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vielhuber/memhelper
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Markdown-first memory layer for LLM agents — one call, transparent indexing and auto-extraction.

1.1.9(1w ago)024↓100%MITPHPPHP ^8.3

Since May 29Pushed 1w agoCompare

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🧠 memhelper 🧠
=============

[](#-memhelper-)

Markdown-first memory layer for LLM agents. Exposes a `grab(query)` MCP tool that returns the curated facts most relevant to a natural-language question. A separate supervisor worker handles all writes — refreshing the search index across every configured input source, distilling new sources via an LLM, and periodically compacting duplicates and obsolete entries. Memory entries are plain `.md` files with a tiny YAML frontmatter — readable, editable, git-versionable. Cross-references between entries are written as `[[slug]]` wiki-links and followed one hop at retrieval time, so a single query surfaces related neighbours automatically.

installation
------------

[](#installation)

```
composer require vielhuber/memhelper
```

```
ai:
    provider: openai
    model: gpt-5
    api_key: sk-...

output: /path/to/memory

input_files:
    - /path/to/external/docs
    - /path/to/external/notes

input_dbs:
    - driver: sqlite
      path: /path/to/database.db
      include_tables: [chats_messages] # optional

    - driver: mysql
      host: 127.0.0.1
      port: 3306
      user: root
      password:
      database: memhelper
      exclude_tables: [analytics_events] # optional

    - driver: postgres
      host: 127.0.0.1
      port: 5432
      user: root
      password:
      database: database
```

usage
-----

[](#usage)

### library

[](#library)

```
use vielhuber\memhelper\memhelper;

$memory = new memhelper(
    configPath: '/path/to/config.yaml',
    logPath: '/var/log/memory.log'
);

$facts = $memory->grab(
    query: 'how is the user\'s dog named?',
    limit: 10
);
// → [['slug' => 'pet-roger', 'tags' => ['pet', 'dog'], 'description' => '...',
//     'body' => '...', 'sources' => ['dbrow:…'], 'score' => -3.41, 'via' => null], ...]
```

worker
------

[](#worker)

```
[program:memhelper-worker]
command=php /app/vendor/vielhuber/memhelper/bin/memhelper-worker /path/to/memory.yaml /var/log/memory.log
autostart=true
autorestart=true
```

tests
-----

[](#tests)

```
./vendor/bin/phpunit
```

### mcp

[](#mcp)

```
{
    "mcpServers": {
        "memory": {
            "command": "php",
            "args": ["./vendor/bin/mcp-server.php"],
            "env": {
                "MEMHELPER_CONFIG": "/path/to/memory.yaml",
                "MEMHELPER_LOG": "/var/log/memory.log"
            }
        }
    }
}
```

###  Health Score

46

—

FairBetter than 92% of packages

Maintenance98

Actively maintained with recent releases

Popularity10

Limited adoption so far

Community6

Small or concentrated contributor base

Maturity57

Maturing project, gaining track record

 Bus Factor1

Top contributor holds 100% of commits — single point of failure

How is this calculated?**Maintenance (25%)** — Last commit recency, latest release date, and issue-to-star ratio. Uses a 2-year decay window.

**Popularity (30%)** — Total and monthly downloads, GitHub stars, and forks. Logarithmic scaling prevents top-heavy scores.

**Community (15%)** — Contributors, dependents, forks, watchers, and maintainers. Measures real ecosystem engagement.

**Maturity (30%)** — Project age, version count, PHP version support, and release stability.

###  Release Activity

Cadence

Every ~0 days

Total

20

Last Release

10d ago

### Community

Maintainers

![](https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/3183737?v=4)[David Vielhuber](/maintainers/vielhuber)[@vielhuber](https://github.com/vielhuber)

---

Top Contributors

[![vielhuber](https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/3183737?v=4)](https://github.com/vielhuber "vielhuber (20 commits)")

###  Code Quality

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