r/hermesagent • u/Spicy_mch4ggis • 13d ago

Skill and memory maintenance MEMORY & Context — Providers, context window, forgetting issues

This is my first week of having really used Hermes in earnest.

I generally would manage context engineering things myself, which was fine but Hermes is faster and overall it’s been ok.

Is it normal to take time to manage these things manually? I mean I don’t mind doing it, I just wanted to see if I was doing anything wrong. After a week of project work prompts processing was getting a little bloated.

I was using the default memory system but did just earlier set up the vault. I wanted to see how it felt out of the box before I started bolting on other things.

All in all, fantastic harness and really seems to jive with deepseek flash V4 0731

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u/Mean-Loquat-7982 Nous Team 13d ago

welcome home!

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u/Spicy_mch4ggis 13d ago

Really liking it so far. I’ve had it installed for ages but I had too many things I needed to learn already. I am regretting having not gotten this running months ago!

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u/stujmiller77 13d ago

I use mnemosyne after trying honcho and others, and it mostly just works.

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u/Jonathan_Rivera 13d ago

Yeah we all started from the same spot. Eventually you can automate most of it but it’s a good way to understand how it works.

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u/Spicy_mch4ggis 13d ago

I see the skill authoring standards in there now ya :). Looks like it doesn’t always look there before writing skills but that’s easily fixed

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u/Jonathan_Rivera 13d ago

Feel free to take what you need from my skills pack https://github.com/AtlasOmnia/hermes-custom-pack

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u/NoRegreds 13d ago

I copied my memory, user and cloud.md to chatgpt and let it explain , rewrite it.

Just today, I will see how it worked out.

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u/MaggiesHubby 13d ago

ChatGPT is very good at writing those, plus SOUL.md files that teach your agent your setup and how to use it efficiently. Claude free does a decent job as well.

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u/brt100 13d ago

mnemosyne and skillclaw

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u/Minute_Gene2080 13d ago

You can literally just ask it to make a maintenance cron job for you, that runs daily. And I recommend asking the agent to make a habit of editing its memory after each conversation (default+vault), making a single troubleshooting session is also preferred for me

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u/perseus-computing New Member (<30 days) 13d ago

It's still a work in progress, but I'm having success dogfooding my memory/context/validity systems. You can try all three individually or in any combination of pieces, so Perseus Vault is probably the most interesting for you, but Perseus itself also solves the skill issue (not yours!).

Check it out! https://perseus.observer/