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fix(memory): scan uncapped when selecting forget candidates (#9530)
* fix(memory): scan uncapped when selecting forget candidates

Recall moved to the uncapped scanner in #8716; forget did not. A document
ranked past the 200-document cap could be recalled and injected into the
prompt but never forgotten.

Forget now scans uncapped, so its candidate universe matches recall's. The
model-selection prompt renders every candidate, so it gets its own bound of
400: literal query matches first, then the most recently modified remainder.
The heuristic fallback keeps scanning the full uncapped list.

Indexer, status, and extraction stay capped on purpose, and the two design
docs that recorded forget as capped now say otherwise.

Refs: #9378

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

* fix(memory): give each scope its own share of the forget prompt

Review round 1. The 400-candidate bound ranked both scopes into one recency
budget, so a store whose project entries are all newer than its user entries
seated no user memory at all. The capped scanners this replaced ran per scope,
so each scope always had seats. That made an old user entry unselectable by the
model while recall could still inject it, which is the same asymmetry the PR
set out to close.

Each scope now keeps a 200-candidate quota and whatever a smaller scope leaves
is handed to the other. Within a scope, literal query matches rank first and
both groups are ordered newest first, so truncation is deterministic instead of
scan-order, and the bound logs when it drops candidates.

Also from review: the query normalisation and match predicate are now shared
with selectByHeuristic so the two cannot drift; the user scan gets the
best-effort guard recall.ts and extractionAgentPlanner.ts already carry; and
the docstring and design docs no longer claim an unconditional guarantee the
bound does not provide.

Three tests, each verified against the mutation it is meant to catch: global
ranking drops the user ids, an ascending sort drops the newest filler, and
handing the fallback the bounded list returns 400 of 450 matches.

Refs: #9378

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

* fix(memory): bound the unconfirmed forget path and drop the silent scan guard

Review round 2, all suggestions.

MemoryManager.forget passed limit: MAX_SAFE_INTEGER and deletes without
confirmation. With an uncapped scan and a heuristic fallback that substring
matches the whole store, a one-character query matched nearly every entry in
both scopes, where the capped scanners had held that same failure to one scan's
worth of candidates. The limit is now the prompt bound, restoring the old
ceiling.

Round 1 added a best-effort catch on the user scan. That was wrong on two
counts: scan.ts caps after reading and ordering the whole tree, so uncapping
adds no read exposure to justify it, and swallowing the failure made forget
report "no entries matched" for a scope it never read, then act on that answer
by deleting. Reverted, with a comment saying why forget differs from recall
here: a missed injection is recoverable, a missed deletion is not.

normalizeForgetQuery now delegates to normalizeSummary so query matching and
the post-selection re-match cannot drift apart, and one design-doc sentence no
longer implies only semantic matches fall off the bound.

Two tests, each verified against its mutation: the quota split is now exercised
with both scopes over quota, where dropping it to 150 seats 250 project entries
instead of 200; and the delete ceiling fails at 401 removals if the unbounded
limit comes back.

Refs: #9378

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

* fix(memory): split forget's deletion seats per scope, and decouple the ceiling

Review round 3.

The deletion ceiling added last round truncated the heuristic fallback in
candidate order, and listIndexedForgetCandidates pushes every user entry ahead
of every project entry. With 450 matching user entries and 50 matching project
ones and the side query down, forget deleted 400 user entries, zero project
ones, and reported success. That is the reachability asymmetry this PR exists
to remove, moved into the delete path. The per-scope allocation the model
prompt already used is now shared with the heuristic, so each scope keeps its
share of the limit and a smaller scope's unused seats go to the other.

The ceiling is also its own constant now rather than an alias of the prompt
bound. Resizing the model prompt is a cost decision and resizing this is a
blast-radius decision; sharing one constant let the first silently widen the
second.

Two tests, each checked against its mutation: the 450-user/50-project shape
returns zero project matches under a plain slice, and oldest-first ranking
inside a scope drops that scope's newest entry from the prompt.

Refs: #9378

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

* test(memory): pin the forget split at a small limit and the heuristic's own order

Cross-review found both new tests mutation-survivable. Every case used a
400 limit, so hard-coding a 200 per-scope quota instead of deriving it from
the budget still passed, and the recency case let the side query succeed, so
it pinned the model prompt's ranking rather than selectByHeuristic's own
comparator.

One case at limit 5 with the side query failing covers both: it asserts the
3/2 split, which only holds if the quota comes from the budget, and that each
scope contributes its newest entry, which fails if the comparator is reversed.
Both mutants verified failing.

Refs: #9378

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

* refactor(memory): share the forget recency comparator and log a bound deletion

Review round 4, both suggestions.

The mtime comparator was the last thing the model path and the heuristic path
each typed for themselves, after this branch had already hoisted the query
normaliser, the match predicate and the per-scope allocator so the two could
not drift. Each site has its own test, so a one-sided ordering change would
have updated its own test, passed CI, and left the sibling stale. Now one
definition.

The deletion cap also bound silently. The prompt bound warns when it truncates;
the path that actually deletes did not, so a forget that removed 400 of 500
matches reported success and left no record of why recall kept injecting the
rest. It now says so.

No test for the new warning: it is a debug log line, and asserting on it would
pin the wording rather than the behaviour.

Refs: #9378

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

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Co-authored-by: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Co-authored-by: Shaojin Wen <shaojin.wensj@alibaba-inc.com>
2026-08-24 07:31:01 +00:00
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.qwen refactor(cli): enforce utils leaf-layer dependency direction (#9146) (#9737) 2026-08-23 14:41:49 +00:00
.vscode Merge branch 'main' into feat/sandbox-config-improvements 2026-03-06 14:38:39 +08:00
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eslint-rules refactor(cli): enforce utils leaf-layer dependency direction (#9146) (#9737) 2026-08-23 14:41:49 +00:00
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.dockerignore fix(cli): skip stdin read for ACP mode 2026-03-27 11:47:01 +00:00
.editorconfig pre-release commit 2025-07-22 23:26:01 +08:00
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Tip

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Installation

Linux / macOS:

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NPM / Homebrew

NPM (requires Node.js 22+):

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Homebrew (macOS / Linux):

brew install qwen-code

Quick Start

qwen          # Launch interactive terminal UI
# Inside the session:
/auth         # Configure your provider and API key

See the Authentication Guide and Settings Reference for detailed setup.

Qwen Code

How to Use Qwen Code

Mode Command Use Case
Interactive qwen Terminal UI with rich rendering, @file references, slash commands
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SDK TypeScript, Python, Java
IM Bot qwen channel Connect to Telegram, DingTalk, WeChat, or Feishu
SDK example (Python)
import asyncio

from qwen_code_sdk import is_sdk_result_message, query


async def main() -> None:
    result = query(
        "Summarize the repository layout.",
        {
            "cwd": "/path/to/project",
            "path_to_qwen_executable": "qwen",
        },
    )

    async for message in result:
        if is_sdk_result_message(message):
            print(message["result"])


asyncio.run(main())

Capabilities

If you know Claude Code, you already know Qwen Code — and then some. We've put significant effort into bringing Qwen Code to feature parity with Claude Code, improving both breadth and reliability across the board.

Feature Qwen Code Claude Code
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Auto-Memory, Auto-Skills, Hooks
Built-in Skills (/review, /batch, /loop, /bugfix…)
MCP, Plan Mode, LSP Integration
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IDE Plugins (VS Code / JetBrains / Zed)
SDK
Headless Mode, Session Management
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Agent Arena (multi-model head-to-head on same task)
Daemon Mode — qwen serve (multi-client shared agent)
IM Channels (Telegram / DingTalk / WeChat / Feishu)

Ecosystem

  • Qwen Code Desktop — Official desktop app for macOS, Windows, and Linux

  • AionUi — A modern GUI for command-line AI tools including Qwen Code

  • Gemini CLI Desktop — A cross-platform desktop/web/mobile UI for Qwen Code

  • 🦞 Qwen Code Claw — Let other agents (Claude, Codex, etc.) delegate coding tasks to Qwen Code via ACP. Paste this prompt into your agent:

Use Qwen Code as a coding agent. First, fetch and read this skill reference:
https://raw.githubusercontent.com/QwenLM/qwen-code/refs/heads/main/.qwen/skills/qwen-code-claw/SKILL.md
Then follow the instructions inside to install, authenticate, and use Qwen Code via acpx for all coding tasks.
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Contributing

Contributions are welcome! See CONTRIBUTING.md for guidelines.

Acknowledgments

This project was originally based on Google Gemini CLI v0.8.2. We gratefully acknowledge the Gemini CLI team's excellent work. Starting from Qwen Code v0.1, we stopped syncing with upstream and began independent development as a multi-protocol, multi-platform agent framework with deep integrations for Qwen models and beyond.