M3Mgine

Open-source memory + enforcement engine for AI agents. — by 13auth

Most memory layers store and recall. They don't stop your agent from repeating a mistake. M3Mgine adds the missing piece: when you correct an agent, that correction becomes a durable rule that is enforced on every future output — before it reaches the user. Plus a processed (not dumped) memory, a temporal knowledge graph, and provenance-tagged answers.

correction ──▶ compiled rule ──▶ stored ──▶ enforced on the NEXT output (before it ships)

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Why

An agent says something it shouldn't. You correct it.

• Most setups today: the correction is saved as a "memory" and you hope retrieval surfaces it next time. It often doesn't.
• With M3Mgine: the correction is compiled into a rule and enforced at runtime. The bad output is blocked before the user sees it — deterministically for hard rules, semantically (LLM-judge) for nuanced ones. Every decision leaves an audit trail.

This "correction → rule → pre-output enforcement" loop is what separates a memory store from a control layer.

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What you get

• Processed memory — extracts atomic facts from raw text, deduplicates, tracks bi-temporal validity, and retrieves with a hybrid (dense + lexical / RRF) ranker. No dumping the whole transcript and hoping.
• Enforcement — correction → rule → enforce. Hard rules (regex, deterministic, zero-LLM, every request) + soft rules (semantic LLM-judge for tone/intent). Output is checked before it ships; violations are fail-closed (blocked, never silently passed).
• Grounded answers + provenance — combine live context with the tenant's situation; every claim is tagged fact / prior / forecast with a source, and the full decision is exported as an audit record.
• Temporal knowledge graph — entities + relations, not flat facts; contradictory information automatically invalidates the old edge while preserving history (point-in-time queries supported).
• Real erasure — crypto-shred + semantic tombstone (GDPR/KVKK Art. 17); deleted content can't be resurrected via re-import or paraphrase.
• Multi-tenant, two backends, one API — SQLite for dev, PostgreSQL + pgvector for production. Same API, same tests.

Bring your own model: any OpenAI-compatible endpoint (hosted or local).

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Quickstart (60 seconds)

No external services required — v0 runs on SQLite with an optional, env-driven LLM line.

git clone https://github.com/13auth/M3Mgine.git
cd M3Mgine/engine
pip install -r requirements.txt        # core is stdlib; only dep is PyYAML

python cli.py demo                      # one command: sets up a demo tenant + rules + memory

The core loop — block a bad output before it ships

# A seeded hard rule fires deterministically — zero LLM:
python cli.py check --tenant demo --project Acme --hard-only "Acme: thousands of channels included"
#   -> allow=False  (hard violation: forbidden phrase)  exit 1

# Teach a NEW rule from a single plain-language correction (needs an LLM line, see Configuration):
python cli.py correct --tenant demo "Never promise guaranteed returns; always state risk."

# A new, *unseen* output is now judged against that learned rule — before it ships:
python cli.py check --tenant demo "This fund will definitely double your money."
#   -> allow=False  (semantic: implies a guaranteed return)
python cli.py check --tenant demo "This fund did well historically, but all investing carries risk."
#   -> allow=True

See which rules are actually firing (and which are stale or never triggered):

python cli.py compliance --tenant demo      # per-rule pass-rate + stale/never-fired detection

Memory

python cli.py remember --tenant demo "The user prefers Python"
python cli.py recall   --tenant demo "what language do they like"

Temporal knowledge graph

python cli.py kg-add    --tenant demo "Ali works at Acme as a designer"
python cli.py kg-add    --tenant demo "Ali now works at ExampleCo"     # old edge auto-invalidated
python cli.py kg-search --tenant demo "where does Ali work"            # -> current: ExampleCo
python cli.py kg-search --tenant demo --as-of 1718500000 "where does Ali work"   # point-in-time

Portability

python cli.py context --tenant demo --render "what does the user prefer"  # token-budgeted context pack
python cli.py export  --tenant demo --out demo.bundle.json                # move a tenant (no secrets, erasure-safe)
python cli.py handoff --tenant demo --session s1 --summary "where I left off"
python cli.py resume  --tenant demo --session s1

Install as a package: pip install . → cce CLI. HTTP API + live dashboard: python cli.py serve → http://127.0.0.1:8642/dashboard.

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How it works

        ┌─────────────┐   correction   ┌──────────────┐   compile   ┌──────────┐
 user ─▶│  your agent │ ─────────────▶ │  M3Mgine     │ ──────────▶ │  rule    │
        └─────────────┘                │  (compiler)  │             │  store   │
              │ draft output           └──────────────┘             └────┬─────┘
              ▼                                                          │
        ┌──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘
        ▼
  ┌───────────────┐   pass ✓   ┌──────────────┐
  │  ENFORCE gate │ ─────────▶ │  user sees it │
  │  hard + soft  │            └──────────────┘
  └──────┬────────┘   block ✗ (with reason → audit log) ──▶ regenerate / drop

1. Detect — capture the correction (secrets scrubbed first).
2. Compile — classify it and distil a generalizable rule (not a one-off summary).
3. Store — multi-tenant, deduplicated, bi-temporal.
4. Enforce — every candidate output passes the gate: hard regex (always, zero-LLM) + soft LLM-judge (nuance). Fail-closed.
5. Measure — per-rule compliance, with a held-out split.

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Benchmarks

Reproducible, held-out quality measurements. The first three target the enforcement loop — what most memory tools don't have, and therefore don't measure. Full report: benchmarks/REPORT.md · raw numbers: results.json.

What	Metric	Score
Enforcement gate (soft judge)	accuracy / false-positive rate	100% / 0%
Correction → rule generalization	recall / specificity (held-out)	100% / 100%
Memory extraction	recall / noise leak	100% / 0
Retrieval — hybrid (vs sparse R@1 0.71)	R@1 / MRR / NDCG@10	0.91 / 0.96 / 0.97

_{google/gemini-2.5-flash-lite, 3-run average. Datasets are small and deliberately adversarial (early-stage); numbers move run-to-run on a judge model — treat as directional. Reproduce: cd engine && python bench.py.}

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Usage from code

Python SDK (engine/client.py):

from client import CCEClient

cce = CCEClient("http://127.0.0.1:8642", "sk_...")

if not cce.allowed(model_output, project="demo"):   # fail-closed gate
    model_output = regenerate()

cce.correct("Never promise guaranteed returns; always state risk.", project="demo")
cce.remember("The user prefers Python")
print(cce.recall("what language do they like"))

MCP — any MCP-speaking agent (Claude Code, Cursor, your own) gets the tools (enforce_check, remember, recall, add_correction, kg_*, context_pack) with one config line. HTTP API — see engine/API.md.

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Configuration

Copy the template and fill it in — .env is never committed.

cp .env.example .env

Variable	What it does
CCE_STORE_BACKEND	sqlite (default) or postgres
CCE_DATABASE_URL	Postgres DSN (when backend is postgres)
CCE_LLM_BASE_URL / CCE_LLM_MODEL / CCE_LLM_API_KEY	OpenAI-compatible LLM line (for soft enforce + extraction). If empty, soft rules are skipped fail-closed; hard rules still run. A local endpoint (e.g. Ollama) needs no key.
CCE_EMBED_MODEL / CCE_EMBED_BASE_URL / CCE_EMBED_API_KEY	Embedding line (optional; falls back to lexical retrieval if unset). Can point to a different provider than the LLM line.
CCE_WEBHOOK_SECRET	HMAC secret for billing webhooks
ADMIN_EMAILS	comma-separated admin emails

Full list: .env.example.

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Architecture

• Engine — ~25 Python modules, core is stdlib (single dependency: PyYAML).
• Storage — pluggable: SQLite (dev) and PostgreSQL + pgvector (prod, self-provisioning). A conformance gate runs the same suite on both backends to guarantee behavioral parity.
• Retrieval — two-way hybrid: dense (pgvector) + blind keyed-hash lexical index, fused with RRF (recency + salience aware). HNSW index activates via CCE_EMBED_DIM at scale.
• Surfaces — CLI (cli.py), HTTP API (api.py), Python SDK (client.py), MCP server (mcp_server.py). All gate surfaces converge on one fail-closed decision.

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Verify

cd engine
python tests/run_ci.py          # all offline suites + an end-to-end run (spins up its own server)
python tests/run_conformance.py # same suites on SQLite AND PostgreSQL (behavioral parity)

Exit code 0 = green. test_live_llm runs only if a real LLM line is reachable, otherwise SKIP.

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Security posture

• All gate surfaces (API / SDK / CLI / MCP) converge on one fail-closed decision.
• Secrets are scrubbed before storage and before any LLM call (engine/redact.py).
• Webhooks: HMAC-signed + timestamp freshness + event dedup; tenant resolved from the subscription mapping, never from the request body (IDOR-proof).
• Erasure: crypto-shred + content + semantic tombstone; stays fail-closed even if the embedding line is down (paraphrases can't leak).
• Tenant isolation: app-layer WHERE tenant_id (default) + optional DB-layer RLS (CCE_RLS_DSN) — a forgotten WHERE becomes a fail-closed no-op, not a leak.

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Status

v0, early access. The engine runs and is covered by an offline + e2e + dual-backend conformance test suite. It's not yet hardened for high-scale production traffic — see engine/DEPLOYMENT.md for the self-host guide and known limits.

The hosted version (managed, multi-tenant, audit export) is in early access at 13auth.com — free for now.

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Contributing

PRs welcome — see CONTRIBUTING.md. Run python engine/tests/run_ci.py before opening one (it must stay green), and don't commit secrets. Contributions are accepted under Apache-2.0 + a lightweight CLA.

License

Apache-2.0.