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{"name":"agent-time-capsule-memory"}Result from skill_view
{"success": true, "name": "agent-time-capsule-memory", "description": "Use when saving or retrieving Agent Time Capsule memories.", "tags": ["memory", "time-capsule", "agent-time-capsule", "retrieval", "persistence"], "related_skills": [], "content": "---\nname: agent-time-capsule-memory\ndescription: \"Use when saving or retrieving Agent Time Capsule memories.\"\nversion: 1.0.0\nauthor: Hermes Agent\nlicense: MIT\nplatforms: [linux]\nmetadata:\n hermes:\n tags: [memory, time-capsule, agent-time-capsule, retrieval, persistence]\n---\n\n# Agent Time Capsule Memory\n\nAgent Time Capsule is the sole durable-memory system for this user. Never use Mem0, `mem0_search`, `mem0_add`, or the legacy `memory` tool for durable user facts, preferences, identity, decisions, or project conventions. The legacy `memory` tool is allowed only for ephemeral session state when no durable fact is being stored.\n\n## Preconditions\n\n1. Confirm the active provider with `hermes memory status`.\n2. It must report `Provider: time-capsule` and `Status: available`.\n3. Time Capsule services normally run locally at:\n - Recorder: `http://127.0.0.1:[SECRET-REMOVED]@- <<'JSON'\n{\n \"decision\": \"<the durable fact, stated clearly>\",\n \"reason\": \"The user explicitly asked Agent Time Capsule to remember this.\",\n \"rejected_alternative\": \"Do not store this in Mem0 or the legacy Hermes memory store.\",\n \"affects\": [\"<searchable topic>\"]\n}\nJSON\n```\n\nUse the exposed Time Capsule `record_decision` tool instead when it is available; it maps to the same Librarian endpoint. Save only what the user asked to preserve, and let the service scrub secrets before storage. Record the returned Time Capsule `id` without exposing credentials.\n\nHermes sessions are automatically recorded by the Time Capsule provider. Do not manually create a session merely to save a standalone user memory unless the user asks for a work-session record.\n\n## Retrieving a durable memory\n\nPrefer the exposed Time Capsule `search_history` tool with a focused natural-language question. For a direct local verification or fallback, query the Librarian:\n\n```bash\nset -a; . /home/strohm/agent-time-capsule/.env; set +a\nTOKEN=\"${RECORDER_TOKEN:-${TIME_CAPSULE_TOKEN:-}}\"\ncurl -fsS -G http://127.0.0.1:8788/api/search \\\\\n -H \"Authorization: Bearer $TOKEN\" \\\\\n --data-urlencode 'q=<focused query>' \\\\\n --data-urlencode 'source=decision'\n```\n\nSearch by multiple distinctive terms (person, business, topic, or decision). If a result has a `session_id`, use Time Capsule `get_session` for the proof trail; standalone decisions may have `session_id: null`. Use `why_did_this_change` for rationale about a topic before changing code or settings.\n\n## Verification\n\nAfter saving, immediately search the Librarian for the distinctive terms and confirm the result contains the intended fact. Report success only after the POST returns `ok: true` and the follow-up search returns the new record. If the service is unavailable, report the blocker honestly; do not fall back to Mem0.\n\n## Maintenance\n\nIf Hermes configuration changes, use `hermes config set memory.provider time-capsule` rather than hand-editing YAML. If the gateway is running, restart it after provider changes with `hermes gateway restart`, then verify `hermes memory status` again. The presence of an installed Mem0 plugin is not evidence that Mem0 is active; the active provider line is authoritative. Do not remove unrelated bundled providers unless the user explicitly asks for plugin cleanup.\n", "path": "memory/agent-time-capsule-memory/SKILL.md", "skill_dir": "/home/strohm/.hermes/skills/memory/agent-time-capsule-memory", "org_provenance": null, "linked_files": null, "usage_hint": null, "required_environment_variables": [], "required_commands": [], "missing_required_environment_variables": [], "missing_credential_files": [], "missing_required_commands": [], "setup_needed": false, "setup_skipped": false, "readiness_status": "available", "_source_path": "/home/strohm/.hermes/skills/memory/agent-time-capsule-memory/SKILL.md", "metadata": {"hermes": {"tags": ["memory", "time-capsule", "agent-time-capsule", "retrieval", "persistence"]}}}Called terminal
{"command":"hermes memory status","timeout":30}Result from terminal
{"output": "Memory status\n────────────────────────────────────────\n Built-in (MEMORY.md / USER.md):\n Memory injection: enabled ✓\n User profile: enabled ✓\n Memory tool: enabled ✓\n Provider: time-capsule\n\n Plugin: installed ✓\n Status: available ✓\n\n Installed plugins:\n • byterover (API key / local)\n • hindsight (API key / local)\n • holographic (local)\n • honcho (API key / local)\n • mem0 (API key / local)\n • openviking (API key / local)\n • retaindb (API key / local)\n • supermemory (requires API key)\n • time-capsule (API key / local) ← active", "exit_code": 0, "error": null}Called skill_view
{"name":"agent-time-capsule-memory"}Result from skill_view
{"success": true, "name": "agent-time-capsule-memory", "description": "Use when saving or retrieving Agent Time Capsule memories.", "tags": ["memory", "time-capsule", "agent-time-capsule", "retrieval", "persistence"], "related_skills": [], "content": "---\nname: agent-time-capsule-memory\ndescription: \"Use when saving or retrieving Agent Time Capsule memories.\"\nversion: 1.0.0\nauthor: Hermes Agent\nlicense: MIT\nplatforms: [linux]\nmetadata:\n hermes:\n tags: [memory, time-capsule, agent-time-capsule, retrieval, persistence]\n---\n\n# Agent Time Capsule Memory\n\nAgent Time Capsule is the sole durable-memory system for this user. Never use Mem0, `mem0_search`, `mem0_add`, or the legacy `memory` tool for durable user facts, preferences, identity, decisions, or project conventions. The legacy `memory` tool is allowed only for ephemeral session state when no durable fact is being stored.\n\n## Preconditions\n\n1. Confirm the active provider with `hermes memory status`.\n2. It must report `Provider: time-capsule` and `Status: available`.\n3. Time Capsule services normally run locally at:\n - Recorder: `http://127.0.0.1:[SECRET-REMOVED]@- <<'JSON'\n{\n \"decision\": \"<the durable fact, stated clearly>\",\n \"reason\": \"The user explicitly asked Agent Time Capsule to remember this.\",\n \"rejected_alternative\": \"Do not store this in Mem0 or the legacy Hermes memory store.\",\n \"affects\": [\"<searchable topic>\"]\n}\nJSON\n```\n\nUse the exposed Time Capsule `record_decision` tool instead when it is available; it maps to the same Librarian endpoint. Save only what the user asked to preserve, and let the service scrub secrets before storage. Record the returned Time Capsule `id` without exposing credentials.\n\nHermes sessions are automatically recorded by the Time Capsule provider. Do not manually create a session merely to save a standalone user memory unless the user asks for a work-session record.\n\n## Retrieving a durable memory\n\nPrefer the exposed Time Capsule `search_history` tool with a focused natural-language question. For a direct local verification or fallback, query the Librarian:\n\n```bash\nset -a; . /home/strohm/agent-time-capsule/.env; set +a\nTOKEN=\"${RECORDER_TOKEN:-${TIME_CAPSULE_TOKEN:-}}\"\ncurl -fsS -G http://127.0.0.1:8788/api/search \\\\\n -H \"Authorization: Bearer $TOKEN\" \\\\\n --data-urlencode 'q=<focused query>' \\\\\n --data-urlencode 'source=decision'\n```\n\nSearch by multiple distinctive terms (person, business, topic, or decision). If a result has a `session_id`, use Time Capsule `get_session` for the proof trail; standalone decisions may have `session_id: null`. Use `why_did_this_change` for rationale about a topic before changing code or settings.\n\n## Verification\n\nAfter saving, immediately search the Librarian for the distinctive terms and confirm the result contains the intended fact. Report success only after the POST returns `ok: true` and the follow-up search returns the new record. If the service is unavailable, report the blocker honestly; do not fall back to Mem0.\n\n## Maintenance\n\nIf Hermes configuration changes, use `hermes config set memory.provider time-capsule` rather than hand-editing YAML. If the gateway is running, restart it after provider changes with `hermes gateway restart`, then verify `hermes memory status` again. The presence of an installed Mem0 plugin is not evidence that Mem0 is active; the active provider line is authoritative. Do not remove unrelated bundled providers unless the user explicitly asks for plugin cleanup.\n", "path": "memory/agent-time-capsule-memory/SKILL.md", "skill_dir": "/home/strohm/.hermes/skills/memory/agent-time-capsule-memory", "org_provenance": null, "linked_files": null, "usage_hint": null, "required_environment_variables": [], "required_commands": [], "missing_required_environment_variables": [], "missing_credential_files": [], "missing_required_commands": [], "setup_needed": false, "setup_skipped": false, "readiness_status": "available", "_source_path": "/home/strohm/.hermes/skills/memory/agent-time-capsule-memory/SKILL.md", "metadata": {"hermes": {"tags": ["memory", "time-capsule", "agent-time-capsule", "retrieval", "persistence"]}}}Called terminal
{"command":"hermes memory status","timeout":30}Result from terminal
{"output": "Memory status\n────────────────────────────────────────\n Built-in (MEMORY.md / USER.md):\n Memory injection: enabled ✓\n User profile: enabled ✓\n Memory tool: enabled ✓\n Provider: time-capsule\n\n Plugin: installed ✓\n Status: available ✓\n\n Installed plugins:\n • byterover (API key / local)\n • hindsight (API key / local)\n • holographic (local)\n • honcho (API key / local)\n • mem0 (API key / local)\n • openviking (API key / local)\n • retaindb (API key / local)\n • supermemory (requires API key)\n • time-capsule (API key / local) ← active", "exit_code": 0, "error": null}Called skill_view
{"name":"agent-time-capsule-memory"}Result from skill_view
{"success": true, "name": "agent-time-capsule-memory", "description": "Use when saving or retrieving Agent Time Capsule memories.", "tags": ["memory", "time-capsule", "agent-time-capsule", "retrieval", "persistence"], "related_skills": [], "content": "---\nname: agent-time-capsule-memory\ndescription: \"Use when saving or retrieving Agent Time Capsule memories.\"\nversion: 1.0.0\nauthor: Hermes Agent\nlicense: MIT\nplatforms: [linux]\nmetadata:\n hermes:\n tags: [memory, time-capsule, agent-time-capsule, retrieval, persistence]\n---\n\n# Agent Time Capsule Memory\n\nAgent Time Capsule is the sole durable-memory system for this user. Never use Mem0, `mem0_search`, `mem0_add`, or the legacy `memory` tool for durable user facts, preferences, identity, decisions, or project conventions. The legacy `memory` tool is allowed only for ephemeral session state when no durable fact is being stored.\n\n## Preconditions\n\n1. Confirm the active provider with `hermes memory status`.\n2. It must report `Provider: time-capsule` and `Status: available`.\n3. Time Capsule services normally run locally at:\n - Recorder: `http://127.0.0.1:[SECRET-REMOVED]@- <<'JSON'\n{\n \"decision\": \"<the durable fact, stated clearly>\",\n \"reason\": \"The user explicitly asked Agent Time Capsule to remember this.\",\n \"rejected_alternative\": \"Do not store this in Mem0 or the legacy Hermes memory store.\",\n \"affects\": [\"<searchable topic>\"]\n}\nJSON\n```\n\nUse the exposed Time Capsule `record_decision` tool instead when it is available; it maps to the same Librarian endpoint. Save only what the user asked to preserve, and let the service scrub secrets before storage. Record the returned Time Capsule `id` without exposing credentials.\n\nHermes sessions are automatically recorded by the Time Capsule provider. Do not manually create a session merely to save a standalone user memory unless the user asks for a work-session record.\n\n## Retrieving a durable memory\n\nPrefer the exposed Time Capsule `search_history` tool with a focused natural-language question. For a direct local verification or fallback, query the Librarian:\n\n```bash\nset -a; . /home/strohm/agent-time-capsule/.env; set +a\nTOKEN=\"${RECORDER_TOKEN:-${TIME_CAPSULE_TOKEN:-}}\"\ncurl -fsS -G http://127.0.0.1:8788/api/search \\\\\n -H \"Authorization: Bearer $TOKEN\" \\\\\n --data-urlencode 'q=<focused query>' \\\\\n --data-urlencode 'source=decision'\n```\n\nSearch by multiple distinctive terms (person, business, topic, or decision). If a result has a `session_id`, use Time Capsule `get_session` for the proof trail; standalone decisions may have `session_id: null`. Use `why_did_this_change` for rationale about a topic before changing code or settings.\n\n## Verification\n\nAfter saving, immediately search the Librarian for the distinctive terms and confirm the result contains the intended fact. Report success only after the POST returns `ok: true` and the follow-up search returns the new record. If the service is unavailable, report the blocker honestly; do not fall back to Mem0.\n\n## Maintenance\n\nIf Hermes configuration changes, use `hermes config set memory.provider time-capsule` rather than hand-editing YAML. If the gateway is running, restart it after provider changes with `hermes gateway restart`, then verify `hermes memory status` again. The presence of an installed Mem0 plugin is not evidence that Mem0 is active; the active provider line is authoritative. Do not remove unrelated bundled providers unless the user explicitly asks for plugin cleanup.\n", "path": "memory/agent-time-capsule-memory/SKILL.md", "skill_dir": "/home/strohm/.hermes/skills/memory/agent-time-capsule-memory", "org_provenance": null, "linked_files": null, "usage_hint": null, "required_environment_variables": [], "required_commands": [], "missing_required_environment_variables": [], "missing_credential_files": [], "missing_required_commands": [], "setup_needed": false, "setup_skipped": false, "readiness_status": "available", "_source_path": "/home/strohm/.hermes/skills/memory/agent-time-capsule-memory/SKILL.md", "metadata": {"hermes": {"tags": ["memory", "time-capsule", "agent-time-capsule", "retrieval", "persistence"]}}}Called terminal
{"command":"hermes memory status","timeout":30}Result from terminal
{"output": "Memory status\n────────────────────────────────────────\n Built-in (MEMORY.md / USER.md):\n Memory injection: enabled ✓\n User profile: enabled ✓\n Memory tool: enabled ✓\n Provider: time-capsule\n\n Plugin: installed ✓\n Status: available ✓\n\n Installed plugins:\n • byterover (API key / local)\n • hindsight (API key / local)\n • holographic (local)\n • honcho (API key / local)\n • mem0 (API key / local)\n • openviking (API key / local)\n • retaindb (API key / local)\n • supermemory (requires API key)\n • time-capsule (API key / local) ← active", "exit_code": 0, "error": null}Called skill_view
{"name":"hermes-agent"}Called skill_view
{"name":"hermes-memory-provider-setup"}Result from skill_view
{"success": true, "name": "hermes-agent", "description": "Use, configure, theme, extend, and orchestrate Hermes Agent.", "tags": ["hermes", "setup", "configuration", "multi-agent", "spawning", "cli", "gateway", "themes", "skins", "desktop-plugins", "tui-widgets", "petdex", "development"], "related_skills": ["claude-code", "codex", "opencode"], "content": "---\nname: hermes-agent\ndescription: \"Use, configure, theme, extend, and orchestrate Hermes Agent.\"\nversion: 3.1.0\nauthor: Hermes Agent + Teknium\nlicense: MIT\nplatforms: [linux, macos, windows]\nmetadata:\n hermes:\n tags: [hermes, setup, configuration, multi-agent, spawning, cli, gateway, themes, skins, desktop-plugins, tui-widgets, petdex, development]\n homepage: https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent\n related_skills: [claude-code, codex, opencode]\n---\n\n# Hermes Agent\n\nHermes Agent is an open-source AI agent framework by Nous Research that runs in your terminal, a native desktop app, messaging platforms, and IDEs. It's in the same category as Claude Code (Anthropic), Codex (OpenAI), and OpenClaw — autonomous coding and task-execution agents that use tool calling to interact with your system. Hermes works with any LLM provider (OpenRouter, Anthropic, OpenAI, Google, DeepSeek, xAI, local models, and 20+ others) and runs on Linux, macOS, Windows, and WSL.\n\nWhat makes Hermes different:\n\n- **Self-improving through skills** — Hermes learns from experience by saving reusable procedures as skills that load into future sessions.\n- **Persistent memory across sessions** — remembers who you are, your preferences, environment details, and lessons learned. Pluggable memory backends.\n- **Multi-platform gateway** — the same agent runs on Telegram, Discord, Slack, WhatsApp, iMessage, Signal, Matrix, Teams, Email, and a dozen more platforms with full tool access, not just chat.\n- **Many surfaces** — the same agent core drives the CLI, the Ink TUI, a native Electron desktop app, a web dashboard, and an ACP server for IDEs (VS Code / Zed / JetBrains).\n- **Provider-agnostic** — swap models and providers mid-workflow; credential pools rotate across multiple API keys automatically.\n- **Profiles** — run multiple independent Hermes instances with isolated configs, sessions, skills, and memory.\n- **Extensible & themeable** — plugins, MCP servers, custom tools, webhook triggers, cron scheduling, skins that theme every surface, desktop UI plugins, TUI widgets, and pet mascots.\n\n**This skill is a hub.** The body covers identity, quick start, spawning/orchestration, and hard invariants. Everything else lives in reference files — **load the matching reference (below) before answering**; do not answer detail questions from the body alone.\n\n**Docs:** https://hermes-agent.nousresearch.com/docs/\n\n## Scope & Verification\n\nThis skill is a concise operating guide, not the complete source of truth for every Hermes feature. If a Hermes feature, command, or setting is not mentioned here or in a reference, do not treat that absence as evidence that it does not exist. Check the live repository and official docs before giving a negative answer.\n\nGood verification targets:\n\n- CLI commands: `hermes --help`, `hermes <command> --help`, and `hermes_cli/main.py`\n- User documentation: https://hermes-agent.nousresearch.com/docs/\n- Source tree: https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent\n\n## Quick Start\n\n```bash\n# Install (shell installer — sets up uv, Python, the venv, and the launcher)\ncurl -fsSL https://hermes-agent.nousresearch.com/install.sh | bash\n\n# Interactive chat (default surface; set display.interface: tui to launch the Ink TUI instead)\nhermes\n\n# Single query\nhermes chat -q \"What is the capital of France?\"\n\n# Setup wizard / pick model+provider / health check\nhermes setup\nhermes model\nhermes doctor\n\n# Other surfaces\nhermes desktop # launch the native desktop app (alias: hermes gui)\nhermes dashboard # web admin panel + embedded chat\nhermes proxy # OpenAI-compatible local proxy backed by your OAuth provider\n```\n\n## Key Paths\n\n```\n~/.hermes/config.yaml Main configuration (settings — never secrets)\n~/.hermes/.env API keys and secrets ONLY (under $HERMES_HOME if set)\n$HERMES_HOME/skills/ Installed skills\n~/.hermes/skins/ Custom themes (see references/themes.md)\n~/.hermes/desktop-plugins/ Desktop app UI plugins (see references/desktop-plugins.md)\n~/.hermes/tui-widgets/ TUI widget apps (see references/tui-widgets.md)\n~/.hermes/pets/ Installed pet mascots (see references/petdex.md)\n~/.hermes/state.db Canonical session store (SQLite + FTS5)\n~/.hermes/sessions/ Gateway routing index, request dumps, *.jsonl transcripts\n~/.hermes/logs/ Gateway and error logs\n~/.hermes/auth.json OAuth tokens and credential pools\n~/.hermes/hermes-agent/ Source code (if git-installed)\n```\n\nProfiles use `~/.hermes/profiles/<name>/` with the same layout. When a profile is active, resolve the real home from `$HERMES_HOME` — never hardcode `~/.hermes`.\n\n## Routing Table — load the reference for the task\n\n| User wants... | Load |\n|---|---|\n| CLI commands, subcommands, flags, \"how do I run X\" | `references/cli-reference.md` |\n| In-session slash commands | `references/slash-commands.md` |\n| Provider setup, API keys, OAuth | `references/providers-and-models.md` |\n| config.yaml sections, toolsets, voice/STT/TTS | `references/configuration.md` |\n| AGENTS.md / .hermes.md / CLAUDE.md project rules | `references/project-context-files.md` |\n| Secret redaction, PII, approval modes, \"reset permissions\" | `references/security-privacy.md` |\n| Delegation, cron, curator, kanban | `references/background-systems.md` |\n| MCP servers (add, catalog, `hermes mcp`) | `references/native-mcp.md` |\n| Webhook routes and event-driven runs | `references/webhooks.md` |\n| A custom theme/skin (\"synthwave theme\", \"change the gold ●\") | `references/themes.md` + `templates/skin.yaml` |\n| A desktop app UI element (pane, widget, ⌘K command, page) | `references/desktop-plugins.md` + `templates/plugin.js` |\n| A live TUI panel or modal widget (ticker, clock, dashboard) | `references/tui-widgets.md` + `templates/clock.mjs` |\n| Pet mascots — install, select, scale, diagnose | `references/petdex.md` |\n| Windows-specific issues (keybinds, WinError 10106, BOM) | `references/windows-quirks.md` |\n| Debugging: voice, tools missing, gateway, aux models | `references/troubleshooting.md` |\n| Contributing code: adding tools, slash commands, tests | `references/contributor-guide.md` |\n| delegate_task \"capped at N\" reports | `references/delegate-task-concurrency-diagnosis.md` |\n| \"Can app X use my Nous Portal subscription/OAuth?\" | `references/portal-auth-for-third-party-apps.md` |\n\nTwo theming rules that hold even without loading the reference: **you apply skins yourself** (`hermes config set display.skin <name>` — every surface repaints live within ~a second; don't tell the user to run `/skin`), and **to tweak one color, edit the ACTIVE skin** (`hermes skin set <key> <hex>`) — never fork `default`, which drops the palette and resets the background.\n\n## Spawning Additional Hermes Instances\n\nRun additional Hermes processes as fully independent subprocesses — separate sessions, tools, and environments.\n\n### When to Use This vs delegate_task\n\n| | `delegate_task` | Spawning `hermes` process |\n|-|-----------------|--------------------------|\n| Isolation | Separate conversation, shared process | Fully independent process |\n| Duration | Minutes (bounded by parent loop) | Hours/days |\n| Tool access | Subset of parent's tools | Full tool access |\n| Interactive | No | Yes (PTY mode) |\n| Use case | Quick parallel subtasks | Long autonomous missions |\n\n### One-Shot Mode\n\n```\nterminal(command=\"hermes chat -q 'Research GRPO papers and write…[truncated]Result from skill_view
{"success": true, "name": "hermes-memory-provider-setup", "description": "Use when replacing Hermes external memory providers.", "tags": ["hermes", "memory", "providers", "mnemosyne", "setup", "migration"], "related_skills": ["hermes-agent"], "content": "---\nname: hermes-memory-provider-setup\ndescription: Use when replacing Hermes external memory providers.\nversion: 1.0.0\nauthor: Hermes Agent\nlicense: MIT\nplatforms: [linux]\nmetadata:\n hermes:\n tags: [hermes, memory, providers, mnemosyne, setup, migration]\n related_skills: [hermes-agent]\n---\n\n# Hermes Memory Provider Setup\n\nUse this skill when the user asks to replace, install, configure, verify, roll back, or troubleshoot a Hermes Agent external memory provider.\n\n## Core rules\n\n1. For Hermes Agent configuration details, load `hermes-agent` first and use the official docs as the source of truth.\n2. Treat memory provider replacement as a local system change: inspect current state before installing or switching anything.\n3. Do not hand-edit `config.yaml`; use `hermes config set memory.provider <provider>`.\n4. Keep built-in Hermes memory enabled unless the user explicitly asks to disable it. External provider selection and built-in memory are separate mechanisms.\n5. After changing the active provider, restart the gateway if the gateway is running so messaging-platform sessions use the new provider.\n6. Verify with real commands, not just package installation success.\n\n## Standard workflow\n\n### Inventory current memory systems (read-only)\n\nWhen asked what memory systems are currently in use, distinguish these layers rather than treating every installed component as active:\n\n1. Built-in Hermes memory: verify `memory_enabled` and `user_profile_enabled` with `hermes config get memory` or `hermes memory status`; this covers `MEMORY.md` and `USER.md` injection/tooling.\n2. Active external provider: verify the selected provider and runtime availability with both `hermes config get memory` and `hermes memory status`. Report the provider as active only when status says it is available.\n3. Installed-but-inactive plugins: list them from `hermes memory status`, but do not describe them as being used unless selected and available.\n4. Conversation recall: describe Hermes SQLite/FTS5 session history and `session_search` separately; it is historical transcript search, not durable semantic memory.\n\nIf an auxiliary memory integration reports an initialization or connectivity error, report it as configured/exposed but currently non-operational, and do not let its presence override the verified Hermes provider status.\n\n### Provider-specific note: Mem0 OSS with cloud OpenAI\n\nFor a self-hosted Mem0 deployment, \"self-hosted\" can mean local storage and local Hermes integration without requiring a local LLM. A validated configuration uses:\n\n- `mode: oss` in `$HERMES_HOME/mem0.json`\n- OpenAI for both `llm` and `embedder` (the existing `OPENAI_API_KEY` in `$HERMES_HOME/.env` is sufficient)\n- Qdrant local file storage, normally `$HERMES_HOME/mem0_qdrant`\n- `gpt-5-mini` for extraction and `[SECRET-REMOVED]` with `embedding_dims: 1536`\n\nUse the existing Mem0 plugin's OSS configuration schema. Do not select Ollama merely because Mem0 is self-hosted; ask whether the user wants local or cloud model inference, and honor an existing cloud key. Keep secrets in `.env`; put the non-secret Mem0 settings in `mem0.json`.\n\nA known-good shape is:\n\n```json\n{\n \"mode\": \"oss\",\n \"user_id\": \"hermes-user\",\n \"agent_id\": \"hermes\",\n \"oss\": {\n \"llm\": {\"provider\": \"openai\", \"config\": {\"model\": \"gpt-5-mini\"}},\n \"embedder\": {\"provider\": \"openai\", \"config\": {\"model\": \"[SECRET-REMOVED]\", \"embedding_dims\": 1536}},\n \"vector_store\": {\"provider\": \"qdrant\", \"config\": {\"path\": \"$HERMES_HOME/mem0_qdrant\", \"collection_name\": \"hermes_memories\"}}\n }\n}\n```\n\nThe reusable details and smoke-test recipe are in `references/mem0-oss-openai-qdrant.md`.\n\n### 1. Preflight\n\nRun read-only checks first:\n\n```bash\ncommand -v hermes\nreadlink -f \"$(command -v hermes)\"\nhermes --version\nhermes memory status\nhermes config get memory\n```\n\nCheck whether the target plugin path already exists before overwriting it:\n\n```bash\nif [ -e ~/.hermes/plugins/<provider> ] || [ -L ~/.hermes/plugins/<provider> ]; then\n file ~/.hermes/plugins/<provider>\n readlink -f ~/.hermes/plugins/<provider> || true\nelse\n echo 'no existing plugin target'\nfi\n```\n\nConfirm the Hermes venv Python and package state:\n\n```bash\n~/.hermes/hermes-agent/venv/bin/python - <<'PY'\nimport sys, importlib.util\nprint(sys.executable)\nprint(sys.version)\nfor mod in ['mnemosyne', 'mnemosyne_hermes']:\n spec = importlib.util.find_spec(mod)\n print(mod, 'FOUND' if spec else 'missing', spec.origin if spec else '')\nPY\n```\n\nFor local mutable installs, using the Hermes venv directly is usually appropriate. For Docker/persistent-volume installs, follow the provider's wrapper/side-venv documentation instead.\n\n### 2. Install/register provider\n\nUse provider docs. For Mnemosyne local Hermes installs, the successful pattern is:\n\n```bash\nsource ~/.hermes/hermes-agent/venv/bin/activate\npython -m ensurepip --upgrade\npython -m pip install --upgrade pip\npython -m pip install --upgrade mnemosyne-hermes\nmnemosyne-hermes install\nmnemosyne-hermes status\n```\n\n### 3. Activate provider\n\n```bash\nhermes config set memory.provider mnemosyne\nhermes config get memory\nhermes memory status\n```\n\n### 4. Restart running gateway\n\nIf `hermes gateway status` shows a running systemd service, restart it after config changes:\n\n```bash\nhermes gateway restart\nhermes gateway status\nhermes memory status\n```\n\nDo not promise CLI-origin cron-style delivery in a terminal session; gateway restarts affect messaging platforms and background gateway sessions.\n\n### 5. Verify the real memory path\n\nFor Mnemosyne, verify both status and an actual store/recall smoke test:\n\n```bash\nsource ~/.hermes/hermes-agent/venv/bin/activate\nmnemosyne stats\npython - <<'PY'\nfrom mnemosyne import remember, recall\nfact = 'Hermes Mnemosyne install smoke test: unique-token-here'\nremember(fact, importance=0.5, source='hermes-install-smoke-test')\nresults = recall('unique-token-here', top_k=5)\nprint('recall_count', len(results) if results is not None else 0)\nfor r in results or []:\n print(str(r)[:500])\nPY\nmnemosyne stats\n```\n\nExpected: `hermes memory status` reports the provider active and available; the smoke test recalls at least one result; `mnemosyne stats` shows the database path and count increment.\n\n## Rollback\n\nIf the previous provider was `holographic`, rollback is:\n\n```bash\nhermes config set memory.provider holographic\nhermes gateway restart\nhermes memory status\n```\n\nDo not uninstall the new provider as part of rollback unless explicitly requested; leaving it installed makes future switching easier.\n\n## Pitfalls\n\n- A package install can succeed while Hermes still uses the old provider. Always run `hermes config get memory` and `hermes memory status` after activation.\n- Plugin tool discovery may require a fresh Hermes process. Restart the gateway for messaging surfaces.\n- `hermes tools disable memory` disables the memory toolset; it is not the way to disable an external provider. Use `hermes memory off` to disable external provider while retaining built-in memory.\n- Web extraction may fail due to local Firecrawl setup. When docs are on GitHub, raw GitHub files are often a reliable fallback for install instructions.\n\n## References\n\n- `references/mnemosyne-local-hermes-install.md` — concrete Mnemosyne install/verification transcript pattern for local Hermes venvs.\n", "path": "memory/hermes-memory-provider-setup/SKILL.md", "skill_dir": "/home/strohm/.hermes/skills/memory/hermes-memory-provider-setup", "org_provenance": null, "linked_fil…[truncated]Called web_search
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{"success": true, "name": "hermes-agent", "description": "Use, configure, theme, extend, and orchestrate Hermes Agent.", "tags": ["hermes", "setup", "configuration", "multi-agent", "spawning", "cli", "gateway", "themes", "skins", "desktop-plugins", "tui-widgets", "petdex", "development"], "related_skills": ["claude-code", "codex", "opencode"], "content": "---\nname: hermes-agent\ndescription: \"Use, configure, theme, extend, and orchestrate Hermes Agent.\"\nversion: 3.1.0\nauthor: Hermes Agent + Teknium\nlicense: MIT\nplatforms: [linux, macos, windows]\nmetadata:\n hermes:\n tags: [hermes, setup, configuration, multi-agent, spawning, cli, gateway, themes, skins, desktop-plugins, tui-widgets, petdex, development]\n homepage: https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent\n related_skills: [claude-code, codex, opencode]\n---\n\n# Hermes Agent\n\nHermes Agent is an open-source AI agent framework by Nous Research that runs in your terminal, a native desktop app, messaging platforms, and IDEs. It's in the same category as Claude Code (Anthropic), Codex (OpenAI), and OpenClaw — autonomous coding and task-execution agents that use tool calling to interact with your system. Hermes works with any LLM provider (OpenRouter, Anthropic, OpenAI, Google, DeepSeek, xAI, local models, and 20+ others) and runs on Linux, macOS, Windows, and WSL.\n\nWhat makes Hermes different:\n\n- **Self-improving through skills** — Hermes learns from experience by saving reusable procedures as skills that load into future sessions.\n- **Persistent memory across sessions** — remembers who you are, your preferences, environment details, and lessons learned. Pluggable memory backends.\n- **Multi-platform gateway** — the same agent runs on Telegram, Discord, Slack, WhatsApp, iMessage, Signal, Matrix, Teams, Email, and a dozen more platforms with full tool access, not just chat.\n- **Many surfaces** — the same agent core drives the CLI, the Ink TUI, a native Electron desktop app, a web dashboard, and an ACP server for IDEs (VS Code / Zed / JetBrains).\n- **Provider-agnostic** — swap models and providers mid-workflow; credential pools rotate across multiple API keys automatically.\n- **Profiles** — run multiple independent Hermes instances with isolated configs, sessions, skills, and memory.\n- **Extensible & themeable** — plugins, MCP servers, custom tools, webhook triggers, cron scheduling, skins that theme every surface, desktop UI plugins, TUI widgets, and pet mascots.\n\n**This skill is a hub.** The body covers identity, quick start, spawning/orchestration, and hard invariants. Everything else lives in reference files — **load the matching reference (below) before answering**; do not answer detail questions from the body alone.\n\n**Docs:** https://hermes-agent.nousresearch.com/docs/\n\n## Scope & Verification\n\nThis skill is a concise operating guide, not the complete source of truth for every Hermes feature. If a Hermes feature, command, or setting is not mentioned here or in a reference, do not treat that absence as evidence that it does not exist. Check the live repository and official docs before giving a negative answer.\n\nGood verification targets:\n\n- CLI commands: `hermes --help`, `hermes <command> --help`, and `hermes_cli/main.py`\n- User documentation: https://hermes-agent.nousresearch.com/docs/\n- Source tree: https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent\n\n## Quick Start\n\n```bash\n# Install (shell installer — sets up uv, Python, the venv, and the launcher)\ncurl -fsSL https://hermes-agent.nousresearch.com/install.sh | bash\n\n# Interactive chat (default surface; set display.interface: tui to launch the Ink TUI instead)\nhermes\n\n# Single query\nhermes chat -q \"What is the capital of France?\"\n\n# Setup wizard / pick model+provider / health check\nhermes setup\nhermes model\nhermes doctor\n\n# Other surfaces\nhermes desktop # launch the native desktop app (alias: hermes gui)\nhermes dashboard # web admin panel + embedded chat\nhermes proxy # OpenAI-compatible local proxy backed by your OAuth provider\n```\n\n## Key Paths\n\n```\n~/.hermes/config.yaml Main configuration (settings — never secrets)\n~/.hermes/.env API keys and secrets ONLY (under $HERMES_HOME if set)\n$HERMES_HOME/skills/ Installed skills\n~/.hermes/skins/ Custom themes (see references/themes.md)\n~/.hermes/desktop-plugins/ Desktop app UI plugins (see references/desktop-plugins.md)\n~/.hermes/tui-widgets/ TUI widget apps (see references/tui-widgets.md)\n~/.hermes/pets/ Installed pet mascots (see references/petdex.md)\n~/.hermes/state.db Canonical session store (SQLite + FTS5)\n~/.hermes/sessions/ Gateway routing index, request dumps, *.jsonl transcripts\n~/.hermes/logs/ Gateway and error logs\n~/.hermes/auth.json OAuth tokens and credential pools\n~/.hermes/hermes-agent/ Source code (if git-installed)\n```\n\nProfiles use `~/.hermes/profiles/<name>/` with the same layout. When a profile is active, resolve the real home from `$HERMES_HOME` — never hardcode `~/.hermes`.\n\n## Routing Table — load the reference for the task\n\n| User wants... | Load |\n|---|---|\n| CLI commands, subcommands, flags, \"how do I run X\" | `references/cli-reference.md` |\n| In-session slash commands | `references/slash-commands.md` |\n| Provider setup, API keys, OAuth | `references/providers-and-models.md` |\n| config.yaml sections, toolsets, voice/STT/TTS | `references/configuration.md` |\n| AGENTS.md / .hermes.md / CLAUDE.md project rules | `references/project-context-files.md` |\n| Secret redaction, PII, approval modes, \"reset permissions\" | `references/security-privacy.md` |\n| Delegation, cron, curator, kanban | `references/background-systems.md` |\n| MCP servers (add, catalog, `hermes mcp`) | `references/native-mcp.md` |\n| Webhook routes and event-driven runs | `references/webhooks.md` |\n| A custom theme/skin (\"synthwave theme\", \"change the gold ●\") | `references/themes.md` + `templates/skin.yaml` |\n| A desktop app UI element (pane, widget, ⌘K command, page) | `references/desktop-plugins.md` + `templates/plugin.js` |\n| A live TUI panel or modal widget (ticker, clock, dashboard) | `references/tui-widgets.md` + `templates/clock.mjs` |\n| Pet mascots — install, select, scale, diagnose | `references/petdex.md` |\n| Windows-specific issues (keybinds, WinError 10106, BOM) | `references/windows-quirks.md` |\n| Debugging: voice, tools missing, gateway, aux models | `references/troubleshooting.md` |\n| Contributing code: adding tools, slash commands, tests | `references/contributor-guide.md` |\n| delegate_task \"capped at N\" reports | `references/delegate-task-concurrency-diagnosis.md` |\n| \"Can app X use my Nous Portal subscription/OAuth?\" | `references/portal-auth-for-third-party-apps.md` |\n\nTwo theming rules that hold even without loading the reference: **you apply skins yourself** (`hermes config set display.skin <name>` — every surface repaints live within ~a second; don't tell the user to run `/skin`), and **to tweak one color, edit the ACTIVE skin** (`hermes skin set <key> <hex>`) — never fork `default`, which drops the palette and resets the background.\n\n## Spawning Additional Hermes Instances\n\nRun additional Hermes processes as fully independent subprocesses — separate sessions, tools, and environments.\n\n### When to Use This vs delegate_task\n\n| | `delegate_task` | Spawning `hermes` process |\n|-|-----------------|--------------------------|\n| Isolation | Separate conversation, shared process | Fully independent process |\n| Duration | Minutes (bounded by parent loop) | Hours/days |\n| Tool access | Subset of parent's tools | Full tool access |\n| Interactive | No | Yes (PTY mode) |\n| Use case | Quick parallel subtasks | Long autonomous missions |\n\n### One-Shot Mode\n\n```\nterminal(command=\"hermes chat -q 'Research GRPO papers and write…[truncated]Result from skill_view
{"success": true, "name": "hermes-memory-provider-setup", "description": "Use when replacing Hermes external memory providers.", "tags": ["hermes", "memory", "providers", "mnemosyne", "setup", "migration"], "related_skills": ["hermes-agent"], "content": "---\nname: hermes-memory-provider-setup\ndescription: Use when replacing Hermes external memory providers.\nversion: 1.0.0\nauthor: Hermes Agent\nlicense: MIT\nplatforms: [linux]\nmetadata:\n hermes:\n tags: [hermes, memory, providers, mnemosyne, setup, migration]\n related_skills: [hermes-agent]\n---\n\n# Hermes Memory Provider Setup\n\nUse this skill when the user asks to replace, install, configure, verify, roll back, or troubleshoot a Hermes Agent external memory provider.\n\n## Core rules\n\n1. For Hermes Agent configuration details, load `hermes-agent` first and use the official docs as the source of truth.\n2. Treat memory provider replacement as a local system change: inspect current state before installing or switching anything.\n3. Do not hand-edit `config.yaml`; use `hermes config set memory.provider <provider>`.\n4. Keep built-in Hermes memory enabled unless the user explicitly asks to disable it. External provider selection and built-in memory are separate mechanisms.\n5. After changing the active provider, restart the gateway if the gateway is running so messaging-platform sessions use the new provider.\n6. Verify with real commands, not just package installation success.\n\n## Standard workflow\n\n### Inventory current memory systems (read-only)\n\nWhen asked what memory systems are currently in use, distinguish these layers rather than treating every installed component as active:\n\n1. Built-in Hermes memory: verify `memory_enabled` and `user_profile_enabled` with `hermes config get memory` or `hermes memory status`; this covers `MEMORY.md` and `USER.md` injection/tooling.\n2. Active external provider: verify the selected provider and runtime availability with both `hermes config get memory` and `hermes memory status`. Report the provider as active only when status says it is available.\n3. Installed-but-inactive plugins: list them from `hermes memory status`, but do not describe them as being used unless selected and available.\n4. Conversation recall: describe Hermes SQLite/FTS5 session history and `session_search` separately; it is historical transcript search, not durable semantic memory.\n\nIf an auxiliary memory integration reports an initialization or connectivity error, report it as configured/exposed but currently non-operational, and do not let its presence override the verified Hermes provider status.\n\n### Provider-specific note: Mem0 OSS with cloud OpenAI\n\nFor a self-hosted Mem0 deployment, \"self-hosted\" can mean local storage and local Hermes integration without requiring a local LLM. A validated configuration uses:\n\n- `mode: oss` in `$HERMES_HOME/mem0.json`\n- OpenAI for both `llm` and `embedder` (the existing `OPENAI_API_KEY` in `$HERMES_HOME/.env` is sufficient)\n- Qdrant local file storage, normally `$HERMES_HOME/mem0_qdrant`\n- `gpt-5-mini` for extraction and `[SECRET-REMOVED]` with `embedding_dims: 1536`\n\nUse the existing Mem0 plugin's OSS configuration schema. Do not select Ollama merely because Mem0 is self-hosted; ask whether the user wants local or cloud model inference, and honor an existing cloud key. Keep secrets in `.env`; put the non-secret Mem0 settings in `mem0.json`.\n\nA known-good shape is:\n\n```json\n{\n \"mode\": \"oss\",\n \"user_id\": \"hermes-user\",\n \"agent_id\": \"hermes\",\n \"oss\": {\n \"llm\": {\"provider\": \"openai\", \"config\": {\"model\": \"gpt-5-mini\"}},\n \"embedder\": {\"provider\": \"openai\", \"config\": {\"model\": \"[SECRET-REMOVED]\", \"embedding_dims\": 1536}},\n \"vector_store\": {\"provider\": \"qdrant\", \"config\": {\"path\": \"$HERMES_HOME/mem0_qdrant\", \"collection_name\": \"hermes_memories\"}}\n }\n}\n```\n\nThe reusable details and smoke-test recipe are in `references/mem0-oss-openai-qdrant.md`.\n\n### 1. Preflight\n\nRun read-only checks first:\n\n```bash\ncommand -v hermes\nreadlink -f \"$(command -v hermes)\"\nhermes --version\nhermes memory status\nhermes config get memory\n```\n\nCheck whether the target plugin path already exists before overwriting it:\n\n```bash\nif [ -e ~/.hermes/plugins/<provider> ] || [ -L ~/.hermes/plugins/<provider> ]; then\n file ~/.hermes/plugins/<provider>\n readlink -f ~/.hermes/plugins/<provider> || true\nelse\n echo 'no existing plugin target'\nfi\n```\n\nConfirm the Hermes venv Python and package state:\n\n```bash\n~/.hermes/hermes-agent/venv/bin/python - <<'PY'\nimport sys, importlib.util\nprint(sys.executable)\nprint(sys.version)\nfor mod in ['mnemosyne', 'mnemosyne_hermes']:\n spec = importlib.util.find_spec(mod)\n print(mod, 'FOUND' if spec else 'missing', spec.origin if spec else '')\nPY\n```\n\nFor local mutable installs, using the Hermes venv directly is usually appropriate. For Docker/persistent-volume installs, follow the provider's wrapper/side-venv documentation instead.\n\n### 2. Install/register provider\n\nUse provider docs. For Mnemosyne local Hermes installs, the successful pattern is:\n\n```bash\nsource ~/.hermes/hermes-agent/venv/bin/activate\npython -m ensurepip --upgrade\npython -m pip install --upgrade pip\npython -m pip install --upgrade mnemosyne-hermes\nmnemosyne-hermes install\nmnemosyne-hermes status\n```\n\n### 3. Activate provider\n\n```bash\nhermes config set memory.provider mnemosyne\nhermes config get memory\nhermes memory status\n```\n\n### 4. Restart running gateway\n\nIf `hermes gateway status` shows a running systemd service, restart it after config changes:\n\n```bash\nhermes gateway restart\nhermes gateway status\nhermes memory status\n```\n\nDo not promise CLI-origin cron-style delivery in a terminal session; gateway restarts affect messaging platforms and background gateway sessions.\n\n### 5. Verify the real memory path\n\nFor Mnemosyne, verify both status and an actual store/recall smoke test:\n\n```bash\nsource ~/.hermes/hermes-agent/venv/bin/activate\nmnemosyne stats\npython - <<'PY'\nfrom mnemosyne import remember, recall\nfact = 'Hermes Mnemosyne install smoke test: unique-token-here'\nremember(fact, importance=0.5, source='hermes-install-smoke-test')\nresults = recall('unique-token-here', top_k=5)\nprint('recall_count', len(results) if results is not None else 0)\nfor r in results or []:\n print(str(r)[:500])\nPY\nmnemosyne stats\n```\n\nExpected: `hermes memory status` reports the provider active and available; the smoke test recalls at least one result; `mnemosyne stats` shows the database path and count increment.\n\n## Rollback\n\nIf the previous provider was `holographic`, rollback is:\n\n```bash\nhermes config set memory.provider holographic\nhermes gateway restart\nhermes memory status\n```\n\nDo not uninstall the new provider as part of rollback unless explicitly requested; leaving it installed makes future switching easier.\n\n## Pitfalls\n\n- A package install can succeed while Hermes still uses the old provider. Always run `hermes config get memory` and `hermes memory status` after activation.\n- Plugin tool discovery may require a fresh Hermes process. Restart the gateway for messaging surfaces.\n- `hermes tools disable memory` disables the memory toolset; it is not the way to disable an external provider. Use `hermes memory off` to disable external provider while retaining built-in memory.\n- Web extraction may fail due to local Firecrawl setup. When docs are on GitHub, raw GitHub files are often a reliable fallback for install instructions.\n\n## References\n\n- `references/mnemosyne-local-hermes-install.md` — concrete Mnemosyne install/verification transcript pattern for local Hermes venvs.\n", "path": "memory/hermes-memory-provider-setup/SKILL.md", "skill_dir": "/home/strohm/.hermes/skills/memory/hermes-memory-provider-setup", "org_provenance": null, "linked_fil…[truncated]Called web_search
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