Switch memory provider to hindsight

common/sandboxed-workspace/base.nix

@@ -31,6 +31,7 @@ in
   ];
 
   nixpkgs.overlays = [
+    hostConfig.inputs.self.overlays.default
     hostConfig.inputs.claude-code-nix.overlays.default
   ];
 

flake.lock

@@ -267,6 +267,22 @@
         "type": "github"
       }
     },
+    "hindsight-src": {
+      "flake": false,
+      "locked": {
+        "lastModified": 1780589667,
+        "narHash": "sha256-Zb8zIdlnm9spUiVbGdByGKE/V/5q+RKjbuSbayNIDxY=",
+        "owner": "vectorize-io",
+        "repo": "hindsight",
+        "rev": "7683f29004ab9d88e0ef3f0f18b8ffe6fc741905",
+        "type": "github"
+      },
+      "original": {
+        "owner": "vectorize-io",
+        "repo": "hindsight",
+        "type": "github"
+      }
+    },
     "home-manager": {
       "inputs": {
         "nixpkgs": [
@@ -441,6 +457,7 @@
         "flake-compat": "flake-compat",
         "flake-utils": "flake-utils",
         "hermes-agent": "hermes-agent",
+        "hindsight-src": "hindsight-src",
         "home-manager": "home-manager",
         "microvm": "microvm",
         "nix-index-database": "nix-index-database",

flake.nix

@@ -94,6 +94,13 @@
         uv2nix.inputs.pyproject-nix.follows = "hermes-agent/pyproject-nix";
       };
     };
+
+    # Hindsight memory server (vectorize-io). No upstream flake; consumed as a
+    # bare source tree and packaged via the uv2nix toolchain from hermes-agent.
+    hindsight-src = {
+      url = "github:vectorize-io/hindsight";
+      flake = false;
+    };
   };
 
   outputs = { self, nixpkgs, ... }@inputs:

machines/fry/workspaces/hermes.nix

@@ -21,6 +21,9 @@
 
     extraPackages = with pkgs; [ nix git ripgrep fd jq codex ];
 
+    # Pulls in hindsight-client (the HTTP client lib the memory plugin uses).
+    extraDependencyGroups = [ "hindsight" ];
+
     environment = {
       SIGNAL_HTTP_URL = "http://127.0.0.1:8080";
       CODEX_HOME = "/var/lib/hermes/.codex";
@@ -44,14 +47,14 @@
       toolsets = [ "all" ];
       terminal.backend = "local";
 
-      # Self-hosted memory: pure SQLite in-process, no external services or
+      # Memory lives in a sibling hindsight-api process (see systemd unit
-      # API keys. db file lives under HERMES_HOME (= /var/lib/hermes/.hermes),
+      # below) backed by system postgres. Plugin talks HTTP to it locally.
-      # which is on the persisted bind-mount.
+      memory.provider = "hindsight";
-      memory.provider = "holographic";
+      plugins.hermes-hindsight = {
-      plugins.hermes-memory-store = {
+        mode = "local_external";
-        db_path = "/var/lib/hermes/.hermes/memory_store.db";
+        api_url = "http://127.0.0.1:8888";
-        auto_extract = true;
+        bank_id = "hermes";
-        default_trust = 0.5;
+        memory_mode = "hybrid";
       };
     };
   };
@@ -80,6 +83,8 @@
   systemd.tmpfiles.rules = [
     "d /var/lib/hermes/.codex 0700 googlebot users -"
     "C+ /var/lib/hermes/.codex/config.toml 0644 googlebot users - /etc/hermes-codex-config.toml"
+    "d /var/lib/hermes/hindsight 0700 googlebot users -"
+    "d /var/lib/hermes/postgresql 0750 postgres postgres -"
   ];
 
   # signal-cli runs an HTTP JSON-RPC daemon on localhost; hermes-agent talks to
@@ -102,4 +107,103 @@
       RestartSec = "5";
     };
   };
+
+  # ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
+  # Hindsight memory backend
+  #
+  # Architecture:
+  #   hermes-agent  --HTTP-->  hindsight-api (port 8888)  --asyncpg-->  postgres
+  #                            hindsight-worker (background async retain/reflect)
+  #
+  # The api + worker run as googlebot with HOME=/var/lib/hermes so the
+  # `openai-codex` provider's hardcoded Path.home() / ".codex" / "auth.json"
+  # resolves to the persisted codex tokens.
+  # ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+  services.postgresql = {
+    enable = true;
+    package = pkgs.postgresql_17;
+    extensions = ps: [ ps.pgvector ];
+    # Persist DB state on the /var/lib/hermes bind mount so the hindsight
+    # memory bank survives `nixos-rebuild switch` (which recreates the
+    # incus container and wipes its writable layer).
+    dataDir = "/var/lib/hermes/postgresql/17";
+    ensureDatabases = [ "hindsight" ];
+    ensureUsers = [{
+      name = "googlebot";
+      # Superuser so the hindsight-api alembic migrations can `CREATE EXTENSION`
+      # and own the schema. Acceptable here because postgres is local-only to
+      # the sandboxed workspace and only talks to hindsight-api over the unix
+      # socket.
+      ensureClauses.superuser = true;
+    }];
+  };
+
+  systemd.services.hindsight-api =
+    let
+      env = {
+        # Connection — postgres is on the local unix socket; sqlalchemy gets
+        # an asyncpg URL via the asyncpg+host=<socket-dir> trick.
+        HINDSIGHT_API_DATABASE_URL = "postgresql+asyncpg:///hindsight?host=/run/postgresql";
+        HINDSIGHT_API_HOST = "127.0.0.1";
+        HINDSIGHT_API_PORT = "8888";
+
+        # LLM + embeddings both ride codex OAuth — no separate keys.
+        HINDSIGHT_API_LLM_PROVIDER = "openai-codex";
+        HINDSIGHT_API_EMBEDDINGS_PROVIDER = "openai-codex";
+
+        # We did not install [local-ml] extras, so disable the reranker
+        # (default is "local" which requires sentence-transformers).
+        HINDSIGHT_API_RERANKER_PROVIDER = "none";
+
+        # HOME drives where the codex auth file is read from
+        # (CodexLLM/CodexOAuthEmbeddings: Path.home() / ".codex" / "auth.json").
+        HOME = "/var/lib/hermes";
+      };
+    in
+    {
+      description = "Hindsight memory API server";
+      wantedBy = [ "multi-user.target" ];
+      after = [ "postgresql.service" "network-online.target" ];
+      wants = [ "network-online.target" ];
+      requires = [ "postgresql.service" ];
+      before = [ "hermes-agent.service" ];
+      environment = env;
+      serviceConfig = {
+        Type = "simple";
+        User = "googlebot";
+        Group = "users";
+        ExecStart = "${pkgs.hindsight-api}/bin/hindsight-api";
+        Restart = "always";
+        RestartSec = "5";
+        WorkingDirectory = "/var/lib/hermes/hindsight";
+      };
+    };
+
+  systemd.services.hindsight-worker =
+    let
+      env = {
+        HINDSIGHT_API_DATABASE_URL = "postgresql+asyncpg:///hindsight?host=/run/postgresql";
+        HINDSIGHT_API_LLM_PROVIDER = "openai-codex";
+        HINDSIGHT_API_EMBEDDINGS_PROVIDER = "openai-codex";
+        HINDSIGHT_API_RERANKER_PROVIDER = "none";
+        HOME = "/var/lib/hermes";
+      };
+    in
+    {
+      description = "Hindsight background worker (async retain / reflect)";
+      wantedBy = [ "multi-user.target" ];
+      after = [ "hindsight-api.service" ];
+      requires = [ "hindsight-api.service" ];
+      environment = env;
+      serviceConfig = {
+        Type = "simple";
+        User = "googlebot";
+        Group = "users";
+        ExecStart = "${pkgs.hindsight-api}/bin/hindsight-worker";
+        Restart = "always";
+        RestartSec = "5";
+        WorkingDirectory = "/var/lib/hermes/hindsight";
+      };
+    };
 }

overlays/default.nix

@@ -52,4 +52,13 @@ in
       qtmultimedia qtwayland qtwebengine qcoro;
     inherit (prev) lib fetchFromGitLab pkg-config sdl3 libcec wayland;
   };
+
+  # Hindsight agent-memory server. Built via uv2nix against the upstream
+  # workspace; uses hermes-agent's toolchain pin to avoid duplicating uv2nix.
+  hindsight-api = prev.callPackage ../pkgs/hindsight {
+    hindsight-src = inputs.hindsight-src;
+    uv2nix = inputs.hermes-agent.inputs.uv2nix;
+    pyproject-nix = inputs.hermes-agent.inputs.pyproject-nix;
+    pyproject-build-systems = inputs.hermes-agent.inputs.pyproject-build-systems;
+  };
 }

pkgs/hindsight/default.nix

@@ -0,0 +1,72 @@
+{ lib
+, callPackage
+, python312
+, stdenv
+, makeWrapper
+
+, hindsight-src
+, uv2nix
+, pyproject-nix
+, pyproject-build-systems
+}:
+
+# Build the hindsight-api-slim venv from upstream's uv workspace. We pick
+# `hindsight-api-slim` (not `hindsight-api`) so we skip the `[all]` extras
+# (local-ml, embedded-db). With openai-codex provider for both LLM and
+# embeddings, and system postgres as the store, those extras are unused weight.
+let
+  workspace = uv2nix.lib.workspace.loadWorkspace {
+    workspaceRoot = hindsight-src;
+  };
+
+  overlay = workspace.mkPyprojectOverlay {
+    sourcePreference = "wheel";
+  };
+
+  pythonSet =
+    (callPackage pyproject-nix.build.packages {
+      python = python312;
+    }).overrideScope
+      (lib.composeManyExtensions [
+        pyproject-build-systems.overlays.default
+        overlay
+      ]);
+
+  venv = pythonSet.mkVirtualEnv "hindsight-api-env" {
+    hindsight-api-slim = [ ];
+  };
+in
+stdenv.mkDerivation {
+  pname = "hindsight-api";
+  version = "0.7.2";
+
+  dontUnpack = true;
+  nativeBuildInputs = [ makeWrapper ];
+
+  installPhase = ''
+    runHook preInstall
+    mkdir -p $out/bin
+    # The venv ships hindsight-api / hindsight-worker / hindsight-admin /
+    # hindsight-local-mcp / alembic in $venv/bin. Link them out so callers
+    # don't have to know about the venv layout.
+    for bin in hindsight-api hindsight-worker hindsight-admin hindsight-local-mcp alembic; do
+      if [ -e ${venv}/bin/$bin ]; then
+        ln -s ${venv}/bin/$bin $out/bin/$bin
+      fi
+    done
+    runHook postInstall
+  '';
+
+  passthru = {
+    inherit venv pythonSet;
+    pythonEnv = venv;
+  };
+
+  meta = with lib; {
+    description = "Hindsight: agent memory with knowledge graph and tiered retrieval";
+    homepage = "https://github.com/vectorize-io/hindsight";
+    license = licenses.mit;
+    mainProgram = "hindsight-api";
+    platforms = platforms.linux;
+  };
+}