shokunin vs LycheeMem
shokunin: Shokunin provides persistent AI memory for developers with 38 skills, multi-strategy recall (vector + BM25 + temporal), and ChromaDB memory. It is fully offline, zero server costs, and works on Windows and Linux. The system includes MCP servers, declarative self-updates, and a memory test suite.; LycheeMem: LycheeMem is a compact memory framework for LLM agents that organizes memory into working, semantic, and procedural stores. It features a four-stage pipeline (WMManager, SearchCoordinator, SynthesizerAgent, ReasoningAgent) with a background ConsolidatorAgent, and supports multi-channel retrieval (FTS, vector, tag, temporal). It integrates via API, OpenClaw plugin, and MCP protocol.
TL;DR
Persistent coding context across multiple sessions
- You are building your own agent and want a memory framework with working, semantic and procedural stores.
- You prefer light storage: SQLite with FTS5 plus a LanceDB vector index, with no Neo4j.
- You want typed, action-aware records, including a tool_affordance type for what a tool can do and when to use it.
- You want something stable today: the project has been open source only since March 2026, so APIs may change.
- You want zero extra model cost: memory extraction and retrieval use LLM and embedding calls.
- You expect the action-aware and reinforcement-learning parts to be finished: the README describes them as a direction.
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