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<h1 align="center">Dakera</h1>

<p align="center"><b>Self-hosted memory engine for AI agents</b><br>Long-term memory that survives sessions, in one Rust binary on your own servers.</p>

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**Dakera gives AI agents a memory.** Store what your agents learn, recall it by meaning and by keyword, and let it fade or strengthen with use: hybrid vector and full-text retrieval, cross-encoder reranking, entity extraction, sessions and importance decay, behind a REST, gRPC and MCP API. Everything runs on your own infrastructure, CPU-only if you like, with no external AI service.

```bash
docker run -p 3000:3000 -e DAKERA_ROOT_API_KEY=dk-mykey ghcr.io/dakera-ai/dakera:latest
```

## Models

Dakera runs its models locally with ONNX Runtime. This organisation holds verified copies of every model Dakera downloads: byte-for-byte identical to the originals, credited to their authors under their own licences, and checked against the same SHA-256 whichever source a server downloads from.

| Role in Dakera | Models |
|---|---|
| 🧠 Embedding | [bge-large-en-v1.5](https://huggingface.co/DakeraAI/bge-large-en-v1.5) (default) · [bge-small-en-v1.5](https://huggingface.co/DakeraAI/bge-small-en-v1.5) · [e5-small-v2](https://huggingface.co/DakeraAI/e5-small-v2) · [all-MiniLM-L6-v2](https://huggingface.co/DakeraAI/all-MiniLM-L6-v2) · [bge-m3](https://huggingface.co/DakeraAI/bge-m3) · [modernbert-embed-base](https://huggingface.co/DakeraAI/modernbert-embed-base) · [gte-modernbert-base](https://huggingface.co/DakeraAI/gte-modernbert-base) |
| 🎯 Late interaction | [answerai-colbert-small-v1](https://huggingface.co/DakeraAI/answerai-colbert-small-v1) |
| 🏆 Reranking | [bge-reranker-v2-m3-ONNX](https://huggingface.co/DakeraAI/bge-reranker-v2-m3-ONNX) (default) · [bge-reranker-base](https://huggingface.co/DakeraAI/bge-reranker-base) |
| 🏷️ Entity extraction (int8, built by Dakera) | [gliner-bi-small](https://huggingface.co/DakeraAI/gliner-bi-small-v2.0-int8) (default, English) · [gliner-x-small](https://huggingface.co/DakeraAI/gliner-x-small-int8) (default, multilingual) · [gliner-bi-edge](https://huggingface.co/DakeraAI/gliner-bi-edge-v2.0-int8) · [gliner-medium](https://huggingface.co/DakeraAI/gliner_medium-v2.1-int8) · [gliner-multi](https://huggingface.co/DakeraAI/gliner_multi-v2.1-int8) |
| 🗂️ Intent detection | [paraphrase-multilingual-MiniLM-L12-v2](https://huggingface.co/DakeraAI/paraphrase-multilingual-MiniLM-L12-v2) (forget requests, standing instructions) |
| 🎙️ Speech to text | [whisper-tiny.en](https://huggingface.co/DakeraAI/whisper-tiny.en) · [whisper-base.en](https://huggingface.co/DakeraAI/whisper-base.en) · [whisper-tiny](https://huggingface.co/DakeraAI/whisper-tiny) · [whisper-base](https://huggingface.co/DakeraAI/whisper-base) (default) · [whisper-small](https://huggingface.co/DakeraAI/whisper-small) |
| 🖼️ Image and page retrieval | [colmodernvbert](https://huggingface.co/DakeraAI/colmodernvbert) |

## Build with Dakera

| | |
|---|---|
| 🚀 Self-hosting: Docker, Kubernetes, Helm | [dakera-deploy](https://github.com/Dakera-AI/dakera-deploy) · [dakera-helm](https://github.com/Dakera-AI/dakera-helm) |
| 🔌 MCP server for Claude, Cursor and other agents | [dakera-mcp](https://github.com/Dakera-AI/dakera-mcp) |
| 🧰 SDKs | [Python](https://github.com/Dakera-AI/dakera-py) · [TypeScript](https://github.com/Dakera-AI/dakera-js) · [Go](https://github.com/Dakera-AI/dakera-go) · [Rust](https://github.com/Dakera-AI/dakera-rs) |
| 🦜 Frameworks | [LangChain](https://github.com/Dakera-AI/dakera-langchain) · [LangChain.js](https://github.com/Dakera-AI/dakera-langchain-js) · [LlamaIndex](https://github.com/Dakera-AI/dakera-llamaindex) · [CrewAI](https://github.com/Dakera-AI/dakera-crewai) · [AutoGen](https://github.com/Dakera-AI/dakera-autogen) · [Vercel AI SDK](https://github.com/Dakera-AI/dakera-ai-sdk) · [Strands](https://github.com/Dakera-AI/strands-dakera) |
| ⌨️ Command line | [dakera-cli](https://github.com/Dakera-AI/dakera-cli) |

## Get in touch

Questions, feedback or a feature you need: **[amine@dakera.ai](mailto:amine@dakera.ai)**.

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