# NousResearch/hermes-agent · Memory system architecture, retention, and storage improvements

## Open now

- 3 issues, 0 PRs open on GitHub.
- #10771: Feature Request: Automatic Memory Consolidation (Auto Dream)
- #25309: 🌙 feat: Dreaming — Automatic Background Memory Consolidation
- #29431: 🌙 Plugin Proposal: Dreaming — Automatic Background Memory Consolidation

These issues and PRs collectively address enhancements to the agent memory system, including storage backends (SQLite migration), memory lifecycle features (timestamps, decay, forgetting, eviction), importance scoring, tiered or graph-structured memory models, and guidance on what should be stored versus ignored.

## TL;DR

- 7 member(s): 3 open issue(s), 1 closed issue(s), 0 open PR(s), 0 merged PR(s), 3 PR(s) closed without merging.
- No fix has been merged to main; one or more PRs were attempted (see below).
- **Recommended:** review the prior/competing PR(s) below. A fix was attempted but not merged; your case may extend or revive that work.

## Maintainer resolution verdict

- Internal-tracker verdict over this cluster's issue members: `unresolved`. This is distinct from the fix status above. Weigh it yourself.

## How this cluster was grouped

- Link evidence (`STRUCTURAL_PARTIAL`): some members are connected by structural evidence (shared changed files, or a closing/superseded reference); the rest are joined by an automated relevance judgement over their text.
- Members outside that structural core may belong to a different underlying problem.
- Pairwise link density `0.21`: the share of member pairs that carry a link, counting a structural link in full and a relevance-only link at 0.36. `1.00` means every pair is linked.

## Open related issues

- #10771: Feature Request: Automatic Memory Consolidation (Auto Dream)
- #25309: 🌙 feat: Dreaming — Automatic Background Memory Consolidation
- #29431: 🌙 Plugin Proposal: Dreaming — Automatic Background Memory Consolidation

## Closed / duplicate issues

- #22551: \[Feature\]: Tiered memory system (short-term, medium-term, long-term) for Hermes Agent

## Prior & competing PRs

- **#25314: feat(dreaming): add background memory consolidation plugin**. closed without merge
  - maintainer direction: category `wontfix_bydesign`; implication `wontfix`
- **#25690: feat(dreaming): add background memory consolidation plugin**. closed without merge
  - maintainer direction: category `uncategorized`; implication `needs_llm`
- **#40737: feat(plugins): dreaming — automatic background memory consolidation**. closed without merge
  - maintainer direction: category `uncategorized`; implication `needs_llm`; refs `#25309`

## Fix status

- No merged fix on record.
- Subsystem: `agent`