Concepts
Mnemosyne treats memory as a living cognitive system. These pages explain the model the codebase implements so you can reason about behaviour, not just read API shapes.
- Cognitive primitives
- Bitemporal model
- Memory Worth
- Consolidation gate
- Zero-LLM features
- Three-tier retrieval
- Modes A / B / C
The one-sentence model
A workspace owns a typed knowledge graph that is bitemporally correct, isolated at the database, scored by outcome not frequency, and deterministic before it asks an LLM.
Every Mnemosyne feature derives from one of those four properties. If a proposal violates any of them, it doesn’t ship.
Why we put concepts before API. Most memory systems hand you an endpoint and ask you to figure out the semantics. We think the semantics are the product — the endpoints are a thin interface to it.