Hermes Memory-OS

What Hermes Memory-OS does

Hermes stays the host and owns conversation, tools, scheduling, transport, retry and channel delivery. Memory-OS owns bounded memory state, retrieval, cognition artifacts, approval state machines and operational evidence. Experiences enter working memory, evidence accumulates, contradictions stay visible, and durable beliefs must pass governance gates, with every important transition auditable.

The README describes a layered stack: a memory kernel with canonical file storage and append-only lifecycle receipts, a recall engine combining FTS5, vector recall, memory and entity graphs, temporal recall and optional Hindsight recall, evidence and truth checks, governance and review queues, an expression gate with rate limits, and operational controls including a read-only dashboard. Cognition modules such as Inner Drive, Deep Reflection, Imagination Loop and Wandering Mind can stay disabled, shadowed, report-only or no-send until evidence and owner gates allow more. A governed right-brain module can associate freely, stay silent or share a thought without rewriting beliefs.

Key features

• Canonical file store with working, provisional, crystallized and permanent memory
• Recall through FTS5, vector search, memory and entity graphs and temporal lookup
• Evidence and truth checks, including contradiction lanes and confabulation detection
• Owner governance with approval state machines and audit receipts
• Optional cognition modules: Inner Drive, Deep Reflection, Imagination Loop, Wandering Mind
• Read-only dashboard, health probes and phased deploy tooling

When to use it

• Giving a long-running Hermes profile beliefs that carry evidence and can be corrected by the owner
• Keeping contradictory memories visible instead of silently overwriting them
• Auditing how an experience became a durable memory

Who it is for: Operators of long-running Hermes Agent profiles who want inspectable, governed memory rather than plain retrieval.

How it fits with Hermes Agent

It is tagged as a Hermes Agent plugin and runs per profile, with Hermes remaining the host for conversation, tools and delivery.

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