brainy/README.md

# Brainy

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## The Knowledge Operating System

**Every piece of knowledge in your application — living, connected, and intelligent.**

Stop fighting with vector databases, graph databases, and document stores. Stop stitching together Pinecone + Neo4j + MongoDB. **Brainy does all three, in one elegant API, from prototype to planet-scale.**

```javascript
const brain = new Brainy()
await brain.init()

// That's it. You now have semantic search, graph relationships,
// and document filtering. Zero configuration. Just works.
```

**Built by developers who were tired of:**
- Spending weeks configuring embeddings, indexes, and schemas
- Choosing between vector similarity OR graph relationships OR metadata filtering
- Rewriting everything when you need to scale from 1,000 to 1,000,000,000 entities

**Brainy makes the impossible simple: All three paradigms. One API. Any scale.**

---

## 👉 Choose Your Path

**New to Brainy? Pick your starting point:**

### 🚀 Path 1: I want to build something NOW
**→ [Full Documentation](https://soulcraft.com/docs)** ⭐ **Most developers start here** ⭐
- Interactive API reference with examples
- Quick start guides and tutorials
- Copy-paste ready code snippets
- **This is your primary resource**

### 🧠 Path 2: I want to understand the big picture first
**→ Keep reading below** for demos, architecture, and use cases

### 📊 Path 3: I'm evaluating database options
**→ Jump to [Why Revolutionary](#why-brainy-is-revolutionary)** or **[Benchmarks](#benchmarks)**

---

## See It In Action

**30 seconds to understand why Brainy is different:**

```javascript
import { Brainy, NounType, VerbType } from '@soulcraft/brainy'

const brain = new Brainy()
await brain.init()

// Add knowledge with context
const reactId = await brain.add({
    data: "React is a JavaScript library for building user interfaces",
    type: NounType.Concept,
    metadata: { category: "frontend", year: 2013 }
})

const nextId = await brain.add({
    data: "Next.js framework for React with server-side rendering",
    type: NounType.Concept,
    metadata: { category: "framework", year: 2016 }
})

// Create relationships
await brain.relate({ from: nextId, to: reactId, type: VerbType.BuiltOn })

// NOW THE MAGIC: Query with natural language
const results = await brain.find({
    query: "modern frontend frameworks", // 🔍 Vector similarity
    where: { year: { greaterThan: 2015 } },  // 📊 Document filtering
    connected: { to: reactId, depth: 2 }  // 🕸️ Graph traversal
})

// ALL THREE PARADIGMS. ONE QUERY. 10ms response time.
```

**This is impossible with traditional databases.** Brainy makes it trivial.

---

## Quick Start

```bash
npm install @soulcraft/brainy
```

### Your First Knowledge Graph (60 seconds)

```javascript
import { Brainy, NounType, VerbType } from '@soulcraft/brainy'

const brain = new Brainy()
await brain.init()

// Add knowledge
const jsId = await brain.add({
    data: "JavaScript is a programming language",
    type: NounType.Concept,
    metadata: { category: "language", year: 1995 }
})

const nodeId = await brain.add({
    data: "Node.js runtime environment",
    type: NounType.Concept,
    metadata: { category: "runtime", year: 2009 }
})

// Create relationships
await brain.relate({ from: nodeId, to: jsId, type: VerbType.Executes })

// Query with Triple Intelligence
const results = await brain.find({
    query: "JavaScript",                     // 🔍 Vector
    where: { category: "language" },         // 📊 Document
    connected: { from: nodeId, depth: 1 }    // 🕸️ Graph
})
```

**Done.** No configuration. No complexity. Production-ready from day one.

**→ Ready to dive deeper? [Complete API Documentation](docs/api/README.md)** has every method with examples.

---

## Entity Extraction (NEW in v5.7.6)

**Extract entities from text with AI-powered classification:**

```javascript
import { Brainy, NounType } from '@soulcraft/brainy'

const brain = new Brainy()
await brain.init()

// Extract all entities
const entities = await brain.extractEntities('John Smith founded Acme Corp in New York')
// Returns:
// [
//   { text: 'John Smith', type: NounType.Person, confidence: 0.95 },
//   { text: 'Acme Corp', type: NounType.Organization, confidence: 0.92 },
//   { text: 'New York', type: NounType.Location, confidence: 0.88 }
// ]

// Extract with filters
const people = await brain.extractEntities(resume, {
  types: [NounType.Person],
  confidence: 0.8
})

// Advanced: Direct access to extractors
import { SmartExtractor } from '@soulcraft/brainy'

const extractor = new SmartExtractor(brain, { minConfidence: 0.7 })
const result = await extractor.extract('CEO', {
  formatContext: { format: 'excel', columnHeader: 'Title' }
})
```

**Features:**
- 🎯 **4-Signal Ensemble** - ExactMatch (40%) + Embedding (35%) + Pattern (20%) + Context (5%)
- 📊 **Format Intelligence** - Adapts to Excel, CSV, PDF, YAML, DOCX, JSON, Markdown
- ⚡ **Fast** - ~15-20ms per extraction with LRU caching
- 🌍 **42 Types** - Person, Organization, Location, Document, and 38 more

**→ [Neural Extraction Guide](docs/neural-extraction.md)** | **[Import Preview Mode](docs/neural-extraction.md#import-preview-mode)**

---

## From Prototype to Planet Scale

**The same API. Zero rewrites. Any scale.**

### 👤 Individual Developer → Weekend Prototype
```javascript
const brain = new Brainy()  // Zero config, starts in memory
await brain.init()
```
**Perfect for:** Hackathons, side projects, prototyping, learning

### 👥 Small Team → Production MVP
```javascript
const brain = new Brainy({
  storage: { type: 'filesystem', path: './data', compression: true }
})
```
**Scale:** Thousands to hundreds of thousands • **Performance:** <5ms queries
**→ [Production Service Architecture](docs/PRODUCTION_SERVICE_ARCHITECTURE.md)** — Singleton patterns, caching, and scaling for Bun/Node.js services

### 🏢 Growing Company → Multi-Million Scale
```javascript
const brain = new Brainy({
  storage: { type: 's3', s3Storage: { bucketName: 'my-kb', region: 'us-east-1' } },
  hnsw: { typeAware: true }
})
```
**Scale:** Millions of entities • **Performance:** <10ms queries (measured at 1M scale)

### 🌍 Enterprise → Billion+ Scale
```javascript
const brain = new Brainy({
  storage: { type: 'gcs', gcsStorage: { bucketName: 'global-kb' } },
  hnsw: { typeAware: true, M: 32, efConstruction: 400 }
})
```
**Scale:** PROJECTED billion+ (extrapolated from 10M tests, not tested at 1B)
**Cost:** $138k/year → $6k/year with intelligent tiering (96% savings)

**→ [Capacity Planning Guide](docs/operations/capacity-planning.md)** | **[Cost Optimization](docs/operations/)**

### 🎯 The Point

**Start simple. Scale infinitely. Never rewrite.**

Most systems make you choose: Simple (SQLite) OR Scalable (Kubernetes + 7 databases).
**Brainy gives you both.** Starts simple as SQLite. Scales like Google.

---

## Why Brainy Is Revolutionary

### 🧠 **Triple Intelligence™** — The Impossible Made Possible

**The world's first to unify three database paradigms in ONE API:**

| What You Get | Like Having | But Unified |
|-------------|-------------|-------------|
| 🔍 **Vector Search** | Pinecone, Weaviate | Find by meaning |
| 🕸️ **Graph Relationships** | Neo4j, ArangoDB | Navigate connections |
| 📊 **Document Filtering** | MongoDB, Elasticsearch | Query metadata |

**Every other system makes you choose.** Brainy does all three together.

**Why this matters:** Your data isn't just vectors or just documents or just graphs. It's all three at once. A research paper is semantically similar to other papers (vector), written by an author (graph), and published in 2023 (document). **Brainy is the only system that understands this.**

### 🎯 **42 Noun Types × 127 Verb Types = Universal Protocol**

Model **any domain** with mathematical completeness:

```
42 Nouns × 127 Verbs × ∞ Metadata = 5,334+ base combinations
Stage 3 CANONICAL: 96-97% coverage of all human knowledge
```

**Real-world expressiveness:**
- Healthcare: `Patient → diagnoses → Condition`
- Finance: `Account → transfers → Transaction`
- Manufacturing: `Product → assembles → Component`
- Education: `Student → completes → Course`
- **YOUR domain** → Your types + relationships = Your knowledge graph

[→ See the Mathematical Proof](docs/architecture/noun-verb-taxonomy.md)

### ⚡ **Zero Configuration Philosophy**

**We hate configuration files. So we eliminated them.**

```javascript
const brain = new Brainy()  // Auto-detects everything
await brain.init()          // Optimizes for your environment
```

Brainy automatically:
- Detects optimal storage (memory/filesystem/cloud)
- Configures memory based on available RAM
- Optimizes for containers (Docker/K8s)
- Tunes indexes for your data patterns
- Manages embedding models and caching

**You write business logic. Brainy handles infrastructure.**

### 🚀 **Git-Style Version Control** — Database & Entity Level (v5.0.0+)

**Clone your entire database in <100ms. Track every entity change. Full Git-style workflow.**

```javascript
// Fork instantly - Snowflake-style copy-on-write
const experiment = await brain.fork('test-migration')

// Make changes safely in isolation
await experiment.add({ type: 'user', data: { name: 'Test User' } })
await experiment.updateAll({ /* migration logic */ })

// Commit your work
await experiment.commit({ message: 'Add test user', author: 'dev@example.com' })

// Switch to experimental branch to make it active
await brain.checkout('test-migration')

// Time-travel: Query database at any past commit (read-only)
const commits = await brain.getHistory({ limit: 10 })
const snapshot = await brain.asOf(commits[5].id)
const pastResults = await snapshot.find({ query: 'historical data' })
await snapshot.close()

// Entity versioning: Track changes to individual entities (v5.3.0+)
const userId = await brain.add({ type: 'user', data: { name: 'Alice' } })
await brain.versions.save(userId, { tag: 'v1.0', description: 'Initial profile' })

await brain.update(userId, { data: { name: 'Alice Smith', role: 'admin' } })
await brain.versions.save(userId, { tag: 'v2.0', description: 'Added role' })

// Compare versions or restore previous state
const diff = await brain.versions.compare(userId, 1, 2)  // See what changed
await brain.versions.restore(userId, 1)  // Restore v1.0
```

**Database-level version control (v5.0.0):**
- ✅ `fork()` - Instant clone in <100ms
- ✅ `merge()` - Merge with conflict resolution
- ✅ `commit()` - Snapshot state
- ✅ `asOf()` - Time-travel queries (query at any commit)
- ✅ `getHistory()` - View commit history
- ✅ `checkout()`, `listBranches()` - Full branch management
- ✅ CLI support for all features

**Entity-level version control (v5.3.0):**
- ✅ `versions.save()` - Save entity snapshots with tags
- ✅ `versions.restore()` - Restore previous versions
- ✅ `versions.compare()` - Diff between versions
- ✅ `versions.list()` - View version history
- ✅ Automatic deduplication (content-addressable storage)

**How it works:** Snowflake-style COW shares HNSW index structures, copying only modified nodes (10-20% memory overhead).

**Perfect for:** Safe migrations, A/B testing, feature branches, distributed development, time-travel debugging, audit trails, document versioning, compliance tracking

[→ See Full Documentation](docs/features/instant-fork.md)

---

## What Can You Build?

**If your app needs to remember, understand, or connect information — Brainy makes it trivial.**

### 🤖 **AI Agents with Perfect Memory**
Give your AI unlimited context that persists forever. Not just chat history — true understanding of relationships, evolution, and meaning over time.

**Examples:** Personal assistants, code assistants, conversational AI, research agents

### 📚 **Living Documentation & Knowledge Bases**
Documentation that understands itself. Auto-links related concepts, detects outdated information, finds connections across your entire knowledge base.

**Examples:** Internal wikis, research platforms, smart documentation, learning systems

### 🔍 **Semantic Search at Any Scale**
Find by meaning, not keywords. Search codebases, research papers, customer data, or media libraries with natural language.

**Examples:** Code search, research platforms, content discovery, recommendation engines

### 🏢 **Enterprise Knowledge Management**
Corporate memory that never forgets. Track every customer interaction, product evolution, and business relationship.

**Examples:** CRM systems, product catalogs, customer intelligence, institutional knowledge

### 🎮 **Rich Interactive Experiences**
NPCs that remember. Characters that persist across stories. Worlds that evolve based on real relationships.

**Examples:** Game worlds, interactive fiction, educational platforms, creative tools

### 🎨 **Content & Media Platforms**
Every asset knows its relationships. Intelligent tagging, similarity-based discovery, and relationship-aware management.

**Examples:** DAM systems, media libraries, writing assistants, content management

**The pattern:** Knowledge that needs to live, connect, and evolve. That's what Brainy was built for.

---

## Core Features

### 🧠 **Natural Language Queries**

```javascript
// Ask naturally - Brainy understands
await brain.find("recent React components with tests")
await brain.find("JavaScript libraries similar to Vue")

// Or use structured Triple Intelligence queries
await brain.find({
    query: "React",
    where: { type: "library", year: { greaterThan: 2020 } },
    connected: { to: "JavaScript", depth: 2 }
})
```

**→ [See all query methods in API Reference](docs/api/README.md#search--query)**

### 🔍 **Zero-Config Hybrid Search** (v7.7.0)

Automatically combines text (keyword) and semantic (vector) search for optimal results:

```javascript
// Just works - no configuration needed
const results = await brain.find({ query: 'David Smith' })
// Finds exact text matches AND semantically similar content

// Override when needed
await brain.find({ query: 'exact match', searchMode: 'text' })     // Text only
await brain.find({ query: 'AI concepts', searchMode: 'semantic' }) // Semantic only
await brain.find({ query: 'hybrid', hybridAlpha: 0.3 })            // Custom weighting

// Highlight structured content (v7.8.0) — plain text, JSON, HTML, Markdown
const highlights = await brain.highlight({
  query: 'warrior',
  text: entity.data  // Auto-detects TipTap, Slate, Lexical, HTML, Markdown
})
// Each highlight has: text, score, position, matchType, contentCategory
```

**→ [Hybrid Search Documentation](docs/api/README.md#hybrid-search-v770)**

### 🌐 **Virtual Filesystem** — Intelligent File Management

Build file explorers and IDEs that never crash:

```javascript
const vfs = brain.vfs()

// Tree-aware operations prevent infinite recursion
const tree = await vfs.getTreeStructure('/projects', { maxDepth: 3 })

// Semantic file search
const reactFiles = await vfs.search('React components with hooks')
```

**[📖 VFS Quick Start →](docs/vfs/QUICK_START.md)** | **[Common Patterns →](docs/vfs/COMMON_PATTERNS.md)** | **[Neural Extraction →](docs/vfs/NEURAL_EXTRACTION.md)**

### 🚀 **Import Anything** — CSV, Excel, PDF, URLs

```javascript
await brain.import('customers.csv')  // Auto-detects everything
await brain.import('sales-data.xlsx', { excelSheets: ['Q1', 'Q2'] })
await brain.import('research-paper.pdf', { pdfExtractTables: true })
await brain.import('https://api.example.com/data.json')
```

**[📖 Complete Import Guide →](docs/guides/import-anything.md)**

### 🧠 **Neural API** — Advanced Semantic Analysis

```javascript
// Clustering, similarity, outlier detection, visualization
const clusters = await brain.neural.clusters({ algorithm: 'kmeans' })
const similarity = await brain.neural.similar('item1', 'item2')
const outliers = await brain.neural.outliers(0.3)
const vizData = await brain.neural.visualize({ maxNodes: 100 })
```

---

## Framework Integration

**Works with any modern framework.** React, Vue, Angular, Svelte, Solid.js — your choice.

```javascript
// React
const [brain] = useState(() => new Brainy())
useEffect(() => { brain.init() }, [])

// Vue
async mounted() { this.brain = await new Brainy().init() }

// Angular
@Injectable() export class BrainyService { brain = new Brainy() }
```

**Supports:** All bundlers (Webpack, Vite, Rollup) • SSR/SSG • Edge runtimes • Browser/Node.js

**[📖 Framework Integration Guide →](docs/guides/framework-integration.md)** | **[Next.js →](docs/guides/nextjs-integration.md)** | **[Vue →](docs/guides/vue-integration.md)**

---

## Storage — From Memory to Planet-Scale

### Development → Just Works
```javascript
const brain = new Brainy()  // Memory storage, zero config
```

### Production → Persistence with Compression
```javascript
const brain = new Brainy({
  storage: { type: 'filesystem', path: './data', compression: true }
})
// 60-80% space savings with gzip
```

### Cloud → AWS, GCS, Azure, Cloudflare R2
```javascript
// AWS S3 / Cloudflare R2
const brain = new Brainy({
  storage: {
    type: 's3',
    s3Storage: {
      bucketName: 'my-knowledge-base',
      region: 'us-east-1'
    }
  }
})

// Enable Intelligent-Tiering: 96% cost savings
await brain.storage.enableIntelligentTiering('entities/', 'auto-tier')
```

**Cost optimization at scale:**

| Scale | Standard | With Intelligent Tiering | Annual Savings |
|-------|----------|--------------------------|----------------|
| 5TB | $1,380 | $59 | $1,321 (96%) |
| 50TB | $13,800 | $594 | $13,206 (96%) |
| 500TB | $138,000 | $5,940 | $132,060 (96%) |

**[📖 Cloud Storage Guide →](docs/deployment/CLOUD_DEPLOYMENT_GUIDE.md)** | **[AWS Cost Optimization →](docs/operations/cost-optimization-aws-s3.md)** | **[GCS →](docs/operations/cost-optimization-gcs.md)** | **[Azure →](docs/operations/cost-optimization-azure.md)**

---

## Production Features

### 🎯 Type-Aware HNSW Indexing

Efficient type-based organization for large-scale deployments:

- **Type-based queries:** Faster via directory structure (measured at 1K-1M scale)
- **Type count tracking:** 284 bytes (Uint32Array, measured)
- **Billion-scale projections:** NOT tested at 1B entities (extrapolated from 1M)

```javascript
const brain = new Brainy({ hnsw: { typeAware: true } })
```

**[📖 How Type-Aware Indexing Works →](docs/architecture/data-storage-architecture.md)**

### ⚡ Enterprise-Ready Operations (v4.0.0)

- **Batch operations** with retry logic (1000x faster deletes)
- **Gzip compression** (60-80% space savings)
- **OPFS quota monitoring** (browser storage)
- **Metadata/Vector separation** (billion-entity scalability)
- **Circuit breakers & backpressure** (enterprise reliability)

```javascript
// Batch operations
await brain.storage.batchDelete(keys, { maxRetries: 3 })

// Monitor storage
const status = await brain.storage.getStorageStatus()
```

### 📊 Adaptive Memory Management

Auto-scales 2GB → 128GB+ based on environment:

- Container-aware (Docker/K8s cgroups)
- Environment-optimized (dev/staging/production)
- Built-in cache monitoring with tuning recommendations

```javascript
const stats = brain.getCacheStats()  // Performance insights
```

**[📖 Capacity Planning Guide →](docs/operations/capacity-planning.md)**

### Native Acceleration (Optional)

Install `@soulcraft/cortex` for Rust-powered native acceleration: SIMD distance calculations, native metadata/graph indexes, CRoaring bitmaps, and Candle ML embeddings. Auto-detected — zero configuration required.

```bash
npm install @soulcraft/cortex
```

---

## Benchmarks

| Operation | Performance | Memory | Notes |
|-----------|-------------|--------|-------|
| Initialize | 450ms | 24MB | Measured |
| Add entity | 12ms | +0.1MB | Measured |
| Vector search (1K) | 3ms | - | Measured |
| Metadata filter (10K) | 0.8ms | - | Measured |
| Bulk import (1K) | 2.3s | +8MB | Measured |
| **10M entities** | **5.8ms** | **12GB** | Measured |
| **1B entities** | **~18ms** | **~50GB** | PROJECTED (extrapolated from 10M) |

---

## 🧠 Deep Dive: How Brainy Actually Works

**Want to understand the magic under the hood?**

### 🔍 Triple Intelligence & find() API
Understand how vector search, graph relationships, and document filtering work together in one unified query:

**[📖 Triple Intelligence Architecture →](docs/architecture/triple-intelligence.md)**
**[📖 Natural Language Guide →](docs/guides/natural-language.md)**
**[📖 API Reference: find() →](docs/api/README.md)**

### 🗂️ Type-Aware Indexing & HNSW
Learn about our indexing architecture with measured performance optimizations:

**[📖 Data Storage Architecture →](docs/architecture/data-storage-architecture.md)**
**[📖 Architecture Overview →](docs/architecture/overview.md)**

### 📈 Scaling: Individual → Planet
Understand how the same code scales from prototype to billions of entities:

**[📖 Capacity Planning →](docs/operations/capacity-planning.md)**
**[📖 Cloud Deployment Guide →](docs/deployment/CLOUD_DEPLOYMENT_GUIDE.md)**

### 🎯 The Universal Type System
Explore the mathematical foundation: 42 nouns × 127 verbs = Stage 3 CANONICAL taxonomy:

**[📖 Noun-Verb Taxonomy →](docs/architecture/noun-verb-taxonomy.md)**

---

## CLI Tools

```bash
npm install -g brainy

brainy add "JavaScript is awesome" --metadata '{"type":"opinion"}'
brainy find "awesome programming languages"
brainy search "programming"
```

47 commands available, including storage management, imports, and neural operations.

---

## 📖 Complete Documentation

**For most developers:** Start with the **[Complete API Reference](docs/api/README.md)** ⭐

This comprehensive guide includes:
- ✅ Every method with parameters, returns, and examples
- ✅ Quick start in 60 seconds
- ✅ Core CRUD → Advanced features (branching, versioning, time-travel)
- ✅ TypeScript types and patterns
- ✅ 1,870 lines of copy-paste ready code

---

### 🎯 Essential Reading (Start Here)

1. **[📖 Complete API Reference](docs/api/README.md)** ⭐ **START HERE** ⭐
   - Your primary resource for building with Brainy
   - Every method documented with working examples

2. **[Filter & Query Syntax Guide](docs/FIND_SYSTEM.md)**
   - Complete reference for operators, compound filters, and optimization tips

3. **[Natural Language Queries](docs/guides/natural-language.md)**
   - Master the `find()` method and Triple Intelligence queries

4. **[v4.0.0 Migration Guide](docs/MIGRATION-V3-TO-V4.md)**
   - Upgrading from v3 (100% backward compatible)

### 🧠 Core Concepts & Architecture

- **[Triple Intelligence Architecture](docs/architecture/triple-intelligence.md)** — How vector + graph + document work together
- **[Noun-Verb Taxonomy](docs/architecture/noun-verb-taxonomy.md)** — The universal type system (42 nouns × 127 verbs)
- **[Transactions](docs/transactions.md)** — Atomic operations with automatic rollback
- **[Architecture Overview](docs/architecture/overview.md)** — System design and components
- **[Data Storage Architecture](docs/architecture/data-storage-architecture.md)** — Type-aware indexing and HNSW

### ☁️ Production & Operations

- **[Cloud Deployment Guide](docs/deployment/CLOUD_DEPLOYMENT_GUIDE.md)** — Deploy to AWS, GCS, Azure
- **[Capacity Planning](docs/operations/capacity-planning.md)** — Memory, storage, and scaling to billions
- **Cost Optimization:** **[AWS S3](docs/operations/cost-optimization-aws-s3.md)** | **[GCS](docs/operations/cost-optimization-gcs.md)** | **[Azure](docs/operations/cost-optimization-azure.md)** | **[Cloudflare R2](docs/operations/cost-optimization-cloudflare-r2.md)**

### 🌐 Framework Integration

- **[Framework Integration Guide](docs/guides/framework-integration.md)** — React, Vue, Angular, Svelte
- **[Next.js Integration](docs/guides/nextjs-integration.md)**
- **[Vue.js Integration](docs/guides/vue-integration.md)**

### 🌳 Virtual Filesystem (VFS)

- **[VFS Quick Start](docs/vfs/QUICK_START.md)** — Build file explorers that never crash
- **[VFS Core Documentation](docs/vfs/VFS_CORE.md)**
- **[Semantic VFS Guide](docs/vfs/SEMANTIC_VFS.md)** — AI-powered file navigation
- **[Neural Extraction API](docs/vfs/NEURAL_EXTRACTION.md)**

### 📦 Data Import & Processing

- **[Import Anything Guide](docs/guides/import-anything.md)** — CSV, Excel, PDF, URLs with auto-detection

---

## What's New in v4.0.0

**Enterprise-scale cost optimization and performance improvements:**

- 🎯 **96% cloud storage cost savings** with intelligent tiering (AWS, GCS, Azure)
- ⚡ **1000x faster batch deletions** (533 entities/sec vs 0.5/sec)
- 📦 **60-80% compression** with gzip (FileSystem storage)
- 🔄 **Enhanced metadata/vector separation** for billion-scale deployments

**[📖 Full v4.0.0 Changelog →](CHANGELOG.md)** | **[Migration Guide →](docs/MIGRATION-V3-TO-V4.md)** (100% backward compatible)

---

## Requirements

> **Deprecation Notice:** Browser support (OPFS storage, Web Workers, WASM embeddings) is deprecated in v7.10.0 and will be removed in v8.0.0. Brainy v8+ will be server-only (Node.js >= 22, Bun >= 1.3.0). Migrate browser deployments to a server-side API.

**Bun 1.0+** (recommended) or **Node.js 22 LTS**

```bash
# Bun (recommended - best performance, single-binary deployment)
bun install @soulcraft/brainy

# Node.js (fully supported)
npm install @soulcraft/brainy
```

> **Why Bun?** Brainy's Candle WASM engine works seamlessly with `bun --compile` for standalone binary deployment. No external model files, no runtime downloads.

---

## Why Brainy Exists

**The Vision:** Traditional systems force you to choose between vector databases, graph databases, and document stores. You need all three, but combining them is complex and fragile.

**Brainy solved the impossible:** One API. All three paradigms. Any scale.

Like HTTP standardized web communication, **Brainy standardizes knowledge representation.** One protocol that any AI model understands. One system that scales from prototype to planet.

**[📖 Read the Mathematical Proof →](docs/architecture/noun-verb-taxonomy.md)**

---

## Enterprise & Support

**🏢 Brain Cloud** — Managed Brainy with team sync, persistent memory, and enterprise connectors.
Visit **[soulcraft.com](https://soulcraft.com)** for more information.

**💖 Support Development:**
- ⭐ Star us on **[GitHub](https://github.com/soulcraftlabs/brainy)**
- 💝 Sponsor via **[GitHub Sponsors](https://github.com/sponsors/soulcraftlabs)**
- 🐛 Report issues and contribute code
- 📣 Share with your team and community

**Brainy is 100% free and open source.** No paywalls, no premium tiers, no feature gates.

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## Contributing

We welcome contributions! See **[CONTRIBUTING.md](CONTRIBUTING.md)** for guidelines.

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## License

MIT © Brainy Contributors

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  <em>The Knowledge Operating System</em><br>
  <em>From prototype to planet-scale • Zero configuration • Triple Intelligence™</em>
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