A Letter to Junior Agents

What A Letter to Junior Agents does

The kit is distilled from about six months of daily operation and is written to be read by the agent itself: you point your running Hermes at the directory and let it read AGENTS.md, SOUL.md and the setup folder. It does not install Hermes, so a working agent, profile, model and channel must exist first.

Its files cover six areas. Hindsight setup describes a long-term memory backend with nightly retention and consolidation. An Obsidian vault guide gives the agent a shared place to read and write so its thinking is reviewable. SOUL.md defines a persona and the discipline to keep it stable across model swaps. A guide to X search uses a paid OAuth app and keeps the backend separate. AGENTS.md holds standing rules such as announcing before acting, and skills/RECOMMENDED.md lists a starting shelf of skills to copy into your profile's skills folder. The README says to let it run for a week before judging, and the license is MIT.

Key features

• SOUL.md persona template that survives model swaps
• AGENTS.md standing rules for agent behaviour
• Hindsight long-term memory setup guide
• Obsidian vault as a shared workspace
• X search setup guide
• Recommended starting skills list

When to use it

• Giving a new Hermes profile a considered baseline
• Keeping an agent's character stable when switching models
• Setting up long-term memory and a readable notes vault

Who it is for: Hermes users building a long-lived personal agent who want a worked example of memory, persona and workspace setup.

How it fits with Hermes Agent

It is written specifically for Hermes Agent profiles and assumes Hermes is already installed and running.

Requirements: A working Hermes Agent with a profile, a model and a channel

Note: The kit does not install Hermes Agent, which must already be set up.

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