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by mrsalty 17 days ago
the problem you are addressing is interesting, but given this is NOT an OSS I found the post a bit difficult to evaluate because the core mechanics of the product are not very clear.

You provide a lot of implementation details (authentication providers, database choices, frontend stack, etc.), but those are quite unrelevant to understand your tool. The key questions for a memory systems to me are:

- What exactly is a "memory" or "context record" in ContextVault?

- How is information added, updated, or removed over time?

- How does retrieval work (vector search, ranking, rules, something else)?

- How do you handle stale information, contradictions, or superseded knowledge?

- What makes this different from a shared RAG knowledge base or a document store with MCP access?

A few concrete examples or an architecture overview would probably make the product much easier to understand. For example, showing a before/after workflow of an agent using ContextVault would help clarify where the intelligence of the system actually is.

Cheers