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Memory new_text alias empty-string handling fixes

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Nothing open on GitHub. Fix merged in #133038 on 5 Oct 2026. Check it covers your case.

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A fix was merged to main in PR #133038. Check it covers your case. No release data is tracked.
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These issues and PRs address a bug where the new_text alias in memory operations fails or misbehaves when content is serialized as an empty string. Fixes cover both the single-operation path and serialized-empty content being treated incorrectly as set.

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  • #133038 Memory writes stop failing on hand-formatted files, and refused writes say exactly what to fix (#107270, #90468)

    merged to main

    files: tests/agent/test_learning_mutations.py, tests/tools/test_memory_tool.py, tools/memory_tool.py, tools/memory_tool_store.py, website/docs/user-guide/features/memory.md

3 PRs closed without merging

From the close comments: duplicate 2 · merged via another change 1

  • #90472 fix(memory): treat serialized-empty content as unset for the new_text alias · merged via another change → b901358, #133038, #90468
  • #90723 fix(memory): handle empty-string new_text alias in single-op path (#90468) · duplicate → #90472
  • #99146 fix(memory): new_text alias fallback triggers on empty-string content · duplicate → #90472
Closed issues · 1
  • Closed#90468memory: new_text alias fails when content is serialized as an empty string
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3 PRs closed without merging
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5 Oct 2026

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