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Connect GitHub, Slack, and Jira — without leaking them
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Connect GitHub, Slack, and Jira — without leaking them

Illumina now syncs your systems of record into memory, and carries their access boundaries with them...

Recall, explained: five retrieval arms, one deterministic ranking
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Illumina Team

Recall, explained: five retrieval arms, one deterministic ranking

How a single recall call fans out across semantic, lexical, graph, temporal, and community retrieval...

One database is enough
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Illumina Team

One database is enough

Semantic search, BM25, fuzzy entity matching, and a knowledge graph, all running in plain PostgreSQL...

From facts to observations to mental models
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Illumina Team

From facts to observations to mental models

How retain turns raw input into typed facts, how consolidation compresses corroborating facts into o...

Give your agent memory over MCP
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Illumina Team

Give your agent memory over MCP

The Illumina MCP server exposes 39 tools over stdio and HTTP, with single-namespace mounting and per...

A memory accepted is a memory kept
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A memory accepted is a memory kept

Every write in Illumina runs as a durable Temporal workflow: content-hash idempotent, retried within...

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