Persistent Memory
Hermes Agent has bounded, curated memory that persists across sessions. This lets it remember your preferences, your projects, your environment, and things it h
Hermes Agent has bounded, curated memory that persists across sessions. This lets it remember your preferences, your projects, your environment, and things it has learned. Two files make up the agent's memory: Both are stored in and are injected into the system prompt as a frozen snapshot at session start. …
What this page covers
- How It Works
- How Memory Appears in the System Prompt
- Memory Tool Actions
- Substring Matching
- Two Targets Explained
- memory — Agent's Personal Notes
- user — User Profile
- What to Save vs Skip
- Save These (Proactively)
- Skip These
- Capacity Management
- What Happens When Memory is Full
- Practical Examples of Good Memory Entries
- Duplicate Prevention
- Security Scanning
- Session Search
- sessionsearch vs memory
- Configuration
- Controlling memory writes (writeapproval)
- Background review notifications (display.memorynotifications)
- Controlling skill writes (skills.writeapproval)
- External Memory Providers
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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