Persistent Memory

Long-term memory store for Hermes agents across sessions

Productivity✓ SafeIntermediatev1.0.0
Last verified:2026-06-01

About

Adds persistent memory to your Hermes agent so it can remember context, user preferences, and past interactions across sessions. Uses a local vector store by default.

Use Cases

  • Remember user preferences between conversations
  • Recall past tasks and their outcomes
  • Build agents that improve over time with accumulated context

What Persistent Memory can access

Limited access

Low blast radius on the evidence available, but it is still third-party code — a quick look at the SKILL.md costs nothing.

  • Reads your stored data

    It queries a database or persistent store. Prefer a read-only credential unless it genuinely needs to write.

    This skill's own description refers to "vector store"

These permissions are inferred from this listing — the credentials it declares, any maintainer warning, and the operations its own description mentions. ClawVault has not audited this skill's source code. Treat it as a starting point for your own review, not a substitute for one.

Installing Persistent Memory on Hermes Agent

Hermes skills are on-demand knowledge documents stored in hermes/skills/, which is the single source of truth. Bundled skills are copied there on a fresh install, and hub-installed and agent-created skills land there too. Every installed skill automatically becomes a slash command, so a skill named plan is invoked with /plan.

  1. 1

    Search for the skill

    hermes skills search memory

    Add --source to widen the search: official for curated skills, skills-sh for the public skills.sh directory, browse-sh for site-specific browser automation, or well-known to point Hermes at a site publishing its own skill index.

  2. 2

    Inspect it before installing

    hermes skills inspect official/<category>/memory

    inspect shows the skill's contents and metadata. Use the fully qualified identifier that search returned, which includes its source and category.

  3. 3

    Install it

    hermes skills install official/<category>/memory

    Identifiers are source-qualified, for example official/migration/openclaw-migration or skills-sh/anthropics/skills/pdf. You can also install straight from a URL that serves a SKILL.md. --force overrides non-dangerous policy blocks but will not override a dangerous scan verdict.

  4. 4

    Use it as a slash command

    /memory

    Installed skills become slash commands in any chat session. Run hermes skills list to see everything available, or /skills from inside a session.

Commands follow the official Hermes Agent documentation. Placeholders such as <owner> are filled in by the search step, because registry references are publisher-scoped.

Version & Updates

Current Version
1.0.0
Last Updated
2026-06-01

Safety & verification

Listed as safe
No known issues reported for this skill in the Hermes Agent ecosystem.

How Hermes Agent screens skills

Hermes checks third-party and community skills against policy before installing, and --force will not override a verdict it considers dangerous. Because Hermes can also write its own skills at runtime, review what the Curator has kept periodically with hermes skills list.

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