Auto-recall used to surface every fact type Hindsight had on the
session — `world`, `experience`, and `observation`. That triple-ships
the same underlying signal in three different framings: observations
are the concrete events the user said/did/asked, while world and
experience facts are aggregate summaries Hindsight derives from those
exact observations. Including all three burns most of
`recall_max_tokens` on rephrasings, crowds out events the model
actually needs to see, and produces effective duplicates in the
prompt — observations themselves are deduplicated by construction
so observation-only recall is denser per token and closer to
conversational ground truth.
Change
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- Default `_recall_types = ["observation"]` (was `None`, which
delegated to server-side "return everything").
- `initialize()` now treats a missing `recall_types` config the same
way; also accepts comma-separated strings for parity with `recall_tags`.
- An explicit `recall_types=[]` config falls back to the default rather
than disabling the filter (would silently widen recall vs. the new
default).
- Added to `get_config_schema()` so it's discoverable via `hermes config`.
Per-call `hindsight_recall` tool invocations are unaffected — they
already only forward `types` when the caller passes the argument.
Docs / migration
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plugins/memory/hindsight/README.md grows a "Behavior change" callout
explaining the why (no-duplicates, information-efficient) and how to
restore the legacy broad recall:
"recall_types": "observation,world,experience" # or a JSON list
in `~/.hermes/hindsight/config.json`.
Tests
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- `test_default_values` updated for the new default.
- New cases: explicit list override, CSV string accepted, empty list
falls back to default (not "wider than default").
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