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Memory and skills capacity limits, warnings, recovery

NousResearch/hermes-agent · cluster 5320 · agent

Data as of

12 open items. Fix attempted, not merged.

The short answer

6open issues (5 distinct)
7open PRs
21items grouped
Known?
Yes. 21 related items grouped here, 5 issues already closed.
Fix event
No fix has been merged to main. 3 PRs closed without merging; see the attempts below.
Tracker
The maintainers' tracker marks this unresolved. That is separate from the fix event.
Still open
6 issues and 7 PRs.

These issues and PRs cluster around memory and skills file size limits: retry loops at capacity, missing or unhelpful error messages, soft-warning thresholds, default limit values, and making recovery actions more actionable. A smaller subset touches related concerns like concurrent edits, deletion permanence, and batch operations.

Open issues6

  • Issue#5320feat(memory): raise/auto-scale memory_char_limit defaults and surface usage pressure
  • Issue#12568[Feature]: memory tool needs read action, better error messages, and pressure warnings
  • Issue#60900Memory tool: add soft warning at 90% capacity + optional auto-consolidation
  • Issue#60902Memory tool: add soft warning at 90 percent capacity + optional auto-consolidation
  • Issue#60905Memory tool: add soft warning at 90% capacity + optional auto-consolidation
  • Issue#62432Suggestion: signal eviction candidates when memory is full

Open PRs7

  • PR#30332fix(memory): raise default char limits to reduce write-retry thrashing
  • PR#51499fix(skills): make size-limit recovery actionable
  • PR#51526fix(skills): make oversize skill refusal actionable
  • PR#52054fix(skills): harden oversized skill guidance
  • PR#60908fix(memory): warn when memory nears capacity
  • PR#76036fix(memory): pre-consolidation char-count guard + timestamped backup
  • PR#132036feat(memory): surface advisory candidates on capacity rejection

3 PRs closed without merging

From the close comments: partial fix 1 · other 2

  • #32112 Fix memory writes when curated snapshot is full · partial fix
  • #60909 feat(memory): add 90% capacity warning and compact directive · other → #60900, #60902
  • #83766 fix(memory): warn near capacity · other
Closed issues · 5
  • Closed#30267Memory tool repeatedly fails at hard char cap; entries collide on concurrent edits
  • Closed#32064Fix bounded memory: durable unlimited user memory with retrieval
  • Closed#35186memory: No archive path when removing entries from bounded MEMORY.md — deletion is permanent, no bridge to Hindsight
  • Closed#48629memory tool: unconditionally returns all entries on every write operation, causing linear token waste
  • Closed#51470Bug: skill_manage retry loop on SKILL.md >100k chars — agent ignores split suggestion and burns tool calls shaving ~200 chars at a time
How this cluster was grouped
  • Link evidence (partly structural links): 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 0.09: the share of item 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.

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3 PRs closed without merging

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