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Fix false doctor warning for builtin memory provider

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Nothing open on GitHub. Fix merged in #118842. Check it covers your case.

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These issues and pull requests address a false-positive warning in the doctor command that incorrectly reports the builtin memory provider as not found. The fixes involve normalizing or recognizing builtin provider aliases at both the doctor and runtime levels.

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  • #118842 Provider-plugin contracts: chronos no longer eagerly loaded, narrow plugin tool handlers survive dispatch, -q wires _cli_ref, builtin memory sentinel, context-engine clone/user-dir (#62951 #68318 #67597 #75647 #115113 #99640 #61839)

    merged to main

    files: agent/agent_init.py, agent/context_engine.py, agent/memory_provider.py, hermes_cli/cli_single_query.py, hermes_cli/doctor_state.py, hermes_cli/memory_provider_migration.py, hermes_cli/plugins_discovery.py, hermes_cli/plugins_manifest.py, hermes_cli/update_cmd_deps.py, hermes_cli/web_server_memory.py, plugins/context_engine/__init__.py, tests/agent/test_context_engine.py, tests/agent/test_plugin_context_engine_clone.py, tests/hermes_cli/test_memory_provider_core_sentinels.py, tests/hermes_cli/test_plugins.py, tests/hermes_cli/test_single_query_plugin_cli_ref.py, tests/plugins/test_context_engine_user_dir.py, tests/tools/test_registry.py, tools/registry.py, website/docs/developer-guide/context-engine-plugin.md (+1 more)

3 PRs closed without merging

From the close comments: done elsewhere 2 · closed without comment 1

  • #75666 fix(doctor): recognize builtin memory provider · closed without comment
  • #75679 fix(memory): normalize builtin provider aliases for doctor and runtime · done elsewhere → 913c045, #118842, #75647
  • #83317 fix(doctor): skip false warning for builtin memory provider · done elsewhere → 913c045, #118842, #75647
Closed issues · 1
  • Closed#75647doctor: false warning 'builtin plugin not found' when memory.provider is builtin (the default)
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22 Sep 2026

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