* feat: add @vectorize-io/hindsight-embed daemon lifecycle package
Create a new top-level `hindsight-embed-npm/` package that owns the daemon
lifecycle for the Python `hindsight-embed` CLI: spawning via `uvx`, writing
the profile, waiting for `/health`, and shutting down. Nothing more.
Deliberately does not ship an HTTP client — `@vectorize-io/hindsight-client`
already covers retain / recall / reflect / createBank against the Hindsight
API, and the two packages compose: once `manager.start()` returns, consumers
talk to the daemon via `new HindsightClient({ baseUrl: manager.getBaseUrl() })`.
`HindsightEmbedManagerOptions.env` forwards an arbitrary `Record<string,
string>` to both the daemon process and the profile config via `--env K=V`,
and `extraProfileCreateArgs` / `extraDaemonStartArgs` escape hatches cover
any new CLI flag without waiting for a wrapper release.
Refactor `hindsight-integrations/openclaw` to consume both packages:
`HindsightEmbedManager` for daemon lifecycle in local mode, `HindsightClient`
for all HTTP memory operations. Drop the bespoke subprocess/HTTP client that
used to live in openclaw. The retain queue stays local to openclaw (it's a
client-side reliability workaround with a single consumer today — will move
to the client package or server-side when a second consumer needs it).
Wire the new package into the main release pipeline (versioned alongside
the other core packages, published from `v*` tags) and add a CI build job.
* docs: add Embedded Node.js SDK page for @vectorize-io/hindsight-embed
* refactor: rename hindsight-embed-npm to hindsight-all, restructure docs sidebar
The Node package previously named @vectorize-io/hindsight-embed was
semantically misnamed: hindsight-embed (Python) is a CLI tool, while what
this Node package actually provides is the Node equivalent of hindsight-all
— a programmatic lifecycle manager for a local Hindsight daemon. Rename to
match.
Package rename
- hindsight-embed-npm/ → hindsight-all-npm/ (git mv, history preserved)
- @vectorize-io/hindsight-embed → @vectorize-io/hindsight-all
- class HindsightEmbedManager → HindsightServer (matches Python hindsight-all)
- HindsightEmbedManagerOptions → HindsightServerOptions
- src/manager.ts → src/server.ts, src/manager.test.ts → src/server.test.ts
- openclaw (index.ts, backfill.ts, tests) and the claude-code Python port
updated to reference the new names
Docs restructure
- Split sdks/python.md: now client-only content. New sdks/hindsight-all.md
covers the programmatic hindsight-all Python package (HindsightServer and
HindsightEmbedded).
- Rename sdks/embed-npm.md → sdks/hindsight-all-npm.md with HindsightServer
examples.
- New "Installation" sidebar section, placed after Hosting, containing
Docker / Kubernetes / Bare Metal (anchor links into developer/installation)
plus Programmatic API (Python), Programmatic API (Node.js), and Daemon CLI.
- Add si-docker, si-kubernetes, si-nodedotjs, lu-hard-drive to the sidebar
ICON_MAP.
Docs dev-server fix
- docusaurus.config.ts: drop the flaky NODE_ENV sniff for including the
"Next" version. Use INCLUDE_CURRENT_VERSION exclusively. NODE_ENV was
unreliable across hot-reload paths and caused the Next version to
disappear intermittently when editing files.
- scripts/dev/start-docs.sh: export INCLUDE_CURRENT_VERSION=true so local
dev always shows Next; production builds leave it unset.
Lockfile cleanup
- package-lock.json and hindsight-integrations/openclaw/package-lock.json
had extraneous hindsight-embed-npm blocks left over from the rename.
Removed manually and verified with npm install.
* ci: fix openclaw jobs by pre-building workspace deps; regenerate docs-skill
The build-openclaw-integration and test-openclaw-integration jobs failed
with "Failed to resolve entry for package @vectorize-io/hindsight-all"
because openclaw depends on two monorepo workspaces via `file:` deps
(@vectorize-io/hindsight-client and @vectorize-io/hindsight-all) whose
`dist/` directories are gitignored and never built before openclaw's npm ci.
Both jobs now install the root workspace and build the two deps first,
mirroring the release-control-plane pattern.
Also regenerate skills/hindsight-docs/references/* via
./scripts/generate-docs-skill.sh:
- new skill pages for sdks/hindsight-all{.md,-npm.md}
- updated skill pages for sdks/embed.md and sdks/python.md to match
the new H1s and split content
- incidental refreshes to changelog/index.md, developer/models.md,
openapi.json, and uv.lock that verify-generated-files picked up
* ci: build openclaw before running tests so symlink test can realpath dist
* feat: add source facts token limits to consolidation and recall
- Add two new configurable (per-bank) parameters:
- consolidation_source_facts_max_tokens: total token budget for source
facts across all observations in the consolidation prompt (-1 = unlimited)
- consolidation_source_facts_max_tokens_per_observation: per-observation
cap so each observation gets a fair share of source facts (-1 = unlimited,
default 256)
- Both are also exposed as recall API parameters via SourceFactsIncludeOptions
(max_tokens and max_tokens_per_observation)
- Consolidation now uses resolve_full_config to respect bank-level overrides
- Improve consolidation prompt: temporal metadata (occurred_start=, | Involving:)
is now clearly separated from observation text, with a concrete example showing
the expected synthesis style and explicit rules not to copy raw fact lines
- Add tests for recall source facts capping and consolidation config forwarding
- Expose all three new fields in the control plane bank config UI
- Document new env vars in configuration.md
- Regenerate OpenAPI spec and all SDK clients
* fix: reorder observations UI fields and rename Label Groups to Entity Labels
* fix: revert Entities section title (only rename inner label)
* doc: add consolidation source facts and batch size fields to memory-banks docs
* feat: add observation history tracking and UI diff view
- Track observation changes over time in a JSONB history column,
appending each update's previous state (text, tags, dates, sources)
instead of overwriting
- Add HINDSIGHT_API_ENABLE_OBSERVATION_HISTORY config flag (default: true)
to toggle history recording
- Expose history field in get_memory_unit for observations
- Fix observations/[modelId] route that was proxying to wrong endpoint
- Add History tab in observation modal and History section in panel,
showing word-level and tag diffs between each change (newest first)
- Extract shared ObservationHistoryView component used by both modal and panel
- Add --random-port flag to start.sh to run multiple dev instances
- Scope Next.js distDir by port to prevent lock file collisions between instances
- Restyle consolidation pending badge (rounded-md with border) and add
inline refresh button; fix loading flicker on data refresh
* feat: dedicated observation history endpoint with source facts diff
- Add GET /memories/{id}/history endpoint returning enriched history with
resolved source fact texts and is_new flags per change
- Deprecate history field in GET /memories/{id} (always returns empty list)
- Reconstruct cumulative source facts per history entry by working backwards
from current state, marking newly added facts with is_new
- Replace inline history panel with "View History" button opening modal
- History modal fetches from dedicated endpoint lazily on tab switch
- Timeline view now opens MemoryDetailModal instead of side panel
- History view uses prev/next navigation (left = older, right = newer)
- Fix --random-port: pass dynamic API_PORT as HINDSIGHT_CP_DATAPLANE_API_URL
to control plane, preserving caller values over .env
* doc: update cookbook
* fix(cookbook): preserve tag keys during sync, strip local .md links
- Fix extract_tags_from_readme/notebook to return dict[str,str] preserving
sdk/topic keys instead of bare values, preventing topics like
"Customer Service" from being misclassified as SDK
- Add strip_local_md_links() to remove relative .md references that
would cause broken link errors in Docusaurus build
* ci: run test-doc-examples independently without waiting for test-rust-cli
Build the CLI directly in the job instead of downloading the artifact,
so test-doc-examples can start at the beginning in parallel with all other jobs.
* feat: entity labels
* feat: entity labels — optional, free_values, multi_value, UI polish
Completes the entity labels system:
**Schema & extraction**
- Dynamic Pydantic Labels model per fact: each group becomes a typed
field (Literal | None, list[Literal], str | None, or list[str])
- `optional: bool` flag per group — non-optional enum fields appear in
JSON schema required array so structured-output providers enforce them
- `free_values: bool` flag per group — accepts any LLM-generated string
instead of a predefined enum; example values shown as hints in prompt
- New `is_label_entity()` helper for labels-only mode filtering that
handles both enum lookup and free_values key-prefix matching
- Sentinel rejection: "None"/"null"/"n/a" strings dropped in post-processing
**BM25 / dense retrieval**
- `text_signals` column on memory_units: entity names + date tokens for
enriched BM25 indexing without polluting stored fact text
- Dense embedding includes occurred_end when it differs from occurred_start
- Alembic migration z1u2v3w4x5y6 (merge revision fixing two heads)
**UI (bank-config-view)**
- Shadcn Switch replaces custom Toggle for both entity-labels and observations
- Shadcn Checkbox for multi/optional/free_values per group
- Input heights bumped to h-8 throughout the editor
- "Label Groups" → "Entity Labels", "Free-form entities" → "Entities"
- Free-text groups show "Example hints" banner in values section
**Tests (45 unit + 3 LLM integration)**
- build_labels_model: single, multi, mixed, free_values optional/required/multi
- is_label_entity: enum match, free_values prefix match, no false positives
- Post-processing: null/absent/string-None/free_values/sentinels/multi-value
- Schema: labels in required, structured object, no labels when unconfigured
- LLM integration: single-value enum, multi-value enum, free_values retain
**Docs**
- retain.md: new Entity Labels section covering groups, flags, examples
- configuration.md: retain_free_form_entities env var + entity_labels note
* fix(tests): update hierarchical fields count for entity_labels additions
entity_labels and retain_free_form_entities are hierarchical fields,
bumping the expected count from 11 to 13.
* fix(migration): rename text_signals revision to avoid collision with main
Main branch claimed z1u2v3w4x5y6 for observation_scopes. Rename our
text_signals migration to a2b3c4d5e6f7, chaining after z1u2v3w4x5y6.
* refactor(entity-labels): simplify free_values — always str|None, no multi
- free_values groups always produce str | None (multi_value and optional
flags are ignored for free text groups — always optional, never multi)
- Prompt section for free_values groups shows only key + description,
no values list (users put examples in the description instead)
- UI: section title "Entities", toggle "Free Form Entities", replace
per-group checkboxes with a type dropdown (Enum / Free text); only
show multi checkbox and values list when type is Enum
- Update tests to reflect new behaviour
* refactor(entity-labels): replace free_values/multi_value booleans with type field
- LabelGroup now uses type: "value" | "multi-values" | "text" instead of
free_values/multi_value boolean pair
- Backward-compat migration converts legacy dicts automatically
- Rename retain_free_form_entities → entities_allow_free_form throughout
- Update UI dropdown to show Single value / Multi-values / Free text
- Remove separate multi checkbox (captured by type selection)
- Update docs examples and configuration.md
- Update all tests to use new field names
* fix(migration): backfill observation_scopes column for DBs with swapped z1u2v3w4x5y6
Local DBs that had z1u2v3w4x5y6 applied when it referred to the old
text_signals migration (before it was renamed to a2b3c4d5e6f7) won't have
observation_scopes in their memory_units table. This migration adds the
column with IF NOT EXISTS so it's a no-op on clean installs.
* feat(entity-labels): add tag field to auto-populate memory unit tags from labels
When a LabelGroup has tag=True, extracted key:value entities for that group
are automatically written to the memory unit's tags array. This lets entity
labels double as tags, enabling immediate filtering via the existing
tags/tags_match API params with no extra infrastructure.
- Add tag: bool = False to LabelGroup
- _inject_label_tags() helper called in both sync and batch extraction paths
- UI: add Tag checkbox per label group row
- Docs: document the new tag field
- Tests: 4 new unit tests covering all tag injection paths
* style: ruff format migration file
* fix(migration): fix multiple alembic heads after rebase — point text_signals after nullable_event_date
* fix(clients): update timestamp field to use Timestamp wrapper type after timestamp=unset feature
* style: ruff format agent.py
* fix(docs): update Go quickstart example to use NullableTimestamp for timestamp field
* feat: add comprehensive OpenTelemetry tracing
- Add tool execution spans for reflect operations
- Add tool call information (names, params) to spans
- Change verification scope from 'test' to 'verification'
- Add hindsight.reflect_generation span for done() processing
- Implement no-op tracer for improved code readability
- Update documentation for OTEL configuration
- Resolve merge conflicts from rebase
* fix: properly serialize Pydantic models in span recording
- Add _serialize_for_span() helper to handle Pydantic models
- Update all providers to use the helper function
- Fixes test failures with 'Object of type X is not JSON serializable'
* feat: add Grafana LGTM stack for unified local observability
Add Grafana LGTM (Loki, Grafana, Tempo, Mimir) as the recommended
local development observability stack. This provides traces, metrics,
and logs in a single Docker container instead of separate tools.
Changes:
- Add scripts/dev/grafana/ with docker-compose and README
- Add scripts/dev/start-grafana.sh startup script
- Update .env.example to reference Grafana LGTM
- Update configuration docs to emphasize Grafana LGTM as primary option
- Reorder OTLP backend list to show Grafana LGTM first
Benefits:
- Single container vs multiple separate tools (Jaeger, SigNoz, etc.)
- ~515MB image with full observability stack
- Compatible with existing OTLP configuration
- Simpler local development setup
* chore: remove SigNoz scripts and references
Remove SigNoz observability stack in favor of Grafana LGTM as the
sole recommended local development tracing solution.
Changes:
- Delete scripts/dev/signoz/ directory and all SigNoz configurations
- Delete scripts/dev/start-signoz.sh startup script
- Remove SigNoz references from .env.example
- Remove SigNoz from OTLP backends list in configuration docs
Grafana LGTM provides the same capabilities (traces, metrics, logs)
in a simpler single-container setup.
* feat: add consolidation span hierarchy for tracing
Add parent-child span structure for consolidation operations:
- hindsight.consolidation: Parent span for each memory being processed
- hindsight.consolidation_recall: Child span for finding related observations
- LLM call span: Automatically created by LLM provider (scope="consolidation")
This enables detailed timing breakdown in Grafana Tempo:
- Total consolidation time per memory
- Time spent in recall
- Time spent in LLM call
- Time spent executing actions (create/update)
All consolidation tests pass (31/31).
* feat: add Prometheus metrics and GenAI dashboard to Grafana stack
Add comprehensive metrics and dashboarding to the Grafana LGTM stack:
Metrics Collection:
- Configure Prometheus to scrape Hindsight API /metrics endpoint
- Scrape interval: 10 seconds
- Targets hindsight-api on host.docker.internal:8888
GenAI Dashboard:
- Pre-configured dashboard with 6 panels:
- LLM call rate (by provider/model)
- LLM call duration (p50/p95 by scope)
- Token usage - input tokens/sec by scope
- Token usage - output tokens/sec by scope
- Operations rate (retain/recall/reflect/consolidation)
- Operation duration p95 by operation type
Configuration:
- Mount prometheus.yml for metrics scraping
- Mount dashboards directory for auto-provisioning
- Add host.docker.internal mapping for container->host access
- Dashboard provisioning with auto-reload every 10s
Documentation:
- Updated README with metrics viewing instructions
- Added PromQL query examples
- Documented dashboard access and navigation
This provides full observability: traces (Tempo) + metrics (Prometheus/Mimir) + dashboards (Grafana)
* refactor: merge Grafana setup into existing monitoring stack
Consolidate the separate scripts/dev/grafana/ setup into the existing
scripts/dev/monitoring/ stack, using Grafana LGTM (Loki, Grafana, Tempo, Mimir).
Changes:
- Remove separate scripts/dev/grafana/ directory and start-grafana.sh
- Rewrite scripts/dev/monitoring/start.sh to use Docker + Grafana LGTM
(was: download native Prometheus/Grafana binaries)
- Add docker-compose.yaml for Grafana LGTM container
- Add prometheus.yml for scraping Hindsight API metrics
- Mount existing dashboards from monitoring/grafana/dashboards/
- Add comprehensive README.md
Benefits:
- Single unified monitoring command: ./scripts/dev/start-monitoring.sh
- Uses existing dashboard files (hindsight-operations, hindsight-llm, hindsight-api-service)
- Simpler setup: Docker-based vs downloading/running native binaries
- Full observability: traces + metrics + logs + dashboards in one container
- Standard ports: Grafana on 3000, OTLP on 4317/4318
Architecture:
- Grafana LGTM container (~515MB) provides all components
- Dashboards auto-provisioned from monitoring/grafana/dashboards/
- Prometheus scrapes host.docker.internal:8888/metrics
- Shared hindsight-network for future service-to-service tracing
* fix: run monitoring stack in foreground for easy Ctrl+C stop
Change docker-compose from detached (-d) to foreground mode.
Users can now stop the stack with Ctrl+C instead of needing
to run docker-compose down separately.
* fix: remove invalid home dashboard path and obsolete version field
- Remove GF_DASHBOARDS_DEFAULT_HOME_DASHBOARD_PATH environment variable
(was pointing to wrong path causing 'Failed to load home dashboard' error)
- Remove obsolete 'version' field from docker-compose.yaml
(docker-compose v2+ doesn't require version field)
* fix: load Hindsight dashboards in Grafana LGTM
Mount Hindsight dashboard JSON files and custom provisioning config
to make dashboards visible in Grafana.
Changes:
- Mount hindsight-operations.json, hindsight-llm.json, hindsight-api-service.json to /otel-lgtm/
- Create grafana-dashboards.yaml with all dashboard providers (default + Hindsight)
- Mount custom provisioning config to override LGTM default
All 3 Hindsight dashboards now appear in Grafana UI with metrics
from Prometheus scraping the Hindsight API /metrics endpoint.
* fix: configure Prometheus to scrape Hindsight API metrics
Update prometheus.yml to include both OTLP receiver config (from LGTM)
and scrape_configs for pulling metrics from Hindsight API.
Changes:
- Mount prometheus.yml to /otel-lgtm/prometheus.yaml (where LGTM reads it)
- Add scrape_configs section to pull from host.docker.internal:8888/metrics
- Keep OTLP receiver configuration for trace metrics
- Set scrape_interval to 5s
Verified: Prometheus now successfully scrapes hindsight_llm_calls_total
and other Hindsight metrics. Dashboards now show live data!
* feat: add comprehensive tracing for recall and improve reflect/mental_model_refresh spans
- Add recall operation tracing with parent-child span hierarchy
- Parent: hindsight.recall with attributes (bank_id, query, fact_types, etc.)
- Children: recall_embedding, recall_retrieval, recall_fusion, recall_rerank
- Fixed context propagation using start_as_current_span()
- Improve reflect tracing spans
- Remove reflect_generation spans, use reflect instead
- Change done() tool processing to hindsight.reflect_tool_call
- Fix mental_model_refresh span nesting
- Add _skip_span parameter to reflect_async to avoid duplicate hindsight.reflect spans
- Mental model refresh now has clean span hierarchy without nested reflect parent
- Add comprehensive tracing verification tests
- Test span hierarchy and attributes for all operations
- Verify parent-child relationships
- 5 passing tests covering recall, reflect, consolidation, and mental_model_refresh
* refactor: remove redundant is_tracing_enabled() checks
- Remove all is_tracing_enabled() conditional checks before tracing calls
- NoOpTracer/NoOpSpan handle disabled tracing automatically
- Simplify code by always calling tracer methods directly
- Fix NoOpTracer.start_as_current_span() to yield NoOpSpan instead of None
Changes:
- memory_engine.py: Remove 5 is_tracing_enabled checks in recall spans
- agent.py: Remove 2 is_tracing_enabled checks in reflect tool spans
- tracing.py: Fix NoOpTracer context manager to yield proper NoOpSpan
This eliminates ~50 lines of redundant conditional code while maintaining
identical behavior.
* docs: simplify distributed tracing section in monitoring.md
- Make tracing documentation more concise
- Focus on span hierarchy and attributes
- Remove verbose troubleshooting and performance sections
- Keep configuration.md for env vars only
* change the package to workspace concept
* add provider name and change default model
* add the node_modules to git ignore
* change the npm runs to use workspace
* fix the start scripts to use the workspace
* update the uv.lock
* updated instructions
* update the docker build to use the npm workspace
* Update package-lock.json after merge to sync workspace dependencies
* fix merge conflict
