Changelog

What's new in each release

Version 0.15 — Dedup, supersession & ranking

July 2026

  • Duplicate detection. A nightly pass finds and merges near-duplicate memories, so your memory bank tightens over time instead of fragmenting.
  • Reversed decisions stop ranking. When a newer memory supersedes an older one, the old one is demoted in recall but never deleted — searchable, no longer outranking what replaced it.
  • Smarter ranking, all tunable. Similarity, strength, connections, and recency are config keys. A new fresh-memory window briefly boosts recently captured content so yesterday's work surfaces today, then decays into long-term ranking.
  • Transparent telemetry. An anonymous nightly ping reports aggregate usage; a new hicortex telemetry command shows exactly what is sent. Opt out anytime.

Version 0.14 — Per-prompt recall & provenance

July 2026

  • Per-prompt memory recall. Every prompt gets a compact index of relevant memories — one line each — and the agent loads full content only when one matters. Works across Claude Code, Hermes, and OpenClaw.
  • Exposure vs use. Appearing in the index marks a memory shown; fetching it marks it used. Importance follows what agents actually use.
  • Built-in provenance. Memories that shape an answer carry their origin (id, date), so influence is visible in the transcript.
  • Gentler decay. Default half-life about one year (was ~4 months), tunable.
  • All tuning is config — recall breadth, floors, timing, decay. No release needed to calibrate.

Version 0.13.0 — Per-agent context

July 2026

  • Per-agent standing context. Agents on the same server can each have their own context alongside the shared global one. Drop Markdown into ~/.hicortex/context/agents/<id>/ to override an agent.
  • Hermes and OpenClaw receive the context layer, scoped per profile/agent.
  • Claude Code stays global by default — opt a machine into its own identity with hicortex init --agent-name <name>.

Version 0.12.1 — Install fix

  • Fixed: npx client installs no longer break silently. Re-run init (or upgrade) if you installed 0.12.0 as a client.

Version 0.12.0 — Context layer

July 2026

  • Context layer. A hand-edited "who you are + how to work" layer alongside auto-distilled memories — Markdown injected every session, never distilled or decayed.
  • Breaking rename: the recall tool hicortex_context is now hicortex_recent. Upgrade the server before its clients.

Version 0.11.0 — Memory visualization & self-organizing domains

July 2026

  • Memory graph at /viz — domains as clusters, relationships as edges, hubs highlighted. Filter, search, click any node. Served by your own server.
  • Multi-tag domains. Define your knowledge spheres; every memory files into all that apply, weighted from your data, one primary. No "Unsorted" pile.
  • Self-tuning classification — domain profiles recompute nightly from your data.
  • Smarter links across the bank, plus hicortex relink to back-fill.

Version 0.10.0 — License change, all features free

July 2026

  • PolyForm Noncommercial license — personal and noncommercial use free with the full feature set; commercial use is per-seat.
  • All tiers and gates removed — no memory cap, no feature differences.
  • Per-install auth token generated at init.
  • User-chosen LLM — init lists detected options, you pick.

Version 0.9.0 — Thin-client capture

June 2026

  • New capture model. Clients no longer run local LLM distillation — the nightly denoises locally (no LLM) and sends to the server, which does all the LLM work. Raw content never leaves the machine.
  • Strict by default — if the server is unreachable, the nightly retries rather than silently degrading.
  • Hermes sessions captured alongside Claude Code.

Version 0.8.0 — Hermes support

  • Hermes recall plugin — lessons at session start, search and recent-memory tools in-process. hermes memory setup hicortex.
  • Multi-machine deployment validated (one server, networked thin clients).

Version 0.7.0 — Graph Intelligence

April 2026

  • Community detection finds knowledge domains from the memory graph automatically.
  • Hub detection boosts highly-connected memories.
  • New hicortex_graph tool — connected memories, hubs, shortest paths.

Version 0.6.0 — Knowledge Domain Routing

April 2026

  • Memories auto-group into knowledge domains; agents see a structured domain index, not a flat project list.
  • Same-domain lessons boosted during injection.
  • New hicortex_index tool to query domains.

Version 0.5.3 — Security & Quality

April 2026

  • Pre-ingestion redaction scrubs keys, tokens, paths, and secrets before storage.
  • Contradiction detection suppresses new lessons that conflict with existing ones.
  • Anonymous usage telemetry (opt-out).

Version 0.5.0 — Pi Agent Support

April 2026

  • Pi coding agent support — nightly distillation reads Pi sessions alongside Claude Code.
  • MCP tools via pi-mcp-adapter.

Version 0.4.6 — Nightly Data-Loss Fix

April 2026

  • Fixed: the nightly silently lost sessions when the distillation LLM was unreachable. Now retries cleanly and advances only when every session is processed.

Version 0.4.5 — Public Release

April 2026

Version 0.4 — Multi-Client Support

March 2026

  • Connect multiple clients to one shared memory server.
  • Split LLM config (scoring / distillation / reflection).
  • New hicortex_update and hicortex_delete tools.

Version 0.3 — Claude Code Support

March 2026

  • Same package works with Claude Code and OpenClaw.
  • One-command install, persistent MCP server, automatic daemon.
  • Nightly pipeline: capture → distill → consolidate → inject.

Version 0.2 — OpenClaw Plugin

February 2026

  • Initial release as an OpenClaw lifecycle plugin.
  • Semantic search (BM25 + vector + RRF), knowledge graph, decay/strengthening.
  • Multi-provider LLM support.