Vision Track: ELF as a high-trust memory system for single/multi-agent workflows #56
Description
Summary
Master tracking issue for ELF's next-stage direction as a high-trust memory system for single-agent and multi-agent workflows.
Direction Principles
- Postgres remains source of truth.
- Qdrant remains a derived, rebuildable retrieval index.
- Evidence binding remains mandatory.
- Memory quality is measured by replayable evaluation, not intuition.
- Multi-agent collaboration uses explicit sharing, not implicit snooping.
Workstreams
- Graph Memory: canonical entity/fact temporal schema in Postgres #48 Graph schema and temporal invariants
- Ingestion: evidence-bound entities/relations for add_note and add_event #49 Graph ingestion for add_note and add_event
- Knowledge correction: supersession and temporal validity for facts #52 Knowledge correction and supersession semantics
- Search: graph relation context and explain integration #50 Graph context in search and explain
- Memory Policy v2: explicit remember/update/ignore/reject decisions #51 Memory Policy v2 decisions
- Multi-agent memory spaces: explicit sharing and access grants #53 Multi-agent memory spaces and grants
- Quality gate: CI regression checks with elf-eval trace compare #54 CI regression quality gates
- Operator observability: memory inspector and diagnostics workflow #55 Operator observability and diagnostics
Execution Order
- Graph Memory: canonical entity/fact temporal schema in Postgres #48
- Ingestion: evidence-bound entities/relations for add_note and add_event #49
- Knowledge correction: supersession and temporal validity for facts #52
- Search: graph relation context and explain integration #50
- Memory Policy v2: explicit remember/update/ignore/reject decisions #51
- Multi-agent memory spaces: explicit sharing and access grants #53
- Quality gate: CI regression checks with elf-eval trace compare #54
- Operator observability: memory inspector and diagnostics workflow #55
Stage Exit Criteria
- Stage A (data model): Graph Memory: canonical entity/fact temporal schema in Postgres #48 closed.
- Stage B (ingestion and correction): Ingestion: evidence-bound entities/relations for add_note and add_event #49 and Knowledge correction: supersession and temporal validity for facts #52 closed.
- Stage C (retrieval and policy): Search: graph relation context and explain integration #50 and Memory Policy v2: explicit remember/update/ignore/reject decisions #51 closed.
- Stage D (multi-agent and operations): Multi-agent memory spaces: explicit sharing and access grants #53, Quality gate: CI regression checks with elf-eval trace compare #54, Operator observability: memory inspector and diagnostics workflow #55 closed.
Existing Related Work
- Add a read-only web viewer for sessions and traces #26
- Ranking evaluation harness (trace-based metrics and policy comparison) #33
- Add structured memory fields with field-level embeddings #17
Not a Commitment
This tracking issue describes direction and sequencing. Scope can be refined as implementation evidence emerges.