Landscape Review Process

The AI agent memory space moves fast. This landscape section needs periodic review to stay useful for research and feature planning.

How to Add a New Project

Clone into sandbox/ — gitignored, won’t pollute the repo

git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/org/project.git sandbox/project

Run tokei for codebase metrics
```
tokei sandbox/project/
```
Create a book page at book/src/landscape/project-name.md with:
- One-line description
- Source URL and language
- Key features list
- Comparison table vs kb-mcp
- Relationship (competitive, complementary, or different domain)
- “Patterns Worth Adopting” — what we could learn from them
Add to SUMMARY.md under the Landscape section
Update the overview — add to the quick comparison table and codebase metrics table in landscape/overview.md
Update vault/tools/retrieval-landscape.md if the project is an MCP-native retrieval tool

When to Review

Monthly: Quick scan for new projects — check GitHub trending, Reddit r/clawdbot, ClawHub, and Hacker News for new MCP memory tools
Before planning a new feature: Check if any landscape project already solved it — adopt patterns, don’t reinvent
After a major release: Update metrics and comparison tables

What to Look For

When evaluating a new project:

Question	Why it matters
Is it MCP-native?	Direct comparison to kb-mcp’s tool surface
Local or cloud?	Trust model and deployment alignment
What search does it use?	BM25, vector, hybrid, ripgrep, or none
Does it support write-back?	Agent-driven knowledge capture
What’s the data model?	Files, SQLite, cloud API, knowledge graph
What language?	Ecosystem alignment (Rust, TypeScript, Python)
What’s unique?	Patterns worth adopting for our roadmap

Regenerating Metrics

Requires tokei (brew install tokei).

# Clone all landscape projects (first time only)
cd sandbox
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/kevin-hs-sohn/hipocampus.git
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/jimprosser/obsidian-web-mcp.git
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/alibaizhanov/mengram.git
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Bumblebiber/hmem.git
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/MadAppGang/mnemex.git
cd ..

# Run comparison
just loc-landscape

Update the metrics table in landscape/overview.md with the new numbers.

Current Landscape (as of 2026-03-20)

Project	GitHub	Status
hipocampus	kevin-hs-sohn/hipocampus	Active
obsidian-web-mcp	jimprosser/obsidian-web-mcp	Active
mengram	alibaizhanov/mengram	Active
hmem	Bumblebiber/hmem	Active
mnemex	MadAppGang/mnemex	Active