutive tasks per session to simulate the context-accumulation pressure of real-world long-horizon agents.

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Overview

Memory is not about hoarding everything in the AI — it is about sparing humans from having to repeat themselves.

In practice, we constantly re-explain the same SOPs, project background, tool conventions, and output formats to the Agent. Such information should not require repetition, nor should it be indiscriminately dumped into the context.

TencentDB Agent Memory helps the Agent learn your workflows, retain task context, and reuse past experience. We reject both brute-force history accumulation and irreversible lossy summarization. Instead, we design memory as a layered system: symbolic memory for in-task information overload, and memory layering for cross-session experience.

Let the Agent remember what should be remembered, so people can focus on judgment, creation, and work that truly matters.

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Core Technology: Reject Flat Storage, Embrace Layering and Symbolization

Our architecture rests on two pillars: memory layering and symbolic memory. Together they ensure Agents do not merely "remember more", but "reason better".

1. Memory Layering: Progressive Disclosure with Heterogeneous Storage

Traditional memory systems shred data into fragments and dump them into a flat vector store. Recall degenerates into a blind search across disconnected fragments, with no macro-level guidance.

Whether it is long-term knowledge, short-term tasks, or future skill capabilities, memory should never be flat — both its formation and its recall must be hierarchical. TencentDB Agent Memory adopts layering as its unified architectural paradigm:

• Short-term context layering. The bottom layer archives raw tool outputs (refs/*.md); the middle layer extracts step-level summaries (jsonl); the top layer condenses state into a lightweight Mermaid canvas. The Agent only needs to attend to the top-layer structure in context, and drills down to the lower layers via node_id when an error occurs.
• Long-term personalization layering. In place of flat logs, we build a semantic pyramid: L0 Conversation (raw dialogue) → L1 Atom (atomic facts) → L2 Scenario (scene blocks) → L3 Persona (user profile). The Persona layer carries day-to-day preferences; the system drills down to Atoms only when details matter.
• Skill generation layering. Layering also applies to actions. The middle layer derives common solution patterns (Scenario) from bottom-layer execution traces (Conversation), and the top layer distills reusable Skills or standard SOPs (Persona).

Heterogeneous storage and progressive disclosure. A dual-layer storage strategy underpins this architecture. The bottom layer (facts, logs, traces) is persisted in databases for robust full-text retrieval; the top layer (personas, scenes, canvases) is stored as human-readable Markdown files for high information density and white-box inspection. Lower layers preserve evidence; upper layers preserve structure.

Full traceability and lossless recovery. Compression often sacrifices traceability. TencentDB Agent Memory avoids irreversible compression by maintaining a deterministic path from high-level abstractions back to ground-truth evidence. Whether it is an offloaded error log or a distilled user preference, the system guarantees a complete drill-down path: "top-layer symbol (Persona / canvas) → mid-layer index (Scenario / jsonl) → bottom-layer raw text (L0 Conversation / refs)".

2. Symbolic Memory: Maximum Semantics in Minimum Symbols (Mermaid Canvas)

In long tasks, the largest token consumers are verbose intermediate logs (search results, code, error traces). To address this, we combine context offloading with symbolic memory:

• Mermaid symbol graph. Instead of verbose prose or flat JSON, we encode task state transitions in high-density Mermaid syntax — precise enough for LLMs to parse, concise enough for humans to read.
• History offloading. Full tool logs are offloaded to external files; only a lightweight Mermaid task map remains in context.
• node_id tracing. The Agent reasons over the symbol graph; to verify a detail, it greps for the node_id and instantly retrieves the full raw text — cutting token cost while preserving full traceability.

graph LR
    Log["Verbose Logs<br/>(hundreds of thousands of tokens)"] -->|"1. Offload full text"| FS[("External FS<br/>(refs/*.md)")]
    Log -->|"2. Extract relations"| MMD["Mermaid Canvas<br/>(with node_id)"]
    
    MMD -->|"3. Light injection"| Agent(("Agent Context<br/>(a few hundred tokens)"))
    Agent -. "4. Recall via node_id" .-> FS
    
    style Log fill:#f1f5f9,stroke:#94a3b8,stroke-dasharray: 5 5,color:#475569
    style FS fill:#f8fafc,stroke:#cbd5e1,stroke-width:2px,color:#334155
    style MMD fill:#eff6ff,stroke:#3b82f6,stroke-width:2px,color:#1e3a8a
    style Agent fill:#fffbeb,stroke:#f59e0b,stroke-width:2px,color:#92400e

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Quick Start

🎬 Demos

OpenClaw × Agent Memory	Hermes × Agent Memory

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1. OpenClaw

1.1 Install the plugin

openclaw plugins install @tencentdb-agent-memory/memory-tencentdb
openclaw gateway restart

1.2 Zero-config to enable

Defaults to a local SQLite + sqlite-vec backend.

// ~/.openclaw/openclaw.json
{
  "memory-tencentdb": {
    "enabled": true
  }
}

Once enabled, TencentDB Agent Memory automatically handles conversation capture, memory extraction, scene aggregation, persona generation, and recall before the next turn.

1.3 Enable short-term compression (optional, requires version ≥ 0.3.4)

{
  "memory-tencentdb": {
    "config": {
      "offload": {
        "enabled": true
      }
    }
  }
}

Step 1 — Register the slot in your plugin config

Add the slots field so OpenClaw routes context-offload requests to this plugin:

{
  "plugins": {
    "slots": {
      "contextEngine": "openclaw-context-offload"
    }
  }
}

Step 2 — Apply the runtime patch

For the best results, run the patch script below. It hooks after-tool-call messages so they can be offloaded and recovered correctly:

bash scripts/openclaw-after-tool-call-messages.patch.sh

💡 The patch only needs to be applied once per OpenClaw installation. After upgrading OpenClaw, re-run the script to re-apply.

2. Hermes (Docker, requires version ≥ 0.3.4)

In addition to OpenClaw, this plugin also supports Hermes Agent. You can launch a memory-enabled Hermes with a single command:

# ============ Configuration Parameters ============
# MODEL_API_KEY    LLM API key (required) — replace with your own credential
# MODEL_BASE_URL   LLM endpoint, defaults to Tencent Cloud LKE (Large Model Knowledge Engine)
# MODEL_NAME       Model name, defaults to DeepSeek-V3.2
# MODEL_PROVIDER   Provider type: "custom" works for any OpenAI-compatible endpoint

MODEL_API_KEY="your-api-key"
MODEL_BASE_URL="https://api.lkeap.cloud.tencent.com/v1"
MODEL_NAME="deepseek-v3.2"
MODEL_PROVIDER="custom"

# ============ docker run Flags ============
# -d                          Run container in detached (background) mode
# --name hermes-memory        Container name, for later docker exec / logs / stop
# --restart unless-stopped    Auto-restart on crash or host reboot
# -p 8420:8420                Host port ↔ container port (Hermes Gateway)
# -e MODEL_*                  Inject the config parameters above as env vars
# -v hermes_data:/opt/data    Persist memory data to a named volume (survives restart)

# Build
docker build -f Dockerfile.hermes -t hermes-memory .

# Run
docker run -d \
  --name hermes-memory \
  --restart unless-stopped \
  -p 8420:8420 \
  -e MODEL_API_KEY="your-api-key" \
  -e MODEL_BASE_URL="https://api.lkeap.cloud.tencent.com/v1" \
  -e MODEL_NAME="deepseek-v3.2" \
  -e MODEL_PROVIDER="custom" \
  -v hermes_data:/opt/data \
  hermes-memory

# Verify the Gateway
curl http://localhost:8420/health

# Enter the Hermes interactive shell
docker exec -it hermes-memory hermes

The image ships with Tencent Cloud DeepSeek-V3.2 as the default. If you use this model, omit MODEL_BASE_URL / MODEL_NAME / MODEL_PROVIDER and pass only MODEL_API_KEY.

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🔧 Configurable Parameters

Every field has a sensible default — it runs with zero configuration. When you want to tune, peel back the layers based on how deep you go.

🟢 Level 1 · Daily tuning (covers 90% of use cases)

Field	Default	Description
storeBackend	"sqlite"	Storage backend: sqlite
recall.strategy	"hybrid"	Recall strategy: keyword / embedding / hybrid (RRF fusion, recommended)
recall.maxResults	5	Number of items returned per recall
pipeline.everyNConversations	5	Trigger an L1 memory extraction every N turns
extraction.maxMemoriesPerSession	20	Max memories extracted per L1 pass
persona.triggerEveryN	50	Generate the user persona every N new memories
offload.enabled	false	Whether to enable short-term compression

🟡 Level 2 · Advanced tuning (long task / long session)

Field	Default	Description
pipeline.enableWarmup	true	Warm-up: a new session triggers from turn 1, doubling each time up to N (1→2→4→…)
pipeline.l1IdleTimeoutSeconds	600	Trigger L1 after the user has been idle for this many seconds
pipeline.l2MinIntervalSeconds	900	Minimum interval between two L2 passes within the same session
recall.timeoutMs	5000	Recall timeout; on timeout, skip injection without blocking the conversation
extraction.enableDedup	true	L1 vector dedup / conflict detection
capture.excludeAgents	[]	Glob patterns to exclude specific agents (e.g. bench-judge-*)
capture.l0l1RetentionDays	0	Local retention days for L0 / L1 files; 0 = never clean up
offload.mildOffloadRatio	0.5	Mild compression trigger ratio (of context window)
offload.aggressiveCompressRatio	0.85	Aggressive compression trigger ratio
offload.mmdMaxTokenRatio	0.2	Token budget ratio for MMD injection
bm25.language	"zh"	Tokenizer language: zh (jieba) / en

🔴 Level 3 · Full parameter reference (ops / custom models / remote embedding)

For all fields, types, and constraints see openclaw.plugin.json。

• embedding.* — remote embedding service (OpenAI-compatible API)
• llm.* — standalone LLM mode (bypass OpenClaw's built-in model and run L1/L2/L3 with a designated API)
• offload.backendUrl / backendApiKey — offload the L1/L1.5/L2/L4 flow to a backend service
• report.* — metrics reporting

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🤔 Features

1. Macro Personas + Micro Facts: A Unified Drill-Down Mechanism

The biggest risk in compression is saving tokens at the cost of losing the evidence. TencentDB Agent Memory therefore does not collapse history into an irreversible summary — it preserves a clear path from high-level abstraction back to ground-truth evidence.

Question type	First look at	Drill down to
Daily preferences, voice, long-term goals	L3 Persona / L2 Scenario	L1 Atom / L0 Conversation when facts are needed
Specific facts, dates, project details	L1 Atom / L0 Conversation	Widen the time range, or fall back to semantic recall when results are sparse
Continuing a long-running task	Active Mermaid task canvas	Check the JSONL when the summary lacks detail, then refs/*.md for raw text
Resuming a historical task	Metadata task entry	Open the Mermaid canvas → locate the node_id → trace result_ref

The upper layers carry judgment and direction; the lower layers carry evidence and precision. Short-term compression and long-term memory form a single closed loop: collapsible and expandable, abstract yet auditable.

2. White-Box Debuggability: Memory Is Not a Black Box

Most memory systems fall short here: when recall is wrong, all you see is a list of vector scores, with no way to tell where things went wrong. TencentDB Agent Memory keeps the key intermediates as readable files:

• L2 Scenario blocks are plain Markdown — open them and inspect.
• L3 Persona lives in persona.md and traces back to the Scenarios that produced it.
• Short-term task canvases are Mermaid — readable by both humans and Agents.
• Raw payloads, summaries, and nodes are linked by result_ref and node_id.

Debugging no longer means probing an opaque database — it becomes a deterministic walk along the chain "Persona → Scenario → Atom → Conversation" until the root cause surfaces.

All of these layered memory artifacts live under ~/.openclaw/memory-tdai/ — feel free to open the directory and inspect each layer for yourself.

3. Production-Ready Engineering: Not a Demo

Capability	Description
OpenClaw plugin	Automatically captures, extracts, and recalls memory once installed
Hermes Gateway adapter	TdaiCore + HostAdapter, decoupled from the host framework
Local backend	SQLite + sqlite-vec, ready to use out of the box
Hybrid retrieval	BM25 + vector + RRF — supports both keyword and semantic recall
Agent tools	tdai_memory_search / tdai_conversation_search

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Documentation

Document	Contents
scripts/README.memory-tencentdb-ctl.md	Operations & management tooling
CHANGELOG.md	Release notes and version history
openclaw.plugin.json	OpenClaw plugin manifest and configuration schema

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Community & Contributing

We welcome every kind of contribution — bug reports, feature ideas, doc fixes, benchmark reproductions, ecosystem integrations, or a Pull Request. Agent memory is far from a solved problem, and we'd love to figure it out together.

• 🐞 Found a bug or have a question? Open an issue at GitHub Issues — we respond within 24 hours.
• 💡 Have an idea to share? Start a thread in GitHub Discussions.
• 🛠️ Want to contribute code? Please read CONTRIBUTING.md first.
• 💬 Want to chat with us? Join our Discord community and talk to the early developers directly.

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Roadmap

• Long-term personalized memory (L0 → L3)
• Short-term context compression (Context Offload + Mermaid canvas)
• Local SQLite backend and Tencent Cloud Vector Database (TCVDB) backend
• OpenClaw plugin and Hermes Gateway integration
• Portable memory: cross-Agent / cross-framework / cross-device import, export, and live migration
• Automatic Skill generation
• Visual debugging and memory observability dashboard

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