# Attribution

## SuperLocalMemory

**SuperLocalMemory** is part of the Qualixar research initiative — advancing agent development through research.

### Creator

**Varun Pratap Bhardwaj** — Solution Architect & Original Creator
- GitHub: [@varun369](https://github.com/varun369)
- ORCID: 0009-0002-8726-4289

### License

This software is licensed under the GNU Affero General Public License v3.0 (AGPL-3.0). See [LICENSE](LICENSE) for full terms.

### Output Attribution

All tool outputs carry provenance metadata:

```
Generated by SuperLocalMemory | Part of Qualixar
```

Outputs may include:
- **Layer 1 (Visible):** Human-readable attribution in reports and exports.
- **Layer 2 (Cryptographic):** SHA-256 content hash and signature in the `_qualixar` metadata block.
- **Layer 3 (Steganographic):** Invisible zero-width character watermark in text outputs.

### Verification

Output provenance can be verified programmatically:

```python
from qualixar_attribution import QualixarSigner
is_valid = QualixarSigner.verify(signed_output)
```

### Research Papers

SuperLocalMemory is backed by three peer-reviewed research papers:

1. **Paper 1 — Trust & Behavioral Foundations** (arXiv:2603.02240)
   Bayesian trust defense, behavioral pattern mining, OWASP-aligned memory poisoning protection.

2. **Paper 2 — Information-Geometric Foundations** (arXiv:2603.14588)
   Fisher-Rao geodesic distance, cellular sheaf cohomology, Riemannian Langevin lifecycle dynamics.

3. **Paper 3 — The Living Brain** (arXiv:2604.04514)
   FRQAD mixed-precision metric, Ebbinghaus adaptive forgetting, 7-channel cognitive retrieval, memory parameterization, trust-weighted forgetting.

### Research Initiative

Qualixar is a research initiative for AI agent development tools by Varun Pratap Bhardwaj. SuperLocalMemory is one of several research initiatives under the Qualixar umbrella.

### Third-Party Acknowledgments

SuperLocalMemory uses the following open-source libraries:
- scikit-learn (BSD-3-Clause) — TF-IDF vectorization and similarity search
- SQLite (Public Domain) — Local database storage
- NumPy (BSD-3-Clause) — Numerical operations

See [requirements.txt](requirements.txt) for the full dependency list.
