Memory guides

A practical guide to persistent memory in a verified Hermes/Rocky workflow.

A practical guide to user profile memory in a verified Hermes/Rocky workflow.

How structured fact storage supports deeper Rocky recall, entity reasoning, and memory hygiene beyond simple notes.

A practical guide to session search in a verified Hermes/Rocky workflow.

What belongs in Rocky memory, what belongs in a file, and what should never be stored.

What Rocky should remember, what it should avoid remembering, and how to keep long-running assistant memory useful and safe.

A guide to using Hermes session history as evidence of what was discussed, while still checking live sources before making current claims.

When to use user memory, procedural skills, project files, and official docs so Rocky avoids stale or private context mistakes.

Keep durable memory useful by saving stable preferences and environment facts while avoiding stale task logs, private details, and temporary progress notes.

Preserve long-session quality by separating context compression, gateway hygiene, protected message tails, summary routing, and provider prompt caching.

Operate Hermes session persistence safely across SQLite storage, full-text search, profile boundaries, compression lineage, exports, and cleanup.

Choose one additive external memory system by storage, privacy, recall, extraction, cost, identity, and profile-isolation requirements.

Replace the default context compressor with an explicit, testable engine while preserving valid message history and session lifecycle behavior.

Configure Honcho memory, choose context and dialectic cadence, isolate peers, and verify the right context reaches each session.