# NousResearch/hermes-agent · Honcho memory provider activates without required dependency

## Open now

- Nothing open on GitHub.

These issues and fixes address a bug where the Honcho memory provider could be selected or activated even when the honcho-ai package was not installed. The changes add guards to skip or report the provider as unavailable when the SDK is missing.

## 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evidence (`STRUCTURAL_SPANNING`): every member is connected by structural evidence: shared changed files, or a closing/superseded reference.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

- #51099: \[Bug\]: Honcho memory provider activates even when honcho-ai dependency is missing

## Prior & competing PRs

- **#51120: fix(memory): require Honcho SDK for provider activation**. closed without merge
  - maintainer direction: category `implemented_elsewhere`; implication `superseded`; refs `cbd6ba1bdd916d8342f6c741cb290b62dd89dbc4`, `#51099`
- **#51133: fix(honcho): report unavailable when honcho-ai package is missing**. closed without merge
  - maintainer direction: category `implemented_elsewhere`; implication `superseded`; refs `cbd6ba1bdd916d8342f6c741cb290b62dd89dbc4`, `#51099`
- **#51241: fix(memory): skip honcho provider when sdk is missing**. closed without merge
  - maintainer direction: category `duplicate_of`; implication `duplicate`; refs `#51120`

## Fix status

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