# NousResearch/hermes-agent · Memory drift guard whitespace false-positive around ENTRY_DELIMITER

## Open now

- 1 issue, 0 PRs open on GitHub.
- #61523: bug(memory): drift guard round-trip check false-positives on cosmetic whitespace around ENTRY_DELIMITER, hard-locking all writes

The members concern the memory drift guard's round-trip check, which reportedly flags cosmetic whitespace near ENTRY_DELIMITER as drift and blocks writes. One member is a bug report, and the other two are fix proposals that normalize or tolerate delimiter-adjacent whitespace; their outcomes are not stated.

## TL;DR

- 3 member(s): 1 open issue(s), 0 closed issue(s), 0 open PR(s), 0 merged PR(s), 2 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evidence (`STRUCTURAL_SPANNING`): every member is connected by structural evidence: shared changed files, or a closing/superseded reference.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 `0.67`: 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

- #61523: bug(memory): drift guard round-trip check false-positives on cosmetic whitespace around ENTRY_DELIMITER, hard-locking all writes

## Prior & competing PRs

- **#61533: fix(memory): tolerate delimiter-adjacent whitespace**. closed without merge
  - maintainer direction: category `uncategorized`; implication `needs_llm`; refs `#61523`, `#33510`, `#32978`
- **#61612: fix(memory): normalize raw content before round-trip comparison to prevent whitespace false-positive drift lock (#61523)**. closed without merge
  - maintainer direction: category `implemented_elsewhere`; implication `superseded`; refs `b9013584b2`, `#133038`, `#107270`

## Fix status

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