Changelog

All notable changes to Remind.

[Unreleased]

[0.9.0] - 2026-03-31

Added

• Topics — First-class topic on episodes and concepts for partitioning knowledge (e.g. architecture, product, infra). Consolidation runs in topic-grouped batches. Retrieval prefers the active topic with cross-topic spreading at a reduced weight.
• Source type — source_type on episodes to track memory origin (agent, slack, github, etc.).
• supersedes relation — Marks when one concept replaces another; shown in recall as a staleness signal. Low spreading weight so obsolete knowledge does not dominate recall.
• list_topics / topic_overview — List topics with counts and activity; inspect top concepts per topic (CLI, MCP, Python API).
• --topic / --source-type — CLI flags on remember and recall (topic) / remember (source type).
• Ingest instructions — Optional steer for the triage LLM on what to extract.
• Ingest topics — Topic inference during auto-ingest when no topic is supplied.
• Configurable episode_types — Plan/spec/task CLI and MCP surface only when those types are enabled.
• Project config — Optional .remind/remind.config.json next to the project database.
• SQLAlchemy databases — PostgreSQL and MySQL via REMIND_DB_URL / db_url, not SQLite-only.
• Parallel consolidation — Faster batch consolidation via concurrency.
• Stats — Episode types included in memory statistics.

Changed

• Auto-ingest — Removed density-threshold gating from config; improved chunking and text handling.
• Consolidation & extraction — Prompts tuned for specificity; higher default max tokens; aligned batch defaults; performance and concurrency improvements.
• Entities — Ensures LLM extraction runs when the pipeline requires it.
• Triage — Respects custom episode types from configuration.
• Web UI — Better database URL/path resolution, custom episode types and topics, task flows.

Fixed

• Reconsolidation edge cases.
• MCP episode argument parsing.
• Task creation from the web UI.
• Web UI and stats with PostgreSQL and other SQLAlchemy URLs.

[0.8.0] - 2026-03-23

Added

• Episode embeddings — remember now embeds episode content by default for direct vector search during recall. Use --no-embed to skip (faster, no API call).
• Direct episode recall — recall --episode-k N (CLI) or episode_k parameter (Python/MCP) retrieves episodes by embedding similarity alongside concept-based spreading activation. Default: 5. Set to 0 to disable.
• embed-episodes command — Backfill embeddings for episodes created before episode embedding was enabled.
• Contradiction display — Recall output now shows inbound and outbound contradicts relations per concept, with context.
• Batched contradiction detection — Consolidation compares new material against existing concepts in configurable batches (consolidation_concepts_per_pass, default: 64).

Changed

• Azure OpenAI provider upgraded to OpenAI v1 API; api_version config removed, /openai/v1 appended to base URL automatically
• Default episode_k set to 5 for direct episode recall

Fixed

• Ingest buffer handling in foreground mode
• Async processing fixes in background worker
• Contradiction retrieval improvements (batched comparison against existing concepts)

[0.7.0] - 2026-03-19

Added

• Auto-ingest pipeline — ingest() and flush_ingest() for automatic memory curation. Buffers raw text, scores information density via LLM, and distills memory-worthy episodes automatically. Available via CLI, MCP, and Python API.
• Fact episodes — New fact episode type for specific factual assertions (config values, names, dates, technical details). Consolidation preserves fact details verbatim rather than generalizing them away.
• Outcome episodes — New outcome episode type for action-result pairs with structured metadata (strategy, result, prediction_error). Consolidation extracts causal strategy patterns.
• Entity name matching in retrieval — Queries now match against entity names directly (fast, no embedding needed), complementing semantic search.
• Minimum activation floor — Retrieval drops concepts below a configurable min_activation threshold (default: 0.15), reducing low-relevance noise.
• Entity deduplication — Entity extraction deduplicates by name across types to prevent duplicates like family:Capulet and character:Capulet.
• status CLI command — Shows processing status: running workers, pending episodes, queued ingest chunks.
• Per-provider ingest model — Configure a separate (cheaper/faster) model for triage without affecting consolidation quality.
• Debug file logging — Enable logging_enabled in config to get full LLM prompt/response logs in remind.log next to the database.
• Background ingest worker — CLI ingest command queues work and spawns a background worker by default. Use --foreground for synchronous processing.
• Batch consolidation progress — consolidate and reconsolidate commands show per-batch progress for large runs.
• Hybrid recall episodes — Retrieval now returns source episodes with type labels and entity context alongside concepts.

Changed

• Default recall k reduced from 5 to 3 for more focused results
• recall no longer requires a query when --entity is provided
• end-session now flushes the ingestion buffer before consolidating
• Consolidation loops through all batches internally instead of requiring external batch loop
• Foreground consolidation acquires a file lock to prevent concurrent runs

[0.6.0] - 2026-03-09

Added

• Task management system: task episodes with status tracking (todo, in_progress, done, blocked), dependency chains, plan/spec linking, and priority levels
• Agent workflow skills for the plan-to-implementation lifecycle:
  • remind -- base memory operations reference
  • remind-plan -- interactive planning with sparring and crystallization
  • remind-spec -- spec-driven development with lifecycle management
  • remind-implement -- systematic task execution loop
• Active tasks are excluded from consolidation; completed tasks become eligible

Changed

• Updated web UI

Fixed

• run_async helper function

[0.5.3] - 2026-03-03

Fixed

• When updating episodes, reset entity associations so they are rebuilt on next consolidation

[0.5.2] - 2026-03-02

Fixed

• Actually include web UI static files in wheel builds

[0.5.1] - 2026-03-02

Fixed

• Include built web UI assets in package

[0.5.0] - 2026-03-02

Added

• Support for updating and deleting concepts and episodes
• Built-in memories about Remind itself for self-aware assistance

Changed

• Consolidation is now non-blocking, improving CLI responsiveness

Fixed

• Explicit consolidation command now works correctly
• Build issues resolved

[0.4.0] - 2026-02-26

Added

• Memory decay system: concepts gradually lose retrieval priority based on recall frequency
  • decay_factor (0.0--1.0) multiplies retrieval activation score
  • Decay runs every N recalls with configurable rate
  • Rejuvenation: recalled concepts receive activation-proportional boost
  • 60-second grace window protects recently-accessed concepts
• DecayConfig in config file under "decay" key
• Metadata table in SQLite for persistent key-value storage
• Memory status panel in web UI

[0.3.1] - 2026-02-25

Fixed

• Bump numpy requirement to >=2.0.0 to prevent segfault on macOS in sandboxed environments

[0.3.0] - 2026-02-25

Added

• Global config file support (~/.remind/remind.config.json)
• --version CLI argument
• Collapsible sidebar in web UI
• Agent skills support for Claude Code integration

Fixed

• Entity relationship extraction
• Consolidation with explicit entities

[0.2.0] - 2026-01-09

Added

• Web UI with interactive concept graph visualization (D3-based)
• Docker support
• Entity inspection UI and MCP tools
• LLM-powered query answering with source episodes
• Dark mode support
• Batch consolidation and reconsolidation

[0.1.0] - 2026-01-04

Added

• Core memory system with episodes and concepts
• Spreading activation retrieval algorithm
• LLM-powered consolidation
• Entity extraction from episodes
• Provider support: Anthropic, OpenAI, Azure OpenAI, Ollama
• MCP server (SSE mode)
• CLI tool
• SQLite persistence layer
• Background consolidation
• Project-aware database paths