altk-evolve: Instructions file for Codex

What is Evolve?

Evolve is a Python library and service which enables AI agents to improve through self-reflection.

Key Concepts

• Trajectory: A recorded agent conversation
• Entity: Anything which is appropriately stored in a vector database, such as a guideline, policy, or some other knowledge.
• Namespace: Isolated storage for entities
• Conflict Resolution: LLM-based merging of duplicate/conflicting entities
• Guidelines: Instructions intended to assist an agent in completing some task

Architecture Flow

1. Agent completes some task, and the resulting trajectory is automatically saved into a logging framework such as Langfuse or Arize Phoenix.
2. The agent can call the sync MCP function, or the user can manually sync, which causes evolve to process the trajectory and save any generated guidelines.
3. Generated guidelines are stored as entities with conflict resolution applied.
4. Future agents can query the Evolve MCP server to fetch guidelines for similar tasks

Project Directory Tree (Some files omitted for brevity)

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├── demo (Files used by the Claude Code demo)
│   ├── filesystem
│   └── workdir
├── docs (Data used by README files)
├── explorations (Tangential projects for feeling out future work. Should be avoided unless otherwise prompted.)
│   └── claudecode
├── evolve (Primary Source Root)
│   ├── backend (Entity Database Backend implementations, primarily vector databases)
│   ├── cli (A CLI wrapper over the native Python client)
│   ├── config (All configurations which are derived from environment variables or instantiated as an object)
│   ├── db (A sqlite database for when vector databases are a poor fit for the data)
│   ├── frontend (Interfaces to interact with the backend)
│   │   ├── client (A native Python client which thinly wraps the configured backend)
│   │   └── mcp (An MCP server implementing some high-level methods useful for AI agents)
│   ├── llm (All code that prompts an LLM)
│   ├── schema (All well-defined datatypes used throughout the project)
│   ├── sync (Upstream data sources to be processed and stored in the backend)
│   └── utils (Small reusable code snippets)
├── tests (All tests for evolve)
├── .env.example (Environment variable template file)
└── .env (Environment variables used to configure evolve)