feat: Add AI Memory Benchmark Suite and Issue Templates

- Introduced a new AI Memory Benchmark Suite with support for MTEB, BEIR, LongBench, and LAMA benchmarks.
- Created a unified runner for executing benchmarks with customizable parameters.
- Added configuration for available benchmarks and default datasets.
- Implemented individual benchmark runners for MTEB, BEIR, LongBench, and LAMA.
- Added issue templates for bug reports and feature requests to enhance community engagement.

Author: mohitkumarrajbadi

.github/ISSUE_TEMPLATE/bug_report.md

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+---
+name: Bug report
+about: Report a reproducible bug or regression in OMem.
+title: "[BUG] "
+labels: [bug]
+assignees: []
+---
+
+### Describe the bug
+A clear and concise description of what the bug is.
+
+### Steps to reproduce
+1. 
+2. 
+3. 
+
+### Expected behavior
+What you expected to happen.
+
+### Actual behavior
+What actually happened.
+
+### Reproduction code
+```python
+# paste a minimal example that reproduces the issue
+```
+
+### Environment
+- OMem version:
+- Python version:
+- OS:
+- Backend/optional dependencies:
+
+### Additional context
+Add any other context about the problem here.

.github/ISSUE_TEMPLATE/config.yml

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+blank_issues_enabled: false
+contact_links:
+  - name: Discussion board
+    url: https://github.com/mohitkumarrajbadi/omem/discussions
+    about: Use discussions for general questions and design ideas.

.github/ISSUE_TEMPLATE/feature_request.md

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+---
+name: Feature request
+about: Suggest a new feature, connector, integration, or enhancement for OMem.
+title: "[FEATURE] "
+labels: [enhancement]
+assignees: []
+---
+
+### What feature are you requesting?
+Describe the feature, integration, or connector you want.
+
+### Why is this useful?
+Explain the use case and how it would help OMem users or make the project production ready.
+
+### Proposed behavior
+What should OMem do differently? Include any API ideas or CLI behavior.
+
+### Example
+```python
+# example usage or integration snippet
+```
+
+### Additional notes
+Add relevant links, expected labels, or related issues.

CONTRIBUTING.md

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 ---
 
+## Issue Templates & Labels
+
+To make contributions production-ready, we use issue templates and labels that help maintainers prioritize, triage, and ship work faster.
+
+### Use the right template
+- Open a new issue and choose either **Bug report** or **Feature request**.
+- Include a short title and provide enough context so maintainers can reproduce or evaluate the request quickly.
+- For bug reports, include reproduction steps, expected behavior, actual behavior, and environment details.
+- For feature requests, describe the problem, why it matters, and an example of the desired behavior.
+
+### Issue labels
+Use the labels below when filing issues or PRs; maintainers will also apply them during triage.
+
+| Label | When to use | Example / meaning |
+|---|---|---|
+| `bug` | Defect, regression, crash, incorrect results | Core memory retrieval returns wrong result |
+| `enhancement` | New capability, connector, integration, or UX improvement | Add LangGraph memory adapter |
+| `good first issue` | Simple, easy-to-start contributions | Add CLI flag, write a small unit test |
+| `documentation` | Docs, examples, usage guides, README improvements | Add integration docs for LangChain |
+| `performance` | Speed, latency, benchmarking, optimization | Improve RAG throughput or memory add latency |
+| `security` | Vulnerability, data safety, encryption, secrets handling | Review encryption or input sanitization |
+| `testing` | Test coverage, new tests, CI improvements | Add regression tests for recall() |
+| `question` | Clarification, ask for design guidance, contribution help | Ask how to extend storage backends |
+
+### Issue title format
+Use a clear prefix to make issues easier to scan:
+- `[BUG]` for defects
+- `[FEATURE]` for new features or integrations
+- `[DOCS]` for documentation requests
+- `[PERF]` for performance work
+
+Example: `[FEATURE] add LangGraph connector for OMem memory`
+
+---
+
 ## Code Style
 
 **Linting:** Run `ruff check .` before committing. CI will fail if ruff reports errors.

benchmarks/__init__.py

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     concurrency - thread-safety and parallel throughput
     memory      - RSS/heap profiling under load
     integrity   - data correctness under stress
+    ai_memory   - MTEB / BEIR / LongBench / LAMA-style AI memory evaluation
     competitor  - head-to-head comparison framework
     report      - JSON/HTML report generation
 

benchmarks/ai_memory/README.md

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+# OMem AI Memory Benchmark Suite
+
+This folder provides a structured benchmark package for evaluating OMem against:
+
+- `MTEB` — embedding and retrieval evaluation
+- `BEIR` — robustness across domains
+- `LongBench` / `SCROLLS` — long-span retrieval and reasoning
+- `LAMA` / `LAMA-UHN` — factual memory retention and recall
+
+## Structure
+
+- `config.py` — default benchmark names, dataset references, and model defaults
+- `mteb.py` — MTEB-style benchmark runner
+- `beir.py` — BEIR-style benchmark runner
+- `longbench.py` — long-range benchmark runner
+- `lama.py` — factual memory retention runner
+- `runner.py` — unified CLI and suite entrypoint
+
+## Usage
+
+Install optional benchmark dependencies first:
+
+```bash
+pip install mteb beir datasets transformers sentence-transformers
+```
+
+Then run the suite:
+
+```bash
+python -m benchmarks.ai_memory.runner --benchmark mteb beir longbench lama --queries 100
+```
+
+## Notes
+
+These modules are intentionally structured as a proper benchmark folder with a shared runner. Each benchmark stub is ready for dataset ingestion and evaluation logic to be implemented in the corresponding file.

benchmarks/ai_memory/__init__.py

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+"""AI Memory benchmark suite for OMem.
+
+This package hosts schema and runner helpers for the core AI memory
+benchmarks: MTEB, BEIR, LongBench/SCROLLS, and LAMA/LAMA-UHN.
+"""
+
+from .config import AVAILABLE_BENCHMARKS, DEFAULT_DATASETS, DEFAULT_MODEL
+from .beir import run_beir
+from .lama import run_lama
+from .longbench import run_longbench
+from .mteb import run_mteb
+from .runner import run_ai_memory_benchmarks
+
+__all__ = [
+    "AVAILABLE_BENCHMARKS",
+    "DEFAULT_DATASETS",
+    "DEFAULT_MODEL",
+    "run_mteb",
+    "run_beir",
+    "run_longbench",
+    "run_lama",
+    "run_ai_memory_benchmarks",
+]

benchmarks/ai_memory/beir.py

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+"""BEIR-style domain robustness benchmark runner."""
+
+from typing import Any, Dict, Optional
+
+from omem import OMem
+
+
+def run_beir(dataset: str = "ms_marco", model_name: str = "all-MiniLM-L6-v2", n_queries: int = 100) -> Dict[str, Any]:
+    try:
+        import beir  # noqa: F401
+    except ImportError as exc:
+        return {
+            "benchmark": "beir",
+            "dataset": dataset,
+            "status": "missing_dependency",
+            "note": "Install `beir` to run this benchmark.",
+            "error": str(exc),
+        }
+
+    engine = OMem(backend="memory", model=model_name)
+
+    return {
+        "benchmark": "beir",
+        "dataset": dataset,
+        "status": "ready",
+        "note": "Benchmark runner initialized. Implement dataset ingestion and metric evaluation.",
+        "model": model_name,
+        "n_queries": n_queries,
+    }

benchmarks/ai_memory/config.py

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+"""Configuration and dataset defaults for AI memory benchmarks."""
+
+AVAILABLE_BENCHMARKS = ["mteb", "beir", "longbench", "lama"]
+DEFAULT_MODEL = "all-MiniLM-L6-v2"
+DEFAULT_DATASETS = {
+    "mteb": "msmarco-passage",
+    "beir": "ms_marco",
+    "longbench": "wiki_long_doc",
+    "lama": "open_lama",
+}

benchmarks/ai_memory/lama.py

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+"""LAMA / LAMA-UHN-style factual memory retention benchmark runner."""
+
+from typing import Any, Dict
+
+from omem import OMem
+
+
+def run_lama(dataset: str = "open_lama", model_name: str = "all-MiniLM-L6-v2", n_queries: int = 100) -> Dict[str, Any]:
+    try:
+        import datasets  # noqa: F401
+    except ImportError as exc:
+        return {
+            "benchmark": "lama",
+            "dataset": dataset,
+            "status": "missing_dependency",
+            "note": "Install `datasets` to load LAMA-style datasets.",
+            "error": str(exc),
+        }
+
+    engine = OMem(backend="memory", model=model_name)
+
+    return {
+        "benchmark": "lama",
+        "dataset": dataset,
+        "status": "ready",
+        "note": "Benchmark runner initialized. Implement factual recall ingestion and evaluation.",
+        "model": model_name,
+        "n_queries": n_queries,
+    }