A 'workspace runtime' that compiles heterogeneous sources (chat logs, documents, code, images, audio, tool traces) into three durable Markdown layers — Index (INDEX.md), Skill (SKILL.md), and Memory (MEMORY.md) — via a memorize() pipeline (ingest → preprocess → extract → organize → persist) and serves scoped, ranked layers back via retrieve().
- Storage
- Typed MemoryItems (profile/event/knowledge/behavior/skill/tool) grouped into auto-generated MemoryCategory folders with topic-level summaries, each item tracing back to the raw Resource it came from. Embeddings are indexed over folders, files, and sources; records persist through a configurable backend.
- Retrieval
- retrieve() routes and scopes a query to relevant category folders, ranks matching items by relevance, and traces results back to source artifacts; the embedding index supports low-latency recall over the compiled workspace.
- Self-host
- Self-host: moderate
- License
- Apache-2.0
- Pricing
- Open-source Python library (memu-py, Apache-2.0), free to self-host; a managed cloud offering exists at memu.pro (pricing not captured). · Free + paid
- GitHub stars
- 13,944
- Last release
- 2026-03-23
- Last commit
- 2026-06-27
- First catalogued
- 2026-06-28
Strengths
- Multimodal ingestion — text, documents/URLs, images/video (captioned), and audio (transcribed) are all compiled into one workspace
- Markdown layers are inspectable and editable; every memory item traces back to the source artifact it came from
- Active project with a large community (~14k stars)
Watch out
- Hosted-tier pricing at memu.pro was not captured — priceTier and pricing need a reviewer to confirm
- License: repo LICENSE.txt is verbatim Apache-2.0 text but GitHub auto-classifies it as 'NOASSERTION' due to the non-standard filename — confirm there is no added rider
- memorize()/retrieve() quality and backend options are vendor-described, not independently evaluated
Best for
- Agents needing a multimodal, file-system-shaped memory workspace with source-traceable Markdown layers
Benchmark results
No sourced results yet.
Sources
- memU README (vendor)
- GitHub API repo metadata (stars, license) (third-party)
- memU LICENSE.txt (verbatim Apache-2.0 text) (vendor)
Last verified 2026-06-28 · updated by discover-frameworks