# Reported issues for Monet

Pod holds 6 of 6 problems reported by people outside the maintainer team. Issues filed by the project's own owners, members and collaborators are excluded entirely — a maintainer's release checklist is not a warning to a prospective user.

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## Most discussed

### memory_declare writes a declared principle into an ARCHIVED circle with no disclosure — the row lands outside store-wide recall

External contributor report (monet-e2e RE-55, verified 2026-08-30 on @team-monet/monet 1.9.1).

When a rule/principle is declared via `memory_declare` into an archived circle, the write succeeds but the receipt carries no archived/guidance/landedInArchivedCircle signal — unlike memory_store (#78) and memory_checkpoint (#101), which now disclose an archived landing.

Reproduction (isolated store): anchor circle → archive it → `memory_declare`{`species: principle`} → receipt keys are only {`action

[Read the thread](https://github.com/team-monet/monet/issues/123) · 2026-08-30 · open · external user · 0 comments

### slow-queries.jsonl is write-only — no doctor/CLI/MCP surface reads the slow log

## Summary
`livingModelCard` discards the ranking score + per-signal breakdown, returning only `{id,title,kind,confidence,supportCount}`. The ordering is opaque — a caller sees a concept ranks high but not why (recency vs usefulness vs arousal). Demonstrated: a 4x-fetched concept (usefulness signal) ranked LAST with no numeric signal to explain it.

## Reproduction
- XFAIL test: `monet-e2e` `tests/test32_re32_living_model_score_opacity.py` (exit 2).
- `memory_overview` → `livingModel` cards carr

[Read the thread](https://github.com/team-monet/monet/issues/47) · 2026-08-16 · closed · external user · 1 comment

### slow-queries.jsonl is write-only — no doctor/CLI/MCP surface reads the slow log

## Summary
`gate_events` has **no retention/pruning**. Each `stage_lookup` call (recognized matcher) writes one `gate_events` row — including misses — and no surface (`gate`/`doctor`/`status`/`resegment`/`--help` or the 23 MCP tools) reports or prunes them. The table grows with agent activity and will become the largest table in the store.

## Reproduction
- XFAIL test: `monet-e2e` `tests/test29_re26_gate_events_retention.py` (exit 2).
- Declare a stage + domain advisory rule, fire 130 `stage_lo

[Read the thread](https://github.com/team-monet/monet/issues/44) · 2026-08-16 · closed · external user · 1 comment

### Fallback caller identity makes source invisibility undiscoverable — source_list returns [] with no signal

## Summary
When `MONET_CALLER_ID`/`MONET_PROJECT_ID` are unset, `monet start` derives a fallback identity (`local-agent` / `<basename>-<sha8>`). As a result `source_list` silently returns `[]` and `source_status`/`source_path`/`source_sync` return the non-disclosing "source is unavailable" — the identity mismatch is **not discoverable** (a caller sees a clean "no sources" state).

## Reproduction
- XFAIL test: `monet-e2e` `tests/test26_re23_source_identity_discoverability.py` (exit 2).
- CONTROL

[Read the thread](https://github.com/team-monet/monet/issues/42) · 2026-08-16 · closed · external user · 1 comment

### agents/stig.md omits the memory_checkpoint / memory_workstreams tool names — agents never discover them

## Why

with-monet#68 (closed today) carried the workstream capture model onto `agents/stig.md`'s `# Work` section — the "session's working state" line — but deliberately omitted tool names: *"no procedure text — the tool descriptions carry the how."* That premise only holds **once the agent has found the tool**. A persona that names a concept but not the tool gives the agent no reason to read that tool's schema.

## Evidence (live failure, 2026-08-12)

A downstream agent (Hermes/Coda) upgraded 

[Read the thread](https://github.com/team-monet/monet/issues/8) · 2026-08-12 · closed · external user · 0 comments

### memory_store ignores explicit circle param, writes to session circle instead

## Describe the bug

`memory_store` ignores the explicit `circle` parameter and always writes to the Hermes session circle (e.g., `hermes-agent-6018c90a`) instead.

## Steps to reproduce

1. Call `mcp_monet_memory_store` with `circle="coda"` and any `content`
2. The observation is written to `hermes-agent-<random-session-id>` circle, not `coda`

```
mcp_monet_memory_store({
  content: "test observation",
  circle: "coda",       // ← ignored
  kind: "fact"
})
// Result: circle = "hermes-agent-601

[Read the thread](https://github.com/team-monet/monet/issues/1) · 2026-06-23 · closed · external user · 1 comment

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