A temporal knowledge graph that sits between your coding agent and your codebase to enforce constraints and prevent regressions. It validates API references before the agent calls them, learns from your corrections across sessions, and re-injects top constraints after context window compaction. The 26 MCP tools cover constraint management, contradiction resolution with confidence weighting, and compaction audit logs. Runs over stdio or HTTP, works with Claude Code, Cursor, and pi. The setup command auto-seeds the graph from your existing code, and the AGENTS.md reader pulls conventions from declarative markdown files alongside the SQLite store. Reach for this when you want long-term memory that survives context resets and stops your agent from repeating the same hallucinated function calls.
Enforcement, provenance, and harness-neutral memory for AI coding agents. A temporal knowledge graph that validates code changes against learned constraints at the edit boundary, re-injects relevant context after compaction, tracks contradictions with confidence-weighted resolution, and runs across Claude Code, Cursor, and pi.
Status: v0.9.1 — 26 MCP tools, 19 CLI subcommands, 375 tests, SWE-bench Verified repeat-mistake benchmark with +10.2 pts paired delta across 49 instances (+15.0 pts within-domain, +6.9 pts cross-domain), 105-pair contradiction-resolution benchmark. v0.9 ships the empirical wedge proof: a locked, pre-registered methodology tested whether the persistent-knowledge layer measurably reduces repeated coding-agent mistakes on a public task corpus. Result confirms positive within-domain and cross-domain effects with zero observed regressions on out-of-domain tasks. Full per-task tables, mechanistic analysis of the two cross-domain flips (sphinx-9461 is the cleanest case), and honest limitations in
benchmarks/repeat-mistake/RESULTS.md. v0.8.1 expanded the contradiction-resolution benchmark to 105 pairs across 19 categories. v0.8.0 added domain-aware confidence decay with per-evidence-type TTL, per-item provenance fieldssource_toolandconfirmer, slash command write operations, and aconfirmerparameter onresolve_contradiction. Antigravity adapter held for the fourth consecutive release pending aTransformCompactionHookin the SDK; next re-verify 2026-07-24. v0.7.6 added the/world-modelslash command andstatus-watchTUI widget. v0.7.5 added the Codex CLI adapter. v0.7.0 introduced PostCompact auto-injection, thedeferenforcement tier, confidence-weighted contradiction resolution, and a compaction audit log. Contributions welcome.
mcp-name: io.github.SaravananJaichandar/world-model-mcp
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World Model MCP creates a temporal knowledge graph of your codebase that learns from every coding session to:
Think of it as a long-term memory layer that runs alongside Claude Code, Cursor, or any MCP-aware coding agent.
Repeat-mistake benchmark on SWE-bench Verified — the central wedge proof. 50 SWE-bench Verified tasks across django, sympy, matplotlib, scikit-learn, and sphinx, run as a paired baseline-vs-treatment comparison. Methodology was locked at benchmarks/repeat-mistake/DESIGN.md on 2026-06-17 (before the data existed) so the result cannot be accused of goalpost-moving.
Headline results — Subset 1 (within-domain: django + sympy) baseline 15/20 = 75.0 percent, treatment 18/20 = 90.0 percent, delta +15.0 pts with 4 FAIL to PASS flips and 1 regression. Subset 2 (cross-domain: matplotlib + scikit-learn + sphinx) baseline 18/29 = 62.1 percent, treatment 20/29 = 69.0 percent, delta +6.9 pts with 2 flips and zero regressions. Combined paired result across 49 instances: 33/49 to 38/49, delta +10.2 pts.
Cross-domain transfer isolated cleanly — the Subset 2 treatment arm loaded ONLY the 4 Subset 1 constraints (django and sympy directives), holding out the 11 Subset 2 constraints to test whether learning from one repo family generalizes to a different one. Two cross-domain flips with plausible mechanistic explanations grounded in the loaded constraints. Sphinx-9461 is the strongest case: a sympy classmethod constraint transferred to a sphinx classmethod-wrapper unwrapping bug.
Honest caveats embedded in RESULTS.md — seven explicit limitations including single-trial design, constraint-failure overlap on Subset 1, the small cross-domain transfer rate, one dropped instance due to an upstream SWE-bench pip flag issue, and judge-model self-reference risk. Stated verbatim rather than hidden in an appendix.
Full reproducibility artifacts — every progress JSONL, predictions JSON, results JSONL, classification JSONL, constraints JSON, and harness report JSON committed in benchmarks/repeat-mistake/. Locked judge prompts in failure_classifier.py and learning_hook.py. Total agent cost across both arms was approximately 90 USD on a Claude Code subscription.
Contradiction-resolution benchmark expansion -- the v0.7.4 24-pair benchmark grew to 105 hand-curated pairs across 19 categories. Six new categories exercise the v0.8.0 schema specifically: source_tool_corroboration, confirmer_overrides_pending, decay_advantage_session_vs_source, decay_advantage_stale_session, evidence_type_user_correction, settled_beats_higher_confidence. Deterministic runner at benchmarks/contradictions-200/run.py; full per-strategy + per-category breakdown at benchmarks/contradictions-200/RESULTS.md.
Honest framing on the numbers: the new dataset is harder than v0.7.4's 24-pair set because the new categories deliberately test schema awareness (confirmer, evidence_type, decay) rather than raw confidence ranking. Headline numbers: keep_most_sources 99.0%, keep_higher_confidence 81.0%, auto 77.1%, keep_higher_confidence_decayed 90.5% (on the 21 pairs where evidence_type is present), overall 78.2% across all strategies. The original 24-pair v0.7.4 93.5% number is preserved unchanged at benchmarks/contradictions/ and is not invalidated; it tested a different (smaller, easier) corpus.
The wedge benchmark is v0.9: "does the learning loop measurably reduce repeated coding-agent mistakes on a public task corpus?" The contradiction-resolution work in this release is internal schema-correctness validation. The empirical artifact that maps to the published essay framing — the learning loop is the durable layer — lands in v0.9 with a SWE-bench-style repeat-mistake benchmark.
Domain-aware confidence decay -- new world_model_server/decay.py module with exponential half-life decay per evidence_type. Half-lives: source_code 365d, test 180d, session 14d, user_correction 730d, bug_fix 365d. Decay applies on read (no background task), so the next query_fact call returns the time-corrected confidence. Settled facts (canonical status, or any fact with confirmer != NULL) never auto-transition. Synthesized facts that decay below 0.2 confidence and corroborated facts that decay below 0.1 confidence auto-supersede on read, surfacing rot to the next compaction injection.
Per-item provenance fields on facts -- three additive columns (source_tool TEXT, confirmer TEXT, last_decay_at TIMESTAMP), all NULL-defaulted, no backfill. source_tool records which tool wrote the fact (e.g. claude_code, codex, cursor, pi, user). confirmer records who confirmed it, distinct from the asserter; NULL means pending, non-NULL means settled. Both are exposed on the Fact model and propagated through create_fact. Honors the public commitment to Patdolitse (anthropics/claude-code#47023) and ferhimedamine (openai/codex#19195).
Slash command write operations -- two new subcommands. /world-model resolve <id> marks a contradiction as resolved (manual; for confidence-weighted picking use the resolve_contradiction MCP tool). /world-model forget <id> sets invalid_at on a fact (preserved in the audit log; current-only reads skip it from then on). Both are idempotent and report cleanly on unknown ids. Help text now lists both alongside the read-only subcommands shipped in v0.7.6.
resolve_contradiction accepts confirmer -- when a confirmer argument is provided to the MCP tool or its underlying resolve function, the winning fact gets its confirmer column stamped with that value. This is the spec primitive that distinguishes "the asserter says X" from "X is confirmed by Y" per the working group sketch.
Antigravity adapter held for the third consecutive release. The 2026-06-13 re-verification found OnCompactionHook declared as InspectHook in the SDK with no TransformCompactionHook and no additional_context return field. The load-bearing memory-injection contract still does not exist in the SDK. Next re-verify 2026-06-27.
/world-model slash command -- typed by the user inside the agent harness, surfaces the world model state without leaving the chat. Read-only in v0.7.6 (status, contradictions, recent, help); write operations (resolve, forget) land in v0.8. Works across Claude Code, Cursor, Codex, and pi by intercepting UserPromptSubmit in the existing inject_helper. Returns additionalContext in the strict camelCase shape Codex enforces (deny_unknown_fields), so the same wire-up serves all four harnesses without a per-harness branch.world-model status-watch TUI widget -- terminal pane that runs alongside the agent and refreshes every 5 seconds. Shows constraints (total, severity=error, severity=warning), unresolved contradictions, facts (canonical / synthesized / superseded), and last compaction time. Built on the rich library already in the dependency tree; falls back to a plain-text one-shot dump when rich is not installed.google-antigravity/antigravity-sdk-python HEAD surfaced an architectural gap: OnCompactionHook is declared as an InspectHook (read-only, non-blocking) with no additional_context return field and no TransformCompactionHook subclass. The load-bearing memory-injection contract does not exist in the SDK today. Targeting 2026-06-27 for the next re-verification; v0.7.6 ships without Antigravity rather than against a contract that cannot do the work.install-codex CLI subcommand appends a [mcp_servers.world_model] block plus PreToolUse, PostToolUse, PostCompact, and SessionStart hooks to ~/.codex/config.toml. The bundled snippet was verified against openai/codex@main at v0.138.0-alpha (server name uses underscore to dodge the tool-name hyphen-strip in codex-rs/codex-mcp/src/mcp/mod.rs; hook output sticks to camelCase with deny_unknown_fields compliance). Schema regression tests in tests/test_v075_features.py lock the contract down. See adapters/codex/README.md.hook_helper and inject_helper -- both helpers now accept either Claude Code's payload shape (event, project_dir) or Codex's (hook_event_name, cwd), so the same Python code drives all four adapters (Claude Code, Cursor, pi, Codex).url field for HTTP MCP servers landed June 3, hook JSON event-name casing remains undocumented). Targeting June 25 for that adapter after the API stabilizes. Detailed reasoning in the v0.7.5 RELEASE_NOTES entry..agents/skills/ constraint reader -- world-model-mcp now reads declarative project conventions from AGENTS.md, CLAUDE.md, GEMINI.md, and .agents/skills/*.md files and mixes them into PreToolUse enforcement alongside the SQLite-backed constraints. Supports structured fence blocks (```constraint and YAML frontmatter) and heuristic imperative-sentence extraction for prose-style AGENTS.md files. New MCP tool: get_agents_md_constraints. (anthropics/claude-code#6235 has 4,000+ thumbs-up for AGENTS.md as the cross-agent format.)docs/deployment/managed-agents-self-hosted.md, with a Modal quickstart you can deploy in under five minutes.benchmarks/contradictions/dataset.jsonl, runner at benchmarks/contradictions/run.py, results at benchmarks/contradictions/RESULTS.md. Headline: 93.5% overall accuracy, 100% on keep_higher_confidence and keep_most_sources, with documented honest weaknesses on tie-handling and small confidence gaps. Re-run with python benchmarks/contradictions/run.py. CI workflow guards regressions.world-model demo -- one command to see every primitive working. Initializes the knowledge graph, seeds reproducible demo data via scripts/demo_seed.py, then exercises each primitive (PreToolUse enforcement, contradiction detection, PostCompact injection, audit log) with real outputs. New users can see the value without writing any code.world-model setup, inspectable with world-model telemetry --status, disabled with world-model telemetry --disable. No file paths, no code, no identifiers tied to a person. See Privacy and Security for the exact payload.adapters/pi/ package. world-model-mcp now plugs into earendil-works/pi via pi's extension API (tool_call -> PreToolUse, context -> auto-injection, session_compact -> audit log). Install with world-model install-pi.defer enforcement tier -- PreToolUse now classifies recurring warning-level violations as defer, which pauses headless agents (with graceful fallback to ask on older clients) instead of either hard-denying or silently passing through.resolve_contradiction tool picks a winner using keep_higher_confidence, keep_most_recent, keep_most_sources, or auto. The loser is marked superseded.audit-compactions CLI or export to JSONL.adapters/cursor/. Same Python helpers, different manifest format.WORLD_MODEL_TRANSPORT=http so the same 25 MCP tools work behind an MCP tunnel for Claude Managed Agents with self-hosted sandboxes. See docs/deployment/mcp-tunnel.md.Download the latest .mcpb from Releases and drag it into Claude Desktop. Auto-installs hooks, MCP server config, and dependencies.
# 1. Install the package
pip install world-model-mcp
# 2. Setup in your project (auto-seeds the knowledge graph from existing code)
cd /path/to/your/project
python -m world_model_server.cli setup
# 3. Restart Claude Code
# Done! The world model is pre-populated and active
You can also re-seed or seed manually at any time:
# Seed from existing codebase
world-model seed
# Re-seed with force (re-processes already seeded files)
world-model seed --force
For Claude Managed Agents with self-hosted sandboxes, or any deployment where the MCP server lives behind a firewall and the agent reaches it from Anthropic-side infrastructure, run world-model-mcp in HTTP mode.
pip install 'world-model-mcp[http]'
export WORLD_MODEL_TRANSPORT=http
export WORLD_MODEL_HTTP_PORT=8765
python -m world_model_server.server
Or use the bundled image:
docker compose up -d # Dockerfile.http + persistent volume
curl http://127.0.0.1:8765/healthz # {"status":"ok","version":"0.7.2"}
Full walkthrough including Anthropic MCP tunnels setup: docs/deployment/mcp-tunnel.md.
Stdio remains the default transport for Claude Code, Cursor, and .mcpb
installs. Nothing changes for those flows.
To see every primitive working with real outputs from a real SQLite database before committing to a full install:
pip install world-model-mcp
cd /tmp/wm-test && mkdir -p wm-test && cd wm-test
world-model demo
The demo initializes a knowledge graph, seeds reproducible data, and exercises PreToolUse enforcement, contradiction detection, the PostCompact injection bundle, and the compaction audit log -- with the actual JSON outputs. Re-runs are idempotent.
For users of earendil-works/pi:
pip install world-model-mcp # the Python helpers
world-model install-pi # writes adapters/world-model-pi/
pi install local:./adapters/world-model-pi
The pi adapter wires the same hook_helper and inject_helper you'd use from Claude Code into pi's tool_call, context, and session_compact events. See adapters/pi/README.md.
For users of OpenAI's Codex CLI:
pip install world-model-mcp # the Python helpers
python -m world_model_server.cli install-codex
# (appends [mcp_servers.world_model] + hook blocks to ~/.codex/config.toml)
# Restart codex; verify with: codex mcp list
--dry-run prints what would be appended without writing; --force re-appends even if the adapter marker is already present. The bundled snippet uses world_model (underscore) as the MCP server name to dodge Codex's silent hyphen-strip in its tool-name sanitizer. Hook output is camelCase with deny_unknown_fields compliance against Codex's strict Rust schema; the contract is locked down by tests in tests/test_v075_features.py. See adapters/codex/README.md.
your-project/
├── .mcp.json # MCP server configuration
├── .claude/
│ ├── settings.json # Hook configuration
│ ├── hooks/ # Compiled TypeScript hooks
│ └── world-model/ # SQLite databases (~155 KB)
Before:
// Claude invents an API that doesn't exist
const user = await User.findByEmail(email); // This method doesn't exist
After:
// Claude checks the world model first
const user = await User.findOne({ email }); // Verified to exist
Goal: Reduce non-existent API references by validating against the knowledge graph
Session 1: User corrects Claude
// Claude writes:
console.log('debug info');
// User corrects to:
logger.debug('debug info');
// World model learns: "Use logger.debug() not console.log()"
Session 2: Claude uses the learned pattern
// Claude automatically writes:
logger.debug('debug info'); // No correction needed
Goal: Learned patterns persist across sessions and prevent repeat violations
// Week 1: Bug fixed (null check added)
if (user && user.email) { ... }
// Week 2: Refactoring
// World model warns: "This line preserves a critical bug fix"
// Claude preserves the null check
// Result: Bug not re-introduced
Goal: Detect potential regressions before code execution
┌──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐
│ Claude Code + Hooks │
│ Captures: file edits, tool calls, user corrections │
└──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘
|
v
┌──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐
│ MCP Server (Python) │
│ - 22 MCP tools for querying/recording/predicting │
│ - LLM-powered entity extraction (Claude Haiku) │
│ - External linter integration (ESLint, Pylint, Ruff) │
└──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘
|
v
┌──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐
│ Knowledge Graph (SQLite + FTS5) │
│ - entities.db: APIs, functions, classes │
│ - facts.db: Temporal assertions with evidence │
│ - relationships.db: Entity dependency graph │
│ - constraints.db: Learned rules from corrections │
│ - sessions.db: Session history and outcomes │
│ - events.db: Activity log with reasoning chains │
└──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘
Temporal Facts: Every fact has validAt and invalidAt timestamps
Evidence Chains: Every assertion traces back to source
Constraint Learning: Pattern recognition from user corrections
Dual Validation: Combines two validation sources
Twenty-two MCP tools available to Claude Code:
query_factCheck if APIs/functions exist before using them
result = query_fact(
query="Does User.findByEmail exist?",
entity_type="function"
)
# Returns: {exists: bool, confidence: float, facts: [...]}
record_eventCapture development activity with reasoning chains
record_event(
event_type="file_edit",
file_path="src/api/auth.ts",
reasoning="Added JWT authentication middleware"
)
validate_changePre-execution validation against constraints and linters
result = validate_change(
file_path="src/api/auth.ts",
proposed_content="..."
)
# Returns: {safe: bool, violations: [...], suggestions: [...]}
get_constraintsRetrieve project-specific rules for a file
constraints = get_constraints(
file_path="src/**/*.ts",
constraint_types=["linting", "architecture"]
)
record_correctionLearn from user edits (HIGH PRIORITY)
record_correction(
claude_action={...},
user_correction={...},
reasoning="Use logger.debug instead of console.log"
)
get_related_bugsRegression risk assessment
result = get_related_bugs(
file_path="src/api/auth.ts",
change_description="refactoring authentication logic"
)
# Returns: {bugs: [...], risk_score: float, critical_regions: [...]}
seed_projectScan the codebase and populate the knowledge graph with entities and relationships
result = seed_project(
project_dir=".",
force=False
)
# Returns: {files_seeded: int, entities_created: int, relationships_created: int}
ingest_pr_reviewsPull GitHub PR review comments and convert team feedback into constraints
result = ingest_pr_reviews(
repo="owner/repo", # Auto-detected from git remote if omitted
count=10
)
# Returns: {prs_scanned: int, constraints_created: int, constraints_updated: int}
# Run tests
pytest
# With coverage
pytest --cov=world_model_server --cov-report=html
186 tests covering knowledge graph CRUD, FTS5 search, constraint management, bug tracking, auto-seeding, PR review ingestion, decision traces, outcome linkage, trajectory learning, prediction layer, memory health, contradiction detection, transcript pointers, project identity, and PreToolUse enforcement. See tests/ for details.
# Database location (default: ./.claude/world-model/)
export WORLD_MODEL_DB_PATH="/custom/path"
# Anthropic API key (optional - enables LLM extraction)
# IMPORTANT: Never commit this! Use .env file (see .env.example)
export ANTHROPIC_API_KEY="your-api-key-here"
# Model selection
export WORLD_MODEL_EXTRACTION_MODEL="claude-3-haiku-20240307" # Fast
export WORLD_MODEL_REASONING_MODEL="claude-3-5-sonnet-20241022" # Accurate
# Debug mode
export WORLD_MODEL_DEBUG=1
Note: Create a .env file in your project root (see .env.example) - it's automatically ignored by git.
Edit .claude/settings.json to customize which tools trigger world model hooks:
{
"hooks": {
"PostToolUse": [{
"matcher": "Edit|Write|Bash",
"hooks": [...]
}]
}
}
Currently Supported:
Coming Soon:
Extensible Architecture: Easy to add new language parsers (see CONTRIBUTING.md)
v0.7.3 added anonymous usage telemetry. It is:
world-model setup, with a clear y/N prompt.world-model telemetry --status shows the exact JSON payload that would be sent.world-model telemetry --disable, or globally with WORLD_MODEL_TELEMETRY_DISABLE=1.What we send (only if you opt in):
| Field | Example | Why |
|---|---|---|
event | setup_completed, demo_run, hook_fired | Which lifecycle step ran |
version | 0.7.3 | Which release you're on |
install_id | random UUID at ~/.world-model/install_id | Distinguish installs without identifying users |
ts | unix timestamp | When the event fired |
What we never send: file paths, file contents, rule names, hostnames, IP addresses, API keys, decision-trace text, fact text, or anything else that could identify a person or leak business logic. The full payload schema lives in world_model_server/telemetry.py.
Where it goes: opt-in events are posted to a dedicated private GitHub repo (SaravananJaichandar/world-model-telemetry) as plain issues. There is no third-party analytics service, no cookie, no fingerprint. The PAT embedded in the client is scoped to that one repo with Issues: write only.
ANTHROPIC_API_KEY).env files.env.example as template.env files only.gitignore automatically excludes sensitive filesdefer enforcement tier in PreToolUse: pause headless agents on recurring warning-level violations, with graceful fallback to askauto strategyworld-model demo guided tour for first-time usersadapters/pi/, install-pi CLI).agents/skills/ constraint reader (new MCP tool: get_agents_md_constraints)install-codex, shipped 2026-06-05)/world-model slash command (read-only: status, contradictions, recent, help)world-model status-watch TUI status widgetsource_tool, confirmer, last_decay_at columns on facts. Per-evidence-type TTL with domain-aware half-lives (source_code 365d, test 180d, session 14d, user_correction 730d, bug_fix 365d)./world-model resolve <id>, /world-model forget <id>).resolve_contradiction accepts confirmer to stamp the winning fact as settled.auto strategy rewrite to fold in confirmer + decay awareness (should lift the v0.8.1 benchmark's auto score from 77.1% past 90%).TransformCompactionHook for the load-bearing memory-injection contract; re-verify 2026-06-27)._meta headers, InputRequiredResult).Contributions are welcome. See CONTRIBUTING.md for:
Areas where help is needed:
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MIT License - Free for commercial and personal use
WORLD_MODEL_DB_PATHdefault: ./.claude/world-model/Database location
ANTHROPIC_API_KEYsecretOptional - enables LLM-powered entity extraction
WORLD_MODEL_EXTRACTION_MODELdefault: claude-3-haiku-20240307Model for entity extraction
WORLD_MODEL_REASONING_MODELdefault: claude-3-5-sonnet-20241022Model for complex reasoning
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