diff --git a/apps/desktop/src/app/settings/config-settings.tsx b/apps/desktop/src/app/settings/config-settings.tsx
index 1d8a2de0127f..b4bb6a82d0e4 100644
--- a/apps/desktop/src/app/settings/config-settings.tsx
+++ b/apps/desktop/src/app/settings/config-settings.tsx
@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@ import { useEffect, useMemo, useRef, useState } from 'react'
 import { useSearchParams } from 'react-router-dom'
 
 import { Button } from '@/components/ui/button'
-import { getElevenLabsVoices, getHermesConfigSchema, saveHermesConfig } from '@/hermes'
+import { getElevenLabsVoices, getHermesConfigSchema, getMemoryStatus, saveHermesConfig } from '@/hermes'
 import { useI18n } from '@/i18n'
 import { $keepAwake, setKeepAwake } from '@/store/keep-awake'
 import { notify, notifyError } from '@/store/notifications'
@@ -76,6 +76,10 @@ export function ConfigSettings({
   const schema = schemaResponse?.fields ?? null
   const [elevenLabsVoiceOptions, setElevenLabsVoiceOptions] = useState<string[] | null>(null)
   const [elevenLabsVoiceLabels, setElevenLabsVoiceLabels] = useState<Record<string, string>>({})
+  // Discovered memory providers (bundled + user-installed + pip), so the
+  // memory.provider dropdown reflects what the backend actually serves rather
+  // than a hardcoded subset. null until the first fetch resolves.
+  const [memoryProviderOptions, setMemoryProviderOptions] = useState<string[] | null>(null)
   const saveVersionRef = useRef(0)
   const savedDiscoverySignatureRef = useRef<string | undefined>(undefined)
   const [saveVersion, setSaveVersion] = useState(0)
@@ -126,6 +130,27 @@ export function ConfigSettings({
     return () => void (cancelled = true)
   }, [])
 
+  useEffect(() => {
+    let cancelled = false
+
+    getMemoryStatus()
+      .then(result => {
+        if (cancelled) {
+          return
+        }
+
+        // Empty sentinel first (built-in only), then every discovered plugin.
+        setMemoryProviderOptions(['', ...result.providers.map(provider => provider.name)])
+      })
+      .catch(() => {
+        if (!cancelled) {
+          setMemoryProviderOptions(null)
+        }
+      })
+
+    return () => void (cancelled = true)
+  }, [])
+
   useEffect(() => {
     if (!config || saveVersion === 0) {
       return
@@ -308,7 +333,9 @@ export function ConfigSettings({
                 enumOptions={
                   key === 'tts.elevenlabs.voice_id'
                     ? enumOptionsFor(key, getNested(config, key), config, elevenLabsVoiceOptions ?? undefined)
-                    : enumOptionsFor(key, getNested(config, key), config)
+                    : key === 'memory.provider'
+                      ? enumOptionsFor(key, getNested(config, key), config, memoryProviderOptions ?? undefined)
+                      : enumOptionsFor(key, getNested(config, key), config)
                 }
                 onChange={value => updateConfig(setNested(config, key, value))}
                 optionLabels={key === 'tts.elevenlabs.voice_id' ? elevenLabsVoiceLabels : undefined}
diff --git a/apps/desktop/src/app/settings/constants.ts b/apps/desktop/src/app/settings/constants.ts
index 055f72ac19a1..789e8fce3062 100644
--- a/apps/desktop/src/app/settings/constants.ts
+++ b/apps/desktop/src/app/settings/constants.ts
@@ -249,7 +249,9 @@ export const ENUM_OPTIONS: Record<string, string[]> = {
   'delegation.reasoning_effort': ['', 'minimal', 'low', 'medium', 'high', 'xhigh', 'max', 'ultra'],
   // Built-in memory is not a provider plugin: the empty sentinel renders as
   // "Built-in only" and a legacy literal `builtin` value is only kept visible
-  // via enumOptionsFor's current-value passthrough (#49513).
+  // via enumOptionsFor's current-value passthrough (#49513). This static list
+  // is only a pre-load fallback: config-settings.tsx feeds enumOptionsFor the
+  // live discovered set (getMemoryStatus) so user-installed/pip providers show.
   'memory.provider': ['', 'honcho', 'hindsight'],
   // Terminal execution backends — kept in sync with the dispatch ladder in
   // tools/terminal_tool.py::_create_environment (local/docker/singularity/
diff --git a/apps/desktop/src/app/settings/helpers.test.ts b/apps/desktop/src/app/settings/helpers.test.ts
index 33aa771d32b5..825bc2909502 100644
--- a/apps/desktop/src/app/settings/helpers.test.ts
+++ b/apps/desktop/src/app/settings/helpers.test.ts
@@ -44,6 +44,25 @@ describe('settings helpers', () => {
     expect(options).toEqual(['', 'honcho', 'hindsight', 'builtin'])
   })
 
+  it('prefers the discovered provider set over the static fallback for memory.provider', () => {
+    // config-settings.tsx passes the live getMemoryStatus() providers as
+    // dynamicOptions; user-installed/pip providers must appear, not just the
+    // hardcoded honcho/hindsight subset.
+    const discovered = ['', 'honcho', 'hindsight', 'mem0', 'supermemory']
+    const options = enumOptionsFor('memory.provider', '', {}, discovered)
+
+    expect(options).toEqual(discovered)
+  })
+
+  it('keeps the current memory.provider value visible even if discovery omits it', () => {
+    // A provider selected in config but not (yet) returned by discovery must
+    // still render as the current selection rather than silently vanishing.
+    const discovered = ['', 'honcho']
+    const options = enumOptionsFor('memory.provider', 'hindsight', {}, discovered)
+
+    expect(options).toEqual(['', 'honcho', 'hindsight'])
+  })
+
   describe('isExternalMemoryProvider', () => {
     it('treats only real plugin names as external providers', () => {
       expect(isExternalMemoryProvider('honcho')).toBe(true)