Fixes#210.
The CLI requires a positional <dir> argument. Previous docs emphasized
that init 'sets up ~/.mempalace/' which misled users into expecting
no arguments. Now the docs show <dir> is required, offer '.' as the
usage for the current directory, and reword the description so the
project-directory scan is listed first.
Part of #875. Bring the VitePress site into line with the new README
and the reproducibility scorecard: drop category-error comparisons,
drop retracted claims, retain only metrics and caveats that survive
audit.
website/index.md
- New tagline matches README (local-first, verbatim, pluggable backend,
96.6% R@5 raw, zero API calls).
- Replace the "MemPalace hybrid 100% / Supermemory ~99% / Mastra
94.87% / Mem0 ~85%" comparison table with a single honest table
showing MemPalace's own retrieval-recall numbers (raw 96.6%,
hybrid v4 held-out 98.4%). Add an explicit sentence explaining why
we no longer publish a cross-system table on the landing page
(retrieval recall vs QA accuracy are different metrics).
- Soften the "ChromaDB-powered vector search" feature blurb to be
backend-agnostic, since the retrieval layer is pluggable.
website/reference/benchmarks.md
- Full rewrite of the retrieval-recall tables. No more "100%"
headline; honest held-out 98.4% R@5 replaces it. Added the
model-agnostic rerank result (99.2% R@5 / 100% R@10 with
minimax-m2.7 via Ollama) to show the pipeline is not Haiku-specific.
- Drop the LoCoMo "Hybrid v5 + Sonnet rerank (top-50) 100%" row.
With per-conversation session counts of 19-32 and top_k=50, the
retrieval stage returns every session by construction — the number
measures an LLM's reading comprehension, not retrieval.
- Drop the cross-system comparison tables. Link out to each project's
own research page (Mastra, Mem0, Supermemory) for their published
numbers and metric definitions.
- Rewrite reproduction commands to use the correct repository and
demonstrate the new --llm-backend ollama flag.
website/concepts/the-palace.md
- Remove the "+34%" row / paragraph. Wing/room filtering is standard
metadata filtering in the vector store, not a novel retrieval
mechanism — the April-7 note already retracted that framing; this
finishes the retraction on the website where it had remained.
website/guide/searching.md
- Same treatment for "34% retrieval improvement". Reframe as
operational scoping, not a novel boost.
website/reference/contributing.md
- Update the "palace structure matters" bullet to reflect the same
framing: scoping-not-magic.
website/concepts/knowledge-graph.md
- Replace the MemPalace-vs-Zep feature matrix with a short "related
work" note that links to Zep's own documentation for authoritative
details on their deployment model. Avoids claims we cannot verify
at source.
Follow-up to #766 which covers version.py, pyproject.toml, README,
CHANGELOG, and CONTRIBUTING. These 11 files still had the old org
name in URLs:
- website/ (VitePress config + 6 docs pages)
- .claude-plugin/ (plugin.json repository, README marketplace command)
- .codex-plugin/ (plugin.json URLs, README links)
Author name fields are intentionally unchanged.
Arnold Wender