The Menon Lab
Curated insights on AI, machine learning, and open-source tools โ by Dr. Prahlad G. Menon
Browse All Posts โautoloop
autoresearch for everything โ optimize prompts, SQL, trading strategies, RAG pipelines. Works with Anthropic, OpenAI, or Ollama locally.
litecrew
Multi-agent orchestration in ~150 lines. CrewAI has 15,000 lines. LangGraph needs a PhD. litecrew you can read during lunch.
soul.py
Persistent memory and identity for LLM agents. RAG + RLM hybrid. Your agent remembers who it is across sessions.
Featured Collections
Soul Ecosystem
Persistent memory, estate vaults, and enterprise AI โ our open-source projects
- litecrew: Multi-Agent Orchestration in 100 Lines of Python
- SoulSearch v0.3: Ollama Support, Session Memory, and Web Search โ Open Source Only
- SoulSearch: AI Browser Extension with Private Git Memory, Sessions, and Browser Automation
- soul.py: Your AI Remembers Nothing. This Fixes It in 10 Lines.
- Your Family Shouldn't Have to Guess: Building Soul Legacy
- Introducing SoulMate: Persistent AI Memory as a Service
- soul-schema: Auto-Document Your Data Warehouse in 3 Minutes
- soul-stack: One Docker Command to Give n8n Persistent Memory
Soul How-To Guides
Tutorials, comparisons, and deep dives on using the Soul ecosystem
- soul.py v0.2.0: Modulizer โ 50% Token Savings with Zero Infrastructure
- langchain-soul & llamaindex-soul: Full Soul Ecosystem for Your Framework
- soul.py v2.0: We Added a Brain to the Memory
- Meet Darwin: Your AI Guide to the Soul Book
- Add Persistent Memory to Any Project in 5 Minutes
- Adding Persistent Memory to n8n AI Workflows with soul.py
- soul.py vs memU: Two Philosophies of Agent Memory
- The Darwinian Agent: What Evolution Teaches Us About AI Memory
Thought Leadership
Original perspectives on where AI is heading
Research Deep Dives
Understanding the science behind the breakthroughs
Practical Guides
Hands-on tutorials that get you results
Security & Trust
Keeping AI systems safe and reliable
Tools That Ship
Open-source projects ready to use today
OpenClaw & Claw Ecosystem
The open-source AI agent platform and its growing family of forks
- From Fork to Industry: How OpenClaw Spawned a Market in Four Months
- memory-lancedb-pro: Give Your OpenClaw Agent a Brain That Actually Remembers
- 5,400+ Free OpenClaw Skills Just Dropped โ Here Are the Ones Worth Installing
- Skills vs MCP: The Token Efficiency War (And Why It's Not Either/Or)
- Clawe: Trello for AI Agents โ Built on the OpenClaw Phenomenon
- GitClaw: Your AI Agent Lives in a Git Repo
- We Forked a Rust AI Agent for 24/7 Railway Hosting โ Here's Everything We Had to Fix
- MetaClaw: Dynamic Skill Injection for OpenClaw Agents โ What's Real and What's Hype
- NanoClaw + Docker Sandboxes: MicroVM Isolation Is Now the Default for AI Agents
Latest Posts
Hyper-Extract: From Unstructured Text to Knowledge Graphs, Hypergraphs, and Beyond
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About
I'm a researcher and engineer exploring the intersection of AI, healthcare, and practical tooling. This blog documents interesting projects, libraries, and tools I discover across the AI/ML ecosystem.
Topics include: AI agents, large language models, computer vision, healthcare AI, RAG systems, and open-source tools worth knowing about.