# NousResearch/hermes-agent · Surface memory write failures to gateway users

## Open now

- Nothing open on GitHub.

A bug where silent memory write failures occur when the store is full, and related fixes to surface those errors and capacity warnings to users in gateway and IM sessions. Includes discussion of auto-truncation as a potential mitigation.

## TL;DR

- 4 member(s): 0 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evidence (`STRUCTURAL_SPANNING`): every member is connected by structural evidence: shared changed files, or a closing/superseded reference.
- Pairwise link density `0.50`: 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.

## Closed / duplicate issues

- #2771: Silent memory write failures when store is full — not surfaced to user in IM/gateway sessions

## Prior & competing PRs

- **#2774: fix(memory): surface write failures to user in gateway/IM sessions**. closed without merge
  - maintainer direction: category `superseded_by_pr`; implication `superseded`; refs `#2771`, `#2777`
- **#2777: fix(memory): surface write failures and capacity warnings to gateway users**. closed without merge
  - maintainer direction: category `superseded_by_pr`; implication `superseded`; refs `#2774`
- **#31861: fix(memory): surface gateway write failures + auto-truncate + capacity warning (salvage of #2774 + #2777, fixes #2771)**. closed without merge
  - maintainer direction: category `implemented_elsewhere`; implication `superseded`; refs `a5e8cd4d400c3ed7efa457d507ceaaef7deaab9b`, `#2774`, `#2777`

## Fix status

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