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+Name: fernme
+Version: 0.3.0
+Summary: FERNme — a user-owned, near-zero-LLM memory layer for AI agents (websites today; desktop and mobile on the roadmap).
+Author: Mirkomil Sharipov
+Maintainer: Acquilab Inc.
+License: Apache-2.0
+Project-URL: Homepage, https://fernme.dev
+Project-URL: Repository, https://github.com/mirkofr/FERNme
+Project-URL: Documentation, https://fernme.dev
+Keywords: llm,agent,memory,hebbian,spreading-activation,personalization
+Classifier: Development Status :: 4 - Beta
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+Dynamic: license-file
+
+<div align="center">
+
+# 🌿 FERNme
+
+### Fuzzy-Edged Recall Network
+
+**A user-owned, near-zero-LLM memory layer for AI agents. It learns each person from their behavior — including how they talk and feel — stays token-flat forever, and lets people see, edit, and own what's remembered. The engine is substrate-agnostic: it remembers wherever an agent acts — websites today (shopping, support, booking, healthcare, tutoring, gov), desktop and mobile next.**
+
+[![License: Apache 2.0](https://img.shields.io/badge/License-Apache_2.0-2471a3.svg)](LICENSE)
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+[![Storage](https://img.shields.io/badge/storage-SQLite%20%7C%20Postgres-854f0b.svg)](#-architecture)
+[![Status](https://img.shields.io/badge/status-v0.2%20research%20preview-7f77dd.svg)](#-honest-status)
+
+*Cheap to write · flat to read · interpretable by design · owned by the user*
+
+[**fernme.dev**](https://fernme.dev)
+
+</div>
+
+---
+
+## ✨ The one-paragraph pitch
+
+Most agent memory is **written by an LLM on every turn** (expensive, hallucination-prone), **evaluated on question-answering** (not actions), and **assumes a single user**. FERNme is built for the opposite world — agents that *act* for *many* people, in any domain (a sale, a booking, a resolved ticket, a completed lesson, a kept appointment — "outcome" is whatever the goal is). It starts where agents already act today — websites — and the same user-owned memory is designed to extend to desktop and mobile. Each user is a sparse, fuzzily-weighted node in a per-site graph; edges update by a **Hebbian co-occurrence rule with zero LLM calls**, retrieval is **spreading activation**, and the prompt-facing "card" stores only **deviations from a population prior**. The result: per-turn cost stays flat as a profile grows for years, the user can read and correct their own memory, and the same engine assembles — only with the user's consent — into a cross-site **supernode** they fully control.
+
+---
+
+## 🎯 Why FERNme (the strong points)
+
+| | |
+|---|---|
+| 🪶 **Zero-LLM writes** | Memory updates are arithmetic on a graph — **0 LLM calls per interaction** vs. ~2 for extraction-based memory. No write-time cost, no write-time hallucination. |
+| 📉 **Flat token cost forever** | The prompt card holds **~25 tokens** whether it's a visitor's first day or fifth year. A full-history baseline is **77× larger** by 120 interactions. |
+| 🧠 **Strong in every regime** | Ties a frequency counter on static recall, **beats it 0.72 → 0.13 on drift**, and **wins on context** (0.62 → 0.51). Decay + spreading activation unify stability and adaptivity. |
+| 🪟 **Glass-box & user-owned** | Every preference is visible and editable. People fix what's wrong, delete everything, or export it. Privacy becomes a feature, not a liability. |
+| 🏬 **Built for outcomes** | Evaluated by **conversion**, not QA. A simulated storefront shows **+16% conversion lift** vs. non-personalized recommendations. |
+| 🧩 **User-owned supernode** | Sign in across sites → your memories assemble like Lego into one profile **you control**, default-deny, sensitive data walled off. Not surveillance — the mirror image of it. |
+| 🎚 **Cost/quality dial** | One engine, a `memory_mode` switch: free key-less `pure` by default, opt-in `gated`/`offline` LLM enrichment when you need Mem0-grade nuance — pay only for the compute you use. |
+| 🔐 **Verifiable & unlearnable** | Every action is logged in a tamper-evident HMAC chain the user can replay to detect any alteration; `forget_everywhere` wipes the profile **and** unlearns the person from the population prior — provable right-to-be-forgotten. |
+| 🛡 **Injection-proof by design** | Writes are arithmetic, not LLM extraction, so page/user text can't be "talked into" becoming a belief — tested that injected instructions never enter memory. |
+| 🧠 **Private collective intelligence** | New users benefit from crowd patterns on turn one (cold-start from a population prior), with **k-anonymity + differential privacy** so no individual leaks. A network-effect moat single-user memories can't have. |
+| 🗣 **Style & mood memory** | Learns *how* each person communicates (terse/verbose, formal/casual, energy) and tracks their **mood with trend detection**, so the agent can match tone and notice when someone's frustration is rising — in any domain. |
+| 🎯 **Outcome-learning, any goal** | Memory is reinforced by *results* — not just recall. `record_outcome(success)` strengthens what worked and weakens what backfired, where "success" is any goal (purchase, booking, resolved ticket, completed lesson…). |
+| 🔍 **Explainable** | Ask `why(user, attr)` — get the evidence (observations + good/bad outcomes + dates). No black box. |
+| 🔌 **Deployable plumbing** (research preview; harden per SECURITY.md) | SQLite or **Postgres** (tested on real PG 16), REST + **MCP** servers, consent gating, injection-safe writes, proactive triggers — all tested. |
+
+---
+
+## 📊 Benchmarks
+
+> **Honest scope:** the numbers below are on **synthetic or LLM-authored** data, not real
+> users. They validate the *mechanism* and surface failures; a real-human pilot is the
+> pending next step. The Mem0 (LLM) head-to-head needs an API key and is not yet run.
+
+### On LLM-authored people (closest to real, agentic ingestion)
+A sample of 16 of 92 third-person profiles (ChatGPT-authored), read as **prose only** and
+remembered agentically, then scored against hidden answer keys:
+
+| metric | result |
+|---|---|
+| preference coverage vs. hidden key | **75%** |
+| communication style — formality | **100%** |
+| mood sign / mood arc | **94% / 100%** |
+| preference drift detected | **94%** |
+| injection attempts ignored | **100%** |
+| note → card compression | **7.3×** |
+
+*(The "agent" here is an LLM reading prose, so these reflect agent + engine together — the
+engine is solid; the extraction quality is the agent's.)*
+
+### Cost, recall, and Pareto (synthetic, multi-seed)
+
+> Reproduce: `python -m fernme.eval.cost_variance` · `... quality` · `... drift` · `... context` · `... ablation` · `... pilot`
+
+**Cost** — per-turn memory tokens vs. profile size (5 seeds):
+
+| metric | FERNme | baseline |
+|---|---|---|
+| card size | **24.9 ± 0.5 tokens** (flat) | full history grows linearly |
+| at 120 interactions | **1×** | **77× ± 1.3** larger |
+| LLM calls per write | **0** | ~2 (extraction memory) |
+
+**Recall quality** — precision@5 vs. ground-truth preferences (5 seeds × 40 users):
+
+| regime | 🌿 FERNme | frequency | recency |
+|---|:---:|:---:|:---:|
+| static recall | 0.74 | 0.74 | 0.47 |
+| **drift** (taste shifts) | **0.72** ✅ | 0.13 ❌ | 0.59 |
+| **context** (precision@3) | **0.62** ✅ | 0.51 (blind) | — |
+
+> **The headline:** FERNme is the *only* method strong everywhere. Frequency can't forget (fails drift); recency is noisy (fails static). FERNme's decay + spreading activation get both.
+
+**Cold-start ablation** — population prior gives **+0.06 precision@5 at turns 1–3**, washing out by turn 10 (a real but modest, cold-start-only benefit).
+
+**Cost / quality Pareto** (`python -m fernme.eval.pareto`) — measured FERNme recall &
+tokens, modeled LLM nuance & price (assumptions in-file). Per 1,000 interactions:
+
+| strategy | quality | $/1k | vs Mem0 |
+|---|:--:|:--:|:--:|
+| FERNme-pure | 0.52 | $0.008 | 122× cheaper |
+| **FERNme+gated** | 0.66 | $0.023 | **42× cheaper** |
+| **FERNme+offline** | 0.73 | $0.104 | **9× cheaper** |
+| full-history@120 | 0.82 | $0.59 (grows) | — |
+| Mem0-style | 0.82 | $0.95 | 1× |
+
+FERNme+gated/offline sit on the efficient knee: **~80–90% of the LLM-ceiling quality
+at 1–2 orders of magnitude less cost.** (Modeled assumptions; shape is the point.)
+
+![Cost/quality Pareto — FERNme+gated/offline on the efficient knee](docs/cost_quality_pareto.png)
+
+**Simulated outcome pilot** — fake storefront, learn-from-behavior shoppers: **+16% relative conversion lift** over a popularity baseline; tied at visit 1 (cold start), pulling ahead as it learns, recovering through a mid-pilot taste drift.
+
+---
+
+## 🎚 Memory modes (one engine, a cost/quality dial)
+
+FERNme ships **one core** with a deployment-level switch — `FernService(memory_mode=...)`.
+The default is free, key-less, and tested; LLM modes are opt-in and pluggable.
+
+| mode | LLM use | cost | status |
+|---|---|---|---|
+| **`pure`** (default) | none | cheapest, flat | ✅ tested, key-less |
+| **`gated`** | one small call **only on novel free-text** | ~tiny | 🧪 experimental — needs a model |
+| **`offline`** | batched `consolidate()` enrichment, off the hot path | ~tiny, amortized | 🧪 experimental — needs a model |
+
+- A **pluggable tagger** (`tagging.py`) does the LLM work; you pass `llm_fn`, optionally
+  constrained to a **controlled vocabulary** (the real consistency lever across models).
+- The hot write path stays **LLM-free in every mode**; gated spends a call only when the
+  deterministic mapping finds nothing, and `svc.llm_calls` counts every invocation for
+  cost transparency.
+- See the cost/quality Pareto above for where each mode lands. *Honest note:* the gated/
+  offline quality is **modeled** until run against a real model — the wiring is tested
+  here with a mock LLM, not validated for quality.
+
+## 🧭 The 9 leapfrog dimensions (status)
+
+FERNme's edge isn't the mechanism (that's now a crowded 2026 category) — it's competing
+on dimensions single-user, vendor-owned, recall-optimized systems **structurally can't**.
+
+| # | Dimension | Status |
+|---|---|---|
+| 9 | **Communication-style & mood memory** | ✅ built + tested |
+| 2 | **Outcome-learning for any goal** (reinforce on results) | ✅ built + tested |
+| 8 | **Explainable provenance** (`why`) | ✅ built + tested |
+| 1 | **Private collective priors** (network-effect cold-start; k-anonymity + bounded-mean DP) | ✅ built + tested |
+| 4 | **Verifiable, cryptographic data ownership** (tamper-evident HMAC chain, cascading unlearning) | ✅ built + tested |
+| 7 | **Multi-timescale memory** (fast context vs. slow identity) | ✅ built + tested |
+| 6 | **Self-tuning forgetting** (learn decay from outcomes; adapts to drift) | ✅ built + tested |
+| 5 | **Injection-resistant by construction** (deterministic writes can't be talked into beliefs) | ✅ built + tested |
+| 3 | **Open user-owned memory protocol** (portable across any agent, with consent) | ◑ spec stage |
+
+> These are deliberately the things HippoGraph et al. can't follow: they're single-user
+> (no collective priors), vendor-owned (no user-owned protocol), and recall-optimized
+> (no outcome loop). Built in honest, tested slices — research-dependent ones are marked.
+
+## 🏗 Architecture
+
+```mermaid
+flowchart TD
+    V[Visitor on a website] -->|prompt + action| API[FERNme Service]
+    API --> CONSENT{consent?}
+    CONSENT -->|no| STOP[blocked]
+    CONSENT -->|yes| ENGINE
+    subgraph ENGINE[Engine - no LLM in the write path]
+      W[Hebbian write + decay] --> G[(Per-site preference graph<br/>fuzzy 0-9 edges)]
+      G --> R[Spreading-activation retrieval]
+      R --> CARD[Token-minimal card ~25 tok]
+      PRIOR[Population prior<br/>differential encoding] --> R
+    end
+    CARD --> AGENT[Agent: recommend / act]
+    G --> CAB[(Cabinet: raw event log)]
+    API --> STORE[(SQLite or Postgres<br/>multi-tenant)]
+    API --> GLASS[🪟 Glass-box editor]
+    API -.user signs in.-> SUPER[User-owned Supernode<br/>cross-site, default-deny]
+```
+
+---
+
+## 🧠 How FERNme works (visual walkthrough)
+
+![Why FERNme](explanation%20of%20fern/IMG_7794.PNG)
+*Why FERNme — adaptive local memory instead of expensive RAG/vector retrieval in the loop.*
+
+![Seven core principles](explanation%20of%20fern/IMG_7796.PNG)
+*What makes it different — near-zero-LLM, deterministic-first, Hebbian, fuzzy, memory cards, action-aware, user-owned.*
+
+![How memory grows](explanation%20of%20fern/IMG_7797.PNG)
+*How memory grows — new event → connect → strengthen → decay → update the card (Hebbian learning).*
+
+![Fuzzy Hebbian graph](explanation%20of%20fern/IMG_7799.PNG)
+*The fuzzy Hebbian graph — sparse, weighted (0–9) edges; nodes for users, preferences, topics, goals.*
+
+![The LLM gate](explanation%20of%20fern/IMG_7784.PNG)
+*The LLM gate — an exception, not the default. Most events are handled deterministically; the LLM is a rare fallback when uncertain.*
+
+![Memory card](explanation%20of%20fern/IMG_7802.PNG)
+*The memory card — a bounded, interpretable, token-minimal summary of what matters.*
+
+![Action-aware learning](explanation%20of%20fern/IMG_7781.PNG)
+*Action-aware learning — good outcomes strengthen connections, bad outcomes weaken them.*
+
+![The road ahead](explanation%20of%20fern/IMG_7780.PNG)
+*The road ahead — today's local memory; tomorrow's recursive organization and user-owned supernode (roadmap, not yet built).*
+
+![FERNme architecture](explanation%20of%20fern/IMG_7788.PNG)
+*Full architecture: ingestion bridge → namespaced vocabulary → fuzzy Hebbian graph → memory card → agent, with the LLM gate only when uncertain.*
+
+## 🚀 Quickstart
+
+```bash
+pip install -e ".[dev,api]"
+
+python run_demo.py                      # cold-start → learning → glass-box edit
+python supernode_demo.py                # one person, three sites, one owned profile
+pytest -q                               # 91 tests (engine, store, supernode, safety, auth…)
+
+# experiments
+python -m fernme.eval.drift               # FERNme beats a frequency counter when tastes change
+python -m fernme.eval.pilot               # +16% simulated conversion lift
+
+# run it live
+FERNME_API_KEY=secret uvicorn fernme.api.rest:app --port 8077   # REST API (docs at /docs)
+open http://localhost:8077/ui                               # glass-box memory editor
+open http://localhost:8077/graph                            # your memory as a graph — focus by site / PC / phone
+python -m fernme.api.mcp_server                               # MCP server for agents/Claude
+```
+
+> 🗄 **Storage:** defaults to `~/.fernme/fernme.db` (SQLite). For production use `PostgresStore` — same interface, tested against a real Postgres 16. Keep SQLite off cloud-synced folders.
+
+---
+
+## 🧱 What's inside
+
+- **Engine** — saturating Hebbian write (no LLM), ACT-R decay, spreading activation, token-minimal card.
+- **Population prior** — IDF cold-start; differential (deviation-only) storage is
+  enforced by an explicit `prune_to_prior` pass (redundant edges read through to the prior).
+- **Stores** — `SQLiteStore` (zero-setup) and `PostgresStore` (tested vs real PG 16), one interface.
+- **Ingestion bridge** — a per-site **catalog** (item_id->tags) plus a **controlled,
+  namespaced vocabulary** (`vocabulary.py`) that canonicalizes every tag (catalog,
+  free text, or LLM) to one form (`pref:`, `topic:`, `goal:`, `context:`) so the same
+  concept never drifts across months. Deterministic by default; gated-LLM only for
+  novel free text. *This is the product-critical layer — and the foundation a future
+  recursive/region organization would group on.*
+- **The Cabinet** — append-only event log with `recall()` for specific facts.
+- **Supernode** (`supernode.py` + `auth.py`) — user-owned cross-site profile, built by **sign-in** (verified token → opaque person id), default-deny scoped views, sensitive categories walled off.
+- **Proactive triggers** — due-to-reorder + fading-favorite nudges.
+- **Safety** — event tags treated as untrusted data: injection-pattern dropping, size/value caps.
+- **Interfaces** — REST (`/observe /card /recall /edit /export /delete /triggers …`) + MCP tools + a **glass-box web UI** (editor at `/ui`, cross-surface memory graph at `/graph` — one memory, focusable by site / PC / phone).
+- **Governance** — consent-gated everywhere; export & right-to-be-forgotten built in.
+
+---
+
+## 🔬 How FERNme compares
+
+FERNme is a **different category** from conversational memories — it's a per-user *preference* graph evaluated by *actions*, not a QA memory. Don't benchmark it on LoCoMo; that's the wrong axis.
+
+| | 🌿 FERNme | Mem0 | Zep/Graphiti | Letta | MemOS |
+|---|:--:|:--:|:--:|:--:|:--:|
+| Write | **no LLM** | LLM | LLM → KG | LLM-paged | LLM |
+| Retrieval | spreading activation | vector | graph+time | OS paging | hybrid |
+| Eval axis | **outcomes** | QA | temporal QA | long-horizon | QA |
+| User-owned + glass-box | **✅** | – | – | – | – |
+| Multi-tenant per-site | **✅** | passport | – | – | – |
+
+**Leads on:** write cost, interpretability, per-site user-ownership/consent. **Honestly behind on:** nuanced/causal preferences (LLM extraction wins), benchmark credibility, ecosystem & distribution.
+
+---
+
+## ⚖️ Honest status
+
+✅ **Done & tested (91 tests):** engine, SQLite + real-Postgres stores, supernode + sign-in, triggers, safety, REST/MCP, glass-box UI + memory-graph view, and the full results suite above.
+
+🚧 **Still open (genuinely needs the outside world):**
+- A **real-human per-site pilot** — only live users close the loop a simulator can't.
+- The **Mem0 (LLM) head-to-head** — harness wired; run locally with `OPENAI_API_KEY`.
+- **Embeddings** for context→attribute matching; offline LLM catalog enrichment for messy inputs.
+- **Desktop & mobile surfaces** — the engine is substrate-agnostic; web ingestion ships today, desktop/mobile adapters are on the roadmap. The user-owned **supernode** is the bridge that assembles them, with consent, into one cross-surface profile.
+
+> Every claim above is backed by a test or a reproducible experiment. Where a result is simulated, it says so — a simulator proves the *mechanism*, not real-world behavior.
+
+---
+
+## 📁 Layout
+
+```
+fernme/
+  core/      graph types · fuzzy 0–9 edges · event record
+  write/     event→attr mapping (no LLM) · Hebbian update · decay
+  retrieve/  base-level + spreading activation · token-minimal card
+  prior/     population prior · differential encoding · IDF cold-start
+  store/     sqlite_store · postgres_store (one interface)
+  supernode.py · auth.py · triggers.py · safety.py · service.py
+  api/       rest.py (FastAPI) · mcp_server.py · web/glassbox.html · web/graph.html
+  eval/      simulator · cost · quality · drift · context · ablation · pilot
+tests/       91 tests   ·   *_demo.py walkthroughs
+```
+
+---
+
+## 📜 License & citation
+
+Apache-2.0, © 2026 Acquilab Inc. — see [LICENSE](LICENSE) and [NOTICE](NOTICE). Security notes in [SECURITY.md](SECURITY.md); the name is a working codename (see [NAMING.md](NAMING.md)).
+If you use FERNme in research, please cite it via [CITATION.cff](CITATION.cff).
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