Memory Providers
Hermes Agent ships with 8 external memory provider plugins that give the agent persistent, cross session knowledge beyond the built in MEMORY.md and USER.md. On
Hermes Agent ships with 8 external memory provider plugins that give the agent persistent, cross-session knowledge beyond the built-in MEMORY.md and USER.md. Only one external provider can be active at a time — the built-in memory is always active alongside it. You can also select the active memory provider via → Provider Plugins → Memory Provider. …
What this page covers
- Quick Start
- How It Works
- Available Providers
- Honcho
- New profile, fresh Honcho peer
- Existing profiles, backfill Honcho peers
- Per-profile observation
- Gateway identity mapping
- OpenViking
- Mem0
- Hindsight
- Holographic
- RetainDB
- ByteRover
- Supermemory
- Memori
- Provider Comparison
- Profile Isolation
- Building a Memory Provider
Section outline mirrored from the official Hermes Agent documentation. Follow any heading to read the complete text on the source site.
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