Mem0, Zep, Cognee, Letta, Supermemory and Mnemoverse all ship a knowledge graph, and each one's docs mean something different by a node. Read-time behaviour is the part a buyer can settle from the documentation.
Reality
- Evidence64
- Adoption
- Insufficient
- Hype gap−8
- Incentives78
- Confidence52
The opencode-agent-memory plugin gives an OpenCode agent scoped Markdown blocks it rewrites through three tools, plus an opt-in journal it can search locally but never revise. The maintainer documents the failure modes himself.
Reality
- Evidence34
- Adoption14
- Hype gap−12
- Incentives38
- Confidence52
A developer who builds one of the six persistent memory systems he checked walks through how each can stop sharing while Cursor and Claude Code both report a healthy connection. The split happens at the account, and nothing logs it.
Reality
- Evidence46
- Adoption
- Insufficient
- Hype gap+8
- Incentives72
- Confidence52
The three track leaders have no manifest anyone can download. The curl Bench'd publishes for independent verification points at a host that does not resolve. The badge behind the board bills from $299 a month.
Reality
- Evidence42
- Adoption22
- Hype gap+18
- Incentives82
- Confidence48
Jordy Zomer built a Datalog engine so an agent maintains what it currently knows instead of searching its own transcript, and his own benchmark runs put the weak link in the model that writes the facts.
Reality
- Evidence46
- Adoption12
- Hype gap−8
- Incentives28
- Confidence54
A comparison of Mem0, Zep and LangChain's memory classes puts the split at adjudication rather than storage. Mem0 pays two model calls per message to get it.
Reality
- Evidence42
- Adoption
- Insufficient
- Hype gap+12
- Incentives
- Insufficient
- Confidence38
Hermes Agent treats the runtime as the durable asset and the model as a swappable input. The lock-in moves into your own repo, and the administrator's job moves with it.
Reality
- Evidence38
- Adoption
- Insufficient
- Hype gap+32
- Incentives74
- Confidence42
A vendor audited 359,388 edges in its own memory store and found feedback-shaped graphs only where its benchmark harness supplied the feedback. Live tenants got one reinforcement per edge.
Reality
- Evidence48
- Adoption17
- Hype gap+12
- Incentives74
- Confidence44
A read-only sensor for cross-tenant memory leaks ships with no tagged release, because its own backend cannot enumerate what the retriever exposed. That limitation is the story.
Reality
- Evidence41
- Adoption9
- Hype gap−14
- Incentives63
- Confidence40
Mads Thines has shipped an open-source memory layer for coding agents that starts on local disk. The design bet is that a record of past mistakes should be inspectable and portable.
Reality
- Evidence34
- Adoption
- Insufficient
- Hype gap+14
- Incentives68
- Confidence40