Show HN: Engram – open-source persistent memory for AI agents (Bun and SQLite)

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zanfiel

9 hours ago


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zanfiel 9 hours ago

I built Engram because every AI agent I worked with had amnesia. Between sessions, everything was gone. I needed something that could store what agents learn, find it by meaning later, and do it without requiring a vector database, an OpenAI key, or any external service.

What it does: Store memories, search them semantically, recall relevant context automatically — backed by a single SQLite file.

What makes it different from Mem0: - Zero external dependencies — embeddings run locally (MiniLM-L6, 384-dim). No API keys needed. - Auto-linking — memories form a knowledge graph automatically - Versioning, auto-deduplication, auto-forget - Four-layer recall: static facts + semantic matches + high-importance + recent activity - WebGL graph visualization built in

Stack: Bun, SQLite (FTS5), transformers.js, single TypeScript file (2,300 lines).

Deploy: docker compose up -d

Live demo: https://demo.engram.lol/gui (password: demo)

Happy to answer questions about the architecture.