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contexta

PersistentmemoryforAIagents.

Contexta is the memory layer that gives AI agents continuity across conversations, models, and deployments.

It turns every interaction into structured, persistent knowledge: automatically redacting secrets, resolving contradictory statements when users change their mind, and delivering sub-50ms hybrid recall.

Local-first·Model-agnostic·Built for memory that never has to start over
contexta-system-flow · hybrid-data-plane
rawreflectsearchinjectINCOMINGAgent ObservationRaw user turns & tool logsSANITIZEDZero-Trust RedactorRegex entropy & Luhn checkTRUTHBi-Temporal Enginevalid_to = now() invalidationFUSIONTri-Modal Indexerpgvector + GIN + GraphRRF SCORENeural RerankerMicro-batched local Qwen3< 42ms P99Prompt ContextBudgeted memory injection
Tri-Modal Indexer:Parallel HNSW cosine scan, BM25 exact keyword match, and 2-hop entity graph.
Latency: 14ms·Deterministic Flow
Why Contexta

Built for autonomous agents that can't afford amnesia.

Context windows were never engineered to act as durable memory stores. Damping raw conversation history into prompts triggers attention degradation, explodes API costs, and fails on evolving facts. Contexta extracts discrete truths and maintains them over time.

01Retrieval

Hybrid Multi-Layer Recall

Vector search captures intent, keyword search finds exact codes and ports, and graph hops connect ideas across past sessions in under 50ms.

Sub-50ms P99
02Truth Maintenance

Self-Healing Memory

When a user updates a preference, older facts are automatically archived and linked to the new truth. Your agent never contradicts itself.

Zero Stale Facts
03Security

Zero-Trust Credential Redaction

API keys, bearer tokens, passwords, and sensitive card numbers are scrubbed at the gate before indexing. Secrets never enter durable memory.

100% Ingestion Sanitized
04Efficiency

82.2% Token Reduction

Stops flooding LLMs with 25k raw transcript tokens. Contexta packs only the top 3–5 high-priority facts into your prompt, slashing API bills.

82.2% Token Saved
05Sovereignty

100% Local & Offline

Runs sovereignly on your hardware using embedded Qwen3 embeddings and rerankers. Zero cloud dependencies, zero subscription markups, 100% private.

Offline-First
06Isolation

Zero-Leak Multi-Tenancy

Strict tenant boundaries and isolated namespaces prevent data crossover between users, projects, and parallel agent threads. Safe for enterprise swarms.

Strict Tenants
Mathematical & Architecture Foundations

The open source AI memory engine.

Engineered for high-accuracy agent reasoning. Benchmarked across multi-turn dialogue, temporal truth revision, and multi-hop graph expansion.

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Fig 1. Isometric Knowledge Lattice

Multi-hop associative entity graph traversal

Vector HNSWTSVECTOR GINEntity GraphRRF FUSED < 42ms
Fig 2. Tri-Modal 3-Plane Prism

Reciprocal Rank Fusion across 3 layers

TRACK_A (t0)TRACK_B (t_now)SUPERSEDEDvalid_to = now()ACTIVEvalid_to = NULL0.00% CONTRADICTION RATE
Fig 3. Bi-Temporal State Machine

Continuous state supersession without deletion

Zero-Trust Privacy Kernel

Built for privacy first.

Explore Security Guarantees

Contexta does not store or train on your private code, conversation contexts, or sensitive credentials. All secrets and PII are redacted at the boundary, ensuring air-gapped readiness and enterprise compliance.

100% Offline
Zero external network egress
Auto-Redaction
Deterministic regex masking
Kernel Multi-Tenancy
0 cross-tenant data bleed
Architecture Lifecycle

How Contexta works.

Raw context windows were never designed to hold durable state. Shoveling unbounded chat history into LLM prompts leads to hallucination, context drift, and fourfold API costs. Contexta provides a dedicated external memory plane.

Phase 01Ingestion & Redaction

Sanitize & Distill

Continuous observation at the agent loop with automated secret masking and discrete fact distillation.

  • Credential Masking: Automatically detects and redacts API tokens, bearer keys, passwords, and card numbers before persistence.
  • Atomic Fact Extraction: Distills conversational turns into canonical statements of fact with confidence and importance scoring.
  • Zero Context Bloat: Eliminates conversational filler, keeping memory stores concise, clean, and signal-rich.
Phase 02Truth Maintenance

Self-Healing Dream Cycles

Background reflection workers that resolve contradictions and version evolving knowledge when users change their minds.

  • Bi-Temporal Lineage: Automatically marks outdated facts as superseded (valid_to = now()) when new instructions arrive.
  • Deduplication & Clustering: Merges overlapping facts and binds entities into an interconnected knowledge graph.
  • Read-Age Decay: Continuously re-weights memory salience based on access frequency and recency so stale data fades naturally.
Phase 03Hybrid Recall

Sub-50ms Tri-Modal Recall

Unified Reciprocal Rank Fusion delivering high-precision recall in sub-50ms without slow cloud roundtrips.

  • Multi-Layer Synthesis: Fuses lexical precision for exact identifiers, semantic vectors for intent, and graph hops for multi-session relations.
  • Local Neural Reranking: Cross-scores candidates with a local neural reranker (Qwen3-Reranker-0.6B) to filter out noise.
  • Injected Salience: Returns only the top 3–5 high-precision facts, reducing context token overhead by over 80%.
Current Status: Sovereign Open Source Live
Open Source Core Edition (Active):

Right now, the sovereign Open Source edition is live. All core memory algorithms, retrieval optimizations, and operator console dashboard features are actively developed, maintained, and published with regular releases under the Apache 2.0 license.

Coming Soon: Managed Edge Functions & 1-Click MCP:

For developers and teams who prefer zero DevOps overhead and don't want the hassle of self-hosting, managed Edge Functions will be launching soon. This will deliver 1-click plug-and-play integration with the Model Context Protocol (MCP) and agent frameworks.

System Architecture & Engineering Standards

Memory that stays true, private, and explainable.

Context windows were never designed to hold durable state. Contexta separates raw conversational exhaust from verified truth, maintaining an external memory plane across months of interaction.

Bi-Temporal Truth Maintenance
Sub-50ms Hybrid Recall
Zero Cloud Keys
01·Temporal Maintenance

Self-Healing Bi-Temporal Memory

Contradiction Rate
0.00%

When user preferences evolve, older facts are retired, not duplicated.

Live Simulation Sandbox
Interactive Verification
Toggle between user preference states to see bi-temporal invalidation in action:
Record: mem_88aACTIVE TRUTH
"User prefers PostgreSQL 16 on port 5432"
valid_from: 2026-03-10T10:00:00Z
valid_to: NULL (Active)
Pending Next Turn
Waiting for user state change...
valid_from:
valid_to:
Active Agent Context (Query WHERE valid_to IS NULL):
→ Retrieved: [mem_88a] "User prefers PostgreSQL 16 on port 5432"
The Naive Store Failure

Naive vector databases append new vectors indefinitely. When a user switches from 'PostgreSQL' to 'Cloudflare D1', both facts are retrieved, triggering model hallucinations.

The Contexta Guarantee

Contexta detects fact collisions, marks valid_to = now() on obsolete records, and links lineage. Active agent queries filter WHERE valid_to IS NULL.

kernel · truth-maintenance.tsverified invariant
// Ingestion detects fact collision & applies bi-temporal supersession:
UPDATE memory_record
SET valid_to = NOW(), superseded_by_id = 'mem_new_88f'
WHERE user_id = 'usr_42' AND valid_to IS NULL;

// Active agent queries always retrieve pure current truth:
SELECT * FROM memory_record
WHERE user_id = 'usr_42' AND valid_to IS NULL;
Foundational Guarantees · 05–08 Subsystems

Engineered for enterprise sovereignty and scale.

05 · Privacy & Sovereignty
Zero Cloud Keys

100% Offline Local Architecture

Runs sovereignly on your hardware using embedded Qwen3 models (Qwen3-Embedding-0.6B and Qwen3-Reranker-0.6B on port 8001). Zero cloud API key requirements.

06 · Enterprise Isolation
0 Leaks Across Tenants

Zero-Trust Multi-Tenancy

Zero missing WHERE clauses. Queries are cryptographically scoped by organization and user tenancy at the TenantScopedRepository base kernel.

07 · Protocol Standard
< 1 Min IDE Setup

Universal Model Context Protocol

Plug-and-play memory for Claude Desktop, Cursor, and Antigravity IDE over standard Stdio and SSE transport with one line of JSON config.

08 · Audit & Provenance
100% Audit Lineage

100% Explainable Provenance

Every retrieved memory hit links back to origin session ID, turn timestamp, confidence score, utility rating, and supersession history for enterprise compliance.

The Fundamental Problem

Context windows were never engineered to be memory.

Shoveling raw conversation history into every prompt is slow, expensive, and error-prone. Contexta separates raw conversational exhaust from durable, verified knowledge.

Without ContextaNaive Context Dumps
[Issue 01]Vulnerability

Exploding Token Costs & Slow Responses

Dumping 30 pages of raw chat history into every prompt drains your API budget and makes the LLM sluggish. As chats grow, earlier context gets lost or diluted.

[Issue 02]Vulnerability

Memory Amnesia & Contradictory Answers

When users change their mind (like switching frameworks, locations, or database ports), basic vector databases remember both versions. The agent gets confused and hallucinates.

[Issue 03]Vulnerability

Accidental Secret Leaks (PII & API Keys)

Developers and agents often paste code snippets containing passwords, API tokens, and credentials. Sending raw history to cloud memory stores risks exposing private data.

With ContextaMaintained Knowledge Plane
[Guarantee 01]Verified

82.2% Token Reduction & Lightning Speed

Contexta extracts discrete facts and injects only the 3 to 5 precise nuggets needed for the current conversation turn. Prompts stay tiny, fast, and cost-efficient.

[Guarantee 02]Verified

Bi-Temporal Truth & Self-Healing Memory

When a new fact updates an old one, Contexta automatically archives the obsolete record and links the new truth. Your agent stays consistent across months of dialogue.

[Guarantee 03]Verified

Zero-Trust Ingestion Redaction

API keys, JWTs, passwords, and credit card numbers are detected and masked at the door before indexing. Sensitive credentials never touch durable memory.

Ecosystem & Protocols

Works with the stack you already use.

OpenAIAnthropicDeepSeekClaude DesktopCursorAntigravityLangChainLlamaIndexVercel AI SDKAny custom agent loop
Security & Privacy

Private by default, proven in depth.

Engineered for enterprise security and air-gapped compliance. Your private code, conversation contexts, and credentials never leave your cryptographic perimeter.

01Kernel Boundaries

Three-Layer Tenant Isolation

Repository scope, Postgres row-level security, and CI cross-tenant tests. One customer or agent swarm can never read another tenant's memory graph.

Guaranteed Kernel Boundary
02Sanitization

Deterministic Ingestion Redaction

Passwords, API keys, JWTs, OTPs, and Luhn-validated credit cards are stripped synchronously at the front door before anything touches the memory store.

Guaranteed Kernel Boundary
03Air-Gapped

100% Offline Sovereignty

Runs completely on your local machine using embedded Qwen3 models. Zero external API calls, zero telemetry leakage, 100% air-gapped readiness.

Guaranteed Kernel Boundary
04Zero Reselling

BYOK Privacy (Optional Online)

If you opt into online mode, your own OpenAI, Anthropic, or DeepSeek API key drives extraction. Your memory tokens never pass through third-party reselling pipelines.

Guaranteed Kernel Boundary
05Compliance

Full Audit Logs & Provenance

Every observation, redaction event, and retrieval touch includes cryptographic tenant metadata and timestamped execution records for SOC 2 audits.

Guaranteed Kernel Boundary
06Infrastructure

VPC Peering & Self-Hosting

Deploy sovereignly via Docker Compose on your own private VPC, Kubernetes cluster, or bare-metal server with zero external cloud lock-in.

Guaranteed Kernel Boundary
FAQ

Frequently asked questions.

Everything you need to know about Contexta's open source architecture, offline defaults, truth maintenance, and roadmap.

Contexta is an external, persistent memory engine for AI agents and coding assistants. LLM context windows are temporary and forget everything once a session ends. Shoveling entire chat histories into prompts triggers hallucinations, slows down the model, and skyrockets API bills. Contexta extracts discrete, verified truths from each conversation and retrieves only the 3 to 5 most relevant facts when needed in under 50ms.
Open Source AI Memory Engine

Give your agents a memory they can trust.

Sub-50ms hybrid retrieval. Real-time credential redaction. Self-healing truth maintenance. Free and open source under Apache 2.0.