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Local-First Observability & AI Memory for Agents — Powered by SochDB

When we talk about AI agents, we often focus on reasoning, tools, and prompts.

But there’s a quieter problem most systems ignore:

Where does an agent’s memory actually live?

Most agent frameworks today:

  • Push logs to the cloud
  • Store embeddings in external vector DBs
  • Lose context between runs
  • Treat “memory” as an afterthought

That’s where AgentReplay takes a different path.

🔁 What AgentReplay Does

AgentReplay is a local-first observability layer for AI agents and coding tools.

It lets you:

  • Record agent runs
  • Replay decisions step-by-step
  • Inspect tool calls, thoughts, and outcomes
  • Debug agents the same way we debug code
  • But observability alone isn’t enough.

To truly understand agents, you need persistent memory — fast, queryable, and local.

🧠 Why SochDB Fits Perfectly

AgentReplay uses SochDB as its memory backbone.

SochDB is an embedded, AI-native database that unifies:

  • SQL data
  • Vector embeddings
  • Context memory into a single local engine

No cloud dependency. No stitched infrastructure.

⚙️ What This Enables

With SochDB underneath, AgentReplay can:

  • ✅ Store agent runs as structured SQL data
  • ✅ Index embeddings for semantic recall
  • ✅ Preserve long-term context across sessions
  • ✅ Query why an agent behaved a certain way
  • ✅ Replay agent state deterministically

All of this happens on your machine.

🧩 A Real-World Flow

Agent runs locally
↓
Actions + reasoning stored in SochDB
↓
Embeddings indexed alongside structured logs
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AgentReplay visualizes & replays the run
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Developer debugs, improves, and re-runs
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No re-indexing.
No external vector DB.
No cloud lock-in.

🌱 Why This Matters

This pattern unlocks something powerful:

**- Agent observability ≠ logging

  • Agent memory ≠ vector search
  • Local-first ≠ toy setups**

It’s how serious agent systems should be built:

  • Auditable
  • Explainable
  • Deterministic
  • Private

🔗 Explore the Project

👉 AgentReplay on GitHub:
https://github.com/agentreplay/agentreplay

If you’re building AI agents, copilots, or coding tools — this is one of the cleanest examples of local-first AI memory done right.

We’d love to hear from you
👉 sochdb

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