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What Hermes remembers about you

Hermes has a memory that it keeps between conversations: facts about you (your business, your preferences) and notes it learned while working. You can ask it to remember something, see what it knows, and make it forget.
Time needed 3 minutes
You need A Hermes agent connected to an AI model
Result Hermes knows the facts you want and forgets the ones you do not

1. Ask Hermes to remember something

In any chat (dashboard Chat, WhatsApp, Telegram, Discord), tell Hermes what to keep. For example:

Please remember this for the future: my business is a bakery called Padaria Lopes, in Porto.

  1. Hermes saves it with its Memory tool. The +user means it was added to what it knows about you.
  2. It confirms what it saved.

Hermes saves a fact

2. Check that it remembers

Start a New chat (a new conversation starts with no history) and ask:

What do you know about my business?

Hermes answers from its memory.

Hermes remembers in a new chat

3. Make it forget

Ask Hermes to remove what you do not want it to keep, and to show what is left:

Forget what you saved about Padaria Lopes, then tell me what is left in your memory about me.

  1. Hermes removes the entry (-user) and, if the same entry also held something you still want, saves that part again (+user).
  2. It lists what it still knows about you.

Hermes forgets a fact

Where the memory is kept

The memory is two small text files in the agent's folder:

  • /opt/data/memories/USER.md: what Hermes knows about you.
  • /opt/data/memories/MEMORY.md: Hermes' own notes (how your setup works, lessons learned).

In the dashboard, SYSTEM → Memory shows the size of each file and has Reset buttons that empty them. Resetting cannot be undone: if you only want to remove one fact, ask Hermes as in step 3.

Memory is short on purpose

Memory is loaded into every conversation, so it is kept small. Hermes saves short facts, not whole conversations. Past conversations are kept separately in SESSIONS.

Common problems

Hermes does not remember something I told it

Hermes only keeps what it considers useful later. Say clearly "remember this: …". To check, ask "what do you have in your memory about me?".

Hermes remembers something wrong

Ask it to forget the wrong fact (step 3), then tell it the right one (step 1).

Next steps