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Summary

The agent memory subsystem (MemoryPresenter + DuckDB vss vector store) existed but was effectively inert in the daemon runtime:

  • Memories added via the UI (memory.add) were inserted as pending_embedding and never embedded — the DuckDB vector store was never populated, so only FTS keyword recall worked.
  • DaemonMemoryRuntime.getEmbeddings hard-coded text-embedding-3-small and ignored the agent's configured embedding model.
  • The daemon agent loop (Pi worker) had no memory toolsmemory_remember / memory_recall / memory_forget only existed on the dead desktop ToolPresenter path.
  • No background maintenance (consolidation sweep) was started.
  • Memory was only manageable from Settings → Agent → "Manage memory", and that dialog was missing memoryEnabled / hasEmbeddingConfigured.

Changes

Backend (apps/daemon)

  • DaemonMemoryRuntime.addMemory now drains pending embeddings (presenter.processPendingEmbeddings) right after insert, so memories transition pending_embedding → embedded (or fts_only when no embedding model is configured).
  • getEmbeddings uses the agent's configured memoryEmbedding.modelId.
  • Added rememberMemory / recallMemory / forgetMemory + a memory tool surface (toolDefinitions, handlesTool, callMemoryTool) exposing memory_remember, memory_recall, memory_forget (server agent-memory).
  • index.ts: starts background maintenance; injects memory tools into the Pi worker only when agentConfig.memoryEnabled === true; dispatches memory_* tool calls to the memory runtime (resolving the agent from the session); stops maintenance on daemon close.

UI (packages/ui)

  • ChatTopBar gains a Memory button (brain-circuit) that opens the memory manager for the active session's Argos agent.
  • ArgosAgentsSettings now passes memoryEnabled and hasEmbeddingConfigured to the memory dialog so the disabled / "embeddings not configured" banners render correctly.

Tests

  • Extended apps/daemon/test/daemonMemoryRuntime.test.ts: add→drain, FTS fallback, tool definitions/handlesTool, remember/forget through the tool path, callMemoryTool dispatch.
  • Verified: daemon + desktop + UI typecheck pass; bun run lint and bun run format pass; daemon unit suite passes (2 pre-existing flaky failures confirmed on base: date-boundary usage-stats test and a stale desktop memoryPresenter test).

Closes the memory pipeline gap: users (UI) and agents (tools) can now create, embed, and semantically recall long-term memory.

Summary by CodeRabbit

  • New Features
    • Added agent memory tools to remember, recall, and forget information.
    • Added memory management controls to eligible chat sessions.
    • Added support for configured embedding models and background memory processing.
    • Added validation, duplicate prevention, recall limits, and memory archiving.
  • Documentation
    • Added implementation plans, specifications, acceptance criteria, and task tracking for end-to-end agent memory.
  • Bug Fixes
    • Improved memory cleanup during daemon shutdown and handling of unavailable embedding configuration.

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Walkthrough

The daemon now provides gated MCP memory tools for remembering, recalling, and forgetting memories. It uses configured embedding models, runs maintenance, and cleans up on shutdown. Chat and settings surfaces now expose memory management state.

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Daemon memory runtime

Layer / File(s) Summary
Memory tool contracts and runtime operations
apps/daemon/src/host/daemonMemoryRuntime.ts, apps/daemon/test/daemonMemoryRuntime.test.ts
The runtime defines and dispatches remember, recall, and forget tools. It validates inputs, deduplicates writes, processes embeddings asynchronously, uses the configured model ID, and archives memories. Tests cover tool exposure, fallback embedding status, CRUD behavior, dispatch, and recall limits.
Daemon memory lifecycle and dispatch
apps/daemon/src/index.ts
The daemon initializes one memory runtime, starts maintenance, gates memory tools by agent configuration, routes calls through active sessions, and disposes memory services during shutdown.
Memory management controls
packages/ui/src/components/chat/ChatTopBar.tsx, packages/ui/settings/components/ArgosAgentsSettings.tsx
The chat top bar loads agent memory capabilities and opens MemoryManagerDialog for eligible sessions. Settings passes memory-enabled and embedding-configured state to the dialog.
Memory implementation records
docs/features/memory-real-implementation/plan.md, docs/features/memory-real-implementation/spec.md, docs/features/memory-real-implementation/tasks.md
The plan, specification, and completed task checklist document runtime behavior, tool gating, maintenance, UI wiring, constraints, and validation activities.

Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~25 minutes

Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to 79803

This PR enables end-to-end agent memory creation, embedding, recall, and management, but the current UI can retain memory access across session or read-only changes and can apply stale capability data to another agent, risking incorrect memory operations. Tests also do not reliably exercise global pending-embedding maintenance, while a session update path can still overwrite completed state and emit duplicate events. These bounded correctness and validation risks should be fixed or explicitly accepted before merge.

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant AgentLoop
  participant DaemonMemoryRuntime
  participant MemoryPresenter
  participant EmbeddingsAPI
  AgentLoop->>DaemonMemoryRuntime: Call memory_remember, memory_recall, or memory_forget
  DaemonMemoryRuntime->>MemoryPresenter: Create, recall, or archive memory
  DaemonMemoryRuntime->>EmbeddingsAPI: Request embedding with configured model
  DaemonMemoryRuntime-->>AgentLoop: Return serialized MCP response
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Possibly related PRs

  • dvaJi/argos#45: Related daemon MCP tool exposure and dispatch changes.
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Confidence Score: 3/5

The PR should not merge until the chat dialog respects the agent’s memory configuration and memory_recall honors its advertised limit.

The new chat surface permits memory edits when the feature is disabled and misreports embedding availability, while the new recall tool silently discards a supported caller input.

Files Needing Attention: packages/ui/src/components/chat/ChatTopBar.tsx and apps/daemon/src/host/daemonMemoryRuntime.ts

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Filename Overview
apps/daemon/src/host/daemonMemoryRuntime.ts Adds configured-model embedding drains and the memory tool surface, but silently ignores memory_recall’s declared limit argument.
apps/daemon/src/index.ts Initializes memory maintenance and integrates gated memory tools into Pi worker registration and dispatch.
packages/ui/src/components/chat/ChatTopBar.tsx Adds chat memory management but omits capability props, enabling edits for disabled memory and producing an incorrect embedding warning.
packages/ui/settings/components/ArgosAgentsSettings.tsx Correctly supplies memory-enabled and embedding-configuration state to the settings dialog.
apps/daemon/src/host/acp-provider-execution.ts Publishes and persists the generating session status when ACP generation starts.
apps/daemon/test/daemonMemoryRuntime.test.ts Extends memory runtime coverage, though it does not verify recall-limit handling.

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### Issue 1
packages/ui/src/components/chat/ChatTopBar.tsx:524-530
**Memory capability state is omitted**

When the active Argos agent has memory disabled or has an embedding model configured, this dialog omits `memoryEnabled` and `hasEmbeddingConfigured`, so it still permits memory edits and incorrectly displays the missing-embedding warning once memories exist.

### Issue 2
apps/daemon/src/host/daemonMemoryRuntime.ts:345-347
**Recall limit is discarded**

When `memory_recall` supplies the advertised `limit` argument, this branch forwards only the query, causing recall to return the agent-configured `topK` count rather than the number requested by the caller.

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Inline comments:
In `@apps/daemon/src/host/acp-provider-execution.ts`:
- Around line 197-203: Remove the later generating-status update in sendMessage,
including the setSessionStatus call and sessionsStatusChangedEvent.publish block
after runTurn starts; retain the earlier generating-status update before runTurn
and leave the idle-status handling unchanged.

In `@apps/daemon/src/host/daemonMemoryRuntime.ts`:
- Around line 297-299: Update the memory_forget tool description and its
deleteMemory behavior to use matching semantics: either archive the identified
memory instead of permanently deleting it, or explicitly describe the tool as
permanently deleting the memory. Keep the change scoped to memory_forget and its
corresponding operation.
- Around line 293-296: Update the memory_recall tool and its recall path so the
caller-provided limit is honored, constraining results to that validated value
instead of the default topK. Trace the limit through the relevant memory recall
method(s), preserving the existing 1–20 bounds, or remove the limit field from
the tool schema if it cannot be supported.

In `@apps/daemon/src/index.ts`:
- Around line 337-343: Update the memory-tool dispatch in the request handling
flow to resolve the effective agent configuration after loading the session,
then reject the call unless that configuration has memoryEnabled === true.
Preserve the existing active-session/agent validation and only invoke
memoryRuntime.callMemoryTool after both checks pass.
- Around line 1037-1038: Update the setupGracefulShutdown shutdown callback to
stopBackgroundMaintenance and dispose the memory presenter before closing the
database, matching the cleanup already used in close. Reuse the existing
memoryRuntime.presenter cleanup behavior in both shutdown paths.

In `@docs/features/memory-real-implementation/plan.md`:
- Line 13: Update the diagram’s fenced code block in the documentation to
specify the text language, using a text-labeled fence so markdownlint rule MD040
passes while preserving the ASCII diagram content.

In `@docs/features/memory-real-implementation/spec.md`:
- Around line 42-43: Update the memory real-implementation specification to
require stopping background maintenance during daemon shutdown, and add
corresponding shutdown-lifecycle entries to the plan and tasks documents.
Reference MemoryPresenter.startBackgroundMaintenance() and the daemon shutdown
flow, preserving the existing startup criterion.

In `@docs/features/pi-worker-permission-terminate/plan.md`:
- Line 27: Update the testing statement in the plan to say that
apps/daemon/test/piWorker.test.ts covers worker startup only; retain the
existing requirement for a regression test covering the deny/terminate: true
permission path.
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Pull request overview

This PR activates the previously-inert agent memory subsystem in the daemon runtime and surfaces it in the UI. Memories added via the UI are now actually embedded into the DuckDB vector store, the daemon Pi worker loop gains memory_remember/memory_recall/memory_forget tools (gated on memoryEnabled), background consolidation maintenance is started/stopped with the daemon lifecycle, and the memory manager becomes reachable from the chat top bar.

Changes:

  • DaemonMemoryRuntime: drains pending embeddings after insert, uses the agent's configured embedding modelId (no longer hard-coded), and exposes an MCP-style memory tool surface (toolDefinitions/handlesTool/remember/recall/forget/callMemoryTool).
  • apps/daemon/src/index.ts: constructs memoryRuntime earlier, starts/stops background maintenance and disposes on close, appends memory tools when memoryEnabled === true, and dispatches memory_* tool calls by resolving the agent from the session.
  • UI: ChatTopBar adds a Memory button opening MemoryManagerDialog; ArgosAgentsSettings passes memoryEnabled/hasEmbeddingConfigured to fix the dialog banners.

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apps/daemon/src/host/daemonMemoryRuntime.ts Adds memory tools, drain-on-add, and threads modelId through embeddings
apps/daemon/src/index.ts Wires memory runtime lifecycle, tool gating, and memory_* dispatch
apps/daemon/src/host/acp-provider-execution.ts Adds a duplicate post-launch "generating" status write (unrelated; reintroduces a race)
apps/daemon/test/daemonMemoryRuntime.test.ts Extends coverage for add→drain, FTS fallback, and the tool surface
packages/ui/src/components/chat/ChatTopBar.tsx Adds a Memory button + dialog for the active session's Argos agent
packages/ui/settings/components/ArgosAgentsSettings.tsx Passes memoryEnabled/hasEmbeddingConfigured to the memory dialog
docs/features/memory-real-implementation/{spec,plan,tasks}.md SDD docs for the feature
docs/features/pi-worker-permission-terminate/plan.md Minor doc line-numbering fix

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Inline comments:
In `@apps/daemon/test/daemonMemoryRuntime.test.ts`:
- Around line 117-123: Update the pending-embedding query handling in the test
fake so a numeric-only parameter is treated as the limit, not agentId; leave
agentId unset for unscoped queries, apply the optional agent filter only when an
agent ID is provided, and preserve the existing default limit and ordering.

In `@packages/ui/src/components/chat/ChatTopBar.tsx`:
- Around line 63-67: Update ChatTopBar’s openMemoryDialog flow to clear
memoryCapabilities when the agent changes and ensure pending capability
responses are only applied when they still match the current agent/session.
Cancel the request where supported, or ignore stale responses before calling
setMemoryCapabilities, while preserving the existing dialog behavior for the
active agent.
- Around line 548-557: Update the MemoryManagerDialog rendering in ChatTopBar so
it requires canManageMemory in addition to currentSession?.agentId. Close and
reset the memory dialog state whenever the session or memory-management
eligibility changes, preventing an already-open dialog from receiving a
different agent or remaining open in read-only mode.
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