112 results for “memory”
- What can Hermes do that Claude Code, ChatGPT or other assistants can't?FAQ · ComparisonsThe differences are mostly about where it runs and who controls it. Hermes is open source (MIT) and runs on your own machine, a server or a hosted instance, so it can stay on…
- What is Hermes Agent?FAQ · Getting startedHermes Agent is an open-source AI agent built by Nous Research. You can chat with it in a terminal, a desktop app, or through messaging apps like Telegram and Discord, and it…
- What is Hermes Cloud, how is it priced, and is storage persistent?FAQ · Running & deployingHermes Cloud is Nous Research's hosted Hermes Agent: an always-on agent on a dedicated cloud instance with its own workspace and dashboard, managed from the agents page in Nous…
- When should I use the Kanban board instead of subagents?FAQ · Automation & scheduling`delegate_task` works like a function call: the parent waits for an anonymous child and gets a summary back. Kanban is a durable work queue in `~/.hermes/kanban.db` where named…
- Why do side tasks add to my bill, and can I give them, subagents and fallbacks their own models?FAQ · Models, providers & costHermes uses auxiliary models for side jobs such as context compression, session titles, image analysis, web extraction, approval checks, the skills curator and Kanban planning.…
- Why does Hermes lose track in long sessions, and what does “context is over the compression threshold” mean?FAQ · Memory & contextLong conversations fill the model's context window, so Hermes compresses older history automatically, by default at 50% of the context limit (`compression.threshold`). Run…
- Why is Hermes slow or laggy, and should I reinstall?FAQ · TroubleshootingReinstalling rarely helps. Slowness usually comes from the model (large reasoning models and busy providers are slow), a long session, or a heavy prompt with many tools. First…
- Carry project knowledge into the next sessionWorkflow · Research & knowledge workKeep decisions, source material, and next actions in durable project records that an agent can actually recover.
- A software consultancy builds a private Slack assistant that answers questions about the companyCase study · Business operationsEchobind wrote up a Hermes Slack bot that runs on a small private server and answers questions about the company from a condensed summary and a folder of scraped knowledge pages. The write-up is useful mainly for the configuration problems it records, including one where a default setting quietly overrode the Slack tool restrictions.
- A three-person software house uses Hermes skills to fill its sales and marketing gapsCase study · Business operationsHalfbit Studio, a three-person software house with no sales or marketing staff, describes using Hermes for competitor analysis, lead research, outreach coaching and event scouting, with each workflow saved as a reusable skill. It shows a small team turning one-off research prompts into repeatable procedures that hold company knowledge.
- Hermes Agent forgets things mid-conversationTroubleshooting · Memory & contextWhy a long Hermes session can lose earlier details after context compression, and how to keep the important parts in view.
- Hermes Agent ignoring your project instructionsTroubleshooting · Memory & contextVerify the active directory, chosen context file and loading evidence before rewriting the rules.
- Hermes Agent local model won't start or goes silentTroubleshooting · Models, providers & costFix the context-window and tool-calling mismatches behind most local model failures with Ollama, llama.cpp, vLLM and LM Studio.
- Hermes Agent profiles: separate agents for separate jobsGuide · Running & deployingHow Hermes profiles give you independent agents on one machine, what they isolate (and what they don't), and the commands for creating, switching, sharing and running them.
- Hermes Agent sessions: search and resume past workGuide · Memory & contextHow Hermes stores every conversation, how to name, resume, export and prune sessions, and how the agent searches its own history.
- Hermes Agent SOUL.md and personalities explainedGuide · Models, providers & costUse SOUL.md for the durable identity and tone of your agent, /personality for temporary modes, and AGENTS.md for project rules, so each layer does one job.
- Hermes Agent subagents and delegation explainedGuide · Automation & schedulingHow Hermes's delegate_task tool spawns isolated child agents, what they can and can't do, the settings that cap concurrency and depth, and how to keep the cost sensible.
- Hermes Agent terminal backends: local, Docker, SSH, cloudGuide · Running & deployingWhat each of Hermes's seven terminal backends does, what it isolates, what persists between sessions, and how to pick one for your situation.
- Hermes Agent web dashboard: a quick tourGuide · Running & deployingWhat the local dashboard can do, which pages save you the most time, and how to reach it from another machine without exposing your API keys.
- How to install Hermes Agent on MacGuide · Getting startedHermes Agent officially supports Apple Silicon Macs. Install the desktop app or run the one-line terminal installer, then pick a model to start.