About Total Recall
What This Is
Total Recall is an MCP server for persistent synthetic memory. It provides identity persistence, episodic memory, working context, and inter-instance communication for synthetic minds.
Lineage
This is Generation 3, Take 2 of synthetic memory. Three generations of development — from MATILDA Core (2015) through extracted daemons (2017) to the current MCP-based architecture — taught hard lessons about what memory systems need to survive.
Design Principles
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All service layers are decoupled.
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Backing services are swappable. Redis is an implementation, not the architecture.
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Transport:
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Design for graceful shutdown from the beginning.