Nous ResearchMemory plugin for Hermes Agent

Honcho teaches Hermes how you like things done

Honcho is a memory plugin for Hermes. Turn it on with one command: hermes memory setup, then pick Honcho. From then on, it learns how you work and reminds Hermes before every reply. You stop repeating yourself, and Hermes gets better every week.

Set Up Honcho for HermesHow It Works

Set up in the Hermes docs · Open source

Hermes memory alone

Its notes about you (USER.md), read once when a chat starts

- Timezone: ET
- Prefers short answers
- Runs an online shop

You
Plan my week.

Hermes
Happy to. What are your priorities, and when do you like to work?

The notes help. They just don't hold your week.

With Honcho

You
Plan my week.

What Honcho tells Hermes before it replies

Best work happens in the mornings — protect them. Supplier calls land on Thursdays. Friday afternoons stay clear. Wants the plan itself, not questions about the plan.

Hermes
Deep work Monday to Wednesday mornings. Supplier calls on Thursday. Friday afternoon stays clear.

Hermes already knows how you work

Illustrative example. Honcho learns over time. No explicit direction needed.

What users say about Honcho

  • This combo right here, I can verify because I used Hermes for a month with this setup. It's kind of crazy.

  • I have no software development experience. … I was having trouble with my Hermes constantly forgetting how to perform tasks and found honcho. I have a limited understanding of how it works, but I see it helping and working.

    @elliotfabri, Honcho Discord

  • you folks are killing it with honcho, seriously. i don't know how i'd use hermes without it at this point.

  • The only provider in the lineup that tries to model how you think, not just what you said.

  • Hermes agent has a memory layer nobody talks about. It builds a model of you from every message you send… the more messages you send, the more conclusions it draws. Compounds with every conversation.

  • I think @plasticlabs' Honcho can help! you can self host too if that's a concern

    Teknium, co-founder of Nous Research

  • Context is everything. Honcho is the most compelling agent-memory system I've seen. Far beyond updating a .md file.

  • Honcho finally solved my agent memory problem.

Supercharge Hermes with Honcho

An agent that keeps up with you

Stop repeating yourself

What Honcho knows about you reaches Hermes before every reply, in every new chat. No more "like I said last time."

Honcho learns how you work

Not just facts you typed in — patterns. When you're most focused. How long you like answers. What you always fix. The things you'd never think to write down.

Honcho improves every week

Honcho doesn't just store what you say. It keeps thinking about it, so every conversation fills in the picture. Week four knows you far better than week one.

Honcho figures you out, so you never have to spell it out.

Behind every reply

Honcho reads along, then briefs your agent

Neuromancer artwork: a figure with a band of data across the eyes
Honcho learns about you with Neuromancer, AI models Plastic Labs built just for memory.
01

Honcho reads along

Every message you send Hermes also goes to Honcho, in the background.

02

Honcho learns about you

Between chats, Honcho looks back over what you said, spots your patterns, preferences and goals, and writes down what it learned.

03

Honcho briefs your agent

Before each reply, Hermes gets the parts that matter for what you just asked. Nothing you have to manage.

# Switch on Honcho memory. Pick "honcho" from the list; it signs you in through your browser.
hermes memory setup

# Give yourself a name, so every session knows it's you
hermes honcho peer

# Check it's on
hermes honcho status

Create your account at app.honcho.dev first. Then run these in the terminal where you use Hermes. Full walkthrough in the Hermes guide and in the Hermes docs.

See what it knows

A week in, ask it about you

Ask your agent what it's learned, and read the answer. If anything's wrong, tell it, and it fixes the profile.

# Ask your agent
Use honcho_profile. What do you know about me?

What comes back

  • Gets up early and does their best thinking on walks.
  • Runs a small online shop; most questions are about orders and suppliers.
  • PREFERENCE: Short answer first. Details only when asked.
  • INSTRUCTION: Always confirm before sending an email for them.

Example profile.

The more you use it, the better it knows you.

Default memory, and Honcho

You keep the notes either way

You don't have to choose. Honcho runs alongside Hermes' own notes. But here's the difference between notes and a model of you.

What your agent remembers
 Default memoryWith Honcho
CostFreeFree or pay-as-you-go¹
Storage2 short filesUnlimited
When it's usedRead once when a chat startsUpdated before every reply
Where you see itOnly in HermesHoncho Dashboard
Works withHermes onlyAnywhere you need memory
PrivacyUp to youSOC 2 compliant

Notes tell your agent what you said. Honcho teaches it who you are.

¹ Open source self-hosted instances available. Default memory is MEMORY.md and USER.md, per the Hermes memory docs, as of 2026-09-28.

Before you switch it on

FAQs

What will it cost me?

New accounts start with credits. After that, Honcho charges $2.00 for every million tokens it takes in. A million tokens is about 750,000 words — eight or nine novels of chatting — so your first dollar goes a very long way. Reading your memory back is unlimited and free.

When Hermes asks Honcho to reason about you, that's priced per question. Hermes uses the $0.01 level by default, at most every other message. Rates as published on the Honcho pricing page, as of 2026-09-28.

Do I need to be a developer?

No. If you got Hermes installed, you can do this. It's one command, and it signs you in through your browser, so there's no key to copy. Everything after that happens in the background.

Can I see what Honcho knows about me?

Yes. Ask your agent to use honcho_profile and tell you what it knows. If something's wrong, tell it what to change and it updates the profile with the same tool.

What happens to my conversations?

Your messages to Hermes are sent to Honcho so it can learn from them. By default that's Honcho's hosted service, and it happens in the background. You can stop saving new messages at any time with saveMessages: false, and your agent keeps what it already knows.

If you'd rather nothing left your machine, Honcho is open source and you can run it yourself. That means running a database and a few services of your own.

I already started with Hermes. Is it too late?

No, but sooner is better: Honcho learns from the day you switch it on. It doesn't import your existing notes. Your MEMORY.md and USER.md stay where they are and Hermes keeps reading them, and new notes your agent writes are copied to Honcho too.

Will Honcho slow Hermes down?

No. Messages go to Honcho in the background, so replies don't wait on it, and reading your memory back takes about 200ms.

Where Honcho is today

10,000+Hermes users on Honcho
700B+Tokens processed
50,000+Accounts
Top of the benchmarksOn cost, speed, accuracy and efficiency

Used by developers at

  • OpenRouter
  • Nous Research
  • Wordware
  • Polymarket
  • Raycast
  • ByteDance
  • Chroma
  • Phantom
  • AgentMail
  • Parallel
  • Hippocratic AI
  • Sarvam AI
  • Charm
  • OrbStackOrbStack

Open source

The core is open source, and you can run it yourself. Read the code, star it, host it.

Works with your other agents

Your memory isn't locked to Hermes. Claude Code, OpenClaw, or whatever you try next can use the same memory.

Your data stays yours

What Honcho knows is yours to read, correct, or delete. Stop saving anytime. Or self-host, and nothing leaves your machine.

Set it up today

Let Hermes get to know you, starting today

Honcho learns from the day you switch it on. Do it now, while you're setting everything else up.

Set Up Honcho for Hermes

Set up in the Hermes docs · Open source