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AMP

open-source memory server for AI agents (MCP, SQLite, D3.js)

Details

External ID
46259498
Source
HN
Company
—
Product
AMP
Website domain
github.com
Launched
Dec. 14, 2025
Cohort
—
Upvotes
5
Upvotes percentile
0.10400763358778627
Tags
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Fetched at
Sept. 7, 2026, 9:25 p.m.
Updated at
Sept. 7, 2026, 9:25 p.m.

Description

Hi HN,I’m Akshay. I built AMP because I was tired of my AI agents having "amnesia" the moment I closed the terminal.Like many of you, I use Claude/Cursor daily. RAG is great for searching documentation, but it’s terrible for continuity. It chunks text blindly, losing the narrative. When I asked my agent "Why did we decide to use FastAPI last week?", it would hallucinate or just give me generic pros/cons because the specific context of our decision was lost in a vector soup.So I decided to build a proper *Hippocampus* for my agents.*What is it?* AMP is a local-first memory server that sits between your agent and its LLM. It implements a "3-Layer Brain": 1. *STM*: A scratchpad for what we are doing right now. 2. *LTM*: Consolidated facts and insights (promoted from STM). 3. *Galaxy Graph*: A force-directed knowledge graph (d3.js) that physically links related concepts.*The Tech Stack* * *Protocol*: Built natively for the *Model Context Protocol (MCP)*. If you use Claude Desktop or Cursor, it works out of the box. * *Backend*: Python, FastAPI, SQLite (no docker needed). * *Search*: Hybrid (Keyword + Vector) using FastEmbed. * *Viz*: A 60fps local dashboard to actually see your agent's brain growing.*Benchmarks* I didn't want just another vector wrapper, so I focused heavily on retention. I benchmarked it against Mem0 (a popular alternative) on the LoCoMo dataset. * *AMP*: 81.6% Recall (Context-First) * *Mem0*: 21.7% Recall (Extraction-First)It turns out that preserving the narrative (who/what/when) before summarizing is key to avoiding "I don't know" answers.I’d love to hear your thoughts on the architecture. Does your agent need a hippocampus?Repo: https://github.com/akshayaggarwal99/amp

Enrichment

Theme
AI agent frameworks and developer tools
Vertical
Horizontal
Function
Data infrastructure
Audience
Developer
AI stance
AI-native
Project type
Hobby / open-source project
Normalized one-liner
memory server for ai agents
Manually corrected
False

Could you build this?

Yes It is an MCP server paired with SQLite storage and a D3.js visualization dashboard to store and retrieve agent conversation history.

Discussion

1 comment analyzed.

Concerns raised: Unwanted memories from old conversations bleeding into new ones, Memory fragments causing off-topic distractions

Feature requests: Better control over which memories persist across conversations, Ability to compartmentalize or filter memories by context

Competitors

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Attention rank: #151 of 155 (itself plus its competitors, highest first — normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).

Launched 40 days after the earliest competitor.

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