MarkMem: A Git-Native Plain-Markdown Memory Layer for Chatbots
MarkMem is a git-native, plain-markdown memory layer for chatbots that stores every fact as an inspectable Markdown file in a git repository, backed by a rebuildable SQLite cache. It combines bi-temporal facts in YAML, a Presidio PII write gate, and git as the compliance surface, so you can cat, grep, and git-diff your chatbot’s memory instead of trusting an opaque vector database. What is MarkMem and why do chatbots forget? Every chatbot that carries context across sessions faces the same problem: the model’s context window is finite, and once a conversation scrolls past it, the details are gone. Traditional memory layers solve this by embedding facts into a vector database and retrieving the most similar chunks at query time. That works, but it turns your chatbot’s memory into a black box — you cannot read it, audit it, or prove what it contains. ...