MemoryGuard

MemoryGuard

Governed shared memory for coding agents.
Local-first MCP memory with automatic organization, scoped rules, evidence, and rollback.

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Let agents write without turning shared memory into an unreviewed pile. MemoryGuard organizes each write, preserves the evidence behind changes, and keeps governance decisions reversible.

No account. No remote server. No remote telemetry. Local-only usage telemetry is optional and stores bounded, privacy-preserving aggregates locally.

Quick start · Upgrade · Knowledge Library · Architecture · Supported hosts · Privacy and safety

_{A synthetic governed projection: signals move through memory categories while raw conversation text remains outside the graph.}

What's New in v0.7.8

v0.7.8 consolidates the governance, observability, and host-runtime fixes prepared after v0.7.7:

• Canonical memory and rule governance: related rules, habits, and memories converge through one canonical read/write path while evidence, source links, graph branches, supersede history, conflict review, and settlement remain auditable and reversible.
• Readable multi-agent governance: verified program identities, readable labels, safe family icons, shared-group scope, risk explanations, stale-conflict closure, and the seven-page GUI shell keep daily governance understandable.
• Local usage and savings view: the Token page shows local MCP conversion events and seven-/thirty-day estimated baseline-versus-delivered units. Provider token measurements are used only when reported (currently Codex and Grok); Claude, Cursor, and Trae remain explicitly unsupported. No conversation body, account, path, or instance identifier is stored.
• Codex lifecycle and runtime alignment: terminal-thread evidence gates reclamation of Codex-owned leaked cohorts; ordinary turns remain resumable. Installed repair aligns MCP and lifecycle Hooks to the current interpreter while preserving Agent/shared-group identity and fail-closed boundaries.

See the v0.7.8 release record.

Earlier release details are kept in the Changelog and GitHub release records.

Major V2 refactor in v0.6.0

v0.6.0 was a production data-plane refactor, not a storage-only upgrade:

• Authoritative V2 domains: Memory, Rules, Evidence, Content, Runtime, Projection, Assets, CodeGraph, Skills, and System state are separated into explicit SQLite domains with governed boundaries.
• Explicit cutover: V1_ACTIVE → V2_BUILDING → V2_READY → V2_ACTIVE is fail-closed; V2 never silently falls back to legacy stores or dual-writes after READY/ACTIVE.
• Lossless migration: frozen-source preparation uses coherent SQLite online backups, validates source/target evidence, rechecks live-source drift, and preserves V1 data plus migration backups for rollback.
• Native routing: MCP, CLI, GUI, and Hook surfaces are classified explicitly; the release closed the 233-surface cutover with 138 implemented routes, 95 retired routes, and zero neutral/blocker routes.
• Governed intelligence: Rule lifecycle and RuleMerge, extraction/enrichment, External MCP import, provider control-plane, conversation history, Knowledge Library, and GUI governance all use the V2 evidence and decision paths.
• Operational evidence: Reference Audit, per-domain SQLite health, guarded maintenance, rollback evidence, and safe unbound diagnostics are part of readiness and operations.

Why MemoryGuard

Persistent memory solves storage. It does not solve governance.

When several coding agents write into the same context, records become duplicated, stale, contradictory, over-broad, or unsafe to reuse. MemoryGuard sits between coding agents and their shared memory to keep that context usable.

Without governance	With MemoryGuard
Notes accumulate without a canonical state	Writes are classified, deduplicated, superseded, or surfaced as conflicts
A correction silently destroys the old value	Evidence and supersede chains preserve what changed and why
Tokens and credentials can remain active	Sensitive-looking content is quarantined from active memory
Every write needs manual approval	Agents write normally; people review exceptions and outcomes
Raw chat logs leak into future context	Conversation history remains a separate, explicitly read evidence archive

System architecture

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    Hosts["CODING-AGENT HOSTS<br/>Claude Code · Codex · Cursor · TRAE&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;"]:::host
    Gateway["LOCAL INTEGRATION<br/>MCP stdio · redirect rules · lifecycle hooks&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;"]:::gateway

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        direction LR
        Identity["TRUST<br/>identity · scope&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;"]:::core
        MemoryAPI["MEMORY<br/>governed I/O&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;"]:::active
        Rules["RULES<br/>scope · assignment&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;"]:::rule
        HistoryAPI["HISTORY<br/>search · timeline&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;"]:::history
        Security["SAFETY<br/>validate · quarantine&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;"]:::danger

        Identity --> MemoryAPI
        Identity --> Rules
        Identity --> HistoryAPI
        MemoryAPI --> Security
    end

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        direction LR
        SharedDB[("V2 DOMAIN STORES<br/>Memory · Rules · Evidence · Content&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;")]:::store
        HistoryDB[("HISTORY STORE<br/>isolated conversations&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;")]:::historyStore
        AuditDB[("RECOVERY STORE<br/>versions · receipts · backups&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;")]:::store
    end

    Bootstrap["BOUNDED CONTEXT BOOTSTRAP<br/>mandatory rule pack · relevant recall&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;"]:::bootstrap
    Control["HUMAN CONTROL<br/>CLI · desktop governance console&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;"]:::surface

    Hosts --> Gateway --> Identity
    MemoryAPI --> SharedDB
    Rules --> SharedDB
    HistoryAPI --> HistoryDB
    Security --> AuditDB
    SharedDB --> Bootstrap
    Control --> Identity

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Quick start

MCP Registry metadata

This package exposes a local stdio MCP server as io.github.irisxc4/memoryguard. The registry metadata is kept in server.json. The marker above is required in the PyPI package README. The current agent-memguard 0.7.8 PyPI artifact has no marker, so 0.7.8 still cannot be published to the MCP Registry. For the next release, first bump both server.json versions to the new package version, publish a marker-bearing PyPI artifact, confirm its version and marker are visible, then run mcp-publisher publish.

1. Install

python -m pip install agent-memguard

For the desktop governance console:

python -m pip install "agent-memguard[gui]"

2. Authorize the current project

memoryguard source add .

3. Connect or repair your coding agent

Global provider configuration is rebuilt from the real binding in the canonical user data home. The command is idempotent and removes superseded MemoryGuard project-level overrides after a successful global takeover.

# Repair one provider
memoryguard provider repair claude
memoryguard provider repair codex
memoryguard provider repair cursor
memoryguard provider repair trae

# Repair every detected provider
memoryguard provider repair all

Restart the host after installation, then verify the integration:

memoryguard doctor
memoryguard mcp-status
memoryguard hooks status --provider all

Launch the desktop console:

memoryguard gui

memoryguard-gui . remains available for desktop shortcuts. A bare memoryguard gui always opens the canonical user-level control directory (default %LOCALAPPDATA%\MemoryGuard on Windows), so running it from a project or from C:\Windows\System32 cannot silently switch databases. MEMORYGUARD_WORKSPACE is an explicit operator override; an explicit memoryguard gui <project-path> or memoryguard gui --workspace <project-path> selects a specific workspace. It does not remember a previously selected project or open a folder picker. On Windows, memoryguard gui detaches the native window from the terminal, so closing PowerShell does not close the GUI.

Provider-specific setup and behavior:

• Claude Code installation
• Codex installation
• Cursor installation

Stable Codex / Router binding

Codex/Router binds MemoryGuard to the stable local Codex program and control installation. An account profile is an endpoint/alias, not a new memory owner: switching profiles automatically discovers or repairs the profile and reuses the verified Agent binding and active group. Request identity remains fail-closed; this does not share records across machines or with arbitrary accounts.

Upgrade

MemoryGuard currently upgrades through Python's package manager:

python -m pip install --upgrade agent-memguard
memoryguard --version
memoryguard doctor

If you installed the GUI extra, keep it during the upgrade:

python -m pip install --upgrade "agent-memguard[gui]"

There is no package self-update command. The package manager is the authoritative package-upgrade path; memoryguard upgrade below is the explicit workspace migration flow, not a package updater.

Upgrade an existing V1 data home

Upgrade the package, then run the verified migration. No workspace, data-home, apply, or confirmation arguments are required for the normal user-level data home:

python -m pip install --upgrade agent-memguard
memoryguard --version                    # 0.7.8
memoryguard upgrade
memoryguard doctor

The command prepares V2, validates the frozen and live source evidence, migrates Agent/Group control, activates only after all gates pass, and removes only the backup batch belonging to that successful migration. Re-running it on V2_ACTIVE is idempotent. For a zero-write report, use:

memoryguard upgrade --preview

Advanced explicit workspace/data-home options remain available for operators managing an isolated installation. A failed gate stays non-active and preserves its evidence; successful activation does not keep a redundant migration backup.

Existing pre-V2 workspaces: explicit V2 cutover

v0.6.0 never auto-activates an existing workspace. Upgrade the package first, then use the packaged operator CLI:

# Read-only manifest status
memoryguard-v2 status -w .

# Build a frozen-source V2 shadow and stop at V2_READY
memoryguard-v2 prepare -w . --apply

# Activate only after the prepare result is V2_READY / ready=true
memoryguard-v2 activate -w . --confirm V2_ACTIVE

The prepare step uses coherent SQLite online backups, preserves V1 and migration-backups, and rechecks live-source drift before READY. Activation performs another fresh drift check before changing the manifest. Do not delete legacy V1 data or migration backups as part of the upgrade.

Knowledge Library

The desktop console can turn a selected folder or file set into one governed local knowledge library. Source files remain where they are; MemoryGuard stores the searchable index in its user data home instead of copying a runtime database into every source project. Knowledge metadata never becomes a second source-body store.

Capability	Current behavior
File/folder ingestion	Add a folder as a book or selected files as documents
Structure	Parse documents, preserve chapter/section context, and create traceable chunks
Retrieval	Full-text search, optional embeddings, and a layered knowledge graph
Natural synchronization	Re-ingest changed files; a partial or failed scan does not silently remove previously indexed content
Lifecycle	Move a book to the library trash, restore it, or explicitly purge its recovery snapshot
Memory candidates	Preview evidence-backed candidates before accepting them into governed long-term memory

Open the desktop console and choose Knowledge Library. Remote embedding or model-backed indexing is opt-in and requires explicit authorization; local full-text retrieval remains available without sending source text to a remote provider.

CodeGraph refresh

The first CodeGraph build is an explicit, confirmed full build. After a scope has been built, each successful trusted file write can trigger an incremental refresh for that scope, subject to strict source-path and active-binding validation. Unchanged content hashes are a no-op; deleted files are retired; the next context receives one bounded affected receipt. MemoryGuard does not run a daemon or watcher for this path and does not infer paths from shell or free-form text.

Desktop console surfaces

The GUI follows a seven-page information architecture:

1. Governance Overview
2. Data Sources & Agents
3. Memory Core
4. CodeGraph
5. Rules & Habits
6. Conversation History
7. Risk Signals & Governance Console

Agent lists use readable program/provider names; the underlying ID remains available in the detail view. Empty data is shown as an explicit empty state.

Write and governance lifecycle

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        direction LR
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        Scope["Resolve identity<br/>scope · audience&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;"]:::core
        Validate{"Authorized?&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;"}:::decision
        Reject["Reject<br/>no persistence&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;"]:::danger
        Write --> Scope --> Validate
        Validate -- NO --> Reject
    end

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        direction TB
        Secret{"Sensitive?&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;"}:::decision
        Quarantine["Quarantine<br/>outside active set&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;"]:::danger
        Compare["Classify · compare<br/>governed records&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;"]:::active
        Relation{"Relationship&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;"}:::decision
        New["NEW<br/>create active record&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;"]:::result
        Duplicate["DUPLICATE<br/>merge provenance&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;"]:::result
        Correction["CORRECTION<br/>supersede old record&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;"]:::rule
        Conflict["CONFLICT<br/>preserve both sides&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;"]:::danger

        Secret -- YES --> Quarantine
        Secret -- NO --> Compare --> Relation
        Relation --> New
        Relation --> Duplicate
        Relation --> Correction
        Relation --> Conflict
    end

    subgraph Govern["03 · GOVERN&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;"]
        direction LR
        Receipt[("Evidence event<br/>version receipt&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;")]:::store
        Review["CLI or desktop review&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;"]:::surface
        Action["Correct · merge<br/>restore · delete&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;"]:::rule
        Snapshot["Reversible<br/>snapshot&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;"]:::active
        Receipt --> Review --> Action --> Snapshot
    end

    Validate -- YES --> Secret
    Quarantine --> Receipt
    New --> Receipt
    Duplicate --> Receipt
    Correction --> Receipt
    Conflict --> Receipt

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The console is not an approval queue. Agents keep moving. MemoryGuard records the outcome and exposes the evidence needed to correct it later.

What you can govern

Signal	Governance action
Duplicate or stale memory	Inspect the canonical record and supersede chain; restore an earlier version when needed
Conflicting memories	Keep both visible until the conflict is resolved deliberately
Secrets, tokens, or credentials	Quarantine the record so it cannot enter active shared memory
Incorrect automatic organization	Correct, merge, lock, restore, or roll back with evidence
Multiple coding agents	Bind agents to one shared group while preserving source identity and scope
Mandatory rules	Assign rules to an Agent, project, provider, runtime role, or shared group

Rules and history stay separate

MemoryGuard deliberately keeps governed long-term memory and raw conversation history on different paths.

Surface	Purpose	Context behavior
Rules and habits	Preferences, procedures, corrections, facts, projects, and scoped mandatory rules	Mandatory rules use an independent char/token budget after scope, exclude, conflict, and semantic dedup. Effective count above 20 is a health warning, not a hard block; storage is not capped by count. Sensitive, corrupt, per-item oversize, and aggregate overflow still fail closed with no silent truncation. Ordinary records are recalled when relevant
Conversation history	Local raw-evidence archive with owner and shared-group access controls	Never enters bootstrap automatically; raw text is read only through explicit history tools
Neuron graph	Navigation and governance over memory, rules, projects, agents, and sessions	History nodes contain safe metadata and summaries, not raw chat content

History retrieval is progressive: search results, then a bounded timeline, then an explicitly selected turn or session. Extracting from history creates a preview first; it does not silently write a long-term memory.

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    subgraph HistoryPath["CONVERSATION EVIDENCE    "]
        direction TB
        Archive[("Raw local history    ")]:::historyStore
        Search["Search summaries    "]:::history
        Timeline["Bounded timeline    "]:::history
        Read["Explicit turn or session    "]:::history
        Preview["Evidence-backed<br/>extraction preview&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;"]:::history
        Confirm["Explicit acceptance&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;"]:::surface
        Isolation["NO AUTOMATIC<br/>BOOTSTRAP PATH&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;"]:::barrier

        Archive --> Search --> Timeline --> Read --> Preview --> Confirm
        Archive -.-> Isolation
    end

    subgraph GovernedMemory["GOVERNED LONG-TERM MEMORY&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;"]
        direction TB
        Mandatory["Scoped mandatory rules&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;"]:::rule
        Assignments["Agent · project<br/>role · group scope&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;"]:::core
        RulePack["Mandatory-rule<br/>budget&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;"]:::budget
        Ordinary["Facts · preferences<br/>projects · procedures&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;"]:::memory
        Recall["Task-relevant<br/>recall budget&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;"]:::budget
        Context["BOUNDED CONTEXT PACKET&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;"]:::context

        Mandatory --> Assignments --> RulePack --> Context
        Ordinary --> Recall --> Context
    end

    HistoryPath ==>|GOVERNED WRITE&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;| GovernedMemory

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Supported hosts

Host	Integration	Current boundary
Claude Code	Global MCP binding, redirect rules, user-level lifecycle Hook	Verified takeover path
Codex	Global MCP binding, redirect rules, user-level lifecycle Hook	Verified takeover path
Cursor	Global MCP binding, redirect rules, user-level lifecycle Hook	Verified takeover path
TRAE	MCP binding and redirect rules	No verified Hook seam; reported as a fallback instead of full takeover

Provider status is reported honestly as redirected, observed, operational, or unsupported. MemoryGuard does not claim it can disable every host's native memory when the host exposes no reliable integration point.

Architecture

Layer	Responsibility
Evidence & Content	Authorized sources, immutable evidence, content-addressed blobs/occurrences, source manifests, and conversation archives
Memory & Rules	Scoped memory atoms, revisions, bindings, rule definitions, decisions, evidence links, and compensating governance operations
Runtime & Projection	Bounded working context, scenario/profile projections, CodeGraph, Assets, and Skills metadata
Cutover & Governance	Four-state manifest, native MCP/CLI/GUI/Hook routing, Reference Audit, maintenance, provider adapters, and rollback evidence

V2 uses separate authoritative SQLite domains rather than one shared-memory database. The runtime reads and writes V2 only after the manifest reaches V2_ACTIVE; V2_BUILDING and V2_READY never silently fall back or dual-write. Evidence remains traceable without being treated as automatically trusted memory.

Privacy and safety

• MemoryGuard runs as a local MCP stdio server.
• All governed data stays local unless you explicitly authorize a remote model or embedding operation. Optional usage telemetry is local-only: its measured host token events and deterministic conversion events are stored under .memoryguard/usage_telemetry.sqlite; it does not upload data. Token savings are estimates based on MemoryGuard deterministic units, not a provider billing statement. Hosts without token reporting remain unsupported in the measured columns.
• The Knowledge Library database uses MEMORYGUARD_HOME or the platform user data directory, so a selected source folder does not receive its own knowledge database.
• V2 authoritative workspace state is separated under .memoryguard/ into explicit Memory, Rules, Evidence, Content, Runtime, Projection, Assets, CodeGraph, Skills, and System domains; History, Source, Binding, and Group control are V2-native surfaces. Legacy V1 artifacts are preserved as local rollback/audit evidence after cutover and are no longer the active V2 runtime write path; only memoryguard.migration may read them.
• Source scanning is read-only by default.
• Mutating governance paths use validation, explicit scope, provenance, and reversible state.
• Quarantined records stay outside active shared memory.
• Raw conversation history is never injected into bootstrap automatically.
• Shared-group history access follows current active membership and does not grant deletion rights over another Agent's source.

CLI

The installed memoryguard command exposes these top-level operations:

Command	Purpose
audit [path]	Run a read-only audit and generate a report
open [path]	Open the latest interactive report
explain <finding_id>	Explain evidence and risk for a finding
source <action>	List, add, remove, or preview authorized sources
scan	Scan authorized sources and build the coverage ledger
doctor	Diagnose V2 manifest, domain availability, and native coverage
mcp-status	Inspect V2 MCP/backend health; tenant counts require a bound Agent scope
hooks <action>	Install, inspect, pause, repair, or remove host Hooks
provider <action>	Inspect or repair global provider integrations
`storage audit	report`
`storage sweep	compact`
groups <action>	Inspect governed group state
gui [path]	Launch the interactive governance console
desktop	Launch the trusted desktop executor

The old V1 plan, apply, verify, undo, import, and gc workflows may remain parseable as explicit retired compatibility surfaces, but are not a V1 runtime path. Under V2_ACTIVE they return a stable retired result instead of writing through a legacy store. Legacy data input is accepted only by the explicit memoryguard.migration upgrade flow.

Run memoryguard --help or memoryguard <command> --help for the live command reference.

MCP API

The MCP server exposes tools for:

• governed memory read, search, write, update, delete, and status;
• bounded context bootstrap with mandatory-rule isolation;
• rule creation, feedback, merge governance, undo, and scope statistics;
• Agent binding and shared-group inspection;
• source scanning, graph projection, import previews, and build planning;
• external MCP discovery and import;
• document extraction previews and candidate acceptance;
• conversation-history search, timeline, explicit read, export, deletion, and extraction preview;
• provider installation and host-agent enrichment.

Use MCP tools/list as the source of truth for the exact tool set supported by the installed version.

Project links

• PyPI package
• GitHub releases
• Changelog
• v0.7.8 release record
• v0.7.7 release record
• v0.7.6 release record
• v0.7.5 release record
• v0.7.4 release record
• v0.7.3 release record
• v0.7.2 release record
• v0.7.1 release record
• v0.7.0 release gate
• Memory continuity and lossless storage spec
• Privacy policy
• Terms of use
• Contributing guide
• Contributor License Agreement
• Issue tracker

Roadmap

• Current release line: v0.7.8 consolidates canonical governance, readable multi-agent GUI governance, local-only usage telemetry, and Codex lifecycle/runtime alignment. v0.7.7 makes bare provider repair safe in a verified, uniquely bound control home and aligns installed Codex MCP/Hook repairs to the current interpreter while preserving Agent and shared-group identity. v0.7.6 makes Codex Hook/MCP runtime selection consistent through one immutable snapshot, shortens Hook state lock windows, and keeps bootstrap success/failure state honest with explicit mandatory-overflow fail-closed handling. Earlier release records retain the detailed v0.7.5 conflict-review, v0.7.4 canonical-governance, v0.7.3 shared-history, and v0.7.2 write/read and Codex lifecycle changes. The v0.7.1 V2-only migration and desktop lifecycle work remains documented as historical release context.
• Acceptance boundary: the Graphify evidence is the focused 3 / 3 result plus the real full-repository export/projection described above. It does not claim that upstream Graphify's full-repository test suite passed.
• Next after release: broader CodeGraph/Skills ingestion, more operator-friendly maintenance reports, and additional migration observability. Long-term records are not retired merely because they are old.
• Later: team and enterprise capabilities only after validated demand.

Contributing

Issues and pull requests are welcome. Read CONTRIBUTING.md before submitting a change. Pull requests require agreement to the CLA.

License

MIT