npm package: @iflow-mcp/memory-engineering-mcp
Description: 🧠 AI Memory System powered by MongoDB Atlas & Voyage AI - Autonomous memory management with zero manual work
Author: romiluz13
Latest version: 13.4.3

# 🧠 Memory Engineering MCP

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**Persistent memory and semantic code understanding for AI assistants.** Built on MongoDB Atlas Vector Search and Voyage AI embeddings.

## 🚀 Powered by voyage-code-3: The Code Understanding Model

**voyage-code-3** is Voyage AI's specialized model that understands code like a senior developer:

- **Syntax-Aware**: Distinguishes between `UserService.create()` and `User.create()` - knows one is a service method, the other is a model method
- **Cross-Language**: Recognizes that Python's `async def`, JavaScript's `async function`, and Go's `go func()` all represent asynchronous patterns
- **Semantic Relationships**: Understands that `hash_password()` relates to `verify_password()`, `salt`, `bcrypt`, and security patterns
- **Architecture Understanding**: Knows that controllers → services → repositories → models represents a layered architecture

### Real-World Impact

```javascript
// Ask: "How do we handle authentication?"
// voyage-code-3 finds ALL of these (even without the word "auth"):
validateToken()      // JWT validation
checkSession()       // Session management  
requirePermission()  // Authorization
refreshTokens()      // Token refresh logic
loginUser()         // Login flow
// Traditional search would miss most of these!
```

## ✨ See It In Action

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## 🔥 The Game Changer: Code Embeddings

**This is what makes Memory Engineering different from everything else:**

### Revolutionary Code Chunking
- **Smart Semantic Boundaries**: Tracks braces, parentheses, and indentation to capture COMPLETE functions (up to 200 lines) and classes (up to 300 lines)
- **Context-Aware**: Every chunk includes its imports, dependencies, and surrounding context
- **Pattern Detection**: Automatically identifies 27 code patterns (error-handling, async, authentication, etc.)

### Why This Matters
```javascript
// Traditional chunking BREAKS this function in half:
function processPayment(order) {  // <- Chunk 1 ends here
  validateOrder(order);           // <- Chunk 2 starts here, loses context!
  // ... 50 more lines
}

// Our chunking keeps it COMPLETE:
function processPayment(order) {  // <- Full function preserved
  validateOrder(order);           
  // ... entire function included
}                                 // <- Chunk ends at semantic boundary
```

### Semantic Code Search That Actually Works
```bash
# Find similar implementations
search --query "JWT refresh" --codeSearch "similar"

# Find who implements an interface
search --query "AuthProvider" --codeSearch "implements"  

# Find usage patterns
search --query "error handling" --codeSearch "pattern"

# Natural language → Code
search --query "how do we validate users"
# Automatically searches: authenticate, verify, check, validate patterns
```

## 🧠 The 7 Core Memories

Inspired by Cline, but enhanced with MongoDB persistence:

1. **activeContext** - What you're doing RIGHT NOW (update every 3-5 min!)
2. **projectbrief** - Core requirements and features
3. **systemPatterns** - Architecture decisions and patterns
4. **techContext** - Stack, dependencies, constraints  
5. **progress** - What's done, in-progress, and next
6. **productContext** - Why this exists, user needs
7. **codebaseMap** - File structure with embedded statistics

## 💪 Technical Architecture

### MongoDB Atlas Integration
- **Vector Search**: 1024-dimensional embeddings with cosine similarity
- **Hybrid Search**: Combines semantic + keyword search
- **Auto-indexing**: Manages compound, text, and vector indexes automatically
- **Connection pooling**: 5-100 connections with retry logic

### Voyage AI Integration - Powered by voyage-code-3

#### Why voyage-code-3 Changes Everything
- **Purpose-Built for Code**: Unlike general models, voyage-code-3 understands syntax, patterns, and programming concepts
- **1024 Dimensions**: Optimal balance between accuracy and performance
- **Code-Aware Embeddings**: Knows the difference between `class Auth` and `authenticate()` semantically
- **Language Agnostic**: Works across JavaScript, TypeScript, Python, Go, Rust, and more

#### Technical Capabilities
```javascript
// voyage-code-3 understands these are related:
authenticate() → JWT.verify() → checkPermissions() → isAuthorized()

// Even without shared keywords, it knows:
"user login" → findByEmail() → bcrypt.compare() → generateToken()

// Understands code patterns:
try/catch → error handling → .catch() → Promise.reject()
```

#### Advanced Features
- **Reranking with rerank-2.5-lite**: Re-orders results by true relevance (8% accuracy boost)
- **32K Context Window**: 8x larger than before for understanding long files
- **Semantic Expansion**: `auth` automatically searches for authentication, JWT, tokens, sessions
- **Pattern Recognition**: Identifies 27 architectural patterns automatically
- **Smart Batching**: Processes 100 chunks simultaneously for speed

### Code Intelligence
```typescript
// What gets captured in each chunk:
interface CodeChunk {
  chunk: {
    type: 'function' | 'class' | 'method' | 'module';
    signature: string;      // Full signature with params
    content: string;        // Complete code
    context: string;        // Imports and dependencies
    startLine: number;
    endLine: number;
  };
  contentVector: number[];  // 1024-dim embedding
  metadata: {
    patterns: string[];     // Detected patterns
    dependencies: string[]; // What it imports
    exports: string[];      // What it exports
  };
}
```

## ⚡ Quick Start

### Installation
```bash
npm install -g memory-engineering-mcp
```

### Configure Cursor/.cursor/mcp.json
```json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "memory-engineering-mcp": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": ["memory-engineering-mcp"],
      "env": {
        "MONGODB_URI": "your-mongodb-atlas-uri",
        "VOYAGE_API_KEY": "your-voyage-api-key"
      }
    }
  }
}
```

### First Run
```bash
# Initialize (scans entire codebase, generates embeddings)
memory_engineering_init

# Now search your code semantically!
memory_engineering_search --query "authentication flow" --codeSearch "pattern"

# Update memories as you work
memory_engineering_memory --name activeContext --content "Fixed JWT expiry..."
```

## 🔬 voyage-code-3 vs Other Embedding Models

### Technical Comparison
| Aspect | voyage-code-3 | General Models (text-embedding-3) | 
|--------|--------------|-----------------------------------|
| **Code Syntax** | Understands AST-like structures | Treats code as text |
| **Variable Names** | Knows `userId` ≈ `user_id` ≈ `userID` | Sees as different tokens |
| **Design Patterns** | Recognizes Singleton, Factory, Repository | No pattern awareness |
| **Error Handling** | Links try/catch ↔ .catch() ↔ error boundaries | Misses connections |
| **Import Relationships** | Tracks dependency graphs | Ignores imports |
| **Context Window** | 32K tokens (full files) | 8K tokens typical |

### Benchmark Results
```javascript
// Query: "user authentication"
// voyage-code-3 finds (relevance score):
verifyPassword()     // 0.94 - Understands auth concept
generateJWT()        // 0.92 - Knows JWT = auth token
checkPermissions()   // 0.89 - Links to authorization
validateSession()    // 0.87 - Session = auth state

// Generic model finds:
authenticateUser()   // 0.95 - Only exact match
userAuth()          // 0.88 - Keyword matching
// Misses everything else!
```

## 🎯 Real Power Examples

### Finding Code You Forgot Exists
```bash
search --query "payment processing"
# voyage-code-3 finds: processPayment(), handleStripeWebhook(), validateCard()
# Even without the word "payment" in those functions!
```

### Understanding Patterns Across Codebase
```bash
search --query "error" --codeSearch "pattern"
# Returns ALL error handling patterns:
# - try/catch blocks
# - .catch() handlers  
# - error middleware
# - validation errors
```

### Tracking Decisions
```bash
search --query "why Redis"
# Finds the exact activeContext entry where you decided to use Redis
# "Chose Redis for session storage because: 1) Fast lookups 2) TTL support..."
```

## 📊 Performance & Technical Metrics

### Speed & Scale
- **Code sync**: 100 files/batch with voyage-code-3 embeddings
- **Search latency**: <500ms for 100k chunks with reranking
- **Memory operations**: <100ms read/write
- **Reranking**: +50ms for 23% better accuracy

### voyage-code-3 Specifications
- **Embedding dimensions**: 1024 (optimal for code)
- **Context window**: 32K tokens (8x improvement)
- **Languages supported**: 50+ programming languages
- **Pattern detection**: 27 architectural patterns
- **Accuracy boost**: 15% over general models

### Code Understanding Capabilities
```javascript
// voyage-code-3 understands these are the SAME pattern:
// JavaScript
promise.then(result => {}).catch(err => {})
// Python
try: result = await async_func()
except Exception as err: handle_error(err)
// Go
if err := doSomething(); err != nil { return err }
// All recognized as: error-handling pattern
```

## 🎯 How voyage-code-3 Helps Different Tasks

### Code Review & Refactoring
```bash
search --query "duplicate logic" --codeSearch "similar"
# Finds semantically similar code blocks that could be refactored
```

### Debugging
```bash
search --query "null pointer exception possible" --codeSearch "pattern"
# Finds: optional chaining missing, unchecked nulls, unsafe access
```

### Learning a New Codebase
```bash
search --query "entry point main initialization" --codeSearch "implements"
# Finds: main(), app.listen(), server.start(), bootstrap()
```

### Security Audit
```bash
search --query "SQL injection vulnerable" --codeSearch "pattern"
# Finds: string concatenation in queries, unparameterized SQL
```

## 🔧 Advanced Features

### Smart Pattern Aliasing (Enhanced by voyage-code-3)
The system understands natural language variations:
- "auth" → searches: authentication, authorization, login, JWT, token, session, OAuth
- "db" → searches: database, MongoDB, schema, model, collection, repository, ORM
- "error handling" → searches: try-catch, exception, error-handler, .catch(), Promise.reject

### Incremental Sync
Only changed files are re-embedded:
```javascript
// Detects changes via:
- File modification time
- Content hash comparison  
- Git diff integration
- Automatic after 24h gap
```

### Context Preservation
Every code chunk maintains context:
```typescript
// Original file:
import { User } from './models';
import bcrypt from 'bcrypt';

class AuthService {
  async validateUser(email: string, password: string) {
    // ... implementation
  }
}

// Chunk includes:
- Imports (User, bcrypt)
- Class context (AuthService)
- Full method implementation
- Patterns detected: ["authentication", "async", "validation"]
```

## 🛠️ Tools Reference

| Tool | Purpose | Key Features |
|------|---------|--------------|
| `memory_engineering_init` | Initialize project | Scans code, creates memories, generates embeddings |
| `memory_engineering_memory` | Read/Update memories | Unified interface for all 7 memories |
| `memory_engineering_search` | Semantic search | Memory + code search with patterns |
| `memory_engineering_sync` | Sync code embeddings | Smart chunking, incremental updates |
| `memory_engineering_system` | Health & diagnostics | Status, environment, doctor mode |

## 🚀 Why This Works

1. **Complete Code Understanding**: Unlike other systems that break functions arbitrarily, we preserve semantic units
2. **Rich Embeddings**: Each chunk has context, patterns, and relationships
3. **Behavioral Prompting**: Dramatic prompts ensure AI assistants take memory seriously
4. **MongoDB Scale**: Handles millions of chunks with millisecond queries
5. **Voyage AI Quality**: State-of-the-art embeddings optimized for code

## 📦 Latest Updates

### v13.4.0 (January 2025)
- Enhanced memory quality with structured templates
- Improved pattern detection in code embeddings (now 27 patterns)
- Better validation for consistent memory creation
- All improvements are backwards compatible

### v13.3.2
- Consolidated tools for simpler interface
- Performance optimizations

## 📄 License

MIT - See [LICENSE](LICENSE) file

## 🔗 Links

- [NPM Package](https://www.npmjs.com/package/memory-engineering-mcp)
- [GitHub Repository](https://github.com/romiluz13/memory-engineering-mcp)
- [MongoDB Atlas](https://www.mongodb.com/atlas)
- [Voyage AI](https://voyageai.com)

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