# Hermes Dreaming: Hermes Agent plugin

> Nightly deterministic memory consolidation ("dreaming"): corroborates candidate facts with what humans actually said on distinct days, proposes the few worth keeping with a verbatim edit anchor, asks whether stale…

Canonical: https://hermeswatcher.com/plugins/hermes-dreaming  
Tier: Community  
Official page (Nous Research): https://hermes-agent.nousresearch.com/docs/plugins/hermes-dreaming  
Last updated in catalog: 2026-10-25

Nightly deterministic memory consolidation ("dreaming"): corroborates candidate facts with what humans actually said on distinct days, proposes the few worth keeping with a verbatim edit anchor, asks whether stale memory entries still hold, and wakes the agent only when there is work — including a memory file close to its char limit. Fact sources: the holographic store, a SQLite or JSONL export, or none. Secrets and instructions are screened by the dream's own rules plus a verbatim copy of the holographic plugin's screen (scripts/holo_screen.py, MIT, same maintainer), applied to stored facts and human messages before anything reaches memory, the report or the model. Portable Agent Plugins v1 package (plugin.json + skills/); no tools, hooks, middleware or env vars.

## Good to know before installing

By default the scripts make no network or LLM calls and open state.db and every fact store read-only (SQLite mode=ro; with holographic >= 0.15.0 including its fact_versions/fact_confirmations tables, to say who stands behind a fact); they also read Hermes config.yaml's memory/timezone keys and the holographic plugin's db_path/scope/cron_writes/min_trust_threshold (the floor recall applies, so a rejected fact is only reported when the store still trusts it) and, to say so in install.py --check, embeddings/mirror_memory_writes, the pending/memory approval queue, cron/jobs.json (to find their own jobs) and — only when chat_stores is set, with holographic scope user/chat/thread — the per-chat databases next to the store (counts of every one; facts of the chats listed in promote_from). An optional cloud judge (judge in dreaming.json, off by default; off, its code is not even loaded) may, once the owner enables it, send for each mention the rules counted the fact's text and that person's own words (no reply quote, link, id, sender or time; names inside the text may be included; screened for secrets and instructions first), only from the chats, sources and chat stores the owner lists, ove

From the plugin's catalog listing.

## How to install

1. Install it. Hermes asks for any API keys it needs, then asks whether to turn it on.

```bash
hermes plugins install hermes-dreaming
```

2. Said no? Turn it on later:

```bash
hermes plugins enable hermes-dreaming
```

3. Restart Hermes so it loads the plugin.

Some plugins also need a sign-in or settings: see the official page. Memory plugins ask whether to become your memory provider instead. Steps follow the official plugins guide: https://hermes-agent.nousresearch.com/docs/user-guide/features/plugins

## Facts

- Category: Memory & notes
- Maintained by: itpartypattaya (Community)
- Needs: No API keys declared
- Requires Hermes: `>=0.21.0`
- Version: 3.3.4
- In the catalog since: 2026-10-04, updated 2026-10-25

## Links

- [Full setup and settings (official page)](https://hermes-agent.nousresearch.com/docs/plugins/hermes-dreaming)
- [Source code](https://github.com/itpartypattaya/hermes-dreaming/blob/6d056e3311116cd6d5d94d5b0e583cc173c41a74/README.md)
- [All plugins](https://hermeswatcher.com/plugins.md)

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