Configuration Reference

cycgraph exposes operational tuning through environment variables (read once at module load, Zod-validated) and constructor options (passed when wiring components). This page is the single reference for both.

Where to override. Env vars are easiest for ops; constructor options are easiest for tests and embedded deployments. They never conflict — env vars set the defaults, constructor options override per-instance.

Runtime config (env vars)

All values are validated against RuntimeConfigSchema in @cycgraph/orchestrator/runtime-config. Out-of-bounds values throw at module load rather than producing a broken cache size or negative timeout.

Env var	Default	Bounds	Purpose
AGENT_CONFIG_CACHE_TTL_MS	300000 (5 min)	1s – 1h	TTL for cached agent configs in the factory
MAX_AGENT_CONFIG_CACHE_SIZE	100	1 – 10,000	Max cached agent configs
FALLBACK_CONFIG_CACHE_TTL_MS	30000 (30s)	1s – 1h	Shorter TTL for fallback configs so DB recovery is detected sooner
AGENT_TIMEOUT_MS	120000 (2 min)	1s – 1h	Timeout for a single agent LLM invocation
MAX_MEMORY_PROMPT_BYTES	51200 (50 KB)	1 KB – 10 MB	Max serialized memory injected into the system prompt
MAX_MEMORY_VALUE_BYTES	1048576 (1 MB)	1 KB – 100 MB	Max bytes for a single memory value — reducer drops oversized values into state.memory_drops
MAX_VISITED_NODES	1000	10 – 1,000,000	Ring-buffer cap on state.visited_nodes
MAX_SUPERVISOR_HISTORY	100	10 – 100,000	Ring-buffer cap on state.supervisor_history
MAX_MEMORY_DROPS	50	1 – 10,000	Ring-buffer cap on state.memory_drops
FILTREX_CACHE_SIZE	256	8 – 100,000	LRU cap on the filtrex expression compile cache

When to tune

Symptom	Likely lever
Workflow logs say memory_dropped every run	Raise MAX_MEMORY_VALUE_BYTES, or trim the agent’s output. Confirm in state.memory_drops.
LLM 504s under load	Increase AGENT_TIMEOUT_MS. Verify it’s the LLM that’s slow, not your network.
OOM on large graphs with deep visited paths	Lower MAX_VISITED_NODES (ring buffer).
Memory grows over hours of supervisor loops	Lower MAX_SUPERVISOR_HISTORY.
Cold start latency dominated by graph load	Increase FILTREX_CACHE_SIZE if you have many distinct edge conditions.

GraphRunner options

Passed to new GraphRunner(graph, state, options). Source: runner/graph-runner.ts.

Option	Type	Default	Purpose
persistence	PersistenceProvider	in-memory	Graph + state storage backend
eventLog	EventLogWriter	in-memory	Append-only event log + checkpoints
usageRecorder	UsageRecorder	noop	Cost / token recorder
toolResolver	ToolResolver	none	MCP tool resolution (MCPConnectionManager recommended)
contextCompressor	ContextCompressor	none	Compress memory before prompt injection
memoryRetriever	MemoryRetriever	none	Pull facts from the hierarchical memory graph. Only fires for nodes that declare a memory_query directive.
memoryWriter	MemoryWriter	none	Persist facts produced by reflection nodes. Required for reflection nodes to function.
factSanitizer	FactSanitizer	none	Pre-write hook applied to every reflection fact. Return null to drop, or a modified fact to substitute. Fails closed: a thrown sanitizer drops the fact (see factSanitizerFailMode).
factSanitizerFailMode	'drop' | 'pass'	'drop'	What to do when factSanitizer throws. 'drop' (default) discards the fact so unredacted PII is never persisted; 'pass' writes the original fact (fail open).
rateLimiter	RateLimiter	none	Awaited before every LLM call (agent / supervisor / evaluator) to pace a run inside a provider’s budget. The implementation may delay (throttle) or throw (hard ceiling — surfaces as the node’s error, follows its failure_policy). Abortable; propagated into subgraphs.
compaction_interval	number	1000	Events between automatic event-log compactions (checkpoint + delete-behind, recovery-safe) when an eventLog is wired. Defaults on so a long run can’t grow the log unbounded; set 0 to retain full history and compact manually via compactEvents().
persistDeltaFn	(patch: StatePatch) => Promise<void>	none	Differential persistence — when set with persistStateFn, the runner sends patches here and full snapshots to persistStateFn. A failed write rolls back the delta baseline so no patch is lost.
middleware	RunnerMiddleware[]	[]	beforeNodeExecute / afterReduce hooks
allow_implicit_completion	boolean	false	When a non-end node has no outgoing edge whose condition matches, the runner fails the run with NoMatchingEdgeError (a dead-end is almost always a routing bug). Set true to restore the legacy behavior of silently completing the workflow at that node.

A pre-flight wiring check runs at the start of every run(): a graph containing a reflection node with no memoryWriter, or a node declaring MCP tool sources with no toolResolver, fails immediately (before any node executes) instead of mid-run. A memory_query directive with no memoryRetriever logs a warning.

The agent factory fails closed on an unknown agent_id (throws AgentNotFoundError). Opt into the legacy default-agent fallback with configureAgentFactory(registry, { allowDefaultFallback: true }) — see Agents.

MCPConnectionManager options

Source: mcp/connection-manager.ts.

Option	Type	Default	Purpose
cache_ttl_ms	number	300000 (5 min)	TTL for cached tool manifests. 0 disables.
default_tool_timeout_ms	number	30000 (30s)	Per-tool execution timeout. Overridable per-server via MCPServerEntry.tool_timeout_ms.
default_max_concurrent_calls	number	0 (unlimited)	Default cap on concurrent tool calls per MCP server. Overridable per-server via MCPServerEntry.max_concurrent_calls. A FIFO semaphore bounds in-flight calls so a wide fan-out (evolution / voting / map candidates all hitting one server) can’t overwhelm it.
tool_circuit_breaker	ToolCircuitBreakerOptions | null	enabled with defaults	Per-tool breaker. Pass null to disable entirely.

ToolCircuitBreakerOptions

Option	Default	Purpose
failure_threshold	5	Consecutive failures that open the breaker
success_threshold	2	Consecutive successes in half_open to close
cooldown_ms	30000 (30s)	Window the breaker stays open before transitioning to half_open

Snapshot metrics via manager.getToolCircuitMetrics() — wire to a /metrics endpoint or middleware.

DrizzleEventLogWriter options

Source: @cycgraph/orchestrator-postgres.

Option	Default	Purpose
retain_checkpoints	3	How many checkpoints per run to keep. Older ones are pruned inside the same transaction as each new write. Minimum 1 enforced.

InMemoryMemoryIndex options

Source: @cycgraph/memory.

Option	Default	Purpose
expectedDimensions	unset	Strict dimension check — every embedding indexed or queried must match. Mismatch throws EmbeddingDimensionMismatchError. Wire from EmbeddingProvider.dimensions.
silenceScaleWarning	false	Suppress the one-shot console warning when the brute-force index crosses 10K entries. Set true only for stress tests.

Validation behavior

Misconfiguration fails loud, not silent:

• Setting MAX_MEMORY_VALUE_BYTES=0 would silently drop every memory update. The Zod schema rejects it at startup with a descriptive error.
• Setting retain_checkpoints=0 would orphan the run from any usable replay anchor. DrizzleEventLogWriter throws in its constructor.
• A 512-dim EmbeddingProvider talking to a 1536-dim pgvector schema produced silently wrong cosine scores. With expectedDimensions set, the first query throws.

Every default above is also the recommended starting point — change one knob at a time, watch for the symptom listed in When to tune.