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vectorize-io/hindsight/CLAUDE.md

Hindsight is an agent memory system that provides long-term memory for AI agents using biomimetic data structures. Memories are organized as: - World facts: General knowledge ("The sky is blue") - Experience facts: Personal experiences ("I visited Paris in 2023") - Mental models: Consolidated knowledge synthesized from facts ("User prefers functional programming patterns")

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  1. CLAUDE.md
  2. Project Overview
  3. Development Commands
  4. Local Development (API + UI)
  5. API Server (Python/FastAPI)
  6. Control Plane (Next.js)
  7. CLI Tool (Rust)
  8. System Tests (Blackbox End-to-End)
  9. Documentation Site (Docusaurus)
  10. Generating Clients/OpenAPI
  11. Benchmarks
  12. Architecture
  13. Monorepo Structure
  14. Core Engine (hindsight-api-slim/hindsightapi/engine/)
  15. API Layer (hindsight-api-slim/hindsightapi/api/)
  16. Database
  17. Adding Database Migrations
  18. Key Conventions
  19. Code Quality
  20. Testing
  21. Memory Banks
  22. API Design
  23. Control Plane API Routes
  24. Harness Attribution (which coding agent wrote a document)
  25. Coding-agents docs are generated from one README
  26. Hermes docs are generated from one README
  27. Adding New Integrations
  28. Changelogs
  29. Adding New API Configuration Flags
  30. Environment Setup
# CLAUDE.md

This file provides guidance to Claude Code (claude.ai/code) when working with code in this repository.

## Project Overview

Hindsight is an agent memory system that provides long-term memory for AI agents using biomimetic data structures. Memories are organized as:
- **World facts**: General knowledge ("The sky is blue")
- **Experience facts**: Personal experiences ("I visited Paris in 2023")
- **Mental models**: Consolidated knowledge synthesized from facts ("User prefers functional programming patterns")

## Development Commands

### Local Development (API + UI)
```bash
# Start both API server and control plane UI
./scripts/dev/start.sh
```

### API Server (Python/FastAPI)
```bash
# Start API server only (loads .env automatically)
./scripts/dev/start-api.sh

# Run all tests (parallelized with pytest-xdist)
cd hindsight-api-slim && uv run pytest tests/

# Run specific test file
cd hindsight-api-slim && uv run pytest tests/test_http_api_integration.py -v

# Run single test function
cd hindsight-api-slim && uv run pytest tests/test_retain.py::test_retain_with_chunks -v

# Lint and format
cd hindsight-api-slim && uv run ruff check .
cd hindsight-api-slim && uv run ruff format .

# Type checking (uses ty - extremely fast type checker from Astral)
cd hindsight-api-slim && uv run ty check hindsight_api/
```

### Control Plane (Next.js)
```bash
./scripts/dev/start-control-plane.sh
# Or manually:
cd hindsight-control-plane && npm run dev

# Run frontend unit tests
cd hindsight-control-plane && npm test

# Run frontend linter
cd hindsight-control-plane && npm run lint
```

### CLI Tool (Rust)
```bash
# Build CLI binary (hindsight-cli/target/release/hindsight)
cd hindsight-cli && cargo build --release

# Run CLI tests
cd hindsight-cli && cargo test
```

### System Tests (Blackbox End-to-End)
```bash
# Prerequisite: server needs pg0 installed in api-slim
(cd hindsight-api-slim && uv sync --frozen --extra embedded-db)

# Run blackbox integration tests against local embedded Postgres & stub provider
# (The stub handles LLM, embeddings, and reranking without downloading models)
cd hindsight-system-tests && uv run pytest tests/ -v
```

### Documentation Site (Docusaurus)
```bash
./scripts/dev/start-docs.sh
```


### Generating Clients/OpenAPI
```bash
# Regenerate OpenAPI spec after API changes (REQUIRED after changing endpoints)
./scripts/generate-openapi.sh

# Regenerate all client SDKs (Python, TypeScript, Rust, Go)
./scripts/generate-clients.sh
```

### Benchmarks
```bash
# Accuracy benchmarks: LoComo, LongMemEval, BEAM and the coding-agent suite come
# from AMB (vectorize-io/agent-memory-benchmark), which owns their datasets,
# judge and scoring. Run them against a local server, or any deployment with
# --api-url. See hindsight-system-evals/README.md.
cd hindsight-system-evals
uv run run-amb --dataset locomo --split locomo10
uv run run-amb --dataset longmemeval --split s -- --category single-session-user

# Performance benchmarks
./scripts/benchmarks/run-perf-test.sh                      # System perf (mock LLM + pg0)
./scripts/benchmarks/run-perf-test.sh --scale tiny          # Quick smoke test
./scripts/benchmarks/run-consolidation.sh
```

## Architecture

### Monorepo Structure
- **hindsight-api-slim/**: Core FastAPI server with memory engine (Python, uv)
- **hindsight-api/**: Published distribution package providing `hindsight-api`, `hindsight-worker`, `hindsight-local-mcp`, and `hindsight-admin` CLI entrypoints
- **hindsight-all/** & **hindsight-all-slim/**: Full and slim standalone distribution bundle packages
- **hindsight-all-npm/**: Node.js lifecycle manager embedding local daemon (published as `@vectorize-io/hindsight-all`)
- **hindsight-control-plane/**: Admin UI (Next.js, npm)
- **hindsight-cli/**: CLI tool (Rust, cargo, uses progenitor for API client)
- **hindsight-clients/**: Generated SDK clients (Python, TypeScript, Rust, Go)
- **hindsight-docs/**: Docusaurus documentation site
- **hindsight-integrations/**: Framework integrations (LiteLLM, CrewAI, LangGraph, Pydantic AI, AG2, Claude Code, coding-agents, etc.)
- **hindsight-embed/**: Embedded Python CLI and local daemon manager (connects to local API or falls back to uvx hindsight-api)
- **hindsight-system-tests/**: Blackbox end-to-end integration test suite driven through SDK against local stubs
- **hindsight-system-evals/**: End-to-end quality evaluation suites scored by independent LLM judges against real providers
- **hindsight-integration-tests/**: E2E and integration test suites requiring a running server (live API or docker-compose)
- **hindsight-extensions/**: Server extension slots (tenancy/auth, HTTP endpoints, MCP tools, operation validators, memory defense)
- **hindsight-tools/**: Published agent tools SDK (`@vectorize-io/hindsight-agent-sdk`, harness-agnostic agent knowledge tools)
- **hindsight-dev/**: Development tools and benchmarks

### Core Engine (hindsight-api-slim/hindsight_api/engine/)
- `memory_engine.py`: Main orchestrator for retain/recall/reflect operations
- `llm_wrapper.py`: LLM abstraction supporting OpenAI, Anthropic, Gemini, VertexAI, Groq, MiniMax, Ollama, LM Studio, LiteLLM, Claude Code, GitHub Copilot, DeepSeek, Fireworks, Codex (openai-codex), xAI (xai-oauth), Llama.cpp, Nous, etc. (See `hindsight-docs/docs/developer/configuration.mdx` for full provider lists)
- `embeddings.py`: Embedding generation supporting local (SentenceTransformers) and standalone/remote providers (in-process: onnx; remote: tei, openai, cohere, zeroentropy, litellm, google, etc.)
- `cross_encoder.py`: Reranking supporting local (CrossEncoder) and standalone/remote providers (in-process: flashrank, jina-mlx; remote: tei, cohere, siliconflow, zeroentropy, litellm, google, alibaba, etc.)
- `query_analyzer.py`: Query intent analysis

**retain/**: Memory ingestion pipeline
- `orchestrator.py`: Coordinates the retain flow
- `fact_extraction.py`: LLM-based fact extraction from content

**search/**: Multi-strategy retrieval
- `retrieval.py`: Main retrieval orchestrator
- `graph_retrieval.py`: Graph retrieval abstract base class
- `fusion.py`: Reciprocal rank fusion for combining results
- `reranking.py`: Cross-encoder reranking

**memories/**: The memories store, which owns every table a memory touches (`base.py` is the interface, `postgres.py` + `pg/` the default Postgres store — the only code allowed to name those tables)
- `pg/entity_resolver.py`: Entity extraction and normalization
- `pg/links.py`: Entity link creation and management
- `pg/link_expansion.py`: Link expansion graph retrieval

### API Layer (hindsight-api-slim/hindsight_api/api/)
- `http.py`: FastAPI HTTP routers for all REST endpoints
- `mcp.py`: Model Context Protocol server implementation

Main operations:
- **Retain**: Store memories, extracts facts/entities/relationships, supports document chunking
- **Recall**: Retrieve memories via 4 parallel strategies (semantic, BM25, graph, temporal) + reranking
- **Reflect**: Disposition-aware reasoning using memories and mental models
- **Knowledge Base**: Tree of auto-refreshing synthetic documents (mental models) synthesized by LLM from bank observations; searchable, exportable as markdown, and mountable read-only to the filesystem via hindsight-cli (`hindsight fs mount`)
- **Directives & Mental Models**: Manage behavioral guidelines (Directives) and consolidated facts (Mental Models)

### Database
PostgreSQL with pgvector (also supports Oracle 23ai). Schema managed via Alembic migrations in `hindsight-api-slim/hindsight_api/alembic/`. Migrations run automatically on API startup.

Key tables: `banks`, `documents`, `chunks`, `entities`, `memory_units`, `unit_entities`, `memory_links`

### Adding Database Migrations

Hindsight runs the same Alembic tree against PostgreSQL and Oracle 23ai. Each
migration file dispatches through `run_for_dialect`, which calls either
`_pg_upgrade` or `_oracle_upgrade` based on the live connection. A pytest lint
(`tests/test_migration_shape.py`) fails CI if a migration omits the dispatcher.

1. **Create a new migration file** in `hindsight-api-slim/hindsight_api/alembic/versions/`:
   - File name format: `<revision_id>_<description>.py` (e.g., `f1a2b3c4d5e6_add_new_index.py`)
   - Use a unique hex revision ID (12 chars)
   - Set `down_revision` to the previous migration's revision ID

2. **Migration template** (the `script.py.mako` template scaffolds this; fill in the bodies):
   ```python
   """Description of the migration

   Revision ID: f1a2b3c4d5e6
   Revises: <previous_revision_id>
   Create Date: YYYY-MM-DD
   """
   from collections.abc import Sequence
   from alembic import context, op

   from hindsight_api.alembic._dialect import run_for_dialect

   revision: str = "f1a2b3c4d5e6"
   down_revision: str | Sequence[str] | None = "<previous_revision_id>"
   branch_labels: str | Sequence[str] | None = None
   depends_on: str | Sequence[str] | None = None


   def _pg_schema_prefix() -> str:
       """Schema-qualifier for raw SQL on PG (multi-tenant search_path)."""
       schema = context.config.get_main_option("target_schema")
       return f'"{schema}".' if schema else ""


   def _pg_upgrade() -> None:
       schema = _pg_schema_prefix()
       op.execute(f"CREATE INDEX ... ON {schema}table_name(...)")


   def _pg_downgrade() -> None:
       schema = _pg_schema_prefix()
       op.execute(f"DROP INDEX IF EXISTS {schema}index_name")


   def _oracle_upgrade() -> None:
       # Oracle 23ai equivalent. Use op.get_bind().exec_driver_sql for forms
       # that Alembic core does not model (vector/text indexes, partitions).
       op.execute("CREATE INDEX ... ON table_name(...)")


   def _oracle_downgrade() -> None:
       op.execute("DROP INDEX IF EXISTS index_name")


   def upgrade() -> None:
       run_for_dialect(pg=_pg_upgrade, oracle=_oracle_upgrade)


   def downgrade() -> None:
       run_for_dialect(pg=_pg_downgrade, oracle=_oracle_downgrade)
   ```

   **Dialect-only migrations.** If a change genuinely doesn't apply to one
   dialect (e.g. enabling `pg_trgm` is PG-only), omit the unused slot:
   ```python
   def upgrade() -> None:
       run_for_dialect(pg=_pg_upgrade)  # oracle slot intentionally absent → no-op
   ```
   Make the asymmetry deliberate. Don't leave an Oracle slot empty just because
   you didn't think about it — copy-pasting a PG migration without the Oracle
   half is exactly how schemas drift.

3. **Run migrations locally**:
   ```bash
   # Set database URL and run migrations for the base schema plus all tenants
   uv run hindsight-admin run-db-migration

   # Run on a specific tenant schema
   uv run hindsight-admin run-db-migration --schema tenant_xyz
   ```

## Key Conventions

### Code Quality

**Before writing code, read `.claude/skills/code-review/SKILL.md`** for the full coding standards (Python style, type safety, TypeScript style, general principles).

**Always run the lint script after making Python or TypeScript/Node changes:**
```bash
./scripts/hooks/lint.sh
```

Dead-code detection runs in CI (the `check-unused-code` job) at two levels:
- **Blocking:** unused imports (ruff `F401`) and variables (`F841`) — `lint.sh` auto-removes
  them and `verify-generated-files` fails on any leftover diff; and **knip** for orphaned
  control-plane files / unused (or unlisted) `package.json` dependencies.
- **Advisory:** whole unused Python functions (vulture) and unused control-plane *exports*
  (the shadcn/ui surface is kept on purpose) — surfaced, not gated.

Run both locally with:
```bash
./scripts/hooks/check-unused.sh
```

**After completing any implementation work, run `/code-review`** to verify your changes against project standards (missing tests, dead code, type safety, etc.). Fix any "must fix" issues before considering the task done.

**MANDATORY: Run `/code-review` before pushing code or creating a pull request.** Do not push or create a PR until all "must fix" issues are resolved.

### Testing

Most tests are deterministic (MockLLM, pure functions) — assert directly.

**A user-facing capability needs a blackbox story in `hindsight-system-tests/`.**
Those drive a real `hindsight-api` process through the published Python client — no
engine access, no SQL — and exist to catch the bugs the ~500-file api-slim suite
structurally cannot: the ones in the seam *between* steps, where consolidation wipes
the facts under it or a transfer drops its evidence. Add a story when a change adds a
capability someone can name, or makes two existing capabilities meet for the first
time; the composition is the part nothing else tests. See that package's README, and
`.claude/skills/code-review/SKILL.md` step 6b for the review checklist.

**Tests that verify LLM behaviour use a real LLM + an LLM-as-judge.** When the thing under test is *how the model interprets a prompt* (classification, attribution, dimension preservation, instruction-following), MockLLM can't simulate it and exact string/enum asserts flake across providers and runs. Use this pattern instead:

1. Mark the test module `pytestmark = pytest.mark.hs_llm_core` (single-provider; CI runs it in the core-LLM job). Use `hs_llm_mat` only for provider-matrix acceptance tests.
2. Call the real pipeline (`LLMConfig.from_env()`, `_get_raw_config()`), e.g. `extract_facts_from_text(...)`.
3. Assert with the judge, not string matching:
   ```python
   from tests.llm_judge import assert_meets_criteria
   facts_summary = "\n".join(f"- [{f.fact_type}] {f.fact}" for f in facts)
   await assert_meets_criteria(
       response=facts_summary,
       criteria="The first-person user statements are classified 'world' and attributed to the user, not the agent.",
       context="What the input said and who was speaking.",
   )
   ```

Rules of thumb:
- **Judge anything non-deterministic** — including `fact_type` classification and speaker attribution. Do NOT hard-assert `fact_type == "..."`; pass a `[fact_type] fact` summary to the judge instead. Structural facts that ARE deterministic (counts, presence of a field, that a substring was injected into a prompt) stay as direct asserts in fast unit tests.
- **Split the test surface**: cover the deterministic mechanics (prompt assembly, suppression logic) with fast non-LLM unit tests, and the model-following behaviour with one `hs_llm_core` judge test. (Example pair: `test_narrator_resolution.py` + `test_narrator_context_override.py`.)
- The judge model is independent of the test provider (defaults to Gemini); never judge with the same call you're testing.

### Memory Banks
- Each bank is an isolated memory store (like a "brain" for one user/agent)
- Dispositions (skepticism, literalism, empathy traits 1-5) and bank mission (`reflect_mission`, formerly background) are configured via Bank Config (`PATCH /v1/default/banks/{bank_id}/config`), affecting reflect
- Bank isolation is strict - no cross-bank data leakage
- Legacy profile and background endpoints are retired (return HTTP 410) in favor of Bank Config

### API Design
- All endpoints operate on a single bank per request
- Multi-bank queries are client responsibility to orchestrate
- Disposition traits only affect reflect, not recall

### Control Plane API Routes

When adding or modifying parameters in the dataplane API (hindsight-api), you must also update the control plane routes that proxy to it:

1. **API Routes** (`hindsight-control-plane/src/app/api/`):
   - `recall/route.ts` - proxies to `/v1/default/banks/{bank_id}/memories/recall`
   - `reflect/route.ts` - proxies to `/v1/default/banks/{bank_id}/reflect`
   - `memories/retain/route.ts` - proxies to `/v1/default/banks/{bank_id}/memories/retain`
   - Other routes follow the same pattern

2. **Client types** (`hindsight-control-plane/src/lib/api.ts`):
   - Update the TypeScript type definitions for `recall()`, `reflect()`, `retain()` etc.

3. **Checklist when adding new API parameters**:
   - Add parameter extraction in the route handler (destructure from `body`)
   - Pass the parameter to the SDK call
   - Update the client type definition in `lib/api.ts`
   - Update any UI components that need to use the new parameter

### Harness Attribution (which coding agent wrote a document)

`hindsight-integrations/coding-agents/` stamps the coding agent on every
document it retains, so the control plane can show its logo instead of another
`key=value` chip:

- `metadata.harness = "<id>"` — the authoritative field
- tag `harness:<id>` — the same value, so the documents list can filter on it

The ids are defined by that integration's HookSpecs
(`src/harness/hook-lifecycle.ts`, 15 harnesses) and persistent-plugin
entrypoints (`src/harness/registry.ts`, 7 harnesses):
currently `antigravity-cli`, `claude-code`, `cline-cli`, `codebuddy`, `codex`,
`copilot-cli`, `cursor-cli`, `dcode`, `devin-cli`, `dsh`, `factory-droid`,
`grok-build`, `kilo`, `kimi-code`, `opencode`, `opencode2`, `pi`,
`prime-agent`, `qwen-code`, `traecode`, `workbuddy`, `zcode`.

The control plane resolves the value in
`hindsight-control-plane/src/lib/harness-logo.ts` (metadata wins over the tag) and
renders it with `components/ui/harness-logo.tsx` in the documents table and the
document detail dialog. **Adding a harness to the integration means adding it to
that registry in the same change**: copy its icon from
`hindsight-docs/static/img/icons/` (or take it from the agent's own brand assets
when the docs site carries none) into
`hindsight-control-plane/public/img/harness/` and add one entry. Don't register
ids nothing writes — a test asserts the registry matches the emitted set, plus an
explicit list of retired ids kept so already-retained documents keep their logo.
An unregistered harness is not an error: it renders no logo and still shows as
ordinary metadata.

### Coding-agents docs are generated from one README

`hindsight-integrations/coding-agents/README.md` is the single source for that package's
configuration. **Never edit `skill/SKILL.md` or the docs page by hand** — both are generated:

```bash
cd hindsight-integrations/coding-agents && npm run skill:build   # README -> skill/SKILL.md
node hindsight-docs/scripts/sync-coding-agents-doc.mjs           # README -> docs page
```

The regions the skill copies are marked `<!-- skill:begin -->` / `<!-- skill:end -->` in the README;
the agent-only half (tools, crediting, corrections) lives in `skill-src/preamble.md`.
`src/docs-freshness.test.ts` fails on a stale skill or an undocumented `RawConfig` field. Run
`./scripts/hooks/lint.sh` BEFORE regenerating — prettier re-pads the README's tables, and a
generated file built from unformatted source fails the byte comparison in CI.

### Hermes docs are generated from one README

Same arrangement, one generator: `hindsight-integrations/hermes/README.md` is the single source for
the Hermes integration page. **Never edit `hindsight-docs/docs-integrations/hermes.md` by hand** —
it is generated:

```bash
node hindsight-docs/scripts/sync-hermes-doc.mjs                  # README -> docs page
```

The docs build runs the same script with `--check`, so a stale page fails the build. Sections listed
in the script's `DROP_SECTIONS` (currently `Development`) stay repo-only, which is where
maintainer-facing notes belong — anything else in the README ships to the public page.

Shipping a change to that directory reaches no user until the Hermes plugin catalog pin moves: open
a follow-up PR against `NousResearch/hermes-agent` bumping `sha` and `version` together in
`plugin-catalog/hindsight.yaml`.

### Adding New Integrations

Every new integration in `hindsight-integrations/` must satisfy all of the following before it can be merged:

1. **Tests are required** — tests must simulate or exercise the external system (mock the framework's interfaces and verify the integration actually calls Hindsight correctly). Pure unit tests of helper functions are not sufficient.
2. **CI job** — add a test job in `.github/workflows/test.yml` following the existing pattern (e.g., `test-crewai-integration`). The job must build, install deps, and run `uv run pytest tests -v`. Also add the integration to `detect-changes` outputs so it only runs when its files change.
3. **Release process** — add the integration name to the `VALID_INTEGRATIONS` array in `scripts/release-integration.sh` so it can be released via the standard release workflow.
4. **Follow project code standards** — Python style, type safety, no raw dicts for structured data, no multi-item tuple returns (see `.claude/skills/code-review/SKILL.md`).

If any of these are missing, the integration is incomplete and must not be pushed or merged.

### Changelogs

Never add "Unreleased" entries to changelogs (e.g. `hindsight-docs/src/pages/changelog/**`). Changelog entries are written by the release script (`./scripts/release-integration.sh`) when a version is actually cut. If a bug fix or feature needs documenting before release, describe it in the PR/commit — the release tooling will surface it in the published changelog section.

### Adding New API Configuration Flags

Configuration follows a hierarchical system: **Global (env vars) → Tenant (via extension) → Bank (database)**.

Fields must be categorized as either **hierarchical** (can be overridden per-tenant/bank) or **static** (server-level only).

#### Adding a New Configuration Field

1. **config.py** (`hindsight-api-slim/hindsight_api/config.py`):
   - Add `ENV_*` constant for the environment variable name (e.g., `ENV_MY_SETTING = "HINDSIGHT_API_MY_SETTING"`)
   - Add `DEFAULT_*` constant for the default value
   - Add field to `HindsightConfig` dataclass with type annotation
   - **Mark as configurable** by adding to `_CONFIGURABLE_FIELDS` set if the field should be overridable per-tenant/bank via API
   - Add initialization in `from_env()` method

   ```python
   # Configurable field (can be overridden per-tenant/bank via API)
   _CONFIGURABLE_FIELDS = {
       ...,
       "my_setting",  # Add here for configurable
   }

   # Static field - just don't add to _CONFIGURABLE_FIELDS
   ```

2. **main.py** (`hindsight-api-slim/hindsight_api/main.py`):
   - No change is needed for ordinary environment-backed config fields. The CLI starts from `_get_raw_config()`,
     so new `HindsightConfig` fields are carried through automatically.
   - If the new field should be overridable by a CLI flag, add the argparse option in `_parse_cli_args()` and include
     that field in the `dataclasses.replace(config, ...)` call near the "CLI override" comment.

3. **Use hierarchical config in MemoryEngine**:
   ```python
   # Config is resolved automatically per bank via ConfigResolver
   config_dict = await self._config_resolver.get_bank_config(bank_id, context)
   value = config_dict["my_setting"]
   ```

4. **Use static config** (non-hierarchical):
   ```python
   from ...config import get_config
   config = get_config()
   value = config.my_static_field
   ```

5. **Documentation** (`hindsight-docs/docs/developer/configuration.mdx`):
   - Add to appropriate section table with Variable, Description, Default
   - Mark if it's hierarchical (can be overridden per-bank)

6. **Env template** (`.env.example`):
   - Add the variable to the appropriate section, commented if optional, with a
     short inline comment describing it (mirror the documentation entry).
   - This file is the single source of truth for the env template:
     `scripts/dev/setup.sh` copies it to `.env`, and `hindsight-embed` ships a
     bundled copy (`hindsight-embed/hindsight_embed/env.example`) that seeds
     embed/profile configs. After editing `.env.example`, re-copy it to the
     embed package (`cp .env.example hindsight-embed/hindsight_embed/env.example`)
     or the `test_bundled_template_matches_repo_root` sync test will fail.

#### Hierarchical vs Static Guidelines

**Hierarchical** (per-bank overridable):
- LLM settings (provider, model, API key, base URL)
- Operation-specific settings (retain mode, chunk size, etc.)
- Feature flags that vary by customer/bank

**Static** (server-level only):
- Infrastructure settings (database URL, port, host)
- Global limits (max concurrent operations)
- System-wide feature flags

## Environment Setup

### Recommended: One-Shot Bootstrap
Run the dev environment setup script to automatically install toolchains (uv, Node, Rust), sync workspace dependencies, prime local ML models, and build core artifacts:
```bash
./scripts/dev/setup.sh
```

### Manual Setup
```bash
cp .env.example .env
# Edit .env with the LLM provider/model and credentials for your setup

# Python deps (workspace-wide)
uv sync

# Node deps (uses npm workspaces)
npm install
```

Common server settings:
- `HINDSIGHT_API_PORT`: API server port (default: `8888`)
- `HINDSIGHT_CP_PORT`: Control Plane dev script port (default: `9999`, Next.js app reads `PORT`)
- `HINDSIGHT_CP_DATAPLANE_API_URL`: Control Plane backend URL (default: `http://localhost:8888`)

LLM settings:
- `HINDSIGHT_API_LLM_PROVIDER`: openai, anthropic, gemini, deepseek, groq, minimax, ollama, lmstudio, fireworks, openai-codex, xai-oauth, etc. (See `hindsight-docs/docs/developer/configuration.mdx` for full provider lists)
- `HINDSIGHT_API_LLM_API_KEY`: API key for providers that require one
- `HINDSIGHT_API_LLM_MODEL`: Model name (defaults are provider-specific)

Optional (uses local models by default; see configuration docs for full lists):
- `HINDSIGHT_API_EMBEDDINGS_PROVIDER`: local (default), tei, onnx, openai, cohere, zeroentropy, litellm, google, etc.
- `HINDSIGHT_API_RERANKER_PROVIDER`: local (default), tei, cohere, flashrank, siliconflow, zeroentropy, litellm, google, alibaba, etc.
- `HINDSIGHT_API_DATABASE_URL`: External PostgreSQL (uses embedded pg0 by default)
- `HINDSIGHT_API_ENABLE_BANK_CONFIG_API`: Allow per-bank config *writes* (default: true; reads are always allowed)

More agent context in vectorize-io/hindsight

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