MIRA – An open-source persistent AI entity with memory

[williamstein]

Title says "open source", but the Business Source License (BSL) is not an Open Source Initiative (OSI) approved open-source license.

[taylorsatula]

Fixed! BSL (to my understanding) is a copy of the license and its a 'hashicorp document' so it had their title on it.

However, someone earlier today put me onto the concept of AGPL licenses so I changed MIRA over to AGPL because it still aligns with my overall intent of protecting my significant effort from someone coming in and Flappy Bird-ing it while still making it freely available to anyone who wants to access, modify, anything it.

[api]

The correct term for things like BSL is “source available.”

[shevy-java]

I see this more and more used. It seems companies want to fake stuff now, aka claiming to be open source when they are not.

DHH also claims he is super open source when in reality he already soul-sent to the big tech bros:

https://world.hey.com/dhh/the-o-saasy-license-336c5c8f

We also had this recently with arduino. I don't understand why companies try to get that way. To me it is not an open source licence - it is a closed source business licence. Just with different names.

[kgeist]

I tried making something similar a while ago, and the main problem was that long-term memory makes it easy to move the AI into a bad state where it overfixates on something (context poisoning), or decides to refuse talking to me completely. So in the end, I added a command that wipes out all memory, and ended up using it all the time.

Maybe I was doing it wrong. The question is: how do you prevent the AI from falling into a corrupt state from which it cannot get out?

[taylorsatula]

I use a two-step generation process which both avoids memory explosion in the window and the one turn behind problem.

When a user sends a message I: generate a vector of the user message -> pull in semantically similar memories -> filter and rank them -> then send an API call with the memories from the last turn that were 'pinned' plus the top 10 memories just surfaced. the first API call's job is to intelligently pick the actual worthwhile memories and 'pin' them till the next turn -> do the main LLM call with an up-to-date and thinned list of memories.

Reading the prompt itself that the analysis model carries is probably easier than listening to my abstract description: https://github.com/taylorsatula/mira-OSS/blob/main/config/pr...

I can't say with confidence that this is ~why~ I don't run into the model getting super flustered and crashing out though I'm familiar with what you're talking about.

[JonChesterfield]

Deleted comment pointed out that LICENSE.pdf is a screenshot from hashicorp. That's pretty weird, raised an issue for it.

[taylorsatula]

Issue closed! Thanks! I modified the license type to be AGPL vs. BSL.

[personjerry]

Doesn't seem to work very well, i have to coerce it to create memories and even then it's losing track of them or failing to create memories altogether. I want a single thread I can talk about multiple different social interactions in my life but it fails to keep track even of a single storyline, and fails entirely to save anything from the second storyline.

[oidar]

If you are on a Claude Pro/Max plan, can you use it by signing into your account? Or is it API only for now?

[taylorsatula]

No, I wish. That would be a really cool functionality but to my knowledge it is not possible BUT I could be wrong and would be more than happy to implement that support if someone gives me the information needed to integrate.

[hohithere]

Just tested the demo, it is really great. Therefore the image attachment, on mobile version, does not upload or process a thing atm?

Domaindocs is a nice no DB solution and easy thing, but got some issues with it. I create the domaindoc, add manually something inside (list of friends, Name - description), and enable it. Later I ask what I put inside, or who is x, and I got the correct output, but when I try to ask to replace x word by another, he show me what it should be, says is done and completed, but does not edit the actual domaindoc file.

[taylorsatula]

Are you running it locally or the hosted version? I say that because Anthropic models are really good about not lying that they executed a tool call but using another provider/model sometimes they lie to your face.

Does it produce an error or just lies to you?

[lukasb]

I'm playing around with it, and it's very cool! One issue is that fingerprint expansion doesn't always work, e.g. I have a memory "Going to Albania in January for a month-long stay in Tirana" and asking "Do I need a visa for my trip?" didn't turn up anything, using expansion "visa requirements trip destination travel documents..."

What would you think about adding another column that is used for matching that is a superset of the actual memory, basically reusing the fingerprint expansion prompt?

[Avicebron]

Decay based memory scoring is a cool idea (if I'm understanding it correctly). Did you take it as an interpretation of Hebbian plasticity?

[taylorsatula]

I had not but I’m going to read more about this today! Thanks!

[skeledrew]

I would love to see how this shakes out using purely free/open models (for example via OpenRouter).

[chaosharmonic]

> This is my TempleOS.

This is easily one of my favorite descriptive details I've ever seen in a README.

[taylorsatula]

:D I’d also like to thank David Hahn for obsessively (and arguably compulsively) learning about a topic way out of his depth and then manifesting it till the cops took him away.

[maxwell-neumann]

This is really fascinating. I’d love to see a demo.

[taylorsatula]

There is a live hosted instance a miraos.org where you can make an account and chat with MIRA through a web frontend. For now during this phase of people discovering it I'm eating the token costs so its 100% free to access and chat with.

[idiotsecant]

I looked at your web hosted version. It seemed really easy to get it to hang up when it's search tools raise an exception.

[taylorsatula]

If it throws an actual error please let me know by lodging it as an issue in the GitHub repo and I'll modify the code. I'm hanging around the house tonight to fix bugs people uncover.

EDIT: Thanks for the feedback! I was able to pinpoint it to a change I made earlier today to allow simultanious OAI endpoints and the native Claude support. When on a model via a 3rd party provider certain parts of a toolcall were being stripped. Not any more! Pushed an update.

[fooqux]

I'm curious why some features are disabled if you're using local models. Sorry if this is a dumb question.

[reilly3000]

Probably for context conservation? I’m happy to get 80k with a decent model too on my 4090.

[z3ratul163071]

hope this is not python.. hope this is not python.. ..opens repo ..python ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

[taylorsatula]

I really like how readable Python is and latency isn’t an issue because the VAST majority of time is API latency.

[rubenvanwyk]

Also wishing more of these tools use C# on the backend.