112 results for “memory”
- Profiles, bots, subagents and Kanban: what's the difference and when do I use each?FAQ · Automation & schedulingA profile is a separate agent with its own config, keys, memory, sessions, skills and cron jobs (`hermes profile create <name>`). A Bot Mode bot is simply a profile shown in…
- What happens to my data when I use models through Nous Portal?FAQ · Security & permissionsHermes itself sends no telemetry; your conversations, memory and skills stay on your machine, and requests go only to the provider you choose. Once you send a request through…
- What should I use Hermes for first?FAQ · Getting startedStart with something that recurs and that you'd otherwise do by hand, because that's where memory, skills and scheduling pay off. Good first projects: a morning briefing…
- When should I start a new session instead of continuing, and how do I clean up old ones?FAQ · Memory & contextStart a new one (`/new`) whenever you switch tasks or topics. Shorter sessions are cheaper and faster, and a fresh session is when updated memory loads. Nothing useful is lost:…
- Thirty skills in, three kept: a crypto investor's personal analyst setupCase study · Research & knowledge workA DeFi investor reports spending roughly $150-200 in tokens over two weeks experimenting with about 30 Hermes skills, and narrowing down to three that earned their place: a morning X briefing, a bookmark digest, and a daily reflection built on an external memory provider.
- Three separate Hermes profiles for coding, research and illustration, each with its own Telegram botCase study · Development & operationsA tutorial that explains Hermes Agent's memory, skills and self-improvement features, then builds three specialist agents as separate profiles. One is a programmer that hands work to Claude Code, one is a researcher that sends a daily digest on a schedule, and one is a designer with a learned drawing style. Each agent has its own Telegram bot.
- Hermes Agent setup: your first 24 hoursGuide · Getting startedAn opinionated, documentation-grounded checklist for a new Hermes install: one working model, deliberate tools and approvals, memory you can trust, one skill, one scheduled job and a paired phone.
- Moving to Hermes Agent from OpenClaw and other agentsGuide · Getting startedUse the built-in, preview-first importers to bring your persona, memory, skills, model settings and bot tokens across, then finish the handful of things that never migrate automatically.
- Desktop: manage conversations and inspect artifacts visuallyTool & integration · Everyday administrationUse the native desktop interface to work with the same Hermes core, sessions, configuration, skills, and memory.
- honchoSkill · Skills directoryConfigure and troubleshoot Honcho memory for Hermes.
- peftSkill · Skills directoryFine-tune large LLMs with LoRA on limited GPU memory.
- pinecone-researchSkill · Skills directoryAgent RAG and long-term memory with Pinecone.
- .env fileGlossaryThe file in your Hermes home (~/.hermes/.env) that stores API keys and tokens such as TELEGRAM_BOT_TOKEN. It holds credentials, not memory.
- config.yamlGlossaryThe main settings file in your Hermes home. It holds the model, terminal backend, memory, approvals, MCP servers, display options and more, and you can edit it directly or use hermes config set.
- Frozen snapshotGlossaryHow memory is loaded: it's read once into the system prompt when a session starts and doesn't change mid-session. That preserves the prompt cache but means new memories appear in the next session.
- Hermes AgentGlossaryAn open-source (MIT) AI agent from Nous Research that runs in your terminal, a desktop app or chat apps, uses tools for you, and learns over time through memory and skills.
- Hermes home (HERMES_HOME)GlossaryThe data folder where Hermes keeps config, keys, memory, skills and sessions. It's ~/.hermes on Linux and macOS, and the HERMES_HOME environment variable points Hermes at a different one.
- HonchoGlossaryAn external memory provider from Plastic Labs that builds a model of the user across sessions and profiles. It's installed with hermes plugins install honcho and runs on Honcho Cloud or self-hosted.
- ProfileGlossaryA separate Hermes home under ~/.hermes/profiles/ with its own config, keys, memory, sessions and skills, letting you run several independent agents.
- skill_manageGlossaryThe tool the agent uses to create, update and delete its own skills. The docs call this its procedural memory.