Honcho
Open-source memory infrastructure, powered by custom models
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Hey HN,It’s Vineeth from Plastic Labs. We've been building Honcho, an open-source memory library for stateful AI agents.Most memory systems are just vector search—store facts, retrieve facts, stuff into context. We took a different approach: memory as reasoning. (We talk about this a lot on our blog)We built Neuromancer, a model trained specifically for AI-native memory. Instead of naive fact extraction, Neuromancer does formal logical reasoning over conversations to build representations that evolve over time. Its both cheap ( $2/M tokens ingestion, unlimited retrieval), token efficient and SOTA: LongMem (90.4%), LoCoMo (89.9%), and BEAM. On BEAM 10M—which exceeds every model's context window—we hit 0.409 vs prior SOTA of 0.266, using 0.5% of context per query.Github: https://github.com/plastic-labs/honchoEvals: https://evals.honcho.devNeuromancer Model Card: https://plasticlabs.ai/neuromancer)Memory as Reasoning Approach: https://blog.plasticlabs.ai/blog/Memory-as-ReasoningRead more about our recent updates: https://blog.plasticlabs.ai/blog/Honcho-3Happy to answer questions about the architecture, benchmarks, or agent memory patterns in general
HN · launched Jan 27, 2026 · 8 upvotes (top 58%) · 1 view
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- Data infrastructure
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Could you build this?
No Honcho relies on custom fine-tuned reasoning models and specialized stateful memory infrastructure rather than basic vector retrieval.
What it would actually take: Building Honcho requires fine-tuning specialized language models for dialectic reasoning, theory-of-mind tracking, and contextual extraction. The backend architecture involves high-throughput streaming state engines and relational/graph storage to maintain persistent multi-agent user representations. Doing this requires deep NLP research expertise, model distillation pipelines, and high-performance agent architecture design.
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