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- # Message History
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- Message history is the most basic and important form of memory. It gives the LLM a view of recent messages in the context window, enabling your agent to reference earlier exchanges and respond coherently.
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- You can also retrieve message history to display past conversations in your UI.
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- > **Info:** Each message belongs to a thread (the conversation) and a resource (the user or entity it's associated with). See [Threads and resources](https://mastra.ai/docs/memory/storage) for more detail.
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- ## Getting started
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- Install the Mastra memory module along with a [storage adapter](https://mastra.ai/docs/memory/storage) for your database. The examples below use `@mastra/libsql`, which stores data locally in a `mastra.db` file.
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- **npm**:
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- ```bash
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- npm install @mastra/memory@latest @mastra/libsql@latest
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- ```
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- **pnpm**:
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- ```bash
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- **Yarn**:
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- ```bash
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- **Bun**:
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- ```bash
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- Message history requires a storage adapter to persist conversations. Configure storage on your Mastra instance if you haven't already:
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- ```typescript
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- import { LibSQLStore } from "@mastra/libsql";
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- Give your agent a `Memory`:
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- When you call the agent, messages are automatically saved to the database. You can specify a `threadId`, `resourceId`, and optional `metadata`:
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- **Generate**:
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- ```typescript
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- await agent.generate("Hello", {
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- metadata: { category: "billing" },
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- **Stream**:
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- ```typescript
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- > **Info:** Threads and messages are created automatically when you call `agent.generate()` or `agent.stream()`, but you can also create them manually with [`createThread()`](https://mastra.ai/reference/memory/createThread) and [`saveMessages()`](https://mastra.ai/reference/memory/memory-class).
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- There are two ways to use this history:
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- - **Automatic inclusion** - Mastra automatically fetches and includes recent messages in the context window. By default, it includes the last 10 messages, keeping agents grounded in the conversation. You can adjust this number with `lastMessages`, but in most cases you don't need to think about it.
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- - [**Manual querying**](#querying) - For more control, use the `recall()` function to query threads and messages directly. This lets you choose exactly which memories are included in the context window, or fetch messages to render conversation history in your UI.
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- ## Accessing Memory
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- To access memory functions for querying, cloning, or deleting threads and messages, call `getMemory()` on an agent:
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- const agent = mastra.getAgent("weatherAgent");
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- The `Memory` instance gives you access to functions for listing threads, recalling messages, cloning conversations, and more.
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- ## Querying
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- > **Warning:** The memory system does not enforce access control. Before running any query, verify in your application logic that the current user is authorized to access the `resourceId` being queried.
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- ### Threads
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- Use [`listThreads()`](https://mastra.ai/reference/memory/listThreads) to retrieve threads for a resource:
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- Once you have a thread, use [`recall()`](https://mastra.ai/reference/memory/recall) to retrieve its messages. It supports pagination, date filtering, and [semantic search](https://mastra.ai/docs/memory/semantic-recall).
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- Message queries return `MastraDBMessage[]` format. To display messages in a frontend, you may need to convert them to a format your UI library expects. For example, [`toAISdkV5Messages`](https://mastra.ai/reference/ai-sdk/to-ai-sdk-v5-messages) converts messages to AI SDK UI format.
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