From 169a7a03d8f9127b859418cba30172578159ba06 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: VANDRANKI <prabhukiranvandranki@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 1 Oct 2026 12:56:31 -0400
Subject: [PATCH] Python: Fix VolatileMemoryStore.get_nearest_match returning
 an un-awaited coroutine

---
 .../memory/volatile_memory_store.py           |  3 +-
 .../unit/memory/test_volatile_memory_store.py | 33 +++++++++++++++++++
 2 files changed, 35 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
 create mode 100644 python/tests/unit/memory/test_volatile_memory_store.py

diff --git a/python/semantic_kernel/memory/volatile_memory_store.py b/python/semantic_kernel/memory/volatile_memory_store.py
index dd1a631d0614..da7ededf5dfb 100644
--- a/python/semantic_kernel/memory/volatile_memory_store.py
+++ b/python/semantic_kernel/memory/volatile_memory_store.py
@@ -213,13 +213,14 @@ async def get_nearest_match(
         Returns:
             Tuple[MemoryRecord, float]: The record and the relevance score.
         """
-        return self.get_nearest_matches(
+        results = await self.get_nearest_matches(
             collection_name=collection_name,
             embedding=embedding,
             limit=1,
             min_relevance_score=min_relevance_score,
             with_embeddings=with_embedding,
         )
+        return results[0]
 
     async def get_nearest_matches(
         self,
diff --git a/python/tests/unit/memory/test_volatile_memory_store.py b/python/tests/unit/memory/test_volatile_memory_store.py
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..c4c2dd1e0116
--- /dev/null
+++ b/python/tests/unit/memory/test_volatile_memory_store.py
@@ -0,0 +1,33 @@
+# Copyright (c) Microsoft. All rights reserved.
+
+import warnings
+
+import numpy as np
+import pytest
+
+from semantic_kernel.memory.memory_record import MemoryRecord
+from semantic_kernel.memory.volatile_memory_store import VolatileMemoryStore
+
+
+@pytest.fixture
+async def store() -> VolatileMemoryStore:
+    with warnings.catch_warnings():
+        warnings.simplefilter("ignore", DeprecationWarning)
+        memory_store = VolatileMemoryStore()
+    await memory_store.create_collection("test")
+    await memory_store.upsert("test", MemoryRecord.local_record("a", "text a", None, None, np.array([1.0, 0.0])))
+    await memory_store.upsert("test", MemoryRecord.local_record("b", "text b", None, None, np.array([0.0, 1.0])))
+    return memory_store
+
+
+async def test_get_nearest_match_returns_tuple(store: VolatileMemoryStore):
+    record, score = await store.get_nearest_match("test", np.array([1.0, 0.1]))
+
+    assert record._id == "a"
+    assert score == pytest.approx(0.995, abs=1e-3)
+
+
+async def test_get_nearest_match_respects_min_relevance_score(store: VolatileMemoryStore):
+    record, _ = await store.get_nearest_match("test", np.array([0.1, 1.0]), min_relevance_score=0.5)
+
+    assert record._id == "b"