ISSUES.md

AETHER — Known Issues & Deferred Work

PERSIST-01: All Runtime State Is In-Memory

Status: Resolved
Priority: High
Category: Data Persistence
Resolved: 2026-03-08

Problem

All runtime state — agent registry, escalation records, task history, execution logs, and circuit breaker state — originally existed only in memory.

Resolution

SQLite persistence layer fully implemented and integrated:

1. core/storage/sqlite-store.ts — 19-table SQLite database (.aether/aether.db) with WAL mode, sqlite-vec for vector embeddings, and FTS5 for full-text search.
2. State serialization: Agent registry, escalation records, task history, conversations, entity knowledge, workflow checkpoints, and vector embeddings all persist across restarts.
3. Session continuity: Escalation state and circuit breaker records are restored from the store on startup via loadFromStore().
4. Queryable storage: Task metrics, agent metrics, and vector search are all backed by SQLite queries.

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Created: 2026-02-21
Last Updated: 2026-03-08