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Cloudflare Workers

Walrus Memory runs on the Cloudflare Workers runtime, but the edge environment differs from Node.js in a few ways that affect bundling and reliability. The configuration and patterns below make it work cleanly.

Required configuration​

The SDK relies on the Node.js crypto built-in, and @mysten/seal and @mysten/sui pull in more Node APIs. Enable the Node.js compatibility flag in your wrangler.toml:

Source: sdk/cloudflare-workers.md
wrangler.toml
compatibility_flags = ["nodejs_compat"]

Without nodejs_compat the build fails outright: wrangler deploy stops with Could not resolve "crypto" because the SDK calls await import("crypto") internally. Adding the flag resolves it.

Bundle size​

Even the default MemWal client requires @mysten/seal and @mysten/sui as peer dependencies (it builds a Seal session key on the client to authenticate each request), so it pulls in a sizeable dependency graph. A Worker bundling just the default client totals roughly 1.2 MB raw (around 225 KB gzipped), measured with wrangler deploy --dry-run against @mysten/sui 2.x. That is comfortably within the Workers size limit, but worth knowing:

  • A single incompatible peer version can break the build for the entire Worker, not just the memory feature. Pin your @mysten/* versions and treat the memory dependency as a unit.
  • The default @mysten-incubation/memwal entry point is the lightest to bundle. The relayer handles embeddings and Walrus storage server-side, so the client only needs @mysten/seal and @mysten/sui (both required peers). The @mysten-incubation/memwal/manual entry point additionally pulls in @mysten/walrus and client-side encryption and upload, adding more to the bundle. Prefer the default entry point on Workers unless you specifically need the manual flow.

Crash isolation with dynamic import​

To keep a Walrus Memory bundling or runtime issue from taking down the rest of your agent, load it behind a defensive dynamic import and feature-flag it off when config is missing or the client fails to come up. This way the app keeps serving requests even if memory is unavailable for a cycle:

Source: sdk/cloudflare-workers.md 
let memwal: any = null;

try {
  const mod = await import("@mysten-incubation/memwal");
  memwal = mod.MemWal.create({ key, accountId, serverUrl, namespace });
  await memwal.health();
} catch (e) {
  console.log("MemWal unavailable, degrading gracefully:", e);
  memwal = null; // app keeps running without memory this cycle
}

Guard your read and write paths on memwal being non-null, and the rest of the Worker stays healthy regardless of the memory layer's state.

note

The dynamic import() also keeps the heavy dependency graph out of your Worker's cold-start critical path until memory is actually needed.