Practical overview
When it fits
Use Vektori when an agent needs to recall details across sessions while retaining links to the conversations those details came from.
Who it is for
- Developers building AI agents that need persistent, user-specific memory.
- Teams that want to retrieve conversational context alongside summarized facts.
Documented uses
- Store conversation messages with user and session identifiers.
- Search a user's memory for relevant facts and episodes.
- Choose retrieval depth, from facts-only lookups to answers with source sentences and surrounding context.
Requirements & limits
The repository identifies Vektori as open source under the Apache-2.0 license. The README specifies Python 3.10 or later and documents installation through pip.
- SQLite is the default database; the README lists optional Postgres, Neo4j, Qdrant and Milvus support.
- The documented quickstart configures OpenAI embedding and extraction models.
- The project describes file-system memory, while the quickstart shows conversation-message memory operations.
Check current requirements in the official documentation. Source-based guidance does not mean OpenViST has run or independently tested this project.
Add conversation memory and retrieve it
Store messages for a user and search the resulting memory for relevant facts and episodes.
Before you start
- Python 3.10 or later.
- Install Vektori with
pip install vektori. - The quickstart configures OpenAI embedding and extraction models.
Steps
Create a Vektori instance with an embedding model and extraction model.
Pass conversation messages to
addwith a session ID and user ID.Call
searchwith a query, the user ID and a retrieval depth such asl1.Read the returned facts and episodes, then close the Vektori instance.
Expected outcome
The example retrieves concise facts and an episode from the stored conversation, including the source context represented by the selected retrieval depth.
Guide limitations
- The example relies on the named OpenAI models; other model configurations are not detailed in this quickstart.
- The example demonstrates adding and searching conversation messages, not file-system memory setup.
Sources & review
Source record details
- Source availability
- Active
- Sources checked
- 12 October 2026
- Original website title
- bandr-ai/vektori · Official homepage title · retained in its source language

