diff --git a/plugins/memory/extract.ts b/plugins/memory/extract.ts
index 83e8b20..4b3f90d 100644
--- a/plugins/memory/extract.ts
+++ b/plugins/memory/extract.ts
@@ -218,6 +218,15 @@ export function redactSecrets(text: string): string {
 export interface ExtractionOutcome {
   candidates: Candidate[]
   rejected: { candidate: Candidate; reason: string }[]
+  /**
+   * Set when the round-trip itself failed. Absent means the model answered.
+   * Without this, a broken call and a conversation with nothing worth keeping
+   * both come back as zero candidates — which is how a permanently broken
+   * extractor can look like a healthy one that simply rarely fires.
+   */
+  error?: string
+  /** Raw model text, truncated, for diagnosing a surprising empty result. */
+  rawText?: string
 }
 
 /**
@@ -302,7 +311,13 @@ export interface RunExtractionInput {
   signal?: AbortSignal
 }
 
-/** One model round-trip. Returns screened candidates and why things were dropped. */
+/**
+ * One model round-trip. Returns screened candidates and why things were dropped.
+ *
+ * A transport failure is reported in `error` rather than collapsed into an
+ * empty result: the caller's only other signal would be "no candidates", which
+ * is also what a correct answer looks like when nothing was worth keeping.
+ */
 export async function extract(input: RunExtractionInput): Promise<ExtractionOutcome> {
   const prompt = `${SYSTEM}\n\n---\n\n${input.transcript}`
   let result: unknown
@@ -314,11 +329,34 @@ export async function extract(input: RunExtractionInput): Promise<ExtractionOutc
       prompt,
       ...(input.signal ? { signal: input.signal } : {}),
     })
-  } catch {
-    // An extraction failure must never disturb the user's session.
-    return { candidates: [], rejected: [] }
+  } catch (error) {
+    // An extraction failure must never disturb the user's session, but it must
+    // not be indistinguishable from success either.
+    return {
+      candidates: [],
+      rejected: [],
+      error: `模型调用失败：${(error as Error).message.slice(0, 160)}`,
+    }
   }
+
   const text = coerceText(result)
+  // An empty string here means the call "succeeded" but returned nothing usable.
+  // An auth or provider error can arrive as a JSON error body rather than a
+  // thrown error, so surface what actually came back instead of reporting it
+  // as "nothing worth remembering".
+  if (!text.trim()) {
+    const preview =
+      result && typeof result === "object"
+        ? JSON.stringify(result).slice(0, 160)
+        : String(result ?? "").slice(0, 160)
+    return {
+      candidates: [],
+      rejected: [],
+      error: `模型返回空内容（响应：${preview || "空"}）`,
+    }
+  }
+
   const candidates = parseCandidates(text)
-  return screenCandidates(candidates, input.existing)
+  const screened = screenCandidates(candidates, input.existing)
+  return { ...screened, rawText: text.slice(0, 400) }
 }
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/plugins/memory/index.ts b/plugins/memory/index.ts
index 249e5a6..a6cdfee 100644
--- a/plugins/memory/index.ts
+++ b/plugins/memory/index.ts
@@ -529,6 +529,7 @@ export default Plugin.define({
             const when = new Date(Number(extraction.at)).toISOString().slice(0, 19).replace("T", " ")
             lines.push(`  抽取：${when} → ${String(extraction.outcome)}`)
             if (extraction.reason) lines.push(`    原因：${String(extraction.reason)}`)
+            if (extraction.reasonDetail) lines.push(`    细节：${String(extraction.reasonDetail)}`)
             if (extraction.model) lines.push(`    模型：${String(extraction.model)}`)
           } else {
             lines.push(
@@ -537,6 +538,10 @@ export default Plugin.define({
                 : "  抽取：已关闭（autoExtract: false）",
             )
           }
+          if (extraction && extraction.error) {
+            lines.push(`    ⚠ 模型调用异常：${String(extraction.error)}`)
+            if (extraction.rawText) lines.push(`    原始返回：${String(extraction.rawText).slice(0, 160)}`)
+          }
 
           return { content: lines.join("\n") }
         },
@@ -755,10 +760,14 @@ async function runExtraction(
     }
     await noteDiag(ctx, "lastExtraction", {
       at: Date.now(),
-      outcome: "no-candidates",
-      reason: outcome.rejected.length ? "候选全部被去重或密钥拦截" : "抽取器认为没有值得记的东西",
+      outcome: outcome.error ? "failed" : "no-candidates",
+      ...(outcome.error ? { reason: outcome.error } : {}),
+      reasonDetail: outcome.rejected.length
+        ? "候选全部被去重或密钥拦截"
+        : "抽取器认为没有值得记的东西",
       rejected: outcome.rejected.length,
       model: `${model.providerID}/${model.id}`,
+      ...(outcome.rawText ? { rawText: outcome.rawText } : {}),
     })
     return
   }