hindsight-docs

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Complete Hindsight documentation for AI agents. Use this to learn about Hindsight architecture, APIs, configuration, and best practices.

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Hindsight Documentation Skill

Complete technical documentation for Hindsight - a biomimetic memory system for AI agents.

When to Use This Skill

Use this skill when you need to:

Understand Hindsight architecture and core concepts
Learn about retain/recall/reflect operations
Configure memory banks and dispositions
Set up the Hindsight API server (Docker, Kubernetes, pip)
Integrate with Python/Node.js/Rust SDKs
Understand retrieval strategies (semantic, BM25, graph, temporal)
Debug issues or optimize performance
Review API endpoints and parameters
Find cookbook examples and recipes

Documentation Structure

All documentation is in references/ organized by category:

references/
├── best-practices.md # START HERE — missions, tags, formats, anti-patterns
├── faq.md            # Common questions and decisions
├── changelog/        # Release history and version changes (index.md + integrations/)
├── openapi.json      # Full OpenAPI spec — endpoint schemas, request/response models
├── developer/
│   ├── api/          # Core operations: retain, recall, reflect, memory banks
│   └── *.md          # Architecture, configuration, deployment, performance
├── sdks/
│   ├── *.md          # Python, Node.js, CLI, embedded
│   └── integrations/ # Framework and tool integrations
└── cookbook/
    ├── recipes/      # Usage patterns and examples
    └── applications/ # Full application demos

How to Find Documentation

1. Find Files by Pattern (use Glob tool)

# Core API operations
references/developer/api/*.md

# SDK documentation
references/sdks/*.md
references/sdks/integrations/*.md

# Cookbook examples
references/cookbook/recipes/*.md
references/cookbook/applications/*.md

# Find specific topics
references/**/configuration.md
references/**/*python*.md
references/**/*deployment*.md

2. Search Content (use Grep tool)

# Search for concepts
pattern: "disposition"        # Memory bank configuration
pattern: "graph retrieval"    # Graph-based search
pattern: "helm install"       # Kubernetes deployment
pattern: "document_id"        # Document management
pattern: "HINDSIGHT_API_"     # Environment variables

# Search in specific areas
path: references/developer/api/
pattern: "POST /v1"           # Find API endpoints

path: references/cookbook/
pattern: "def |async def "    # Find Python examples

3. Read Full Documentation (use Read tool)

references/developer/api/retain.md
references/sdks/python.md
references/cookbook/recipes/per-user-memory.md

Start Here: Best Practices

Before reading API docs, read the best practices guide. It covers practical rules for missions, tags, content format, observation scopes, and anti-patterns — the fastest way to integrate correctly.

references/best-practices.md

Key Concepts

Memory Banks: Isolated memory stores (one per user/agent)
Retain: Store memories (auto-extracts facts/entities/relationships)
Recall: Retrieve memories (4 parallel strategies: semantic, BM25, graph, temporal)
Reflect: Disposition-aware reasoning using memories
document_id: Groups messages in a conversation (upsert on same ID)
Dispositions: Skepticism, literalism, empathy traits (1-5) affecting reflect
Mental Models: Consolidated knowledge synthesized from facts

Notes

Code examples are inlined from working examples
Configuration uses HINDSIGHT_API_* environment variables
Database migrations run automatically on startup
Multi-bank queries require client-side orchestration
Use document_id for conversation evolution (same ID = upsert)

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