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Zep Open Source Memory

Recall, understand, and extract data from chat histories. Power personalized AI experiences.

Zep is a long-term memory service for AI Assistant apps. With Zep, you can provide AI assistants with the ability to recall past conversations, no matter how distant, while also reducing hallucinations, latency, and cost.

How Zep works​

Zep persists and recalls chat histories, and automatically generates summaries and other artifacts from these chat histories. It also embeds messages and summaries, enabling you to search Zep for relevant context from past conversations. Zep does all of this asynchronously, ensuring these operations don't impact your user's chat experience. Data is persisted to database, allowing you to scale out when growth demands.

Zep also provides a simple, easy to use abstraction for document vector search called Document Collections. This is designed to complement Zep's core memory features, but is not designed to be a general purpose vector database.

Zep allows you to be more intentional about constructing your prompt:

  • automatically adding a few recent messages, with the number customized for your app;
  • a summary of recent conversations prior to the messages above;
  • and/or contextually relevant summaries or messages surfaced from the entire chat session.
  • and/or relevant Business data from Zep Document Collections.

Interested in Zep Cloud? See Zep Cloud Installation Guide

Setup​

See the instructions from Zep Open Source for running the server locally or through an automated hosting provider.

tip

See this section for general instructions on installing integration packages.

npm install @langchain/openai @langchain/community @langchain/core

Usage​

import { ChatOpenAI } from "@langchain/openai";
import { ConversationChain } from "langchain/chains";
import { ZepMemory } from "@langchain/community/memory/zep";
import { randomUUID } from "crypto";

const sessionId = randomUUID(); // This should be unique for each user or each user's session.
const zepURL = "http://localhost:8000";

const memory = new ZepMemory({
  sessionId,
  baseURL: zepURL,
  // This is optional. If you've enabled JWT authentication on your Zep server, you can
  // pass it in here. See https://docs.getzep.com/deployment/auth
  apiKey: "change_this_key",
});

const model = new ChatOpenAI({
  model: "gpt-3.5-turbo",
  temperature: 0,
});

const chain = new ConversationChain({ llm: model, memory });
console.log("Memory Keys:", memory.memoryKeys);

const res1 = await chain.invoke({ input: "Hi! I'm Jim." });
console.log({ res1 });
/*
{
  res1: {
    text: "Hello Jim! It's nice to meet you. My name is AI. How may I assist you today?"
  }
}
*/

const res2 = await chain.invoke({ input: "What did I just say my name was?" });
console.log({ res2 });

/*
{
  res1: {
    text: "You said your name was Jim."
  }
}
*/
console.log("Session ID: ", sessionId);
console.log("Memory: ", await memory.loadMemoryVariables({}));

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