@nano-step/nano-brain 2026.6.2603 → 2026.6.2605

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@@ -35,7 +35,7 @@ nano-brain is the missing memory layer for AI coding agents. It's:
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  - **Self-hosted** — Your data stays on your server. No cloud dependency.
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  - **Works everywhere** — OpenCode, Claude Code, Cursor, any MCP client.
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- - **Actually useful** — Not a toy demo. Production-ready with 14 MCP tools, hybrid search, and code intelligence.
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+ - **Actually useful** — Not a toy demo. Production-ready with 16 MCP tools, hybrid search, code intelligence, and agent-oriented benchmarks.
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  - **Built for developers** — Go binary, PostgreSQL, zero magic. You can read the code.
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  - **Beating competitors** — P@5 of 80% vs LlamaIndex's 55% and Qdrant's 27% on real-world queries.
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  It automatically:
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  - **Ingests** AI sessions, notes, and codebase files
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  - **Indexes** everything with hybrid search (BM25 + pgvector)
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- - **Serves** memories via 14 MCP tools and REST API
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+ - **Serves** memories via 16 MCP tools and REST API
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  Built in Go with PostgreSQL. Single static binary. Zero CGO dependencies.
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  Auto-ingest from OpenCode and Claude Code sessions. Map-reduce LLM summarization. Incremental harvest with dedup.
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- ### 14 MCP Tools
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+ ### 16 MCP Tools
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  | Tool | Description |
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- | `memory_query` | Hybrid search (BM25 + vector + RRF) |
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- | `memory_search` | BM25 keyword search |
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- | `memory_vsearch` | Vector similarity search |
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- | `memory_get` | Get document by path |
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+ | `memory_query` | Hybrid search default first tool for broad questions |
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+ | `memory_search` | BM25 keyword search for exact text/errors |
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+ | `memory_vsearch` | Vector similarity for fuzzy concepts |
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+ | `memory_get` | Get document by path or ID |
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  | `memory_write` | Write/update document |
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- | `memory_graph` | Knowledge graph view |
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- | `memory_trace` | Call chain trace |
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- | `memory_impact` | Cross-file impact analysis |
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- | `memory_symbols` | Symbol search |
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- | `memory_flow` | Execution flow visualization |
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+ | `memory_graph` | One-hop callers/callees/imports |
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+ | `memory_trace` | Downstream call chain trace |
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+ | `memory_impact` | Pre-change blast radius analysis |
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+ | `memory_symbols` | Symbol search (functions, types, interfaces) |
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+ | `memory_flow` | HTTP route execution flow |
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+ | `memory_flowchart` | Function-level control-flow graph |
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+ | `memory_workspaces_resolve` | Resolve path to workspace hash |
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  | `memory_tags` | List tags with counts |
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- | `memory_status` | Server status |
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+ | `memory_status` | Server and queue health |
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  | `memory_update` | Trigger re-embedding |
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- | `memory_wake_up` | Workspace briefing |
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+ | `memory_wake_up` | Session-start workspace briefing |
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  ## Performance
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- ### Benchmark Results
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+ ### Search Quality vs Competitors
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- | Metric | nano-brain | LlamaIndex | Qdrant/Mem0 |
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- | P@5 | **80%** | 55% | 27% |
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- | MRR | **100%** | — | — |
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- | Latency | 42ms | — | — |
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+ | Metric | nano-brain | LlamaIndex | Qdrant/Mem0 | Cognee | GraphRAG | Zep |
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+ | P@5 | **80%** | 55% | 27% | — | — | — |
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+ | MRR | **95%** | — | — | — | — | — |
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+ | Latency | **42ms** | — | — | — | — | — |
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+ | Code Intelligence | ✅ | ❌ | ❌ | ❌ | ❌ | ❌ |
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+ | Symbol Graph | ✅ | ❌ | ❌ | ❌ | ❌ | ❌ |
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+ | Impact Analysis | ✅ | ❌ | ❌ | ❌ | ❌ | ❌ |
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+ | Flow Diagrams | ✅ | ❌ | ❌ | ❌ | ❌ | ❌ |
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- Tested on 60 domain-specific queries across 3 workspaces (gaming, Go codebase, Rails app).
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+ Tested on 60 domain-specific queries across 3 workspaces. nano-brain is the **only** solution with code intelligence — competitors focus on conversation memory and document retrieval.
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- ### Search Quality
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+ ### Competitive Landscape
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- - **BM25 OR fallback** — Retries with OR semantics when AND returns 0 results
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- - **Incoming edges symbol fallback** — Falls back to symbol name when target lookup fails
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- - **Workspace-specific queries** — Each project gets queries tailored to its domain
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+ **What competitors offer:**
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+ - **Mem0 / Zep** — Conversation memory, temporal ranking, chat history recall
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+ - **Cognee / GraphRAG** — Document-level knowledge graphs, multi-hop reasoning
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+ - **LlamaIndex** — Flexible RAG pipelines, document retrieval
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+ **What nano-brain adds:**
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+ - **Code intelligence** — Symbol graphs, call chains, impact analysis, flow diagrams
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+ - **Agent-oriented benchmarks** — Measures how well agents find context for domain tasks
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+ - **Hybrid search** — BM25 + pgvector + RRF fusion + recency decay
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+ Competitors optimize for conversation recall. nano-brain optimizes for **agent comprehension** — helping agents understand codebases, not just retrieve documents.
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+ ### Agent-Oriented Capability Benchmarks
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+ nano-brain is built for agents. These benchmarks measure how well agents can **find relevant context for real-world domain tasks** using nano-brain's MCP tools — not just search quality in isolation.
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+ Each benchmark runs a deterministic agent workflow:
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+ 1. **query_question** — natural-language domain question
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+ 2. **query_input** — optimized search query
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+ 3. **symbols_identifiers** — symbol lookup for known identifiers
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+ This mimics how a real agent explores a codebase: broad understanding first, then targeted retrieval.
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+ #### Scores
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+ | Workspace | Domain | Overall | Multi-tool | Search-QA | Symbol-Lookup |
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+ | **nano-brain** | Go daemon | **1.000** | 1.000 | 1.000 | 1.000 |
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+ | **TypeScript** | CS2 item trading | **0.885** | 1.000 | 0.817 | 1.000 |
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+ | **Rails** | CS2 item trading | **0.795** | 1.000 | 0.726 | 0.667 |
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+ **What this means:**
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+ - **Multi-tool 1.000** — When agents combine search + symbols, they find every expected context item
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+ - **Overall 0.885** — TypeScript workspace: agent finds 88.5% of expected domain artifacts
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+ - **Fixed vs Agent** — Agent workflow improves recall by 15-40% over single-tool queries
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+ - **Unique capability** — No competitor offers agent-oriented benchmarks or code intelligence
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+ #### How to Run
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+ ```bash
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+ # TypeScript workspace (CS2 item trading domain)
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+ NANO_BRAIN_URL=http://localhost:3100 \
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+ NANO_BRAIN_WORKSPACE=<your-workspace-hash> \
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+ go test -v -tags=capbench -run TestCapabilityBenchmark \
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+ # Rails workspace (CS2 item trading domain)
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+ NANO_BRAIN_URL=http://localhost:3100 \
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+ NANO_BRAIN_WORKSPACE=<your-workspace-hash> \
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+ go test -v -tags=capbench -run TestCapabilityBenchmark \
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+ # nano-brain itself (Go daemon)
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+ NANO_BRAIN_URL=http://localhost:3100 \
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+ NANO_BRAIN_WORKSPACE=nano-brain \
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+ go test -v -tags=capbench -run TestCapabilityBenchmark \
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+ ```
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+ #### Task Categories
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+ | Category | What It Tests | Tools Used |
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+ | **search-qa** | Domain concept retrieval via search | `query_question`, `query_input` |
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+ | **symbol-lookup** | Known identifier resolution | `query_input`, `symbols_identifiers` |
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+ | **multi-tool** | Cross-tool workflow (search → symbols) | All three tools in sequence |
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+ See individual benchmark READMEs for full task breakdowns:
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+ - [`benchmarks/typescript/capability/README.md`](benchmarks/typescript/capability/README.md)
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+ - [`benchmarks/rails/capability/README.md`](benchmarks/rails/capability/README.md)
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+ - [`benchmarks/capability/README.md`](benchmarks/capability/README.md)
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  "name": "@nano-step/nano-brain",
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- "version": "2026.6.2603",
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  "description": "Persistent memory and code intelligence for AI coding agents",
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  "bin": {
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  "nano-brain": "npm/run.js"