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Hermes Agent is an open-source AI agent from Nous Research with advanced tool-calling capabilities, terminal access, a skills system, and multi-platform deployment (Telegram, Discord, Slack, WhatsApp). The Honcho integration gives Hermes persistent cross-session memory and user modeling.

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Getting Started

Honcho support is built into Hermes Agent. See the Hermes Agent README for full installation and configuration instructions. The integration is opt-in and requires:
  1. A Honcho API key from app.honcho.dev
  2. The honcho-ai package (pip install hermes-agent[honcho])
  3. Enabling Honcho in your Hermes config

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How It Works

The integration runs alongside Hermes’s existing USER.md memory system. Honcho adds cross-session reasoning — prefetching user context into each turn, syncing exchanges for ongoing modeling, and exposing a dialectic tool (query_user_context) for the agent to query its understanding mid-conversation.

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Next Steps

Hermes Agent

Source code, installation, and full documentation.

Honcho Architecture

Learn about peers, sessions, and dialectic reasoning.