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Build AI Agents With Memory That Shows Its Work

Open-source governed memory and workflow receipts for AI builders
Capture what agents did, decide what becomes knowledge, and run repeatable workflows with evidence instead of vibes.

Start Here · Quick Start · What Can You Build? · Architecture · Workflow Library · Deployment · Library · Catalog

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Why Allura?

AI agents forget. Sessions end, context evaporates, and your team's hard-won knowledge disappears into the void.

Allura gives builders a self-hosted memory and governance kernel for agent systems. It is not a black box that silently decides what matters. Every memory starts as traceable evidence, then moves through scoring, review, and promotion before it becomes long-term knowledge.

Use Allura when you are building agents that need to:

• remember decisions across sessions;
• show where an answer or decision came from;
• separate raw traces from approved knowledge;
• route work through repeatable story, review, architecture, or run workflows;
• produce receipts before claiming work is Done.

Allura is for builders who want:

• 🔍 Inspectability — trace what was recorded, when, and why it was promoted
• 🏛️ Governance — approval gates between raw capture and long-term knowledge
• 🔒 Self-hosting — your data, your infrastructure, your rules
• 🧩 MCP-native — plug into Claude, Cursor, OpenCode, or any MCP-compatible agent
• 🧭 Workflow receipts — story, review, architecture, and run records with evidence gates

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Start Here

New to Allura? Pick your path:

I want to…	Start with
Understand what Allura does	Read Why Allura?, then What Can You Build?
Install and connect my agent	docs/user-guide/getting-started.md
Use Claude Code with Allura	docs/user-guide/claude.md
Use Codex with Allura	docs/user-guide/codex.md
Use Claude + Codex together	docs/user-guide/cowork.md
Choose a governed workflow	library/README.md
Browse plugins	catalog/plugins.md
See integration examples	catalog/examples.md
Understand governance rules	catalog/gates.md
Read the canonical architecture	docs/allura/BLUEPRINT.md

Quick verification after install:

docker compose up -d
curl http://localhost:3201/health

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What Can You Build?

Allura is a foundation for builders making their own governed agent systems.

Builder goal	Allura gives you
Persistent agent memory	MCP tools for add/search/get/list/delete with tenant isolation
Approved knowledge base	Raw PostgreSQL traces plus promotion-gated Neo4j knowledge
Agent cowork handoffs	Shared handoff packets and validation receipts for Claude, Codex, OpenCode, Cursor, and other runtimes
Evidence-gated workflows	Story, review, architecture, product-intake, retrospective, and RunRecord templates
Audit-friendly automation	Append-only events, actor identity, source metadata, and explicit approval points
Your own methodology library	A public library/ pattern you can copy, adapt, and extend

If Archon is primarily a workflow runner, and Babysitter is primarily process enforcement, Allura is the governed memory and evidence layer that lets your workflows remember and justify themselves.

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Workflow Library

The library/ directory is the public chooser for builders. Start there when you want a repeatable process rather than only raw memory calls.

Choose a workflow       → story, review, architecture, product intake, RunRecord
Choose an adapter       → Claude, Codex, OpenCode, Cursor, or MCP HTTP
Choose governance level → local receipts, review-gated promotion, or full evidence packet
Run it                  → produce memory writes, validation evidence, and a closeout receipt