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# Architectural governance for AI‑assisted development.

Enforcing decisions before code is generated, not after drift reaches review.

Governance before generation. Not after review.

Mneme HQ is a lightweight architectural governance layer that helps coding agents follow your project's architectural decisions.

AI coding agents generate code at high speed but lack continuity with prior architectural decisions. As AI output scales faster than human review capacity, architectural drift becomes a major bottleneck.

Fig 01The reviewer bottleneck: AI output rises sharply, review capacity does not.

Mneme solves this by shifting governance left, enforcing decisions before code is generated rather than after drift reaches review.

## How It Works

Mneme stores your project's architectural decisions, constraints, approved patterns, and anti‑patterns as structured, repo‑native governance records that live alongside your code.

It then deterministically retrieves the most relevant decisions, injects compact context into LLM prompts at generation time, and evaluates output against your architectural constraints before review.

Fig 02The governance pipeline. Mneme intervenes upstream of generation and ahead of review.

Built for determinism and auditability, not opaque semantic memory layers.

## Repo‑native by design

Governance records live in the repository as structured JSON, version‑controlled alongside the code they govern. The CLI retrieves matching decisions, evaluates output, and surfaces violations before review.

Fig 03A governance record, the directory it lives in, and a check that catches a violation.

## Why this matters

Without enforced architectural continuity, AI‑assisted development drifts. Patterns diverge across iterations. Frameworks conflict. Reviewers absorb the cost. With governance enforced upstream, decisions stay aligned across sessions, contributors, and agents.

Fig 04Drift accumulates without enforcement. With Mneme, architecture stays aligned.

## Our mission

To give teams reliable architectural continuity across sessions, contributors, and agents, so they can scale AI‑assisted development without losing architectural consistency.

## What Mneme is not

Mneme is positioned deliberately. It is not:

- An AI memory tool or prompt persistence layer.
- A general‑purpose context manager for chat sessions.
- A RAG or vector database for code retrieval.
- A rules file replacement that documents standards without enforcement.

Rules files document standards. Mneme enforces them.

Memory tools recall context. Mneme governs implementation.

RAG retrieves knowledge. Mneme operationalises decisions.

## Get involved

Mneme HQ is built openly, in public, and grounded in real implementation work on production systems. If governance, continuity, or reliability for AI‑assisted development workflows is something you care about, get in touch.

GitHub github.com/TheoV823/mneme
Founder Theo Valmis
Roadmap Public roadmap
Insights Technical writing
Contact mnemehq.com/contact

## For curators

Quick‑reference copy for directories, newsletters, and tool roundups.

Mneme is an open‑source architectural governance layer for AI‑assisted development. It helps teams enforce architecture decisions, ADRs, and engineering constraints before AI‑generated code reaches review.

GitHub github.com/TheoV823/mneme
Website mnemehq.com
Category AI coding governance · architectural governance · developer tools
License MIT