# Agent memory — community wiki

Zdroj: https://hermes-ai.cz/en/wiki/getting-started/memory/
Ověřeno proti oficiální dokumentaci: 15. 10. 2026
Oficiální stránka: https://hermes-agent.nousresearch.com/docs/user-guide/features/memory
Language: English. AI version — paste the whole text into your agent.

## Two memories (~/.hermes/memories/)
- USER.md (~1,375 chars) - who you are, how to talk to you, what annoys you
- MEMORY.md (~2,200 chars) - notes about the work: server setup, habits, what worked, what to watch
Notes are separated by the section sign.

## Why it is short
- it is part of every request (you pay for it on every question)
- it does not shrink by itself: when full the agent must drop or shorten first
- only essentials belong there

## What the agent saves by itself
preferences, environment facts, corrections, project conventions, completed work
It will not save: passing remarks with no consequence, values from settings (passwords, keys),
anything it can find in past conversations.

## Telling it to remember
"Remember that ..." / "Note that ..."
Ask: "What do you remember about me?"; correct: "Delete ... from memory" / "Change that to ..."
The file is plain text: cat ~/.hermes/memories/USER.md

## Three places it remembers
1. the live conversation (everything; /compress when long)
2. memory (essentials, always at hand)
3. past conversations (all of them, searchable: "how did we do that back then?")
Memory takes effect in a new conversation -> start a new day/task with /new.

## Context files (unlimited, written by the user)
AGENTS.md · HERMES.md/.hermes.md (highest priority) · SOUL.md (tone and language)
Long rules that always apply -> context file; short facts always at hand -> memory.

## Troubleshooting
- forgot -> it only stayed in the conversation; say "remember that ..." explicitly
- a new chat acts as if it did not -> memory is read at the start of a conversation (/new)
- remembers something wrong -> "delete ... from memory" / "change that to ..."
- memory full -> "tidy up memory and save this"
- want to approve saves -> memory.write_approval: true