# NousResearch/hermes-agent · Surface memory-full and init failures to users

## Open now

- 1 issue, 2 PRs open on GitHub.
- #79472: \[Bug\]: Memory fills, ignores new entries silently
- PR #79489: fix(memory): log init failures and surface memory-full to user (#79472)
- PR #79873: fix(agent): surface memory-full / init failures to user instead of silent drop

These issues and fixes address a bug where memory initialization failures and memory-full conditions were silently dropped instead of being reported to the user. The work focuses on logging these failures and making them visible.

## TL;DR

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evidence (`STRUCTURAL_SPANNING`): every member is connected by structural evidence: shared changed files, or a closing/superseded reference.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

- #79472: \[Bug\]: Memory fills, ignores new entries silently

## Prior & competing PRs

- **#79489: fix(memory): log init failures and surface memory-full to user (#79472)**. open
  - maintainer direction: category `silent_close`; implication `active`
  - files: `agent/agent_init.py`, `agent/tool_executor.py`
- **#79873: fix(agent): surface memory-full / init failures to user instead of silent drop**. open
  - maintainer direction: category `duplicate_of`; implication `duplicate`; refs `#79489`
  - files: `agent/agent_init.py`, `agent/tool_executor.py`

## Fix status

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