# NousResearch/hermes-agent · Honcho session cache growth and identity copy

## Open now

- Nothing open on GitHub.

These items cover two adjacent Honcho concerns: bounding unbounded growth of the local session cache with an eviction path, and salvaging gateway identity work involving wizard copy, peers map, and session AI peer prefix.

## TL;DR

- 3 member(s): 0 open issue(s), 1 closed issue(s), 0 open PR(s), 1 merged PR(s), 1 PR(s) closed without merging.
- A fix was merged to main in PR #109328. Verify it addresses your case.
- **Recommended:** read PR #109328 (and any competing PRs below) before filing. Confirm the merged change covers your symptom.

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evidence (`STRUCTURAL_SPANNING`): every member is connected by structural evidence: shared changed files, or a closing/superseded reference.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

## Closed / duplicate issues

- #71461: Honcho local session cache grows unbounded — no eviction path except explicit /new

## Prior & competing PRs

- **#109328: Honcho gateway identity: wizard copy, 'peers map', sessionAiPeerPrefix (salvage #83981, #39130)**. merged to main · fix tier `verified`
  - maintainer direction: category `merged`
  - files: `contributors/emails/51828767+itnkr@users.noreply.github.com`, `contributors/emails/[redacted:email]`, `contributors/emails/[redacted:email]`, `contributors/emails/[redacted:email]`, `plugins/memory/honcho/README.md`, `plugins/memory/honcho/__init__.py`, `plugins/memory/honcho/cli.py`, `plugins/memory/honcho/client.py`, `plugins/memory/honcho/config_schema.py`, `plugins/memory/honcho/dialectic.py`, `plugins/memory/honcho/recall_sync.py`, `plugins/memory/honcho/session.py`, `plugins/memory/honcho/session_context.py`, `plugins/memory/honcho/session_migration.py`, `plugins/memory/honcho/session_peers.py`, `tests/agent/test_memory_user_id.py`, `tests/honcho_plugin/test_a2a_sessions.py`, `tests/honcho_plugin/test_async_memory.py`, `tests/honcho_plugin/test_auth_recovery.py`, `tests/honcho_plugin/test_cli.py` (+21 more)
- **#71463: fix(honcho): bound local session cache growth**. closed without merge
  - maintainer direction: category `implemented_elsewhere`; implication `superseded`; refs `476dbfed3a`, `#109328`

## Fix status

- Merged to main in PR #109328 (cited above). No release data is tracked. Verify downstream.
- Fix last verified (merged) `2026-09-13`.
- Subsystem: `agent`