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@ -101,6 +101,8 @@ jobs:
SENTRY_ENABLED: false
LLM_OPENAI_API_KEY: ${{ secrets.OPENAI_API_KEY }}
LLM_ANTHROPIC_API_KEY: ${{ secrets.ANTHROPIC_API_KEY }}
LLM_OPENAI_COMPATIBLE_API_KEY: test-key
LLM_OPENAI_COMPATIBLE_BASE_URL: http://localhost:8000
DERIVER_PROVIDER: openai
DERIVER_MODEL: test
DIALECTIC_PROVIDER: openai

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@ -5,6 +5,41 @@ All notable changes to this project will be documented in this file.
The format is based on [Keep a Changelog](http://keepachangelog.com/)
and this project adheres to [Semantic Versioning](http://semver.org/).
## [2.5.0] - 2025-12-03
### Added
- Message level configurations
- CRUD operations for observations
- Comprehensive test cases for harness
- Peer level get_context
- Set Peer Card Method
- Manual dreaming trigger endpoint
### Changed
- Configurations to support more flags for fine-grained control of the deriver, peer cards, summaries, etc.
- Working Representations to support more fine-grained parameters
### Fixed
- File uploads to match `MessageCreate` structure
- Cache invalidation strategy
## [2.4.3] - 2025-11-20
### Added
- Redis caching to improve DB IO
- Backup LLM provider to avoid failures when a provider is down
### Changed
- QueueItems to use standardized columns
- Improved Deduplication logic for Representation Tasks
- More finegrained metrics for representation, summary, and peer card tasks
- DB constraint to follow standard naming conventions
## [2.4.2] - 2025-11-03
### Fixed

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@ -6,7 +6,7 @@ This file provides guidance to Claude Code (claude.ai/code) when working with co
## What is Honcho?
Honcho is an infrastructure layer for building AI agents with social cognition and theory of mind capabilities. Its primary purposes include:
Honcho is an infrastructure layer for building AI agents with memory and social cognition. Its primary purposes include:
- Imbuing agents with a sense of identity
- Personalizing user experiences through understanding user psychology
@ -14,7 +14,7 @@ Honcho is an infrastructure layer for building AI agents with social cognition a
- Supporting development of LLM-powered applications that adapt to end users
- Enabling multi-peer sessions where multiple participants (users or agents) can interact
Honcho leverages the inherent theory-of-mind capabilities of LLMs to build coherent models of user psychology over time, enabling more personalized and effective AI interactions.
Honcho leverages the inherent reasoning capabilities of LLMs to build coherent models of user psychology over time, enabling more personalized and effective AI interactions.
## Core Concepts
@ -32,7 +32,7 @@ Honcho uses a peer-based model where both users and agents are represented as "p
- **Peer** (formerly User): Any participant in the system (human or AI)
- **Session**: A conversation context that can involve multiple peers
- **Message**: Data units that can represent communication between peers OR arbitrary data ingested by a peer to enhance its global representation
- **Collections & Documents**: Internal vector storage for theory-of-mind representations (not exposed via API)
- **Collections & Documents**: Internal vector storage for peer representations (not exposed via API)
## Architecture Overview
@ -50,7 +50,7 @@ All API routes follow the pattern: `/v1/{resource}/{id}/{action}`
#### Dialectic API (`/peers/{peer_id}/chat`)
- Provides theory-of-mind informed responses
- Provides bespoke responses informed by the representation
- Integrates long-term facts from vector storage
- Supports streaming responses
- Configurable LLM providers
@ -59,18 +59,11 @@ All API routes follow the pattern: `/v1/{resource}/{id}/{action}`
1. Messages created via API (batch or single)
2. Enqueued for background processing:
- `representation`: Update peer's theory of mind
- `representation`: Update peer's context
- `summary`: Create session summaries
3. Session-based queue processing ensures order
4. Results stored internally in vector DB
#### Theory of Mind System
- Multiple implementation methods (conversational, single_prompt, long_term)
- Facts extracted from messages and stored in collections
- Representations combine short-term inference with long-term facts
- Configurable via peer and session feature flags
### Configuration
- Hierarchical config: config.toml + environment variables
@ -179,7 +172,6 @@ src/
### Key Architectural Decisions
1. **Multi-Peer Sessions**: Sessions can have multiple participants with different observation settings
2. **Flexible Theory of Mind**: Pluggable ToM implementations (conversational, single_prompt, long_term)
3. **Background Processing**: Async queue system for expensive operations
4. **Provider Abstraction**: Model client supports multiple LLM providers
5. **Scoped Authentication**: JWTs can be scoped to workspace, peer, or session level

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@ -8,7 +8,7 @@
---
![Static Badge](https://img.shields.io/badge/Version-2.4.2-blue)
![Static Badge](https://img.shields.io/badge/Version-2.5.0-blue)
[![PyPI version](https://img.shields.io/pypi/v/honcho-ai.svg)](https://pypi.org/project/honcho-ai/)
[![NPM version](https://img.shields.io/npm/v/@honcho-ai/sdk.svg)](https://npmjs.org/package/@honcho-ai/sdk)
[![Discord](https://img.shields.io/discord/1016845111637839922?style=flat&logo=discord&logoColor=23ffffff&label=Plastic%20Labs&labelColor=235865F2)](https://discord.gg/plasticlabs)
@ -429,7 +429,7 @@ Then modify the values as needed. The TOML file is organized into sections:
- `[cache]` - Redis cache configuration
- `[llm]` - LLM provider API keys and general settings
- `[dialectic]` - Dialectic API configuration (provider, model, search settings)
- `[deriver]` - Background worker settings and theory of mind configuration
- `[deriver]` - Background worker settings and representation configuration
- `[peer_card]` - Peer card generation settings
- `[summary]` - Session summarization settings
- `[dream]` - Dream processing configuration
@ -501,8 +501,8 @@ Honcho uses a peer-based model where both users and agents are represented as "p
#### Key Features
- **Theory-of-Mind System**: Multiple implementation methods that extract facts from interactions and build comprehensive models of peer psychology
- **Dialectic API**: Provides theory-of-mind informed responses that integrate long-term facts with current context
- **Rich Reasoning System**: Multiple implementation methods that extract facts from interactions and build comprehensive models of peer psychology
- **Dialectic API**: Provides reasoned informed responses that integrate long-term facts with current context
- **Background Processing**: Asynchronous processing pipeline for expensive operations like representation updates and session summarization
- **Multi-Provider Support**: Configurable LLM providers for different use cases
@ -567,7 +567,7 @@ The `Message` represents an atomic data unit that can exist at two levels:
- **Session-level Messages**: Communication between peers within a session context
All messages are labeled by their source peer and can be processed
asynchronously to update theory-of-mind models. This flexible design allows for
asynchronously to update their representations. This flexible design allows for
both conversational interactions and broader data ingestion for personality
modeling.
@ -578,8 +578,7 @@ familiar with RAG based applications will be familiar with these. `Collections`
store vector embedded data that developers and agents can retrieve against using
functions like cosine similarity.
Collections are also used internally by Honcho while creating theory-of-mind
representations of peers.
Collections are also used internally by Honcho while creating representations of peers.
#### Documents
@ -596,7 +595,7 @@ A high level summary of the pipeline is as follows:
1. Messages are created via the API
2. Derivation Tasks are enqueued for background processing including:
- `representation`: To update theory-of-mind representations of `Peers`
- `representation`: To update representations of `Peers`
- `summary`: To create summaries of `Sessions`
3. Session-based queue processing ensures proper ordering
4. Results are stored internally
@ -638,7 +637,7 @@ A developer's application can treat Honcho as an oracle to the `Peer` and
consult it when necessary. Some examples of how to leverage the Dialectic
API include:
- Asking Honcho for a theory-of-mind insight about the `Peer`
- Asking Honcho for a generic or specific insight about the `Peer`
- Asking Honcho to hydrate a prompt with data about the `Peer`s behavior
- Asking Honcho for a 2nd opinion or approach about how to respond to the Peer
- Getting personalized responses that incorporate long-term facts and context

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@ -8,23 +8,23 @@ This guide helps you understand which versions of Honcho's API are compatible wi
## Version Compatibility
### Honcho API v2.4.2 (Current)
### Honcho API v2.5.0 (Current)
<CardGroup cols={2}>
<Card title="TypeScript SDK" icon="js">
**Compatible Version:** v1.5.0
**Compatible Version:** v1.6.0
Install with:
```bash
npm install @honcho-ai/sdk@1.5.0
npm install @honcho-ai/sdk@1.6.0
```
</Card>
<Card title="Python SDK" icon="python">
**Compatible Version:** v1.5.0
**Compatible Version:** v1.6.0
Install with:
```bash
pip install honcho-ai==1.5.0
pip install honcho-ai==1.6.0
```
</Card>
</CardGroup>
@ -34,7 +34,9 @@ This guide helps you understand which versions of Honcho's API are compatible wi
| Honcho API Version | TypeScript SDK | Python SDK |
|-------------------|---------------|------------|
| v2.4.2 (Current) | v1.5.0 | v1.5.0 |
| v2.5.0 (Current) | v1.6.0 | v1.6.0 |
| v2.4.3 | v1.5.0 | v1.5.0 |
| v2.4.2 | v1.5.0 | v1.5.0 |
| v2.4.1 | v1.5.0 | v1.5.0 |
| v2.4.0 | v1.5.0 | v1.5.0 |
| v2.3.3 | v1.4.1 | v1.4.1 |

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@ -27,7 +27,42 @@ Welcome to the Honcho changelog! This section documents all notable changes to t
### Honcho API and SDK Changelogs
<Tabs>
<Tab title="Honcho API">
<Update label="v2.4.2 (Current)">
<Update label="v2.5.0 (Current)">
### Added
- Message level configurations
- CRUD operations for observations
- Comprehensive test cases for harness
- Peer level get_context
- Set Peer Card Method
- Manual dreaming trigger endpoint
### Changed
- Configurations to support more flags for fine-grained control of the deriver, peer cards, summaries, etc.
- Working Representations to support more fine-grained parameters
### Fixed
- File uploads to match `MessageCreate` structure
- Cache invalidation strategy
</Update>
<Update label="v2.4.3">
### Added
- Redis caching to improve DB IO
- Backup LLM provider to avoid failures when a provider is down
### Changed
- QueueItems to use standardized columns
- Improved Deduplication logic for Representation Tasks
- More finegrained metrics for representation, summary, and peer card tasks
- DB constraint to follow standard naming conventions
</Update>
<Update label="v2.4.2">
### Fixed
- Langfuse tracing to have readable waterfalls
@ -365,6 +400,19 @@ Welcome to the Honcho changelog! This section documents all notable changes to t
<Tab title="Python SDK">
[Python SDK](https://pypi.org/project/honcho-ai/)
<Update label="v1.6.0 (Current)">
### Added
- metadata and configuration fields to Workspace, Peer, Session, and Message objects
- Session Clone methods
- Peer level get_context method
- `ObservationScope` object to perform CRUD operations on observations
- Representation object for WorkingRepresentations
### Changed
- methods that take IDs, can all optionally take an object of the same type
</Update>
<Update label="v1.5.0">
### Added
@ -439,6 +487,19 @@ Welcome to the Honcho changelog! This section documents all notable changes to t
<Tab title="TypeScript SDK">
[TypeScript SDK](https://www.npmjs.com/package/@honcho-ai/sdk)
<Update label="v1.6.0 (Current)">
### Added
- metadata and configuration fields to Workspace, Peer, Session, and Message objects
- Session Clone methods
- Peer level get_context method
- `ObservationScope` object to perform CRUD operations on observations
- Representation object for WorkingRepresentations
### Changed
- methods that take IDs, can all optionally take an object of the same type
</Update>
<Update label="v1.5.0">
### Added

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"v2.6.0-alpha/api-reference/endpoint/keys/create-key",
"v2.6.0-alpha/api-reference/endpoint/metrics"
]
}
]
},
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{
"version": "v1.1.0",
"api": {
"openapi": ["openapi.json"]
"openapi": [
"openapi.json"
]
},
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"groups": [
{
"group": "Getting Started",
"pages": ["v1/guides/overview", "v1/guides/streaming-response"]
"pages": [
"v1/guides/overview",
"v1/guides/streaming-response"
]
},
{
"group": "Application Interfaces",
"pages": ["v1/guides/discord", "v1/guides/honcho-mcp"]
"pages": [
"v1/guides/discord",
"v1/guides/honcho-mcp"
]
},
{
"group": "Personal Memory",
"pages": ["v1/guides/dialectic-endpoint"]
"pages": [
"v1/guides/dialectic-endpoint"
]
}
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"group": "API Documentation",
"pages": ["v1/api-reference/introduction"]
"pages": [
"v1/api-reference/introduction"
]
},
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"group": "keys",
"pages": ["v1/api-reference/endpoint/keys/create-key"]
"pages": [
"v1/api-reference/endpoint/keys/create-key"
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"scripts": {
"dev": "mint dev",
"openapi": "npx @mintlify/scraping openapi-file openapi.documented.yml -o api-reference/endpoint",
"openapi": "npx @mintlify/scraping openapi-file v2/openapi.json -o v2/api-reference/endpoint",
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title: 'Introduction'
---
This section documents all available API endpoints in the Honcho Server. Each
endpoint provides CRUD operations for our core primitives. For information
about these primitives, see
[Architecture](/v2.6.0-alpha/documentation/core-concepts/architecture).
<Warning>
We strongly recommend using our official SDKs instead of calling these APIs directly. The SDKs provide better error handling, type safety, and developer experience.
</Warning>
## Recommended approach
Use our official SDKs for the best development experience:
- [Python SDK](https://pypi.org/project/honcho-ai/)
- [TypeScript SDK](https://www.npmjs.com/package/@honcho-ai/sdk)
## When to use this API reference
This reference is primarily useful for:
- Debugging SDK behavior
- Building integrations in unsupported languages
- Understanding the underlying data structures
The endpoints pages are autogenerated and include interactive examples for testing.

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---
title: "Configuration Guide"
description: "Complete guide to configuring Honcho for development and production"
icon: "gear"
---
Honcho uses a flexible configuration system that supports both TOML files and environment variables. Configuration values are loaded in the following priority order (highest to lowest):
1. Environment variables (always take precedence)
2. `.env` file (for local development)
3. `config.toml` file (base configuration)
4. Default values
## Recommended Configuration Approaches
### Option 1: Environment Variables Only (Production)
- Use environment variables for all configuration
- No config files needed
- Ideal for containerized deployments (Docker, Kubernetes)
- Secrets managed by your deployment platform
### Option 2: config.toml (Development/Simple Deployments)
- Use config.toml for base configuration
- Override sensitive values with environment variables
- Good for development and simple deployments
### Option 3: Hybrid Approach
- Use config.toml for non-sensitive base settings
- Use .env file for sensitive values (API keys, secrets)
- Good for development teams
### Option 4: .env Only (Local Development)
- Use .env file for all configuration
- Simple for local development
- Never commit .env files to version control
## Configuration Methods
### Using config.toml
Copy the example configuration file to get started:
```bash
cp config.toml.example config.toml
```
Then modify the values as needed. The TOML file is organized into sections:
- `[app]` - Application-level settings (log level, session limits, embedding settings, Langfuse integration, local metrics collection)
- `[db]` - Database connection and pool settings (connection URI, pool size, timeouts, connection recycling)
- `[auth]` - Authentication configuration (enable/disable auth, JWT secret)
- `[cache]` - Redis cache configuration (enable/disable caching, Redis URL, TTL settings, lock configuration for cache stampede prevention)
- `[llm]` - LLM provider API keys (Anthropic, OpenAI, Gemini, Groq, OpenAI-compatible endpoints) and general LLM settings
- `[dialectic]` - Dialectic API configuration (provider, model, query generation settings, semantic search parameters, context window size)
- `[deriver]` - Background worker settings (worker count, polling intervals, queue management) and theory of mind configuration (model, tokens, observation limits)
- `[peer_card]` - Peer card generation settings (provider, model, token limits)
- `[summary]` - Session summarization settings (frequency thresholds, provider, model, token limits for short and long summaries)
- `[dream]` - Dream processing configuration (enable/disable, thresholds, idle timeouts, dream types, LLM settings)
- `[webhook]` - Webhook configuration (webhook secret, workspace limits)
- `[metrics]` - Metrics collection settings (enable/disable metrics, namespace)
- `[sentry]` - Error tracking and monitoring settings (enable/disable, DSN, environment, sample rates)
### Using Environment Variables
All configuration values can be overridden using environment variables. The environment variable names follow this pattern:
- `{SECTION}_{KEY}` for nested settings
- Just `{KEY}` for app-level settings
Examples:
- `DB_CONNECTION_URI` → `[db].CONNECTION_URI`
- `DB_POOL_SIZE` → `[db].POOL_SIZE`
- `AUTH_JWT_SECRET` → `[auth].JWT_SECRET`
- `DIALECTIC_MODEL` → `[dialectic].MODEL`
- `LOG_LEVEL` (no section) → `[app].LOG_LEVEL`
### Configuration Priority
When a configuration value is set in multiple places, Honcho uses this priority:
1. **Environment variables** - Always take precedence
2. **.env file** - Loaded for local development
3. **config.toml** - Base configuration
4. **Default values** - Built-in defaults
This allows you to:
- Use `config.toml` for base configuration
- Override specific values with environment variables in production
- Use `.env` files for local development without modifying config.toml
### Example
If you have this in `config.toml`:
```toml
[db]
CONNECTION_URI = "postgresql://localhost/honcho_dev"
POOL_SIZE = 10
```
You can override just the connection URI in production:
```bash
export DB_CONNECTION_URI="postgresql://prod-server/honcho_prod"
```
The application will use the production connection URI while keeping the pool size from config.toml.
## Core Configuration
### Application Settings
Application-level settings control core behavior of the Honcho server including logging, session limits, message handling, and optional integrations.
**Basic Application Configuration:**
```bash
# Logging and server settings
LOG_LEVEL=INFO # DEBUG, INFO, WARNING, ERROR, CRITICAL
# Session and context limits
SESSION_OBSERVERS_LIMIT=10 # Maximum number of observers per session
GET_CONTEXT_MAX_TOKENS=100000 # Maximum tokens for context retrieval
MAX_MESSAGE_SIZE=25000 # Maximum message size in characters
# Embedding settings
EMBED_MESSAGES=true # Enable vector embeddings for messages
MAX_EMBEDDING_TOKENS=8192 # Maximum tokens per embedding
MAX_EMBEDDING_TOKENS_PER_REQUEST=300000 # Batch embedding limit
```
**Optional Integrations:**
```bash
# Langfuse integration for LLM observability
LANGFUSE_HOST=https://cloud.langfuse.com
LANGFUSE_PUBLIC_KEY=your-langfuse-public-key
# Local metrics collection
COLLECT_METRICS_LOCAL=false
LOCAL_METRICS_FILE=metrics.jsonl
```
### Database Configuration
**Required Database Settings:**
```bash
# PostgreSQL connection string (required)
DB_CONNECTION_URI=postgresql+psycopg://username:password@host:port/database
# Example for local development
DB_CONNECTION_URI=postgresql+psycopg://postgres:postgres@localhost:5432/honcho
# Example for production
DB_CONNECTION_URI=postgresql+psycopg://honcho_user:secure_password@db.example.com:5432/honcho_prod
```
**Database Pool Settings:**
```bash
# Connection pool configuration
DB_SCHEMA=public
DB_POOL_SIZE=10
DB_MAX_OVERFLOW=20
DB_POOL_TIMEOUT=30
DB_POOL_RECYCLE=300
DB_POOL_PRE_PING=true
DB_SQL_DEBUG=false
DB_TRACING=false
```
**Docker Compose for PostgreSQL:**
```yaml
# docker-compose.yml
version: '3.8'
services:
database:
image: pgvector/pgvector:pg15
environment:
POSTGRES_USER: postgres
POSTGRES_PASSWORD: postgres
POSTGRES_DB: honcho
ports:
- "5432:5432"
volumes:
- postgres_data:/var/lib/postgresql/data
- ./init.sql:/docker-entrypoint-initdb.d/init.sql
volumes:
postgres_data:
```
### Authentication Configuration
**JWT Authentication:**
```bash
# Enable/disable authentication
AUTH_USE_AUTH=false # Set to true for production
# JWT settings (required if AUTH_USE_AUTH is true)
AUTH_JWT_SECRET=your-super-secret-jwt-key
```
**Generate JWT Secret:**
```bash
# Generate a secure JWT secret
python scripts/generate_jwt_secret.py
```
### Cache Configuration
Honcho supports Redis caching to improve performance by caching frequently accessed data like peers, sessions, and working representations. Caching also includes lock mechanisms to prevent cache stampede scenarios.
**Redis Cache Settings:**
```bash
# Enable/disable Redis caching
CACHE_ENABLED=false # Set to true to enable caching
# Redis connection
CACHE_URL=redis://localhost:6379/0?suppress=true
# Cache namespace and TTL
CACHE_NAMESPACE=honcho # Prefix for all cache keys
CACHE_DEFAULT_TTL_SECONDS=300 # How long items stay in cache (5 minutes)
# Lock settings for preventing cache stampede
CACHE_DEFAULT_LOCK_TTL_SECONDS=5 # Lock duration when fetching from DB on cache miss
```
**When to Enable Caching:**
- High-traffic production environments
- Applications with many repeated reads of the same data
- When you need to reduce database load
**Note:** Caching requires a Redis instance. You can run Redis locally with Docker:
```bash
docker run -d -p 6379:6379 redis:latest
```
## LLM Provider Configuration
Honcho supports multiple LLM providers for different tasks. API keys are configured in the `[llm]` section, while specific features use their own configuration sections.
### API Keys
All provider API keys use the `LLM_` prefix:
```bash
# Provider API Keys
LLM_ANTHROPIC_API_KEY=your-anthropic-api-key
LLM_OPENAI_API_KEY=your-openai-api-key
LLM_GEMINI_API_KEY=your-gemini-api-key
LLM_GROQ_API_KEY=your-groq-api-key
# OpenAI-compatible endpoints
LLM_OPENAI_COMPATIBLE_API_KEY=your-api-key
LLM_OPENAI_COMPATIBLE_BASE_URL=https://your-openai-compatible-endpoint.com
```
### General LLM Settings
```bash
# Default settings for all LLM calls
LLM_DEFAULT_MAX_TOKENS=2500
# Embedding provider (used when EMBED_MESSAGES=true)
LLM_EMBEDDING_PROVIDER=openai # Options: openai, gemini
```
### Feature-Specific Model Configuration
Different features can use different providers and models:
**Dialectic API:**
The Dialectic API provides theory-of-mind informed responses by integrating long-term facts with current context.
```bash
# Main dialectic model (default: Anthropic)
DIALECTIC_PROVIDER=anthropic
DIALECTIC_MODEL=claude-sonnet-4-20250514
DIALECTIC_MAX_OUTPUT_TOKENS=2500
DIALECTIC_THINKING_BUDGET_TOKENS=1024 # Only used with Anthropic provider
DIALECTIC_CONTEXT_WINDOW_SIZE=100000 # Maximum context window tokens
# Query generation for dialectic searches
DIALECTIC_PERFORM_QUERY_GENERATION=false # Enable query generation for semantic search
DIALECTIC_QUERY_GENERATION_PROVIDER=groq
DIALECTIC_QUERY_GENERATION_MODEL=llama-3.1-8b-instant
# Semantic search settings
DIALECTIC_SEMANTIC_SEARCH_TOP_K=10 # Number of results to retrieve
DIALECTIC_SEMANTIC_SEARCH_MAX_DISTANCE=0.85 # Maximum distance for relevance
```
**Deriver (Theory of Mind):**
The Deriver is a background processing system that extracts facts from messages and builds theory-of-mind representations of peers.
```bash
# LLM settings for deriver
DERIVER_PROVIDER=google
DERIVER_MODEL=gemini-2.5-flash-lite
DERIVER_MAX_OUTPUT_TOKENS=10000
DERIVER_THINKING_BUDGET_TOKENS=1024 # Only used with Anthropic provider
DERIVER_MAX_INPUT_TOKENS=23000 # Maximum input tokens for deriver
# Worker settings
DERIVER_WORKERS=1 # Number of background worker processes
DERIVER_POLLING_SLEEP_INTERVAL_SECONDS=1.0 # Time between queue checks
DERIVER_STALE_SESSION_TIMEOUT_MINUTES=5 # Timeout for stale sessions
# Queue management
DERIVER_QUEUE_ERROR_RETENTION_SECONDS=2592000 # Keep errored items for 30 days
# Working representation settings
DERIVER_WORKING_REPRESENTATION_MAX_OBSERVATIONS=50 # Max observations stored
DERIVER_REPRESENTATION_BATCH_MAX_TOKENS=4096 # Max tokens per batch
```
**Peer Card:**
Peer cards are short, structured summaries of peer identity and characteristics.
```bash
# Enable/disable peer card generation
PEER_CARD_ENABLED=true
# LLM settings for peer card generation
PEER_CARD_PROVIDER=openai
PEER_CARD_MODEL=gpt-5-nano-2025-08-07
PEER_CARD_MAX_OUTPUT_TOKENS=4000 # Includes thinking tokens for GPT-5 models
```
**Summary Generation:**
Session summaries provide compressed context for long conversations. Honcho creates two types: short summaries (frequent) and long summaries (comprehensive).
```bash
# Enable/disable summarization
SUMMARY_ENABLED=true
# LLM settings for summary generation
SUMMARY_PROVIDER=openai
SUMMARY_MODEL=gpt-4o-mini-2024-07-18
SUMMARY_MAX_TOKENS_SHORT=1000 # Max tokens for short summaries
SUMMARY_MAX_TOKENS_LONG=4000 # Max tokens for long summaries
SUMMARY_THINKING_BUDGET_TOKENS=512 # Only used with Anthropic provider
# Summary frequency thresholds
SUMMARY_MESSAGES_PER_SHORT_SUMMARY=20 # Create short summary every N messages
SUMMARY_MESSAGES_PER_LONG_SUMMARY=60 # Create long summary every N messages
```
### Default Provider Usage
By default, Honcho uses:
- **Anthropic** (Claude) for dialectic API responses
- **Groq** for query generation (fast, cost-effective)
- **Google** (Gemini) for theory of mind derivation
- **OpenAI** (GPT) for peer cards and summarization
- **OpenAI** for embeddings (if `EMBED_MESSAGES=true`)
You only need to set the API keys for the providers you plan to use. All providers are configurable per feature.
## Additional Features Configuration
### Dream Processing
Dream processing consolidates and refines peer representations during idle periods, similar to how human memory consolidation works during sleep.
**Dream Settings:**
```bash
# Enable/disable dream processing
DREAM_ENABLED=true
# Trigger thresholds
DREAM_DOCUMENT_THRESHOLD=50 # Minimum documents to trigger a dream
DREAM_IDLE_TIMEOUT_MINUTES=60 # Minutes of inactivity before dream can start
DREAM_MIN_HOURS_BETWEEN_DREAMS=8 # Minimum hours between dreams for a peer
# Dream types to enable
DREAM_ENABLED_TYPES=["consolidate"] # Currently supported: consolidate
# LLM settings for dream processing
DREAM_PROVIDER=openai
DREAM_MODEL=gpt-4o-mini-2024-07-18
DREAM_MAX_OUTPUT_TOKENS=2000
```
### Webhook Configuration
Webhooks allow you to receive real-time notifications when events occur in Honcho (e.g., new messages, session updates).
**Webhook Settings:**
```bash
# Webhook secret for signing payloads (optional but recommended)
WEBHOOK_SECRET=your-webhook-signing-secret
# Limit on webhooks per workspace
WEBHOOK_MAX_WORKSPACE_LIMIT=10
```
### Metrics Collection
Enable metrics collection for monitoring Honcho performance and usage.
**Metrics Settings:**
```bash
# Enable/disable metrics collection
METRICS_ENABLED=false
# Namespace for metrics (used in metric names)
METRICS_NAMESPACE=honcho
```
## Monitoring Configuration
### Sentry Error Tracking
**Sentry Settings:**
```bash
# Enable/disable Sentry error tracking
SENTRY_ENABLED=false
# Sentry configuration
SENTRY_DSN=https://your-sentry-dsn@sentry.io/project-id
SENTRY_RELEASE=2.4.0 # Optional: track which version errors come from
SENTRY_ENVIRONMENT=production # Environment name (development, staging, production)
# Sampling rates (0.0 to 1.0)
SENTRY_TRACES_SAMPLE_RATE=0.1 # 10% of transactions tracked
SENTRY_PROFILES_SAMPLE_RATE=0.1 # 10% of transactions profiled
```
## Environment-Specific Examples
### Development Configuration
**config.toml for development:**
```toml
[app]
LOG_LEVEL = "DEBUG"
SESSION_OBSERVERS_LIMIT = 10
EMBED_MESSAGES = false
[db]
CONNECTION_URI = "postgresql+psycopg://postgres:postgres@localhost:5432/honcho_dev"
POOL_SIZE = 5
[auth]
USE_AUTH = false
[cache]
ENABLED = false
[dialectic]
PROVIDER = "anthropic"
MODEL = "claude-sonnet-4-20250514"
PERFORM_QUERY_GENERATION = false
MAX_OUTPUT_TOKENS = 2500
[deriver]
WORKERS = 1
PROVIDER = "google"
MODEL = "gemini-2.5-flash-lite"
[peer_card]
ENABLED = true
PROVIDER = "openai"
MODEL = "gpt-5-nano-2025-08-07"
[summary]
ENABLED = true
PROVIDER = "openai"
MODEL = "gpt-4o-mini-2024-07-18"
MAX_TOKENS_SHORT = 1000
MAX_TOKENS_LONG = 4000
[dream]
ENABLED = true
[webhook]
MAX_WORKSPACE_LIMIT = 10
[metrics]
ENABLED = false
[sentry]
ENABLED = false
```
**Environment variables for development:**
```bash
# .env.development
LOG_LEVEL=DEBUG
DB_CONNECTION_URI=postgresql+psycopg://postgres:postgres@localhost:5432/honcho_dev
AUTH_USE_AUTH=false
CACHE_ENABLED=false
# LLM Provider API Keys
LLM_ANTHROPIC_API_KEY=your-dev-anthropic-key
LLM_OPENAI_API_KEY=your-dev-openai-key
LLM_GEMINI_API_KEY=your-dev-gemini-key
```
### Production Configuration
**config.toml for production:**
```toml
[app]
LOG_LEVEL = "WARNING"
SESSION_OBSERVERS_LIMIT = 10
EMBED_MESSAGES = true
[db]
CONNECTION_URI = "postgresql+psycopg://honcho_user:secure_password@prod-db:5432/honcho_prod"
POOL_SIZE = 20
MAX_OVERFLOW = 40
[auth]
USE_AUTH = true
[cache]
ENABLED = true
URL = "redis://redis:6379/0"
DEFAULT_TTL_SECONDS = 300
[dialectic]
PROVIDER = "anthropic"
MODEL = "claude-sonnet-4-20250514"
PERFORM_QUERY_GENERATION = false
MAX_OUTPUT_TOKENS = 2500
[deriver]
WORKERS = 4
PROVIDER = "google"
MODEL = "gemini-2.5-flash-lite"
[peer_card]
ENABLED = true
PROVIDER = "openai"
MODEL = "gpt-5-nano-2025-08-07"
[summary]
ENABLED = true
PROVIDER = "openai"
MODEL = "gpt-4o-mini-2024-07-18"
MAX_TOKENS_SHORT = 1000
MAX_TOKENS_LONG = 4000
[dream]
ENABLED = true
PROVIDER = "openai"
MODEL = "gpt-4o-mini-2024-07-18"
[webhook]
MAX_WORKSPACE_LIMIT = 10
[metrics]
ENABLED = true
[sentry]
ENABLED = true
ENVIRONMENT = "production"
TRACES_SAMPLE_RATE = 0.1
PROFILES_SAMPLE_RATE = 0.1
```
**Environment variables for production:**
```bash
# .env.production
LOG_LEVEL=WARNING
DB_CONNECTION_URI=postgresql+psycopg://honcho_user:secure_password@prod-db:5432/honcho_prod
# Authentication
AUTH_USE_AUTH=true
AUTH_JWT_SECRET=your-super-secret-jwt-key
# Cache
CACHE_ENABLED=true
CACHE_URL=redis://redis:6379/0
# LLM Provider API Keys
LLM_ANTHROPIC_API_KEY=your-prod-anthropic-key
LLM_OPENAI_API_KEY=your-prod-openai-key
LLM_GEMINI_API_KEY=your-prod-gemini-key
LLM_GROQ_API_KEY=your-prod-groq-key
# Webhooks
WEBHOOK_SECRET=your-webhook-signing-secret
# Monitoring
SENTRY_DSN=https://your-sentry-dsn@sentry.io/project-id
SENTRY_ENVIRONMENT=production
```
## Migration Management
**Running Database Migrations:**
```bash
# Check current migration status
uv run alembic current
# Upgrade to latest
uv run alembic upgrade head
# Downgrade to specific revision
uv run alembic downgrade revision_id
# Create new migration
uv run alembic revision --autogenerate -m "Description of changes"
```
## Troubleshooting
**Common Configuration Issues:**
1. **Database Connection Errors**
- Ensure `DB_CONNECTION_URI` uses `postgresql+psycopg://` prefix
- Verify database is running and accessible
- Check pgvector extension is installed
2. **Authentication Issues**
- Set `AUTH_USE_AUTH=true` for production
- Generate and set `AUTH_JWT_SECRET` if authentication is enabled
- Use `python scripts/generate_jwt_secret.py` to create a secure secret
3. **LLM Provider Issues**
- Verify API keys are set correctly
- Check model names match provider specifications
- Ensure provider is enabled in configuration
4. **Deriver Issues**
- Increase `DERIVER_WORKERS` for better performance
- Check `DERIVER_STALE_SESSION_TIMEOUT_MINUTES` for session cleanup
- Monitor background processing logs
This configuration guide covers all the settings available in Honcho. Always use environment-specific configuration files and never commit sensitive values like API keys or JWT secrets to version control.

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---
title: 'Contributing Guidelines'
icon: 'handshake'
---
Thank you for your interest in contributing to Honcho! This guide outlines the process for contributing to the project and our development conventions.
## Getting Started
Before you start contributing, please:
1. **Set up your development environment** - Follow the [Local Development guide](https://github.com/plastic-labs/honcho/blob/main/CONTRIBUTING.md#local-development) in the Honcho repository to get Honcho running locally.
2. **Join our community** - Feel free to join us in our [Discord](http://discord.gg/plasticlabs) to discuss your changes, get help, or ask questions.
3. **Review existing issues** - Check the [issues tab](https://github.com/plastic-labs/honcho/issues) to see what's already being worked on or to find something to contribute to.
## Contribution Workflow
### 1. Fork and Clone
1. Fork the repository on GitHub
2. Clone your fork locally:
```bash
git clone https://github.com/YOUR_USERNAME/honcho.git
cd honcho
```
3. Add the upstream repository as a remote:
```bash
git remote add upstream https://github.com/plastic-labs/honcho.git
```
### 2. Create a Branch
Create a new branch for your feature or bug fix:
```bash
git checkout -b feature/your-feature-name
# or
git checkout -b fix/your-bug-fix-name
```
**Branch naming conventions:**
- `feature/description` - for new features
- `fix/description` - for bug fixes
- `docs/description` - for documentation updates
- `refactor/description` - for code refactoring
- `test/description` - for adding or updating tests
### 3. Make Your Changes
- Write clean, readable code that follows our coding standards (see below)
- Add tests for new functionality
- Update documentation as needed
- Make sure your changes don't break existing functionality
### 4. Commit Your Changes
We follow conventional commit standards. Format your commit messages as:
```
type(scope): description
[optional body]
[optional footer]
```
**Types:**
- `feat`: A new feature
- `fix`: A bug fix
- `docs`: Documentation only changes
- `style`: Changes that do not affect the meaning of the code
- `refactor`: A code change that neither fixes a bug nor adds a feature
- `test`: Adding missing tests or correcting existing tests
- `chore`: Changes to the build process or auxiliary tools
**Examples:**
```bash
git commit -m "feat(api): add new dialectic endpoint for user insights"
git commit -m "fix(db): resolve connection pool timeout issue"
git commit -m "docs(readme): update installation instructions"
```
### 5. Submit a Pull Request
1. Push your branch to your fork:
```bash
git push origin your-branch-name
```
2. Create a pull request on GitHub from your branch to the `main` branch
3. Fill out the pull request template with:
- A clear description of what changes you've made
- The motivation for the changes
- Any relevant issue numbers (use "Closes #123" to auto-close issues)
- Screenshots or examples if applicable
## Coding Standards
### Python Code Style
- Follow [PEP 8](https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0008/) style guidelines
- Use [Black](https://black.readthedocs.io/) for code formatting (we may add this to CI in the future)
- Use type hints where possible
- Write docstrings for functions and classes using Google style docstrings
### Code Organization
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- Use meaningful variable and function names
- Add comments for complex logic
- Follow existing patterns in the codebase
### Testing
- Write unit tests for new functionality
- Ensure existing tests pass before submitting
- Use descriptive test names that explain what is being tested
- Mock external dependencies appropriately
### Documentation
- Update relevant documentation for new features
- Include examples in docstrings where helpful
- Keep README and other docs up to date with changes
## Review Process
1. **Automated checks** - Your PR will run through automated checks including tests and linting
2. **Project maintainer review** - A project maintainer will review your code for:
- Code quality and adherence to standards
- Functionality and correctness
- Test coverage
- Documentation completeness
3. **Discussion and iteration** - You may be asked to make changes or clarifications
4. **Approval and merge** - Once approved, your PR will be merged into `main`
## Types of Contributions
We welcome various types of contributions:
- **Bug fixes** - Help us squash bugs and improve stability
- **New features** - Add functionality that benefits the community
- **Documentation** - Improve or expand our documentation
- **Tests** - Increase test coverage and reliability
- **Performance improvements** - Help make Honcho faster and more efficient
- **Examples and tutorials** - Help other developers use Honcho
## Issue Reporting
When reporting bugs or requesting features:
1. Check if the issue already exists
2. Use the appropriate issue template
3. Provide clear reproduction steps for bugs
4. Include relevant environment information
5. Be specific about expected vs actual behavior
## Questions and Support
- **General questions** - Join our [Discord](http://discord.gg/plasticlabs)
- **Bug reports** - Use GitHub issues
- **Feature requests** - Use GitHub issues with the feature request template
- **Security issues** - Please email us privately rather than opening a public issue
## License
By contributing to Honcho, you agree that your contributions will be licensed under the same [AGPL-3.0 License](./license) that covers the project.
Thank you for helping make Honcho better! 🫡

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---
title: 'License'
icon: 'scroll'
---
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---
title: 'Local Environment Setup'
sidebarTitle: 'Local Environment'
description: 'Set up a local environment to run Honcho for development, testing, or self-hosting'
icon: 'computer'
---
This guide helps you set up a local environment to run Honcho for development, testing, or self-hosting.
## Overview
By the end of this guide, you'll have:
- A local Honcho server running on your machine
- A PostgreSQL database with pgvector extension
- Basic configuration to connect your applications
- A working environment for development or testing
## Prerequisites
Before you begin, ensure you have the following installed:
### Required Software
- **uv** - Python package manager: `pip install uv` (manages Python installations automatically)
- **Git** - [Download from git-scm.com](https://git-scm.com/downloads)
- **Docker** (optional) - [Download from docker.com](https://www.docker.com/products/docker-desktop/)
### Database Options
You'll need a PostgreSQL database with the pgvector extension. Choose one:
- **Local PostgreSQL** - Install locally or use Docker
- **Supabase** - Free cloud PostgreSQL with pgvector
- **Railway** - Simple cloud PostgreSQL hosting
- **Your own PostgreSQL server**
## Docker Setup (Recommended)
The easiest way to get started is using Docker Compose, which handles both the database and Honcho server.
### 1. Clone the Repository
```bash
git clone https://github.com/plastic-labs/honcho.git
cd honcho
```
### 2. Set Up Environment Variables
Copy the example environment file and configure it:
```bash
cp .env.template .env
```
Edit `.env` and set your API keys (if using LLM features):
```bash
# Optional API keys (required for LLM features)
OPENAI_API_KEY=your-openai-api-key
ANTHROPIC_API_KEY=your-anthropic-api-key
# Database will be created automatically by Docker
DB_CONNECTION_URI=postgresql+psycopg://postgres:postgres@database:5432/honcho
# Disable auth for local development
AUTH_USE_AUTH=false
```
### 3. Start the Services
```bash
# Copy the example docker-compose file
cp docker-compose.yml.example docker-compose.yml
# Start PostgreSQL and Honcho
docker compose up -d
```
### 4. Verify It's Working
Check that both services are running:
```bash
docker compose ps
```
Test the Honcho API:
```bash
curl http://localhost:8000/health
```
You should see a response indicating the service is healthy.
## Manual Setup
For more control over your environment, you can set up everything manually.
### 1. Clone and Install Dependencies
```bash
git clone https://github.com/plastic-labs/honcho.git
cd honcho
# Install dependencies using uv (this will also set up Python if needed)
uv sync
# Activate the virtual environment
source .venv/bin/activate # On Windows: .venv\Scripts\activate
```
### 2. Set Up PostgreSQL
#### Option A: Local PostgreSQL Installation
Install PostgreSQL and pgvector on your system:
**macOS (using Homebrew):**
```bash
brew install postgresql
brew install pgvector
```
**Ubuntu/Debian:**
```bash
sudo apt update
sudo apt install postgresql postgresql-contrib
# Install pgvector extension (see pgvector docs for your version)
```
**Windows:**
Download from [postgresql.org](https://www.postgresql.org/download/windows/)
#### Option B: Docker PostgreSQL
```bash
docker run --name honcho-db \
-e POSTGRES_DB=honcho \
-e POSTGRES_USER=postgres \
-e POSTGRES_PASSWORD=postgres \
-p 5432:5432 \
-d pgvector/pgvector:pg15
```
### 3. Create Database and Enable Extensions
Connect to PostgreSQL and set up the database:
```bash
# Connect to PostgreSQL
psql -U postgres
# Create database and enable extensions
CREATE DATABASE honcho;
\c honcho
CREATE EXTENSION IF NOT EXISTS vector;
CREATE EXTENSION IF NOT EXISTS pg_trgm;
\q
```
### 4. Configure Environment
Create a `.env` file with your settings:
```bash
cp .env.template .env
```
Edit `.env` with your configuration:
```bash
# Database connection
DB_CONNECTION_URI=postgresql+psycopg://postgres:postgres@localhost:5432/honcho
# Optional API keys (required for LLM features)
OPENAI_API_KEY=your-openai-api-key
ANTHROPIC_API_KEY=your-anthropic-api-key
# Development settings
AUTH_USE_AUTH=false
LOG_LEVEL=DEBUG
```
### 5. Run Database Migrations
```bash
# Run migrations to create tables
uv run alembic upgrade head
```
### 6. Start the Server
```bash
# Start the development server
fastapi dev src/main.py
```
The server will be available at `http://localhost:8000`.
## Cloud Database Setup
If you prefer to use a managed PostgreSQL service:
### Supabase (Recommended)
1. **Create a Supabase project** at [supabase.com](https://supabase.com)
2. **Enable pgvector extension** in the SQL editor:
```sql
CREATE EXTENSION IF NOT EXISTS vector;
CREATE EXTENSION IF NOT EXISTS pg_trgm;
```
3. **Get your connection string** from Settings > Database
4. **Update your `.env` file** with the connection string
### Railway
1. **Create a Railway project** at [railway.app](https://railway.app)
2. **Add a PostgreSQL service**
3. **Enable pgvector** in the PostgreSQL console
4. **Get your connection string** from the service variables
5. **Update your `.env` file**
## Verify Your Setup
Once your Honcho server is running, verify everything is working:
### 1. Health Check
```bash
curl http://localhost:8000/health
```
### 2. API Documentation
Visit `http://localhost:8000/docs` to see the interactive API documentation.
### 3. Test with SDK
Create a simple test script:
```python
from honcho import Honcho
# Connect to your local instance
client = Honcho(base_url="http://localhost:8000")
# Create a test peer
peer = client.peer("test-user")
print(f"Created peer: {peer.id}")
```
## Connect Your Application
Now that Honcho is running locally, you can connect your applications:
### Update SDK Configuration
```python
# Python SDK
from honcho import Honcho
client = Honcho(
base_url="http://localhost:8000", # Your local instance
api_key="your-api-key" # If auth is enabled
)
```
```typescript
// TypeScript SDK
import { Honcho } from '@honcho-ai/sdk';
const client = new Honcho({
baseUrl: 'http://localhost:8000', // Your local instance
apiKey: 'your-api-key' // If auth is enabled
});
```
### Next Steps
- **Explore the API**: Check out the [API Reference](/v2.6.0-alpha/api-reference/introduction)
- **Try the SDKs**: See our [guides](/v2.6.0-alpha/guides) for examples
- **Configure Honcho**: Visit the [Configuration Guide](./configuration) for detailed settings
- **Join the community**: [Discord](https://discord.gg/plasticlabs)
## Troubleshooting
### Common Issues
**Database Connection Errors**
- Ensure PostgreSQL is running
- Verify the connection string format: `postgresql+psycopg://...`
- Check that pgvector extension is installed
**API Key Issues**
- Verify your OpenAI and Anthropic API keys are valid
- Check that the keys have sufficient credits/quota
**Port Already in Use**
- Pass a different port to FastAPI or stop other services using port 8000
**Docker Issues**
- Ensure Docker is running
- Check container logs: `docker compose logs`
- Restart containers: `docker compose down && docker compose up -d`
**Migration Errors**
- Ensure the database exists and pgvector is enabled
- Check database permissions
- Run migrations manually: `uv run alembic upgrade head`
### Getting Help
- **GitHub Issues**: [Report bugs](https://github.com/plastic-labs/honcho/issues)
- **Discord**: [Join our community](https://discord.gg/plasticlabs)
- **Documentation**: Check the [Configuration Guide](./configuration) for detailed settings
## Production Considerations
When self-hosting for production, consider:
- **Security**: Enable authentication, use HTTPS, secure your database
- **Scaling**: Use connection pooling, consider load balancing
- **Monitoring**: Set up logging, error tracking, health checks
- **Backups**: Regular database backups, disaster recovery plan
- **Updates**: Keep Honcho and dependencies updated

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---
title: "Architecture & Intuition"
description: "Understanding Honcho's core concepts and data model."
icon: "sitemap"
sidebarTitle: "Architecture"
---
Honcho is memory infrastructure that continuously [*reasons*](/v2.6.0-alpha/documentation/core-concepts/reasoning) about data to build rich representations of peers (users, agents, or any entity) over time. This document explains the data model, system components, and how data flows through Honcho.
## Data Model
Honcho has a hierarchical data model centered around the entities below.
```mermaid
graph LR
W[Workspaces] -->|have| P[Peers]
W -->|have| S[Sessions]
S -->|have| SM[Messages]
P <-.->|many-to-many| S
style W fill:#B6DBFF,stroke:#333,color:#000
style P fill:#B6DBFF,stroke:#333,color:#000
style S fill:#B6DBFF,stroke:#333,color:#000
style SM fill:#B6DBFF,stroke:#333,color:#000
```
- A Workspace has Peers & Sessions
- A Peer can be in multiple Sessions and can send Messages in a Session
- A Session can have many Peers and stores Messages sent by its Peers
### <Icon icon="building" /> Workspaces
Workspaces are the top-level containers in Honcho. They provide complete isolation between different applications or environments, essentially serving as a namespace to keep different workloads separate. You might use separate workspaces for development, staging, and production environments, or to isolate different product lines. They also enable multi-tenant SaaS applications where each customer gets their own isolated workspace with complete data separation.
Authentication is scoped to the workspace level, and configuration settings can be applied workspace-wide to control behavior across all peers and sessions within that workspace.
---
### <Icon icon="user" /> Peers
Peers are the most important entity in Honcho--everything revolves around building and maintaining their [*representations*](/v2.6.0-alpha/documentation/core-concepts/representation). A peer represents any individual user, agent, or entity in a workspace. Treating humans and agents the same way lets you build arbitrary combinations for multi-agent or group chat scenarios.
Each peer has a unique identifier within a workspace and is a container for reasoning across all their sessions. This cross-session context means conclusions drawn about a peer in one session can inform interactions in completely different sessions. Peers can be configured to control whether Honcho reasons about them.
You can use peers for any entity that persists over time--individual users in chatbot applications, AI agents interacting with users or other agents, customer profiles in support systems, student profiles in educational platforms, or even NPCs in role-playing games.
---
### <Icon icon="message" /> Sessions
Sessions represent interaction threads or contexts between peers. A session can involve multiple peers and provides temporal boundaries for when a set of interactions starts and ends. This lets you scope context and memory to specific interactions while still maintaining longer-term peer representations that span sessions.
Use sessions to scope things like support tickets, meeting transcripts, learning sessions, or conversations. You can also use single-peer sessions as a way to import external data--create a session with just one peer and structure emails, documents, or files as messages to enrich that peer's representation.
Session-level configuration gives you fine-grained control over perspective-taking behavior. You can configure whether a peer should form representations of other peers in the session, and whether other peers should form representations of them.
---
### <Icon icon="envelope" /> Messages
Messages are the fundamental units of interaction within sessions. While they typically represent back-and-forth communication between peers, you can also use messages to ingest any information that provides context--emails, documents, files, user actions, system notifications, or rich media content.
Every message is attributed to a specific peer and ordered chronologically within its session. When messages are created, they trigger automatic background reasoning that updates peer representations. Messages support rich metadata and structured data through JSONB fields, making them flexible enough to capture whatever information matters for your use case.
## Data Flow
Understanding how data moves through Honcho helps clarify the architecture.
When you create messages, they're immediately written to PostgreSQL and reasoning tasks are added to background queues. Background workers then generate logic, summaries, and new insights to improve representations. These conclusions and insights get stored in vector collections for retrieval. This async approach ensures fast writes while still providing rich reasoning capabilities.
When you need context from Honcho, you query through the "Chat" endpoint or "Get Context" endpoint. Honcho retrieves relevant conclusions from vector storage along with recent messages, then assembles everything into coherent context ready to inject into agent prompts.
![Honcho Architecture](/images/architecture.png)
The diagram above shows how agents write messages to Honcho, which triggers reasoning that updates peer representations. Agents can then query representations to get additional context for their next response. Black arrows represent read/write of regular data (messages, storage), while red arrows represent read/write of reasoned-over data (logic, peer representations).
## Configuration & Extensibility
Honcho is designed to be flexible. Settings cascade hierarchically from workspace to peer to session, so you can set defaults at the workspace level and override them for specific peers or sessions. Feature flags let you enable or disable reasoning modes, perspective tracking, and other capabilities. You can bring your own LLM provider--OpenAI, Anthropic, or custom endpoints--and metadata fields let you extend any primitive with custom JSON data. Batch operations let you create up to 100 messages in a single API call for efficient bulk ingestion.
## Design Principles
Honcho's architecture follows a few core principles. Everything revolves around building representations of peers (peer-centric). Memory isn't just storage--it's continual learning (reasoning-first). Long-lived operations happen in the background so they don't block user interactions (async by default). The system works with any LLM provider (provider-agnostic) and is built for isolation and scalability from the ground up (multi-tenant). Users and agents are both represented as peers, which enables flexible scenarios you couldn't easily model with a traditional user-assistant paradigm (unified paradigm).
## Next Steps
<CardGroup cols={2}>
<Card title="Get an API Key" icon="key" href="https://app.honcho.dev">
Sign up for the Honcho platform and start building
</Card>
<Card title="Quickstart" icon="rocket" href="/v2.6.0-alpha/documentation/introduction/quickstart">
Get started with your first integration
</Card>
<Card title="Reasoning" icon="gears" href="/v2.6.0-alpha/documentation/core-concepts/reasoning">
Learn how Honcho reasons about messages to build memory
</Card>
<Card title="Peer Representations" icon="user-magnifying-glass" href="/v2.6.0-alpha/documentation/core-concepts/representation">
Understand what peer representations are and how they work
</Card>
</CardGroup>

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<Card title="Get an API Key" icon="key" href="https://app.honcho.dev">
Sign up for the Honcho platform and start building
</Card>
<Card title="Quickstart" icon="rocket" href="/v2/documentation/introduction/quickstart">
<Card title="Quickstart" icon="rocket" href="/v2.6.0-alpha/documentation/introduction/quickstart">
Get started with your first integration
</Card>
<Card title="Architecture" icon="sitemap" href="/v2/documentation/core-concepts/architecture">
<Card title="Architecture" icon="sitemap" href="/v2.6.0-alpha/documentation/core-concepts/architecture">
See how reasoning fits into Honcho's overall architecture
</Card>
<Card title="Peer Representations" icon="user-magnifying-glass" href="/v2/documentation/core-concepts/representation">
<Card title="Peer Representations" icon="user-magnifying-glass" href="/v2.6.0-alpha/documentation/core-concepts/representation">
Learn how reasoning produces peer representations
</Card>
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## What's in a Representation?
A peer representation is made up of several types of artifacts that Honcho generates through [*reasoning*](/v2/documentation/core-concepts/reasoning):
A peer representation is made up of several types of artifacts that Honcho generates through [*reasoning*](/v2.6.0-alpha/documentation/core-concepts/reasoning):
**Conclusions** are insights derived through formal logic. Deductive conclusions are things Honcho can be certain about based on extracted premises. Inductive conclusions identify patterns across multiple messages. Abductive conclusions infer the simplest explanations for observed behavior. For example, if a user frequently mentions work deadlines and rarely mentions hobbies, Honcho might inductively conclude they're time-constrained or career-focused.
@ -25,7 +25,7 @@ These enable continuous improvement. Each new message refines conclusions, updat
Honcho can build different representations based on what each peer observes. This enables sophisticated multi-peer scenarios where understanding is relative to what was actually witnessed.
There are two observation modes controlled by [configuration](/v2/documentation/features/advanced/configuration):
There are two observation modes controlled by [configuration](/v2.6.0-alpha/documentation/features/advanced/configuration):
**Honcho observing peers** (`observe_me`): When enabled (default), Honcho forms a representation of the peer based on all messages they've sent across all sessions. This is Honcho's understanding of that peer, built from everything they've said and done in your system. Set `observe_me: false` if you don't want Honcho to reason about that peer at all.
@ -54,13 +54,13 @@ Humans reconstruct the past from imperfect recollections, then act on those reco
<Card title="Get an API Key" icon="key" href="https://app.honcho.dev">
Sign up for the Honcho platform and start building
</Card>
<Card title="Quickstart" icon="rocket" href="/v2/documentation/introduction/quickstart">
<Card title="Quickstart" icon="rocket" href="/v2.6.0-alpha/documentation/introduction/quickstart">
See representations in action with a working example
</Card>
<Card title="Architecture" icon="sitemap" href="/v2/documentation/core-concepts/architecture">
<Card title="Architecture" icon="sitemap" href="/v2.6.0-alpha/documentation/core-concepts/architecture">
Understand how representations fit into Honcho's architecture
</Card>
<Card title="Chat Endpoint" icon="comments" href="/v2/documentation/features/chat">
<Card title="Chat Endpoint" icon="comments" href="/v2.6.0-alpha/documentation/features/chat">
Learn how to query representations with natural language
</Card>
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---
title: "Advanced Features"
icon: "brain"
description: "Advanced configuration and monitoring options for Honcho"
sidebarTitle: "Overview"
---
Advanced features give you fine-grained control over Honcho's behavior and implementation.
## Configuration & Monitoring
- [Queue Status](/v2.6.0-alpha/documentation/features/advanced/queue-status) - Monitor background processing and reasoning tasks
- [Configuration](/v2.6.0-alpha/documentation/features/advanced/toggle-reasoning) - Configure reasoning models and behavior
- [Summarizer](/v2.6.0-alpha/documentation/features/advanced/summarizer) - Automatic session summarization
## Querying & Filtering
- [Search](/v2.6.0-alpha/documentation/features/advanced/search) - Search across peers, sessions, and messages
- [Filters](/v2.6.0-alpha/documentation/features/advanced/using-filters) - Filter queries with advanced parameters
- [Streaming Responses](/v2.6.0-alpha/documentation/features/advanced/streaming-response) - Stream dialectic responses in real-time

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icon: "lines-leaning"
---
Whenever messages are stored in Honcho, a background process kicks off to [reason](/v2/documentation/core-concepts/reasoning) about the conversation and generate insights.
Whenever messages are stored in Honcho, a background process kicks off to [reason](/v2.6.0-alpha/documentation/core-concepts/reasoning) about the conversation and generate insights.
Reasoning is an asynchronous process and, depending on load, may not immediately
generate insights for the latest message you've sent. To help with this, Honcho

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Honcho uses a hierarchical configuration system where more specific settings override more general ones:
TODO: should peer be included here?
1. **Global Defaults**: Built-in system defaults
2. **Workspace Configuration**: Settings that apply to all sessions in a workspace
3. **Session Configuration**: Settings that apply to all messages in a session
4. **Message Configuration**: Settings that apply to a specific message
Separately, you can configure the reasoning status of a peer. This overrides defaults and workspace configuration, but not session or message configuration.
<Info>
All configuration fields are optional. If not specified, the value is inherited from the next level up in the hierarchy.
</Info>
@ -60,14 +60,12 @@ const session = await honcho.session("private-session", {
### Peer Card Configuration
TODO: is create a catch-all for update?
Controls how peer cards (containing key biographical information) are generated and used.
| Field | Type | Description |
|-------|------|-------------|
| `use` | `bool` | Whether to use peer cards during the reasoning process. |
| `create` | `bool` | Whether to generate peer cards based on message content. |
| `create` | `bool` | Whether to generate and update peer cards based on message content. |
<CodeGroup>
```python Python
@ -123,8 +121,6 @@ const session = await honcho.session("verbose-session", {
### Dream Configuration
TODO: fill out code blocks? or get rid of them? having them there for comments seems silly
Controls the "dreaming" process that consolidates and refines representations. Available at workspace and session levels only.
| Field | Type | Description |
@ -134,11 +130,19 @@ Controls the "dreaming" process that consolidates and refines representations. A
<CodeGroup>
```python Python
# Disable dreams for a workspace
# (done via API when creating/updating workspace)
honcho.set_config({
"dream": {
"enabled": False
}
})
```
```typescript TypeScript
// Disable dreams for a workspace
// (done via API when creating/updating workspace)
await honcho.setConfig({
dream: {
enabled: false
}
});
```
</CodeGroup>
@ -153,7 +157,7 @@ You may therefore disable observation of a peer by setting the `observe_me` flag
If the peer has a session-level configuration, it will override this configuration. If the flag is not set, or is set to `true`, the peer will be observed.
<Info>
For session-level observation controls and local representations (where peers build separate models of each other), see [Representation Scopes](/v2/documentation/features/advanced/representation-scopes).
For session-level observation controls and local representations (where peers build separate models of each other), see [Representation Scopes](/v2.6.0-alpha/documentation/features/advanced/representation-scopes).
</Info>
<CodeGroup>

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@ -167,14 +167,12 @@ const goals = await peer.chat("What are the user's main goals or objectives?");
When you call `peer.chat(query)`:
TODO: update with agentic approach?
1. Honcho searches through the peer's representation--conclusions drawn from reasoning over their messages
1. Honcho searches through the peer's peer card and representation--conclusions drawn from reasoning over their messages
2. Retrieves conclusions semantically relevant to your query
3. Synthesizes them into a coherent natural language answer
4. Returns the answer to your application
3. Combines them with segments of source messages, if needed, to gather more context
4. Synthesizes them into a coherent natural language response to your query
Honcho [reasoning](/v2/documentation/core-concepts/reasoning) runs continuously in the background, processing new messages and updating representations. The chat endpoint always has access to Honcho's latest conclusions about the peer.
Honcho [reasoning](/v2.6.0-alpha/documentation/core-concepts/reasoning) runs continuously in the background, processing new messages and updating representations. The chat endpoint always has access to Honcho's latest conclusions about the peer.
## Best Practices
@ -182,7 +180,7 @@ Honcho [reasoning](/v2/documentation/core-concepts/reasoning) runs continuously
Instead of "Tell me about the user", ask "What communication style does the user prefer?" You'll get more actionable answers.
### Let your LLM formulate queries
The chat endpoint shines when your LLM decides what it needs to know. This creates dynamic, context-aware personalization.
The chat endpoint shines when your LLM decides what it needs to know. This creates dynamic, context-aware personalization. An excellent way to achieve this, if building an agent, is to give access to the Honcho chat endpoint as just another tool.
### Use for runtime decisions
Don't just use chat for LLM prompts - use it to drive application logic, routing, and feature flags based on user behavior.
@ -190,4 +188,4 @@ Don't just use chat for LLM prompts - use it to drive application logic, routing
### Combine with get_context()
Use `get_context()` for conversation context and `peer.chat()` for specific insights. They complement each other.
For more ideas on using the chat endpoint, see our blog post on [flexible agent communication](https://blog.plasticlabs.ai/blog/Introducing-Honcho's-chat-API#how-it-works).
For more ideas on using the chat endpoint, see our [guides](/v2.6.0-alpha/guides/overview).

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---
title: 'Get Context'
description: 'Learn how to use get_context() to retrieve and format conversation context for LLM integration'
icon: 'messages'
---
The `get_context()` method is a powerful feature that retrieves formatted conversation context from sessions, making it easy to integrate with LLMs like OpenAI, Anthropic, and others. This guide covers everything you need to know about working with session context.
By default, the context includes a blend of summary and messages which covers the entire history of the session. Summaries are automatically generated at intervals and recent messages are included depending on how many tokens the context is intended to be. You can specify any token limit you want, and can disable summaries to fill that limit entirely with recent messages. To get representation data, you need to specify a target peer.
## Basic Usage
The `get_context()` method is available on all Session objects and returns a `SessionContext` that contains the formatted conversation history.
<CodeGroup>
```python Python
from honcho import Honcho
# Initialize client and create session
honcho = Honcho()
session = honcho.session("conversation-1")
# Get basic context (not very useful before adding any messages!)
context = session.get_context()
```
```typescript TypeScript
import { Honcho } from "@honcho-ai/sdk";
(async () => {
// Initialize client and create session
const honcho = new Honcho({});
const session = await honcho.session("conversation-1");
// Get basic context (not very useful before adding any messages!)
const context = await session.getContext();
})();
```
</CodeGroup>
## Context Parameters
The `get_context()` method accepts several optional parameters to customize the retrieved context:
### Token Limits
Control the size of the context by setting a maximum token count:
<CodeGroup>
```python Python
# Limit context to 1500 tokens
context = session.get_context(tokens=1500)
# Limit context to 3000 tokens for larger conversations
context = session.get_context(tokens=3000)
```
```typescript TypeScript
(async () => {
// Limit context to 1500 tokens
const context = await session.getContext({ tokens: 1500 });
// Limit context to 3000 tokens for larger conversations
const context = await session.getContext({ tokens: 3000 });
})();
```
</CodeGroup>
### Summary Mode
Enable summary mode (on by default) to get a condensed version of the conversation:
<CodeGroup>
```python Python
# Get context with summary enabled -- will contain both summary and messages
context = session.get_context(summary=True)
# Combine summary=False with token limits to get more messages
context = session.get_context(summary=False, tokens=2000)
```
```typescript TypeScript
(async () => {
// Get context with summary enabled -- will contain both summary and messages
const context = await session.getContext({ summary: true });
// Combine summary=False with token limits to get more messages
const context = await session.getContext({
summary: false,
tokens: 2000
});
})();
```
</CodeGroup>
### Peer Representation in Context
You can include a peer's [representation](/v2.6.0-alpha/documentation/core-concepts/representation) and peer card in the context by specifying `peer_target`. This is useful for providing the LLM with knowledge about a specific peer.
<CodeGroup>
```python Python
# Get context with peer representation included
context = session.get_context(
tokens=2000,
peer_target="user-123" # Include representation of user-123
)
# Access the representation and peer card
print(context.peer_representation) # String representation
print(context.peer_card) # List of peer card items
# Get representation from a specific peer's perspective
context = session.get_context(
tokens=2000,
peer_target="user-123",
peer_perspective="assistant" # From assistant's viewpoint
)
```
```typescript TypeScript
(async () => {
// Get context with peer representation included
const context = await session.getContext({
tokens: 2000,
peerTarget: "user-123" // Include representation of user-123
});
// Access the representation and peer card
console.log(context.peerRepresentation); // String representation
console.log(context.peerCard); // Array of peer card items
// Get representation from a specific peer's perspective
const perspectiveContext = await session.getContext({
tokens: 2000,
peerTarget: "user-123",
peerPerspective: "assistant" // From assistant's viewpoint
});
})();
```
</CodeGroup>
### Semantic Search with Last Message
Use `last_user_message` to fetch semantically relevant conclusions based on the most recent message (requires `peer_target`):
<CodeGroup>
```python Python
context = session.get_context(
tokens=2000,
peer_target="user-123",
last_user_message="What are my coding preferences?",
search_top_k=10, # Number of relevant observations
search_max_distance=0.8, # Max semantic distance (0.0-1.0)
include_most_derived=True, # Include most recent observations
max_observations=25 # Cap total observations
)
```
```typescript TypeScript
(async () => {
const context = await session.getContext({
tokens: 2000,
peerTarget: "user-123",
lastUserMessage: "What are my coding preferences?",
representationOptions: {
searchTopK: 10, // Number of relevant observations
searchMaxDistance: 0.8, // Max semantic distance (0.0-1.0)
includeMostDerived: true, // Include most recent observations
maxObservations: 25 // Cap total observations
}
});
})();
```
</CodeGroup>
### Session-Scoped Representations
Use `limit_to_session` to only include observations from the current session:
<CodeGroup>
```python Python
# Get context limited to this session's observations only
context = session.get_context(
tokens=2000,
peer_target="user-123",
limit_to_session=True # Only observations from this session
)
```
```typescript TypeScript
(async () => {
// Get context limited to this session's observations only
const context = await session.getContext({
tokens: 2000,
peerTarget: "user-123",
limitToSession: true // Only observations from this session
});
})();
```
</CodeGroup>
### All Parameters Reference
| Parameter | Type | Description |
|-----------|------|-------------|
| `summary` | `bool` | Include summary in context (default: true) |
| `tokens` | `int` | Maximum tokens to include |
| `peer_target` | `str` | Peer ID to include representation for |
| `peer_perspective` | `str` | Peer ID for perspective (requires peer_target) |
| `last_user_message` | `str` | Message for semantic search (requires peer_target) |
| `limit_to_session` | `bool` | Limit to session observations only |
| `search_top_k` | `int` | Semantic search results to include (1-100) |
| `search_max_distance` | `float` | Max semantic distance (0.0-1.0) |
| `include_most_derived` | `bool` | Include most recently derived observations |
| `max_observations` | `int` | Maximum observations to include (1-100) |
## Converting to LLM Formats
The `SessionContext` object provides methods to convert the context into formats compatible with popular LLM APIs. When converting to OpenAI format, you must specify the assistant peer to format the context in such a way that the LLM can understand it.
### OpenAI Format
Convert context to OpenAI's chat completion format:
<CodeGroup>
```python Python
# Create peers
alice = honcho.peer("alice")
assistant = honcho.peer("assistant")
# Add some conversation
session.add_messages([
alice.message("What's the weather like today?"),
assistant.message("It's sunny and 75°F outside!")
])
# Get context and convert to OpenAI format
context = session.get_context()
openai_messages = context.to_openai(assistant=assistant)
# The messages are now ready for OpenAI API
print(openai_messages)
# [
# {"role": "user", "content": "What's the weather like today?"},
# {"role": "assistant", "content": "It's sunny and 75°F outside!"}
# ]
```
```typescript TypeScript
(async () => {
// Create peers
const alice = await honcho.peer("alice");
const assistant = await honcho.peer("assistant");
// Add some conversation
await session.addMessages([
alice.message("What's the weather like today?"),
assistant.message("It's sunny and 75°F outside!")
]);
// Get context and convert to OpenAI format
const context = await session.getContext();
const openaiMessages = context.toOpenAI(assistant);
// The messages are now ready for OpenAI API
console.log(openaiMessages);
// [
// {"role": "user", "content": "What's the weather like today?"},
// {"role": "assistant", "content": "It's sunny and 75°F outside!"}
// ]
})();
```
</CodeGroup>
### Anthropic Format
Convert context to Anthropic's Claude format:
<CodeGroup>
```python Python
# Get context and convert to Anthropic format
context = session.get_context()
anthropic_messages = context.to_anthropic(assistant=assistant)
# Ready for Anthropic API
print(anthropic_messages)
```
```typescript TypeScript
(async () => {
// Get context and convert to Anthropic format
const context = await session.getContext();
const anthropicMessages = context.toAnthropic(assistant);
// Ready for Anthropic API
console.log(anthropicMessages);
})();
```
</CodeGroup>
## Complete LLM Integration Examples
### Using with OpenAI
<CodeGroup>
```python Python
import openai
from honcho import Honcho
# Initialize clients
honcho = Honcho()
openai_client = openai.OpenAI()
# Set up conversation
session = honcho.session("support-chat")
user = honcho.peer("user-123")
assistant = honcho.peer("support-bot")
# Add conversation history
session.add_messages([
user.message("I'm having trouble with my account login"),
assistant.message("I can help you with that. What error message are you seeing?"),
user.message("It says 'Invalid credentials' but I'm sure my password is correct")
])
# Get context for LLM
messages = session.get_context(tokens=2000).to_openai(assistant=assistant)
# Add new user message and get AI response
messages.append({
"role": "user",
"content": "Can you reset my password?"
})
response = openai_client.chat.completions.create(
model="gpt-4",
messages=messages
)
# Add AI response back to session
session.add_messages([
user.message("Can you reset my password?"),
assistant.message(response.choices[0].message.content)
])
```
```typescript TypeScript
import OpenAI from 'openai';
import { Honcho } from "@honcho-ai/sdk";
(async () => {
// Initialize clients
const honcho = new Honcho({});
const openai = new OpenAI();
// Set up conversation
const session = await honcho.session("support-chat");
const user = await honcho.peer("user-123");
const assistant = await honcho.peer("support-bot");
// Add conversation history
await session.addMessages([
user.message("I'm having trouble with my account login"),
assistant.message("I can help you with that. What error message are you seeing?"),
user.message("It says 'Invalid credentials' but I'm sure my password is correct")
]);
// Get context for LLM
const messages = await session.getContext({ tokens: 2000 }).toOpenAI(assistant);
// Add new user message and get AI response
const response = await openai.chat.completions.create({
model: "gpt-4",
messages: [
...messages,
{ role: "user", content: "Can you reset my password?" }
]
});
// Add AI response back to session
await session.addMessages([
user.message("Can you reset my password?"),
assistant.message(response.choices[0].message.content)
]);
})();
```
</CodeGroup>
### Multi-Turn Conversation Loop
<CodeGroup>
```python Python
def chat_loop():
"""Example of a continuous chat loop using get_context()"""
session = honcho.session("chat-session")
user = honcho.peer("user")
assistant = honcho.peer("ai-assistant")
while True:
# Get user input
user_input = input("You: ")
if user_input.lower() in ['quit', 'exit']:
break
# Add user message to session
session.add_messages([user.message(user_input)])
# Get conversation context
context = session.get_context(tokens=2000)
messages = context.to_openai(assistant=assistant)
# Get AI response
response = openai_client.chat.completions.create(
model="gpt-4",
messages=messages
)
ai_response = response.choices[0].message.content
print(f"Assistant: {ai_response}")
# Add AI response to session
session.add_messages([assistant.message(ai_response)])
# Start the chat loop
chat_loop()
```
```typescript TypeScript
(async () => {
async function chatLoop() {
const session = await honcho.session("chat-session");
const user = await honcho.peer("user");
const assistant = await honcho.peer("ai-assistant");
// This would be replaced with actual user input handling in a real app
const userInputs = [
"Hello, how are you?",
"What's the weather like?",
"Tell me a joke"
];
for (const userInput of userInputs) {
console.log(`You: ${userInput}`);
// Add user message to session
await session.addMessages([user.message(userInput)]);
// Get conversation context
const context = await session.getContext({ tokens: 2000 });
const messages = context.toOpenAI(assistant);
// Get AI response
const response = await openai.chat.completions.create({
model: "gpt-4",
messages: messages
});
const aiResponse = response.choices[0].message.content;
console.log(`Assistant: ${aiResponse}`);
// Add AI response to session
await session.addMessages([assistant.message(aiResponse)]);
}
}
// Start the chat loop
await chatLoop();
})();
```
</CodeGroup>
## Advanced Context Usage
### Context with Summaries for Long Conversations
For very long conversations, use summaries to maintain context while controlling token usage:
<CodeGroup>
```python Python
# For long conversations, use summary mode
long_session = honcho.session("long-conversation")
# Get summarized context to fit within token limits
context = long_session.get_context(summary=True, tokens=1500)
messages = context.to_openai(assistant=assistant)
# This will include a summary of older messages and recent full messages
print(f"Context contains {len(messages)} formatted messages")
```
```typescript TypeScript
(async () => {
// For long conversations, use summary mode
const longSession = await honcho.session("long-conversation");
// Get summarized context to fit within token limits
const context = await longSession.getContext({
summary: true,
tokens: 1500
});
const messages = context.toOpenAI(assistant);
// This will include a summary of older messages and recent full messages
console.log(`Context contains ${messages.length} formatted messages`);
})();
```
</CodeGroup>
### Context for Different Assistant Types
You can get context formatted for different types of assistants in the same session:
<CodeGroup>
```python Python
# Create different assistant peers
chatbot = honcho.peer("chatbot")
analyzer = honcho.peer("data-analyzer")
moderator = honcho.peer("moderator")
# Get context formatted for each assistant type
chatbot_context = session.get_context().to_openai(assistant=chatbot)
analyzer_context = session.get_context().to_openai(assistant=analyzer)
moderator_context = session.get_context().to_openai(assistant=moderator)
# Each context will format the conversation from that assistant's perspective
```
```typescript TypeScript
(async () => {
// Create different assistant peers
const chatbot = await honcho.peer("chatbot");
const analyzer = await honcho.peer("data-analyzer");
const moderator = await honcho.peer("moderator");
// Get context formatted for each assistant type
const context = await session.getContext();
const chatbotContext = context.toOpenAI(chatbot);
const analyzerContext = context.toOpenAI(analyzer);
const moderatorContext = context.toOpenAI(moderator);
// Each context will format the conversation from that assistant's perspective
})();
```
</CodeGroup>
## Best Practices
### 1. Token Management
Always set appropriate token limits to control costs and ensure context fits within LLM limits:
<CodeGroup>
```python Python
# Good: Set reasonable token limits based on your model
context = session.get_context(tokens=3000) # For GPT-4
context = session.get_context(tokens=1500) # For smaller models
# Good: Use summaries for very long conversations
context = session.get_context(summary=True, tokens=2000)
```
```typescript TypeScript
(async () => {
// Good: Set reasonable token limits based on your model
const context = await session.getContext({ tokens: 3000 }); // For GPT-4
const context = await session.getContext({ tokens: 1500 }); // For smaller models
// Good: Use summaries for very long conversations
const context = await session.getContext({ summary: true, tokens: 2000 });
})();
```
</CodeGroup>
### 2. Context Caching
For applications with frequent context retrieval, consider caching context when appropriate:
<CodeGroup>
```python Python
# Cache context for multiple LLM calls within the same request
context = session.get_context(tokens=2000)
openai_messages = context.to_openai(assistant=assistant)
anthropic_messages = context.to_anthropic(assistant=assistant)
# Use the same context object for multiple format conversions
```
```typescript TypeScript
(async () => {
// Cache context for multiple LLM calls within the same request
const context = await session.getContext({ tokens: 2000 });
const openaiMessages = context.toOpenAI(assistant);
const anthropicMessages = context.toAnthropic(assistant);
// Use the same context object for multiple format conversions
})();
```
</CodeGroup>
### 3. Error Handling
Always handle potential errors when working with context:
<CodeGroup>
```python Python
try:
context = session.get_context(tokens=2000)
messages = context.to_openai(assistant=assistant)
# Use messages with LLM API
response = openai_client.chat.completions.create(
model="gpt-4",
messages=messages
)
except Exception as e:
print(f"Error getting context: {e}")
# Handle error appropriately
```
```typescript TypeScript
(async () => {
try {
const context = await session.getContext({ tokens: 2000 });
const messages = context.toOpenAI(assistant);
// Use messages with LLM API
const response = await openai.chat.completions.create({
model: "gpt-4",
messages: messages
});
} catch (error) {
console.error(`Error getting context: ${error}`);
// Handle error appropriately
}
})();
```
</CodeGroup>
## Conclusion
The `get_context()` method is essential for integrating Honcho sessions with LLMs. By understanding how to:
- Retrieve context with appropriate parameters
- Convert context to LLM-specific formats
- Manage token limits and summaries
- Handle multi-turn conversations
You can build sophisticated AI applications that maintain conversation history and context across interactions while integrating seamlessly with popular LLM providers.

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---
title: "Honcho Overview"
icon: "brain"
sidebarTitle: "Overview"
---
Honcho is an open source memory library with a managed service for building stateful agents. Use it with any model, framework, or architecture. It enables agents to build and maintain state about any entity--users, agents, groups, ideas, and more. And because it's a continual learning system, it understands entities that change over time. Using Honcho as your memory system will earn your agents higher retention, more trust, and help you build data moats to out-compete incumbents.
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</CardGroup>
<Note>
Honcho is a memory system that reasons. Read more on the approach [here](https://blog.plasticlabs.ai/blog/Memory-as-Reasoning).
</Note>
## Why Use Honcho?
Honcho streamlines the agent building process by offering elegant, flexible primitives for managing context. It also reasons over that context to give developers access to far richer insights only accessible through reasoning.
Take the following scenario:
- You find a use case for LLMs and build an agent around it
- It works well initially but can't maintain context across sessions
- You spend weeks engineering a RAG solution that seems to help
- Then the cycle begins...
- Users report the agent forgetting things, contradicting itself, or losing context mid-session
- You build evals to quantify the problem
- You re-engineer your entire RAG pipeline with better chunking, embeddings, retrieval strategies
- The problems shift but don't disappear
- Repeat
Eventually you realize the issue isn't engineering—-it's that you're not extracting all the latent information from your data. You need to reason exhaustively, handle contradictions, track patterns over time, and maintain coherent state. In other words, you'd need to build Honcho.
Break free from this cycle. Honcho is a general solution to context engineering, memory, and statefulness.
## How Honcho Works
Honcho has four storage primitives that work together:
```mermaid
graph LR
W[Workspaces] -->|have| P[Peers]
W -->|have| S[Sessions]
S -->|have| SM[Messages]
P <-.->|many-to-many| S
style W fill:#B6DBFF,stroke:#333,color:#000
style P fill:#B6DBFF,stroke:#333,color:#000
style S fill:#B6DBFF,stroke:#333,color:#000
style SM fill:#B6DBFF,stroke:#333,color:#000
```
- **Workspaces** - Top-level containers that isolate different applications or environments
- **Peers** - Any entity that persists but changes over time (users, agents, objects, and more)
- **Sessions** - Interaction threads between peers with temporal boundaries
- **Messages** - Units of data that trigger reasoning (conversations, events, activity, documents, and more)
When you write messages to Honcho, they're stored and processed in the background. Custom reasoning models perform formal logical [*reasoning*](/v2.6.0-alpha/documentation/core-concepts/reasoning) to generate conclusions about each peer. These conclusions are stored as [*representations*](/v2.6.0-alpha/documentation/core-concepts/representation) that you can query to provide rich context for your agents.
![Honcho Architecture](/images/architecture.png)
The diagram above shows the flow: agents write messages to Honcho, which triggers reasoning that updates what's stored in representations. Developers (or agents) can then query to get additional context for their next response.
## Why Reasoning?
Traditional RAG systems retrieve what was explicitly said, but they miss what matters most—the insights only accessible by *rigorously thinking* about your data. Without reasoning, you're leaving latent information on the table. Static retrieval can't surface implicit connections, struggles when new information contradicts old data, and fails when you need to make predictions under uncertainty.
Honcho uses formal logic to extract all that latent information. This reasoning is AI-native—it performs the rigorous, compute-intensive thinking that humans struggle with, instantly and consistently. The result is memory that goes beyond simple RAG recall to provide exhaustive context for statefulness.
## Get Started
Honcho gives you maximum control over your agent's context and memory. The data model is flexible and composable, the reasoning backend is powerful yet cost-effective, and everything is built to give developers levers to manage token usage, latency, and reasoning depth.
We're just scratching the surface. Dive into the quickstart to see Honcho in action, explore the architecture to understand how it all fits together, or jump straight to building.
Welcome to Honcho. We're excited to have you at the frontier of AI with us 🫡.
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<Card title="Reasoning" icon="gears" href="/v2.6.0-alpha/documentation/core-concepts/reasoning">
Learn how Honcho reasons about data to build memory
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---
title: "Quickstart"
icon: "bolt"
sidebarTitle: "Quickstart"
---
Let's get started with Honcho. In this quickstart, you will:
- Set up a workspace with peers (user and assistant)
- Ingest messages from across multiple sessions
- Query the reasoning Honcho produces to get synthesized insights about the user
<Note>
Running the code below requires an API key. Create and account and get your API key at [app.honcho.dev](https://app.honcho.dev) under "API KEYS".
Every new tenant gets \$100.00 in free credits on sign up. The code below costs ~\$0.04 to run, so don't worry--still plenty of free credits for iterating.
</Note>
#### 1. Install the SDK
<CodeGroup>
```bash Python (uv)
uv add honcho-ai
```
```bash Python (pip)
pip install honcho-ai
```
```bash TypeScript (npm)
npm install @honcho-ai/sdk
```
```bash TypeScript (yarn)
yarn add @honcho-ai/sdk
```
```bash TypeScript (pnpm)
pnpm add @honcho-ai/sdk
```
</CodeGroup>
#### 2. Initialize the Client
The Honcho client is the main entry point for interacting with Honcho's API. It uses a workspace called `default` unless specified, so let's create a `first-honcho-test` workspace for this quickstart.
<CodeGroup>
```python Python
from honcho import Honcho
# Initialize client
honcho = Honcho(workspace="first-honcho-test", api_key=HONCHO_API_KEY)
```
```typescript TypeScript
import { Honcho } from '@honcho-ai/sdk';
// Initialize client
const honcho = new Honcho({ workspace = "first-honcho-test", apiKey = HONCHO_API_KEY });
```
</CodeGroup>
#### 3. Create Peers
<CodeGroup>
```python Python
user = honcho.peer("user")
assistant = honcho.peer("assistant")
```
```typescript TypeScript
const user = await honcho.peer("user")
const assistant = await honcho.peer("assistant")
```
</CodeGroup>
#### 4. Add Messages to Sessions
We've generated an example conversation dataset with 14 messages across 4 sessions. At a high level, the conversation contains a user chatting with an assistant to get help debugging software infrastructure problems for work *and* jam strategy on a side project they're working on. Spoiler alert--the user is way more interested in their side project.
Create a file called `conversation.json` and add the content in the accordion below. Then we'll loop through the sessions and messages in that file and write them to Honcho.
<Accordion title="Example conversation.json">
```json Example Conversation
{
"sessions": [
{
"id": "session_1",
"messages": [
{
"role": "user",
"content": "containers getting OOM killed in CI after someone on my team updated the base image. quick fix?"
},
{
"role": "assistant",
"content": "OOM kills after a base image update usually means the new image has higher memory requirements. Quick fix: bump the memory limit in your CI config. If you need to unblock fast, you could also pin back to the previous base image version temporarily."
}
]
},
{
"id": "session_2",
"messages": [
{
"role": "user",
"content": "hey, been playing with honcho for a side project. do you know if there's a limit on how many users i can have?"
},
{
"role": "assistant",
"content": "Honcho's free tier is based on context ingested, not number of users - so you can have as many users as you want, you're just limited by how much content you're processing. What are you building?"
},
{
"role": "user",
"content": "ok so basically it's a personal finance assistant that actually remembers your situation - like it knows you're saving for a house, that you hate subscriptions, that you always regret impulse buys over $50. i've been thinking a lot about the UX, like when should it proactively bring up past context vs wait for you to ask? and how do you balance feeling \"known\" vs feeling surveilled? i have a whole notion doc on this lol"
},
{
"role": "assistant",
"content": "That's a really thoughtful approach to the personalization problem! The \"known vs surveilled\" tension is exactly right - the best experiences feel like talking to a friend who remembers, not a system that tracks. Proactive context works best when it's in service of the user's stated goals."
}
]
},
{
"id": "session_3",
"messages": [
{
"role": "user",
"content": "do i need to update docker-compose too or just the CI yaml for that memory thing"
},
{
"role": "assistant",
"content": "Just the CI yaml for the memory limit - docker-compose is separate and only matters if you're hitting the same OOM issue locally."
},
{
"role": "user",
"content": "k. oh btw 3 friends are using the finance app now, they keep asking when they can pay me lol. one of them said it's the first budgeting thing that \"gets\" her"
},
{
"role": "assistant",
"content": "That's awesome - \"when can I pay you\" is the best kind of validation. And that quote about it being the first thing that \"gets\" her is exactly the value prop of personalized memory. Sounds like you're onto something real."
}
]
},
{
"id": "session_4",
"messages": [
{
"role": "user",
"content": "if i wanted to charge like $5/mo for the finance app, would honcho's pricing still make sense at that price point? trying to figure out unit economics early"
},
{
"role": "assistant",
"content": "You should be fine at that price point. Unlike other memory frameworks that charge you to access your own data, Honcho only charges for the reasoning layer - ingestion and inference. Storage and retrieval are free. So your unit economics are mostly about how often you're synthesizing insights, not how much history you're keeping."
},
{
"role": "user",
"content": "ok interesting. wish i had more time to work on this"
},
{
"role": "assistant",
"content": "Yeah, sounds like you've got something worth making time for. The early traction is real."
}
]
}
]
}
```
</Accordion>
<CodeGroup>
```python Python
import json
# Load conversation data
with open("conversation.json", "r") as f:
data = json.load(f)
# Process each session
for session_data in data["sessions"]:
session = honcho.session(session_data["id"])
session.add_peers([user, assistant])
# Add messages with correct roles
messages = []
for msg in session_data["messages"]:
if msg["role"] == "user":
messages.append(user.message(msg["content"]))
elif msg["role"] == "assistant":
messages.append(assistant.message(msg["content"]))
session.add_messages(messages)
```
```typescript TypeScript
import * as fs from 'fs';
const data = JSON.parse(fs.readFileSync("conversation.json", "utf-8"));
for (const sessionData of data.sessions) {
const session = honcho.session(sessionData.id);
session.addPeers([user, assistant]);
const messages = sessionData.messages.map((msg: any) =>
msg.role === "user" ? user.message(msg.content) : assistant.message(msg.content)
);
session.addMessages(messages);
}
```
</CodeGroup>
#### 5. Query for Insights
Now ask Honcho what it's learned--this is where the magic happens:
<CodeGroup>
```python Python
response = user.chat("What should I know about this user? 3 sentences max")
print(response)
```
```typescript TypeScript
user.chat("What should I know about this user? 3 sentences max").then((response) => {
console.log(response);
})
```
</CodeGroup>
<Tip>
Honcho needs a short amount of time to process messages you write to it. There are several utilities to [check the status](/v2.6.0-alpha/documentation/features/advanced/queue-status) of the queue. Honcho also offers numerous ways to query reasoning to fit latency needs: see the [Get Context](/v2.6.0-alpha/documentation/features/get-context) page.
</Tip>
The response will look something like this:
> User is a personal finance app developer building a personalized finance assistant that's generating real demand (friends are already asking when they can pay). They're notably thoughtful about product design, carefully considering the UX balance between making users feel "known" versus "surveilled" when their app proactively surfaces remembered context like savings goals and spending regrets. They're business-minded and working through unit economics early, exploring a $5/month subscription model with usage-based cost structure focused on insight generation frequency rather than data storage—though they wish they had more time to dedicate to the project.
Honcho synthesizes signal by reasoning about the user to draw conclusions beyond what was explicitly stated. It identifies the user as "notably thoughtful about product design", "business-minded" from the discussion of unit economics, and surfaces the signal that they desire to work on the project more.
This is rich personal context for domain-specific agents to do what they want with.
- A life coach agent might see "they wish they had more time to dedicate to the project" and "friends are already asking when they can pay" and ask "have you thought about what it would take to go full-time?"
- A productivity agent might see the same pattern and say "let's protect your weekend time for the finance app."
- A financial advisor agent might see it and ask "what runway would you need to make the leap?"
Honcho acts almost like a detective--it reasons about new and existing evidence in order to form conclusions that can be used to make a *case*. These conclusions wait to be composed dynamically based on how you, the ~~judge~~ developer, query it. This approach is what drives our [pareto-frontier](TODO: link to evals page here) performance on memory benchmarks, and our custom models allow us to optimize speed and cost.
## Next Steps
You just saw how Honcho reasons about data to build rich peer representations. In this quickstart, you:
- Set up a workspace with peers (user and assistant)
- Ingested messages across multiple sessions
- Queried the reasoning to get synthesized insights about the user
Here's the full working code if you want to run it yourself:
<Accordion title="Full Scripts">
<CodeGroup>
```python Python
# uv sync
# uv run python test.py
import json
import time
import uuid
from honcho import Honcho
from dotenv import load_dotenv
load_dotenv()
# Initialize Honcho client with a unique workspace
workspace_id = f"docs-example-{uuid.uuid4().hex[:8]}"
honcho = Honcho(environment="production", workspace_id=workspace_id)
# Create peers to represent the user and assistant
user = honcho.peer("user")
assistant = honcho.peer("assistant")
# Load conversation data from JSON file
with open("conversation.json", "r") as f:
conversation_data = json.load(f)
# Import historical conversation sessions
for session_data in conversation_data["sessions"]:
session = honcho.session(session_data["id"])
session.add_peers([user, assistant])
# Convert messages to peer messages with correct attribution
messages = []
for msg in session_data["messages"]:
if msg["role"] == "user":
messages.append(user.message(msg["content"]))
elif msg["role"] == "assistant":
messages.append(assistant.message(msg["content"]))
session.add_messages(messages)
# Wait for Honcho to process the conversation history
def wait_for_processing():
status = honcho.get_deriver_status()
while status.pending_work_units > 0 or status.in_progress_work_units > 0:
time.sleep(1)
status = honcho.poll_deriver_status()
print("Processing conversation history...")
start_time = time.time()
wait_for_processing()
elapsed = int(time.time() - start_time)
print(f"Done in {elapsed}s! Querying user insights...\n")
# Query insights about the user based on conversation history
response = user.chat("What should I know about this user? 3 sentences max")
print(response)
```
```typescript Typescript
// npm install
// npx ts-node test.ts
import * as fs from 'fs';
import { randomUUID } from 'crypto';
import * as dotenv from 'dotenv';
import { Honcho } from '@honcho-ai/sdk';
dotenv.config();
// Initialize Honcho client with a unique workspace
const workspaceId = `docs-example-${randomUUID().slice(0, 8)}`;
const honcho = new Honcho({
environment: "production",
workspaceId,
});
// Create peers to represent the user and assistant
const user = await honcho.peer("user");
const assistant = await honcho.peer("assistant");
// Load conversation data from JSON file
const conversationData = JSON.parse(fs.readFileSync("conversation.json", "utf-8"));
// Import historical conversation sessions
for (const sessionData of conversationData.sessions) {
const session = await honcho.session(sessionData.id);
await session.addPeers([user, assistant]);
// Convert messages to peer messages with correct attribution
const messages = [];
for (const msg of sessionData.messages) {
if (msg.role === "user") {
messages.push(user.message(msg.content));
} else if (msg.role === "assistant") {
messages.push(assistant.message(msg.content));
}
}
await session.addMessages(messages);
}
// Wait for Honcho to process the conversation history
async function waitForProcessing() {
let status = await honcho.getDeriverStatus();
while (status.pendingWorkUnits > 0 || status.inProgressWorkUnits > 0) {
await new Promise(resolve => setTimeout(resolve, 1000));
status = await honcho.pollDeriverStatus();
}
}
console.log("Processing conversation history...");
const startTime = Date.now();
await waitForProcessing();
const elapsed = Math.floor((Date.now() - startTime) / 1000);
console.log(`Done in ${elapsed}s! Querying user insights...\n`);
// Query insights about the user based on conversation history
const response = await user.chat("What should I know about this user? 3 sentences max");
console.log(response);
```
</CodeGroup>
</Accordion>
From here, you can explore how to use Honcho's features in your own applications:
<CardGroup cols={2}>
<Card title="Get Context" icon="messages" href="/v2.6.0-alpha/documentation/features/get-context">
Learn how to fetch the right context for your agent's next response
</Card>
<Card title="Architecture" icon="sitemap" href="/v2.6.0-alpha/documentation/core-concepts/architecture">
Deep dive into how Honcho's primitives fit together
</Card>
<Card title="Chat Endpoint" icon="comments" href="/v2.6.0-alpha/documentation/features/chat">
Query representations with natural language
</Card>
<Card title="Guides" icon="book" href="/v2.6.0-alpha/guides/overview">
Integration patterns and advanced use cases
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---
title: "AI-Powered Honcho Setup"
icon: "wand-magic-sparkles"
description: "Universal starter prompt for building with Honcho"
sidebarTitle: 'Vibecoding Setup'
---
These docs are designed to be easily consumable by LLMs. Each page has a button that lets you copy the page as Markdown or paste directly into ChatGPT or Claude.
We follow the llms.txt standard. There are both an llms.txt and llms-full.txt available:
- [llms.txt](/llms.txt)
- [llms-full.txt](/llms-full.txt)
We also provide a starter prompt to paste into a coding assistant to quickly get started building with Honcho.
## Universal Starter Prompt
```
I want to start building with Honcho - an open source memory library for building stateful agents.
## Honcho Resources
**Documentation:**
- Main docs: https://docs.honcho.dev
- API Reference: https://docs.honcho.dev/v2.6.0-alpha/api-reference/introduction
- Quickstart: https://docs.honcho.dev/v2.6.0-alpha/documentation/introduction/quickstart
- Architecture: https://docs.honcho.dev/v2.6.0-alpha/documentation/core-concepts/architecture
**Code & Examples:**
- Core repo: https://github.com/plastic-labs/honcho
- Python SDK: https://github.com/plastic-labs/honcho-python
- TypeScript SDK: https://github.com/plastic-labs/honcho-node
- Discord bot starter: https://github.com/plastic-labs/discord-python-starter
- Telegram bot example: https://github.com/plastic-labs/telegram-python-starter
**What Honcho Does:**
Honcho is an open source memory library with a managed service for building stateful agents. It enables agents to build and maintain state about any entity--users, agents, groups, ideas, and more. Because it's a continual learning system, it understands entities that change over time.
When you write messages to Honcho, they're stored and processed in the background. Custom reasoning models perform formal logical reasoning to generate conclusions about each peer. These conclusions are stored as representations that you can query to provide rich context for your agents.
**Architecture Overview:**
- Core primitives: Workspaces contain Peers (any entity that persists but changes) and Sessions (interaction threads between peers)
- Peers can observe other peers in sessions (configurable with observe_me and observe_others)
- Background reasoning processes messages to extract premises, draw conclusions, and build representations
- Representations enable continuous improvement as new messages refine existing conclusions and scaffold new ones over time
- Chat endpoint provides personalized responses based on learned context
- Supports any LLM (OpenAI, Anthropic, open source)
- Can use managed service or self-host
Please assess the resources above and ask me relevant questions to help build a well-structured application using Honcho. Consider asking about:
- What I'm trying to build
- My technical preferences and stack
- Whether I want to use the managed service or self-host
- My experience level with the technologies involved
- Specific features I need (multi-peer sessions, perspective-taking, streaming, etc.)
Once you understand my needs, help me create a working implementation with proper memory and statefulness.
```

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---
title: "The Honcho Dashboard"
icon: "rocket"
description: "Build socially intelligent agents without worrying about infrastructure"
sidebarTitle: "Dashboard Overview"
---
<Card title="Sign up to start using Honcho!" icon="rocket" href="https://app.honcho.dev">
Start using the platform to manage Honcho instances for your workspace or app.
</Card>
The quickest way to begin using Honcho in production is with the
[Honcho Cloud Platform](https://app.honcho.dev). Sign up, generate an API key,
and start building with Honcho.
## 1. Go to [app.honcho.dev](https://app.honcho.dev)
Create an account to start using Honcho. If a teammate already uses Honcho, ask
them to invite you to their organization. Otherwise, you'll see a banner
prompting you to create a new one.
<div style={{ maxWidth: "400px", margin: "0 auto" }}>
<Frame>
<img src="/images/app-screenshots/welcome-to-honcho.png" alt="Honcho Platform Dashboard" loading="lazy" decoding="async" fetchpriority="low" style={{ width: "100%", height: "auto" }} />
</Frame>
</div>
Once you've created an organization, you'll be taken to the dashboard and see
the Welcome page with integration guidance and links to documentation.
<Frame>
<img src="/images/app-screenshots/get-started-copy.png" alt="Honcho Dashboard Getting Started" width="1200" height="800" loading="lazy" decoding="async" fetchpriority="low" />
</Frame>
Each organization has dedicated infrastructure running to isolate your
workloads. Once you add a valid payment method under the
[Billing](https://app.honcho.dev/billing) page, your instance will turn on.
## 2. Activate your Honcho instance
Navigate to the [Billing](https://app.honcho.dev/billing) page to add a payment method. Your Honcho instance provisions automatically, and you can monitor the deployment on the [Instance Status](https://app.honcho.dev/status) page until all systems show a green check mark.
<Frame>
<img src="/images/app-screenshots/status-page.png" alt="Instance Status Page" width="1200" height="800" loading="lazy" decoding="async" fetchpriority="low" />
</Frame>
You can also upgrade Honcho when new versions are made available directly from the status page.
<div style={{ maxWidth: "700px", margin: "0 auto" }}>
<Frame>
<img src="/images/app-screenshots/upgrade-honcho.png" alt="Upgrade Honcho" loading="lazy" decoding="async" fetchpriority="low" style={{ width: "100%", height: "auto" }} />
</Frame>
</div>
The **Performance** page provides comprehensive monitoring with usage metrics, health analytics, API response times, and endpoint usage across Honcho.
<Frame>
<img src="/images/app-screenshots/performance-analytics.png" alt="Performance Analytics Dashboard" width="1200" height="800" loading="lazy" decoding="async" fetchpriority="low" />
</Frame>
## 3. Manage API Keys
The [API Keys](https://app.honcho.dev/api-keys) page allows you to create and manage authentication tokens for different environments. You can create admin-level keys with full instance access or scope keys to specific `Workspaces`, `Peers`, or `Sessions`.
<Frame>
<img src="/images/app-screenshots/api-keys.png" alt="API Key Management Dashboard" width="1200" height="800" loading="lazy" decoding="async" fetchpriority="low" />
</Frame>
## 4. Test with API Playground
The [API Playground](https://app.honcho.dev/playground) provides a Postman-like interface to test queries, explore endpoints, and validate your integration. Authenticate with an API key and send requests directly to your Honcho instance with real-time responses and full request/response logging.
<Frame>
<img src="/images/app-screenshots/api-playground.png" alt="API Playground Interface" width="1200" height="800" loading="lazy" decoding="async" fetchpriority="low" />
</Frame>
## 5. Workspaces
The [Explore](https://app.honcho.dev/explore) page provides comprehensive `Workspace` management where you can create workspaces and begin exploring the platform. Each `Workspace` serves as a container for organizing your Honcho data.
<Frame>
<img src="/images/app-screenshots/explore-honcho.png" alt="Workspace Table" width="1200" height="800" loading="lazy" decoding="async" fetchpriority="low" />
</Frame>
Click into any workspace to access a general overview of `Peers` and `Sessions`. Here you can quickly create `Peers`, `Sessions`, and add multiple `Peers` to any `Session`. Edit the metadata and configuration for a `Workspace` with the Edit Config button. Click into any entity to navigate to their respective utilities pages or click the expand icon to view Workspace-wide `Peers` and `Sessions` data tables with more details.
<Frame>
<img src="/images/app-screenshots/workspace-dash.png" alt="Workspace Dashboard Overview" width="1200" height="800" loading="lazy" decoding="async" fetchpriority="low" />
</Frame>
## 6. Peer Dashboard & Utilities
Expand the `Peers` list from the `Workspace` dashboard to see a detailed view of `Peers`.
<Frame>
<img src="/images/app-screenshots/peer-dash.png" alt="Peer Dashboard" width="1200" height="800" loading="lazy" decoding="async" fetchpriority="low" />
</Frame>
Click into any peer to navigate to their respective utilities page. Next to the `Peer` name you can edit the [Global Peer Configuration](/v2.6.0-alpha/documentation/core-concepts/configuration), and in the tabs below, explore all utilities for the `Peer`.
<Frame>
<img src="/images/app-screenshots/peer-utilities.png" alt="Peer Management Dashboard" width="1200" height="800" loading="lazy" decoding="async" fetchpriority="low" />
</Frame>
Utilities include:
- **Message search** across all sessions for a `Peer`
- **Dialectic Chat** to query `Peer` representations globally or session-scoped (results vary dependant on the `Peer`'s configuration)
<Frame>
<img src="/images/app-screenshots/chat-endpoint.png" alt="Chat Endpoint" width="1200" height="800" loading="lazy" decoding="async" fetchpriority="low" />
</Frame>
- **Session logs** view which `Sessions` the `Peer` is active
- **Peer configuration and metadata management** including [Session-Peer Configuration](/v2.6.0-alpha/documentation/core-concepts/configuration#session-peer-configuration)
<Frame>
<img src="/images/app-screenshots/peer-utilities.png" alt="Peer Management Dashboard" width="1200" height="800" loading="lazy" decoding="async" fetchpriority="low" />
</Frame>
## 7. Session Dashboard & Utilities
Click into the sessions view within a workspace to see a table of all of your `Sessions` data.
<Frame>
<img src="/images/app-screenshots/session-dash.png" alt="Sessions Table" width="1200" height="800" loading="lazy" decoding="async" fetchpriority="low" />
</Frame>
Click into a `Session` to open its utilities page.
<Frame>
<img src="/images/app-screenshots/session-utilities.png" alt="Session Utilities" width="1200" height="800" loading="lazy" decoding="async" fetchpriority="low" />
</Frame>
Here you can:
- **View and add Messages** within the `Session`; filter messages by `Peer`
- **Advanced search** across `Session` messages
- **Peer management** for adding/removing `Peers` and editing a `Peer`'s Session-level configuration
- **Get Context** to generate LLM-ready context with customizable token limits
<Frame>
<img src="/images/app-screenshots/get-context.png" alt="Get Context" width="1200" height="800" loading="lazy" decoding="async" fetchpriority="low" />
</Frame>
## 8. Webhooks Integration
The [Webhooks](https://app.honcho.dev/webhooks) page enables Webhook creation and management.
<Frame>
<img src="/images/app-screenshots/webhooks-page.png" alt="Webhooks Dashboard" width="1200" height="800" loading="lazy" decoding="async" fetchpriority="low" />
</Frame>
## 9. Organization Member Access
The [Members](https://app.honcho.dev/members) page provides organization administration to manage your team's access to Honcho with the ability to grant admin permissions.
<Frame>
<img src="/images/app-screenshots/members-dashboard.png" alt="Members Dashboard" width="1200" height="800" loading="lazy" decoding="async" fetchpriority="low" />
</Frame>
## Go Further
View the [Architecture](/v2.6.0-alpha/documentation/core-concepts/architecture) to see how Honcho works under the hood.
Dive into our [API Reference](/v2.6.0-alpha/api-reference) to explore all available endpoints.
## Next Steps
<CardGroup cols={2}>
<Card title="Sign up to Honcho Platform" icon="rocket" href="https://app.honcho.dev">
Get started with managed Honcho instances
</Card>
<Card title="Join our Discord" icon="discord" href="http://discord.gg/plasticlabs">
Connect with 1000+ developers building with Honcho
</Card>
<Card title="Contribute to Honcho" icon="code" href="/v2.6.0-alpha/contributing/guidelines">
View our guidelines and explore the codebase
</Card>
<Card title="Explore Examples" icon="book" href="/v2.6.0-alpha/guides">
See Honcho in action with real examples
</Card>
</CardGroup>
We're excited to see what you'll build with Honcho Platform. Let's create smarter, more personalized AI experiences together!
---
*Ready to build personally aligned AI? [Get started with Honcho →](https://app.honcho.dev)*

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## Related Features
<CardGroup cols={3}>
<Card title="Basic Get Context" icon="database" href="/v2/documentation/core-concepts/features/get-context">
<Card title="Basic Get Context" icon="database" href="/v2.6.0-alpha/documentation/core-concepts/features/get-context">
Learn about basic context retrieval
</Card>
<Card title="Summaries" icon="align-left" href="/v2/documentation/core-concepts/summarizer">
<Card title="Summaries" icon="align-left" href="/v2.6.0-alpha/documentation/core-concepts/summarizer">
Understand session summarization
</Card>
<Card title="Dialectic API" icon="comments" href="/v2/documentation/core-concepts/features/dialectic-endpoint">
<Card title="Dialectic API" icon="comments" href="/v2.6.0-alpha/documentation/core-concepts/features/dialectic-endpoint">
Chat with Honcho for insights
</Card>
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As soon as you save a message in Honcho, it will start to reason about it to
pull out insights and develop a profile of the user. This is the default
behavior and can be toggled off via [the configuration](/v2/documentation/core-concepts/configuration).
behavior and can be toggled off via [the configuration](/v2.6.0-alpha/documentation/core-concepts/configuration).
## Next Steps
<CardGroup cols={3}>
<Card title="Architecture" icon="rocket"
href="/v2/documentation/core-concepts/architecture">
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Learn about the data primitives in Honcho and how they work together
</Card>
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---
title: Local vs Global Representations
description: Model directional relationships between Peers in Honcho
icon: location-pin
---
One of the unique affordances of Honcho is that it allows developers to model
directional relationships between Peers. What I mean by this is you can model
how one `Peer` thinks about another `Peer`.
There are many use cases where you don't want every agent or human to know
everything about another user such as games or multi-agent workflows. To
illustrate this, the following examples shows 2 conversations.
Conversation #1 (With Bob and Alice)
```
Alice: I had a great breakfast today.
Bob: What did you eat?
Alice: I had pancakes and eggs and bacon
```
Conversation #2 (With Alice and Charlie)
```
Alice: I actually didn't eat any breakfast today.
Charlie: Oh that's too bad.
Alice: But I lied to Bob and told him I did, so back me up if you see them.
```
Alice told Bob a lie in this conversation. If we stored both of these
conversations in Honcho with Alice, Bob, and Charlie as `Peers` and let them
use Honcho to get insights on each other then Bob would immediately know this
deception. For example:
<CodeGroup>
```python Python
# Bob could run
alice.chat("What did Alice eat today?")
# Response: Alice did not eat anything today
```
</CodeGroup>
This is a problem. Bob shouldn't be able to know everything about Alice in this
situation. So to support these situations we support what we call **Local
Representations**.
By default insights generated for a `Peer` are scoped globally. This means every
message sent by that `Peer` in any conversation updates the same representation
of that `Peer`. However, we can enable **Local Representations** so Bob can
form a representation Alice based only on what they observe Alice do.
This feature is illustrated in the graphic below:
<img src="/images/local-vs-global-reps.png" alt="Peer Representations" />
We can enable local representation for a `Peer` by setting `observe_others=True`.
This is shown in the [Configure
Reasoning](/v2.6.0-alpha/documentation/core-concepts/configuration) page.
Now if we used Bob's local representation of Alice then Bob would only get
insights on what they've seen Alice say to them.
```python
bob.chat(target="alice", query="What did Alice eat today?")
# Response: Alice ate pancakes, eggs, and bacon
```
<Note>
Local Representations are turned off by default
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---
title: "Discord Bots with Honcho"
icon: 'discord'
description: "Use Honcho to build a Discord bot with conversational memory and context management."
sidebarTitle: 'Discord Bot'
---
> Example code is available on [GitHub](https://github.com/plastic-labs/discord-python-starter)
Any application interface that defines logic based on events and supports
special commands can work easily with Honcho. Here's how to use Honcho with
**Discord** as an interface. If you're not familiar with Discord bot
application logic, the [py-cord](https://pycord.dev/) docs would be a good
place to start.
## Events
Most Discord bots have async functions that listen for specific events, the most common one being messages. We can use Honcho to store messages by user and session based on an interface's event logic. Take the following function definition for example:
```python
@bot.event
async def on_message(message):
"""
Receive a message from Discord and respond with a message from our LLM assistant.
"""
if not validate_message(message):
return
input = sanitize_message(message)
# If the message is empty after sanitizing, ignore it
if not input:
return
peer = honcho_client.peer(id=get_peer_id_from_discord(message))
session = honcho_client.session(id=str(message.channel.id))
async with message.channel.typing():
response = llm(session, input)
await send_discord_message(message, response)
# Save both the user's message and the bot's response to the session
session.add_messages(
[
peer.message(input),
assistant.message(response),
]
)
```
Let's break down what this code is doing...
```python
@bot.event
async def on_message(message):
if not validate_message(message):
return
```
This is how you define an event function in `py-cord` that listens for messages. We use a helper function `validate_message()` to check if the message should be processed.
## Helper Functions
The code uses several helper functions to keep the main logic clean and readable. Let's examine each one:
### Message Validation
```python
def validate_message(message) -> bool:
"""
Determine if the message is valid for the bot to respond to.
Return True if it is, False otherwise. Currently, the bot will
only respond to messages that tag it with an @mention in a
public channel and are not from the bot itself.
"""
if message.author == bot.user:
# ensure the bot does not reply to itself
return False
if isinstance(message.channel, discord.DMChannel):
return False
if not bot.user.mentioned_in(message):
return False
return True
```
This function centralizes all the logic for determining whether the bot should respond to a message. It checks that:
- The message isn't from the bot itself
- The message isn't in a DM channel
- The bot is mentioned in the message
### Message Sanitization
```python
def sanitize_message(message) -> str | None:
"""Remove the bot's mention from the message content if present"""
content = message.content.replace(f"<@{bot.user.id}>", "").strip()
if not content:
return None
return content
```
This helper removes the bot's mention from the message content, leaving just the actual user input.
### Peer ID Generation
```python
def get_peer_id_from_discord(message):
"""Get a Honcho peer ID for the message author"""
return f"discord_{str(message.author.id)}"
```
This creates a unique peer identifier for each Discord user by prefixing their Discord ID.
### LLM Integration
```python
def llm(session, prompt) -> str:
"""
Call the LLM with the given prompt and chat history.
You should expand this function with custom logic, prompts, etc.
"""
messages: list[dict[str, object]] = session.get_context().to_openai(
assistant=assistant
)
messages.append({"role": "user", "content": prompt})
try:
completion = openai.chat.completions.create(
model=MODEL_NAME,
messages=messages,
)
return completion.choices[0].message.content
except Exception as e:
print(e)
return f"Error: {e}"
```
This function handles the LLM interaction. It uses Honcho's built-in `to_openai()` method to automatically convert the session context into the format expected by OpenAI's chat completions API.
### Message Sending
```python
async def send_discord_message(message, response_content: str):
"""Send a message to the Discord channel"""
if len(response_content) > 1500:
# Split response into chunks at newlines, keeping under 1500 chars
chunks = []
current_chunk = ""
for line in response_content.splitlines(keepends=True):
if len(current_chunk) + len(line) > 1500:
chunks.append(current_chunk)
current_chunk = line
else:
current_chunk += line
if current_chunk:
chunks.append(current_chunk)
for chunk in chunks:
await message.channel.send(chunk)
else:
await message.channel.send(response_content)
```
This function handles sending messages to Discord, automatically splitting long responses into multiple messages to stay within Discord's character limits.
## Honcho Integration
The new Honcho peer/session API makes integration much simpler:
```python
peer = honcho_client.peer(id=get_peer_id_from_discord(message))
session = honcho_client.session(id=str(message.channel.id))
```
Here we create a peer object for the user and a session object using the Discord channel ID. This automatically handles user and session management.
```python
# Save both the user's message and the bot's response to the session
session.add_messages(
[
peer.message(input),
assistant.message(response),
]
)
```
After generating the response, we save both the user's input and the bot's response to the session using the `add_messages()` method. The `peer.message()` creates a message from the user, while `assistant.message()` creates a message from the assistant.
## Slash Commands
Discord bots also offer slash command functionality. Here's an example using Honcho's chat endpoint feature:
```python
@bot.slash_command(
name="chat",
description="Query the peer's representation in natural language.",
)
async def chat(ctx, query: str):
await ctx.defer()
try:
peer = honcho_client.peer(id=get_peer_id_from_discord(ctx))
session = honcho_client.session(id=str(ctx.channel.id))
response = peer.chat(
query=query,
session_id=session.id,
)
if response:
await ctx.followup.send(response)
else:
await ctx.followup.send(
f"I don't know anything about {ctx.author.name} because we haven't talked yet!"
)
except Exception as e:
logger.error(f"Error calling Dialectic API: {e}")
await ctx.followup.send(
f"Sorry, there was an error processing your request: {str(e)}"
)
```
This slash command uses Honcho's chat endpoint functionality to answer questions about the user based on their conversation history.
## Setup and Configuration
The bot requires several environment variables and setup:
```python
honcho_client = Honcho()
assistant = honcho_client.peer(id="assistant", config={"observe_me": False})
openai = OpenAI(base_url="https://openrouter.ai/api/v1", api_key=MODEL_API_KEY)
```
- `honcho_client`: The main Honcho client
- `assistant`: A peer representing the bot/assistant
- `openai`: OpenAI client configured to use OpenRouter
## Recap
The new Honcho peer/session API makes Discord bot integration much simpler and more intuitive. Key patterns we learned:
- **Peer/Session Model**: Users are represented as peers, conversations as sessions
- **Automatic Context Management**: `session.get_context().to_openai()` automatically formats chat history
- **Message Storage**: `session.add_messages()` stores both user and assistant messages
- **Representation Queries**: `peer.chat()` enables querying conversation history
- **Helper Functions**: Clean code organization with focused helper functions
This approach provides a clean, maintainable structure for building Discord bots with conversational memory and context management.

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---
title: "CrewAI"
icon: 'users-gear'
description: "Build AI agents with persistent memory using CrewAI and Honcho"
sidebarTitle: 'CrewAI'
---
Integrate Honcho with CrewAI to build AI agents that maintain memory across sessions. This guide shows you how to use Honcho's memory layer with CrewAI's agent orchestration framework.
<Note>
The full code is available on [GitHub](https://github.com/plastic-labs/honcho/tree/main/examples/crewai) with examples in [Python](https://github.com/plastic-labs/honcho/tree/main/examples/crewai/python/examples)
</Note>
## What We're Building
We'll create AI agents that remember and reason over past conversations. Here's how the pieces fit together:
- **CrewAI** orchestrates agent behavior and task execution
- **Honcho** stores messages and retrieves relevant context
The key benefit: CrewAI automatically retrieves relevant conversation history from Honcho without you needing to manually manage context, token limits, or message formatting.
<Note>
This tutorial demonstrates single-agent setup to show how Honcho integrates with CrewAI. For production applications, you can extend this to multi-agent crews with shared or individual memory using Honcho's `peer` system.
</Note>
## Setup
Install required packages:
<CodeGroup>
```bash Python (uv)
uv add honcho-crewai crewai python-dotenv
```
```bash Python (pip)
pip install honcho-crewai crewai python-dotenv
```
</CodeGroup>
Use any LLM provider for your Crew. Create a `.env` file with your API keys:
```bash
OPENAI_API_KEY=your_openai_key
```
<Note>
This tutorial uses the Honcho demo server at https://demo.honcho.dev which runs a small instance of Honcho on the latest version. For production, get your Honcho API key at [app.honcho.dev](https://app.honcho.dev). For local development, use `environment="local"`.
</Note>
## CrewAI Honcho Storage
The `honcho_crewai` package provides `HonchoStorage`, a storage provider that implements CrewAI's `Storage` interface using Honcho's session-based memory.
<Note>
Before proceeding, it's important to understand Honcho's core concepts (`Peers` and `Sessions`). Review the [Honcho Architecture](/v2.6.0-alpha/documentation/core-concepts/architecture) to familiarize yourself with these primitives.
</Note>
`HonchoStorage` implements CrewAI's `Storage` interface using Honcho's `peer` and `session` primitives.
```python
storage = HonchoStorage(
user_id="demo-user", # Required: Honcho `peer` ID for the user
session_id=None, # Optional: Specific `session` ID (auto-generated UUID if None)
honcho_client=None, # Optional: Pre-configured Honcho client instance
)
```
The `HonchoStorage` class implements three key methods:
- **`save()`** - Stores messages in Honcho's `session`, associating them with the appropriate `peer` (user or assistant)
- **`search()`** - Performs semantic vector search using `session.search()` to find messages most relevant to the query. Supports optional `filters` parameter for fine-grained scoping.
- **`reset()`** - Creates a new `session` to start fresh conversations
CrewAI automatically calls these methods when agents need to store or retrieve memory, creating a seamless integration.
### Search with Filters
The `search()` method supports an optional `filters` parameter for fine-grained scoping of search results:
```python
# Search with peer_id filter (only messages from a specific peer)
results = storage.search("query", filters={"peer_id": "user123"})
# Search with metadata filter
results = storage.search("query", filters={"metadata": {"priority": "high"}})
# Search with time range filter
results = storage.search("query", filters={"created_at": {"gte": "2024-01-01"}})
# Complex filter with logical operators
results = storage.search("query", filters={
"AND": [
{"peer_id": "user123"},
{"metadata": {"topic": "python"}}
]
})
```
For the full filter syntax including logical operators (AND, OR, NOT), comparison operators, and metadata filtering, see the [Using Filters](https://docs.honcho.dev/v2.6.0-alpha/documentation/core-concepts/features/using-filters) documentation.
<Note>
For comprehensive details about CrewAI's memory system, see the [official CrewAI Memory documentation](https://docs.crewai.com/en/concepts/memory).
</Note>
Let's create a basic example showing how CrewAI agents use Honcho's memory automatically:
```python Python
from dotenv import load_dotenv
from crewai import Agent, Task, Crew, Process
from crewai.memory.external.external_memory import ExternalMemory
from honcho_crewai import HonchoStorage
load_dotenv()
storage = HonchoStorage(user_id="simple-demo-user")
external_memory = ExternalMemory(storage=storage)
messages = [
("user", "I'm learning Python programming"),
("assistant", "Great! Python is an excellent language to learn."),
("user", "I'm particularly interested in web development"),
]
for role, message in messages:
external_memory.save(message, metadata={"agent": role})
agent = Agent(
role="Programming Mentor",
goal="Help users learn programming by remembering their interests and progress",
backstory=(
"You are a patient programming mentor who remembers what students "
"have told you about their learning journey and interests."
),
verbose=True,
allow_delegation=False
)
task = Task(
description=(
"Based on what you know about the user's interests, "
"suggest a simple web development project they could build to practice Python."
),
expected_output="A specific project suggestion with brief explanation",
agent=agent
)
crew = Crew(
agents=[agent],
tasks=[task],
process=Process.sequential,
external_memory=external_memory,
verbose=True
)
result = crew.kickoff()
print(result.raw)
```
## CrewAI Tool Integration
Honcho provides specialized tools that give CrewAI agents explicit control over memory retrieval:
- **`HonchoGetContextTool`** - Retrieves comprehensive conversation history with token limits. Use for tasks needing broad conversation understanding.
- **`HonchoDialecticTool`** - Queries representations about `peer`s. Use for understanding user preferences and characteristics without full message history.
- **`HonchoSearchTool`** - Performs semantic search for specific information. Supports optional `filters` parameter for fine-grained scoping. Use for targeted queries like "what did the user say about budget?"
<Tip>
Agents can use multiple tools in sequence: search for topics, query dialectic for preferences, then get full context for generation.
</Tip>
Here's an example demonstrating all three tools:
```python Python
from dotenv import load_dotenv
from crewai import Agent, Task, Crew, Process
from honcho import Honcho
from honcho_crewai import (
HonchoGetContextTool,
HonchoDialecticTool,
HonchoSearchTool,
)
load_dotenv()
honcho = Honcho()
user_id = "demo-user-45"
session_id = "tools-demo-session"
user = honcho.peer(user_id)
session = honcho.session(session_id)
messages = [
"I'm planning a trip to Japan in March",
"I love trying authentic local cuisine, especially ramen and sushi",
"My budget is around $3000 for a 10-day trip",
"I'm interested in visiting both Tokyo and Kyoto",
"I prefer staying in traditional ryokans over hotels",
]
for msg in messages:
session.add_messages([user.message(msg)])
context_tool = HonchoGetContextTool(
honcho=honcho, session_id=session_id, peer_id=user_id
)
dialectic_tool = HonchoDialecticTool(
honcho=honcho, session_id=session_id, peer_id=user_id
)
search_tool = HonchoSearchTool(honcho=honcho, session_id=session_id)
# Note: The search tool supports optional filters for fine-grained scoping
# Agents can use filters like {"peer_id": "user123"} or {"metadata": {"priority": "high"}}
travel_agent = Agent(
role="Travel Planning Specialist",
goal="Create personalized travel recommendations using memory tools",
backstory=(
"You are an expert travel planner with access to conversation memory tools. "
"Use the tools to understand the user's preferences before making recommendations."
),
tools=[context_tool, dialectic_tool, search_tool],
verbose=True,
allow_delegation=False
)
task = Task(
description=(
"Create a personalized 3-day Tokyo itinerary. "
"Use the memory tools to understand:\n"
" • Food preferences (use search_tool for 'cuisine' or 'food')\n"
" • Travel style and budget (use dialectic_tool to query user knowledge)\n"
" • Recent context (use context_tool to get conversation history)\n"
"Then create a detailed plan matching their interests."
),
expected_output=(
"A 3-day Tokyo itinerary with:\n"
" • Daily activities matching user interests\n"
" • Restaurant recommendations\n"
" • Accommodation suggestions\n"
" • Budget considerations"
),
agent=travel_agent
)
crew = Crew(
agents=[travel_agent],
tasks=[task],
process=Process.sequential,
verbose=True
)
crew.kickoff()
```
## Tool-Based vs Automatic Memory
**Use `HonchoStorage`** for automatic memory - CrewAI handles everything transparently. Best for simple conversational flows.
**Use Honcho Tools** for strategic control - agents decide when and how to query memory. Best for multi-step reasoning, when different query types are needed, or multi-agent systems.
You can combine both: automatic memory for baseline context, tools for specific queries. See the [hybrid memory example](https://github.com/plastic-labs/honcho/blob/main/examples/crewai/python/examples/hybrid_memory_example.py) for a complete implementation.
<Note>
**Multi-Agent Memory:** Use Honcho tools with different `peer_id` values to give each agent distinct memory and identity.
</Note>
## Next Steps
Now that you have a working CrewAI integration with Honcho, you can:
- **Create specialized agents** with domain-specific memory and context
- **Use CrewAI's advanced features** like hierarchical processes, tool delegation, and conditional task execution
- **Leverage logical reasoning** via the Dialectic API for deep `peer` understanding
- **Implement custom tools** to give agents explicit control over memory retrieval
## Related Resources
<CardGroup cols={2}>
<Card title="Honcho Architecture" icon="sitemap" href="/v2.6.0-alpha/documentation/core-concepts/architecture">
Understand Honcho's peer-based model and core primitives
</Card>
<Card title="Get Context" icon="messages" href="/v2.6.0-alpha/documentation/core-concepts/features/get-context">
Learn about retrieving and formatting conversation context
</Card>
<Card title="Dialectic API" icon="brain" href="/v2.6.0-alpha/documentation/core-concepts/features/dialectic">
Query `peer` representations for deeper understanding
</Card>
<Card title="LangGraph Integration" icon="diagram-project" href="/v2.6.0-alpha/integrations/langgraph">
Build stateful agents with LangGraph and Honcho
</Card>
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---
title: "LangGraph"
icon: 'diagram-project'
description: "Build a stateful conversational AI agent with LangGraph and Honcho"
sidebarTitle: 'LangGraph'
---
Integrate Honcho with LangGraph to build a conversational AI agent that maintains memory across sessions. This guide shows you how to use Honcho's memory layer with LangGraph's orchestration.
<Note>
The full code is available on [GitHub](https://github.com/plastic-labs/honcho/tree/main/examples/langgraph) with examples in both [Python](https://github.com/plastic-labs/honcho/blob/main/examples/langgraph/python/main.py) and [TypeScript](https://github.com/plastic-labs/honcho/blob/main/examples/langgraph/typescript/main.ts)
</Note>
## What We're Building
We'll create a conversational agent that remembers and reasons over past exchanges with the user. Here's how the pieces fit together:
- **LangGraph** orchestrates the conversation flow
- **Honcho** stores messages and retrieves relevant context
- **Your LLM** generates responses using Honcho's formatted context
The key benefit: You don't manually manage conversation history, token limits, or message formatting. Honcho handles memory so you can focus on your agent's logic.
<Note>
This tutorial demonstrates a simple linear conversation flow to show
how Honcho integrates with LangGraph. For production applications,
you'll likely want to add LangGraph features like conditional routing,
tool calling, and multi-agent orchestration.
</Note>
## Setup
Install required packages:
<CodeGroup>
```bash Python (uv)
uv add honcho-ai langgraph langchain-core openai python-dotenv
```
```bash Python (pip)
pip install honcho-ai langgraph langchain-core openai python-dotenv
```
```bash TypeScript (npm)
npm install @honcho-ai/sdk @langchain/langgraph openai dotenv
```
```bash TypeScript (yarn)
yarn add @honcho-ai/sdk @langchain/langgraph openai dotenv
```
```bash TypeScript (pnpm)
pnpm add @honcho-ai/sdk @langchain/langgraph openai dotenv
```
</CodeGroup>
This tutorial uses OpenAI, but Honcho works with any LLM provider. Create a `.env` file with your API keys:
```bash
OPENAI_API_KEY=your_openai_key
```
<Note>
This tutorial uses the Honcho demo server at https://demo.honcho.dev which runs a small instance of Honcho on the latest version. For production, get your Honcho API key at [app.honcho.dev](https://app.honcho.dev). For local development, use `environment="local"`.
</Note>
## Initialize Clients
<CodeGroup>
```python Python
import os
from dotenv import load_dotenv
from typing_extensions import TypedDict
from honcho import Honcho, Peer, Session
from openai import OpenAI
from langgraph.graph import StateGraph, START, END
load_dotenv()
# Initialize Honcho
honcho = Honcho()
# Initialize OpenAI
llm = OpenAI(api_key=os.environ.get("OPENAI_API_KEY"))
```
```typescript TypeScript
import * as dotenv from "dotenv";
import { Honcho, Peer, Session } from "@honcho-ai/sdk";
import OpenAI from "openai";
import { Annotation } from "@langchain/langgraph";
import { StateGraph, START, END } from "@langchain/langgraph";
import * as readline from "readline/promises";
dotenv.config();
// Initialize Honcho
const honcho = new Honcho({});
// Initialize OpenAI
const llm = new OpenAI({
apiKey: process.env.OPENAI_API_KEY
});
```
</CodeGroup>
## Define LangGraph State
Define your state schema to pass data through the graph. The state stores Honcho objects directly along with the current user message and assistant response.
<Note>
Before proceeding, it's important to understand Honcho's core concepts (`Peers` and `Sessions`). Review the [Honcho Architecture](/v2.6.0-alpha/documentation/core-concepts/architecture) to familiarize yourself with these primitives.
</Note>
<CodeGroup>
```python Python
class State(TypedDict):
user_message: str
assistant_response: str
user: Peer
assistant: Peer
session: Session
```
```typescript TypeScript
const StateAnnotation = Annotation.Root({
userMessage: Annotation<string>(),
assistantResponse: Annotation<string>(),
user: Annotation<Peer>(),
assistant: Annotation<Peer>(),
session: Annotation<Session>(),
});
type State = typeof StateAnnotation.State;
```
</CodeGroup>
## Build the LangGraph
Define your chatbot logic, using Honcho to retrieve conversation context. This function demonstrates how Honcho can store messages, retrieve context, and generate responses.
<CodeGroup>
```python Python
def chatbot(state: State):
user_message = state["user_message"]
# Get objects from state
user = state["user"]
assistant = state["assistant"]
session = state["session"]
# Step 1: Store the user's message in the session
# This adds it to Honcho's memory for future context retrieval
session.add_messages([user.message(user_message)])
# Step 2: Get context in OpenAI format with token limit
# get_context() retrieves relevant conversation history
# tokens=2000 limits the context to 2000 tokens to manage costs and fit within model limits
# to_openai() converts it to the format expected by OpenAI's API
messages = session.get_context(tokens=2000).to_openai(assistant=assistant)
# Step 3: Generate response using the context
response = llm.chat.completions.create(
model="gpt-5.1",
messages=messages
)
assistant_response = response.choices[0].message.content
# Step 4: Store assistant response in Honcho for future context
session.add_messages([assistant.message(assistant_response)])
return {"assistant_response": assistant_response}
```
```typescript TypeScript
async function chatbot(state: State) {
const userMessage = state.userMessage;
// Get objects from state
const user = state.user;
const assistant = state.assistant;
const session = state.session;
// Step 1: Store the user's message in the session
// This adds it to Honcho's memory for future context retrieval
await session.addMessages([user.message(userMessage)]);
// Step 2: Get context in OpenAI format with token limit
// getContext() retrieves relevant conversation history
// tokens: 2000 limits the context to 2000 tokens to manage costs and fit within model limits
// toOpenAI() converts it to the format expected by OpenAI's API
const messages = (await session.getContext({ tokens: 2000 })).toOpenAI(assistant);
// Step 3: Generate response using the context
const response = await llm.chat.completions.create({
model: "gpt-5.1",
messages: messages
});
const assistantResponse = response.choices[0].message.content!;
// Step 4: Store assistant response for future context
await session.addMessages([assistant.message(assistantResponse)]);
return { assistantResponse: assistantResponse };
}
```
</CodeGroup>
Now let's build the LangGraph:
<CodeGroup>
```python Python
graph = StateGraph(State) \
.add_node("chatbot", chatbot) \
.add_edge(START, "chatbot") \
.add_edge("chatbot", END) \
.compile()
```
```typescript TypeScript
const graph = new StateGraph(StateAnnotation)
.addNode("chatbot", chatbot)
.addEdge(START, "chatbot")
.addEdge("chatbot", END)
.compile();
```
</CodeGroup>
### Understanding get_context()
The [`get_context()`](/v2.6.0-alpha/documentation/core-concepts/features/get-context) method retrieves comprehensive conversation context and formats it for your LLM. It automatically:
- **Manages conversation history** - Tracks all messages and determines what's relevant
- **Respects token limits** - Stays within context window constraints without manual counting
- **Handles long conversations** - Combines recent detailed messages with summaries of older exchanges
- **Provides `peer` understanding** - Includes representations and `peer` cards when requested
The `SessionContext` object always includes fields for messages, summaries, `peer` representations, and `peer` cards. By default, only `messages` and `summary` are populated. To populate peer-specific context, pass a `peer_target` parameter:
**Using `peer_target` for Context:**
- **Without `peer_perspective`**: Returns Honcho's omniscient view of `peer_target` (all observations and context)
- **With `peer_perspective`**: Returns what `peer_perspective` knows about `peer_target` (perspective-based observations and context)
That's it. Call `session.get_context().to_openai(assistant)` and you get properly formatted context tailored for your assistant.
<Tip>
**Adding System Prompts:** Since `get_context()` returns conversation messages, you can easily prepend custom system instructions. Just add your system prompt to the beginning of the messages array before sending it to your LLM: `[{"role": "system", "content": "..."}, ...context_messages]`.
</Tip>
<Note>
For more details on all available parameters, see [`get_context() documentation`](/v2.6.0-alpha/documentation/core-concepts/features/get-context)
</Note>
## Chat Loop
Now we'll create the main conversation function. To simplify logic, we initialize Honcho objects once per conversation and pass them through the LangGraph state.
The `run_conversation_turn` function initializes a Honcho `Session` and `Peer` objects, passes them to the LangGraph, and returns the assistant's response. By calling it repeatedly with the same `user_id` and in the same session, the chat builds context over time.
<Note>
**Production Usage:** Honcho accepts any nanoid-compatible string for `user_id` and `session_id`. You can use IDs directly from your authentication system (Auth0, Firebase, Clerk, etc.) and session management without modification.
This tutorial uses hardcoded values for simplicity.
</Note>
<CodeGroup>
```python Python
def run_conversation_turn(user_id: str, user_input: str, session_id: str | None = None):
if not session_id:
session_id = f"session_{user_id}"
# Initialize Honcho objects
user = honcho.peer(user_id)
assistant = honcho.peer("assistant")
session = honcho.session(session_id)
result = graph.invoke({
"user_message": user_input,
"user": user,
"assistant": assistant,
"session": session
})
return result["assistant_response"]
if __name__ == "__main__":
print("Welcome to the AI Assistant! How can I help you today?")
user_id = "test-user-123"
while True:
user_input = input("You: ")
if user_input.lower() in ['quit', 'exit']:
break
response = run_conversation_turn(user_id, user_input)
print(f"Assistant: {response}\n")
```
```typescript TypeScript
async function runConversationTurn(
userId: string,
userInput: string,
sessionId?: string
): Promise<string> {
if (!sessionId) {
sessionId = `session_${userId}`;
}
// Initialize Honcho objects
const user = await honcho.peer(userId);
const assistant = await honcho.peer("assistant");
const session = await honcho.session(sessionId);
const result = await graph.invoke({
userMessage: userInput,
user: user,
assistant: assistant,
session: session,
});
return result.assistantResponse;
}
// Interactive chat loop
async function main() {
console.log("Welcome to the AI Assistant! How can I help you today?");
const userId = "test-user-123";
const rl = readline.createInterface({
input: process.stdin,
output: process.stdout,
});
while (true) {
const userInput = await rl.question("You: ");
if (userInput.toLowerCase() === "quit" || userInput.toLowerCase() === "exit") {
rl.close();
break;
}
const response = await runConversationTurn(userId, userInput);
console.log(`Assistant: ${response}\n`);
}
}
main();
```
</CodeGroup>
## Next Steps
Now that you have a working LangGraph integration with Honcho, you can:
- **Create custom [LangChain tools](https://docs.langchain.com/oss/python/langchain/tools#customize-tool-properties) for your agent** - to fully utilize Honcho's memory & context management features
- **Build a multi-agent LangGraph** where each agent is a Honcho `Peer` with its own memory
## Related Resources
<CardGroup cols={2}>
<Card title="Get Context" icon="messages" href="/v2.6.0-alpha/documentation/core-concepts/features/get-context">
Learn more about retrieving and formatting conversation context
</Card>
<Card title="MCP Integration" icon="star-of-life" href="/v2.6.0-alpha/integrations/mcp">
Use Honcho in Claude Desktop with MCP
</Card>
</CardGroup>

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---
title: "Guides, Cookbooks, and Integrations"
sidebarTitle: 'Overview'
description: 'Helpful guides and design patterns for building with Honcho'
icon: 'hat-wizard'
---
<Note> Before you start a guide, follow [Quickstart](/v2.6.0-alpha/documentation/introduction/quickstart) to get up and running with Honcho in your language of choice. </Note>
These guides provide concrete examples and implementation patterns for building with Honcho. Whether you're integrating Honcho into existing platforms, exploring advanced features, or getting up and running quickly, you'll find working code you can adapt to your needs.
Each guide focuses on a specific use case with practical examples. The goal is to get you from idea to working prototype as quickly as possible, then provide the depth you need to scale and customize.
## Getting Started
Quick integration guides to get up and running:
<CardGroup cols={2}>
<Card title="MCP Integration" icon="link" href="/v2.6.0-alpha/integrations/mcp">
Get Honcho running with a single prompt in Claude Code
</Card>
<Card title="LangGraph" icon="diagram-project" href="/v2.6.0-alpha/integrations/langgraph">
Add persistent memory and theory of mind to your LangGraph agents
</Card>
</CardGroup>
## Application Interfaces
Ready-to-use integration patterns for popular platforms:
<CardGroup cols={2}>
<Card title="Discord Bot" icon="discord" href="/v2.6.0-alpha/guides/discord">
Build a Discord bot that remembers users across conversations
</Card>
<Card title="Telegram Bot" icon="telegram" href="/v2.6.0-alpha/guides/telegram">
Create a Telegram bot with persistent user understanding
</Card>
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---
title: Storing Data
description: "Store Data in Honcho to Generate Memories and Insights"
icon: "memory"
---
The most basic building block of Honcho's data model is the `Message` object.
A `Message` is sent by a `Peer` and saved in a `Session`
<CodeGroup>
```python Python
from honcho import Honcho
honcho = Honcho()
peer = honcho.peer("sample-peer")
session = honcho.session("sample-session")
message = peer.message("Hello, world!")
session.add_messages([message])
```
```typescript TypeScript
import { Honcho } from '@honcho-ai/sdk';
const honcho = new Honcho({});
const peer = await honcho.peer('sample-peer');
const session = await honcho.session('sample-session');
const message = peer.message('Hello, world!');
await session.addMessages([message]);
```
</CodeGroup>
Once a `Message` is saved in Honcho, it will kick off a background task that
looks at the new data to generate insights about the `Peer` that sent the `Message`
This is the default behavior of Honcho and can be turned off by [configuring the
Peer or Session](/v2.6.0-alpha/documentation/core-concepts/configuration)
This pattern of having a Peer, Session, and Messages is highly flexible and
works for many different use cases and agent setups. Some use cases may only
need a single Peer, but many Sessions. Others will only use a single `Session`
for their entire app. These are flexible components that work in any situation.
## Chat Bots
A common use case for Honcho to is to build a chatbot like ChatGPT or Claude.
In this case you can simply
- Make a `Peer` for the User
- Make a `Peer` for the AI
Then you can make a `Session` for each thread of conversation and save
`Messages` from the user and assistant in each turn of conversation

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---
title: "Telegram Bots with Honcho"
icon: 'telegram'
description: "Use Honcho to build a Telegram bot with conversational memory and context management."
sidebarTitle: 'Telegram Bot'
---
> Example code is available on [GitHub](https://github.com/plastic-labs/telegram-python-starter)
Any application interface that defines logic based on events and supports
special commands can work easily with Honcho. Here's how to use Honcho with
**Telegram** as an interface. If you're not familiar with Telegram bot
development, the [python-telegram-bot](https://docs.python-telegram-bot.org/en/stable/) docs would be a good
place to start.
## Message Handling
Most Telegram bots have async functions that handle incoming messages. We can use Honcho to store messages by user and session based on the chat context. Take the following function definition for example:
```python
async def handle_message(update: Update, context: ContextTypes.DEFAULT_TYPE):
"""
Receive a message from Telegram and respond with a message from our LLM assistant.
"""
if not validate_message(update, context):
return
message_text = update.effective_message.text
input_text = sanitize_message(message_text, context.bot.username)
# If the message is empty after sanitizing, ignore it
if not input_text:
return
peer = honcho_client.peer(id=get_peer_id_from_telegram(update))
session = honcho_client.session(id=str(update.effective_chat.id))
# Send typing indicator
await context.bot.send_chat_action(
chat_id=update.effective_chat.id, action="typing"
)
response = llm(session, input_text)
await send_telegram_message(update, context, response)
# Save both the user's message and the bot's response to the session
session.add_messages(
[
peer.message(input_text),
assistant.message(response),
]
)
```
Let's break down what this code is doing...
```python
async def handle_message(update: Update, context: ContextTypes.DEFAULT_TYPE):
if not validate_message(update, context):
return
```
This is how you define a message handler in `python-telegram-bot` that processes incoming messages. We use a helper function `validate_message()` to check if the message should be processed.
## Helper Functions
The code uses several helper functions to keep the main logic clean and readable. Let's examine each one:
### Message Validation
```python
def validate_message(update: Update, context: ContextTypes.DEFAULT_TYPE) -> bool:
"""
Determine if the message is valid for the bot to respond to.
Return True if it is, False otherwise. The bot will respond to:
- Direct messages (private chats)
- Group messages that mention the bot or reply to it
- Messages that are not from the bot itself
"""
message = update.effective_message
if not message or not message.text:
return False
# Don't respond to our own messages
if message.from_user.id == context.bot.id:
return False
# Always respond in private chats
if update.effective_chat.type == "private":
return True
# In groups, only respond if mentioned or replied to
if (
message.reply_to_message
and message.reply_to_message.from_user.id == context.bot.id
):
return True
# Check if bot is mentioned
if message.entities:
for entity in message.entities:
if entity.type == "mention":
username = message.text[entity.offset : entity.offset + entity.length]
if username == f"@{context.bot.username}":
return True
return False
```
This function centralizes all the logic for determining whether the bot should respond to a message. It handles different chat types:
- **Private chats**: Always respond
- **Group chats**: Only respond when mentioned or when replying to the bot's messages
- **Bot prevention**: Never respond to the bot's own messages
### Message Sanitization
```python
def sanitize_message(message_text: str, bot_username: str) -> str | None:
"""Remove the bot's mention from the message content if present"""
content = message_text.replace(f"@{bot_username}", "").strip()
if not content:
return None
return content
```
This helper removes the bot's mention from the message content, leaving just the actual user input.
### Peer ID Generation
```python
def get_peer_id_from_telegram(update: Update) -> str:
"""Get a Honcho peer ID for the message author"""
return f"telegram_{update.effective_user.id}"
```
This creates a unique peer identifier for each Telegram user by prefixing their Telegram user ID.
### LLM Integration
```python
def llm(session, prompt) -> str:
"""
Call the LLM with the given prompt and chat history.
You should expand this function with custom logic, prompts, etc.
"""
messages: list[dict[str, object]] = session.get_context().to_openai(
assistant=assistant
)
messages.append({"role": "user", "content": prompt})
try:
completion = openai.chat.completions.create(
model=MODEL_NAME,
messages=messages,
)
return completion.choices[0].message.content
except Exception as e:
logger.error(f"LLM error: {e}")
return f"Error: {e}"
```
This function handles the LLM interaction. It uses Honcho's built-in `to_openai()` method to automatically convert the session context into the format expected by OpenAI's chat completions API.
### Message Sending
```python
async def send_telegram_message(
update: Update, context: ContextTypes.DEFAULT_TYPE, response_content: str
):
"""Send a message to the Telegram chat, splitting if necessary"""
# Telegram has a 4096 character limit, but we'll use 4000 to be safe
max_length = 4000
if len(response_content) <= max_length:
await update.effective_message.reply_text(response_content)
else:
# Split response into chunks at newlines, keeping under max_length chars
chunks = []
current_chunk = ""
for line in response_content.splitlines(keepends=True):
if len(current_chunk) + len(line) > max_length:
if current_chunk:
chunks.append(current_chunk)
current_chunk = line
else:
current_chunk += line
if current_chunk:
chunks.append(current_chunk)
for chunk in chunks:
await update.effective_message.reply_text(chunk)
```
This function handles sending messages to Telegram, automatically splitting long responses into multiple messages to stay within Telegram's 4096 character limit. It also includes a typing indicator to show the bot is processing.
## Honcho Integration
The new Honcho peer/session API makes integration much simpler:
```python
peer = honcho_client.peer(id=get_peer_id_from_telegram(update))
session = honcho_client.session(id=str(update.effective_chat.id))
```
Here we create a peer object for the user and a session object using the Telegram chat ID. This automatically handles user and session management across both private chats and group conversations.
```python
# Save both the user's message and the bot's response to the session
session.add_messages(
[
peer.message(input_text),
assistant.message(response),
]
)
```
After generating the response, we save both the user's input and the bot's response to the session using the `add_messages()` method. The `peer.message()` creates a message from the user, while `assistant.message()` creates a message from the assistant.
## Commands
Telegram bots support slash commands natively. Here's how to implement the `/dialectic` command using Honcho's dialectic feature:
```python
async def dialectic_command(update: Update, context: ContextTypes.DEFAULT_TYPE):
"""
Handle the /dialectic command to query the Honcho Dialectic endpoint.
"""
if not context.args:
await update.message.reply_text(
"Please provide a query. Usage: /dialectic <your query>"
)
return
query = " ".join(context.args)
try:
peer = honcho_client.peer(id=get_peer_id_from_telegram(update))
session = honcho_client.session(id=str(update.effective_chat.id))
response = peer.chat(
query=query,
session_id=session.id,
)
if response:
await send_telegram_message(update, context, response)
else:
await update.message.reply_text(
f"I don't know anything about {update.effective_user.first_name} because we haven't talked yet!"
)
except Exception as e:
logger.error(f"Error calling Dialectic API: {e}")
await update.message.reply_text(
f"Sorry, there was an error processing your request: {str(e)}"
)
```
You can also add a `/start` command for user onboarding:
```python
async def start_command(update: Update, context: ContextTypes.DEFAULT_TYPE):
"""Handle the /start command"""
await update.message.reply_text(
"Hello! I'm your AI assistant. You can:\n"
"• Chat with me directly in private messages\n"
"• Mention me (@username) in groups to get my attention\n"
"• Use /dialectic <query> to search our conversation history\n\n"
"Let's start chatting!"
)
```
## Setup and Configuration
The bot requires several environment variables and setup:
```python
honcho_client = Honcho()
assistant = honcho_client.peer(id="assistant", config={"observe_me": False})
openai = OpenAI(base_url="https://openrouter.ai/api/v1", api_key=MODEL_API_KEY)
```
- `honcho_client`: The main Honcho client
- `assistant`: A peer representing the bot/assistant
- `openai`: OpenAI client configured to use OpenRouter
### Application Setup
Register your handlers with the Telegram application:
```python
def main():
"""Start the bot"""
if not BOT_TOKEN:
logger.error("BOT_TOKEN not found in environment variables")
return
# Create the Application
application = Application.builder().token(BOT_TOKEN).build()
# Add handlers
application.add_handler(CommandHandler("start", start_command))
application.add_handler(CommandHandler("dialectic", dialectic_command))
application.add_handler(
MessageHandler(filters.TEXT & ~filters.COMMAND, handle_message)
)
# Start the bot
logger.info("Starting Telegram bot...")
application.run_polling(allowed_updates=Update.ALL_TYPES)
```
## Environment Variables
Your bot needs these environment variables:
```env
# Your Telegram bot token from BotFather
BOT_TOKEN=<your-token>
# AI model to use (see OpenRouter for available models)
MODEL_NAME=<your-model>
# Your OpenRouter API key
MODEL_API_KEY=<your-openrouter-api-key>
```
## Chat Types and Behavior
The bot handles different Telegram chat types intelligently:
### Private Chats
- **Behavior**: Responds to all messages
- **Session ID**: Uses the private chat ID
- **Memory**: Maintains conversation history per user
### Group Chats
- **Behavior**: Only responds when mentioned or replied to
- **Session ID**: Uses the group chat ID (shared across all members)
- **Memory**: Maintains group conversation context
## Recap
The new Honcho peer/session API makes Telegram bot integration much simpler and more intuitive. Key patterns we learned:
- **Peer/Session Model**: Users are represented as peers, conversations as sessions
- **Chat Type Handling**: Different validation logic for private vs group chats
- **Automatic Context Management**: `session.get_context().to_openai()` automatically formats chat history
- **Message Storage**: `session.add_messages()` stores both user and assistant messages
- **Dialectic Queries**: `peer.chat()` enables querying conversation history
- **Command System**: Native Telegram command support with `/start` and `/dialectic`
- **Message Splitting**: Automatic handling of Telegram's character limits
- **Helper Functions**: Clean code organization with focused helper functions
This approach provides a clean, maintainable structure for building Telegram bots with conversational memory and context management across both private conversations and group chats.

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---
title: 'Migrating from Mem0'
description: 'A guide to migrate from Mem0 to Honcho'
icon: 'arrow-right-arrow-left'
---
Interested in transferring your data from Mem0 to Honcho? This guide covers why to switch, how to migrate your data, and differences between the two products.
## Why Honcho?
Mem0 & Honcho both store your data. Only Honcho reasons about it. [Read more about our approach](https://blog.plasticlabs.ai/blog/Memory-as-Reasoning).
**Compounding Insights** - Honcho extracts insights that build on each other over time. The more your users interact, the richer and more accurate their profiles become.
**Superior Performance** - Higher accuracy on memory retrieval benchmarks with faster inference times (more details soon!).
**Competitive Pricing** - Mem0 charges for retrieval, not ingestion. Meaning you pay to access your own data. Honcho offers straightforward pricing with a generous free tier.
**Advanced Multi-Peer Sessions** - Honcho offers configurable observation settings (who builds memories about whom), representation-based queries between participants, and first-class peer objects.
<Note>
We would love to support the transfer and cost—just [book a call!](https://cal.com/team/plasticlabs/migration-to-honcho)
</Note>
## Quick Migration
For the best results, we recommend importing your raw messages directly into Honcho. This gives Honcho the full context to build rich, accurate representations and enables features like session summaries.
However, if you'd like to get started quickly, you can migrate your existing Mem0 memories directly as **observations**.
<Info>
Get your API key at [app.honcho.dev/api-keys](https://app.honcho.dev/api-keys). New accounts start with $100 credits.
</Info>
<CodeGroup>
```python Python
# pip install mem0ai honcho-ai
from mem0 import MemoryClient
from honcho import Honcho
# Export from Mem0
mem0 = MemoryClient(api_key="your-mem0-api-key")
memories = mem0.get_all(filters={"user_id": "user123"}, page_size=100)
# Initialize Honcho
honcho = Honcho(api_key="your-honcho-api-key")
user = honcho.peer("user123")
session = honcho.session("imported")
session.add_peers([user])
# Import memories directly as observations
observations = []
for memory in memories['results']:
content = memory.get("memory") or memory.get("messages", [{}])[0].get("content", "")
if content:
observations.append({"content": content, "session_id": "imported"})
# Batch create observations (up to 100 at a time)
if observations:
user.observations.create(observations)
print(f"Migrated {len(observations)} memories as observations!")
```
```typescript TypeScript
// npm install mem0ai @honcho-ai/sdk
import MemoryClient from "mem0ai";
import { Honcho } from "@honcho-ai/sdk";
// Export from Mem0
const mem0 = new MemoryClient({ apiKey: "your-mem0-api-key" });
const memories = await mem0.getAll({ filters: { user_id: "user123" }, page_size: 100 });
// Initialize Honcho
const honcho = new Honcho({ apiKey: "your-honcho-api-key" });
const user = await honcho.peer("user123");
const session = await honcho.session("imported");
await session.addPeers([user]);
// Import memories directly as observations
const observations = memories.results
.map(memory => ({
content: memory.memory || memory.messages?.[0]?.content || "",
session_id: "imported"
}))
.filter(obs => obs.content);
// Batch create observations (up to 100 at a time)
if (observations.length > 0) {
await user.observations.create(observations);
}
console.log(`Migrated ${observations.length} memories as observations!`);
```
</CodeGroup>
That's it! The user's Mem0 memories are now searchable in Honcho as observations. For richer representations with deductive reasoning and session summaries, consider importing your raw messages as described in the [Step-by-Step Migration](#step-by-step-migration) section.
For more details on replacing Mem0 API calls with Honcho equivalents go to [API Comparison](#api-comparison).
## Step-by-Step Migration
Prefer a more detailed walkthrough? Follow these steps:
### 1. Export User Messages
Importing raw user messages gives Honcho the full conversational context to build the most accurate representations. We recommend using a data structure that preserves the session and peer structure.
<Note>
If you need any help with this transfer or have any questions, please reach out at hello@plasticlabs.ai or [book a call!](https://cal.com/team/plasticlabs/migration-to-honcho)
</Note>
Alternatively, if you want to import the Mem0 memories, follow the example above and find more info in Mem0's [export API documentation](https://docs.mem0.ai/cookbooks/essentials/exporting-memories).
### 2. Install the Honcho SDK
<CodeGroup>
```bash Python (uv)
uv add honcho-ai
```
```bash Python (pip)
pip install honcho-ai
```
```bash TypeScript (npm)
npm install @honcho-ai/sdk
```
```bash TypeScript (yarn)
yarn add @honcho-ai/sdk
```
```bash TypeScript (pnpm)
pnpm add @honcho-ai/sdk
```
</CodeGroup>
### 3. Initialize the Honcho Client
<Info>
Get your API key at [app.honcho.dev/api-keys](https://app.honcho.dev/api-keys). New accounts start with $100 credits.
</Info>
<CodeGroup>
```python Python
from honcho import Honcho
honcho = Honcho( api_key="your-api-key" )
```
```typescript TypeScript
import { Honcho } from '@honcho-ai/sdk';
const honcho = new Honcho({apiKey: process.env.HONCHO_API_KEY!});
```
</CodeGroup>
### 4. Import Your Data
This is a possible implementation using raw user messages. Adapt the data structure to match your exported format.
<CodeGroup>
```python Python
# Example data structure (preserving message history with timestamps):
exported_data = {
"session-1": {
"user123": [
{"content": "I prefer dark mode", "timestamp": "2024-01-15T10:30:00Z"},
{"content": "My name is Alex", "timestamp": "2024-01-15T10:31:00Z"},
],
"user456": [
{"content": "I work in finance", "timestamp": "2024-01-15T11:00:00Z"},
{"content": "I like concise responses", "timestamp": "2024-01-15T11:02:00Z"},
],
},
"session-2": {
"user123": [
{"content": "Meeting notes from last week...", "timestamp": "2024-01-16T09:00:00Z"},
],
}
}
# Import into Honcho
for session_name, users in exported_data.items():
session = honcho.session(session_name)
for user_id, messages in users.items():
peer = honcho.peer(user_id)
session.add_peers([peer])
# Sort by timestamp to preserve message order
sorted_messages = sorted(messages, key=lambda m: m["timestamp"])
session.add_messages([peer.message(m["content"]) for m in sorted_messages])
```
```typescript TypeScript
// Example data structure (preserving message history with timestamps):
interface Message {
content: string;
timestamp: string;
}
const exportedData: Record<string, Record<string, Message[]>> = {
"session-1": {
"user123": [
{ content: "I prefer dark mode", timestamp: "2024-01-15T10:30:00Z" },
{ content: "My name is Alex", timestamp: "2024-01-15T10:31:00Z" },
],
"user456": [
{ content: "I work in finance", timestamp: "2024-01-15T11:00:00Z" },
{ content: "I like concise responses", timestamp: "2024-01-15T11:02:00Z" },
],
},
"session-2": {
"user123": [
{ content: "Meeting notes from last week...", timestamp: "2024-01-16T09:00:00Z" },
],
}
};
// Import into Honcho
for (const [sessionName, users] of Object.entries(exportedData)) {
const session = await honcho.session(sessionName);
for (const [userId, messages] of Object.entries(users)) {
const peer = await honcho.peer(userId);
await session.addPeers([peer]);
// Sort by timestamp to preserve message order
const sortedMessages = messages.sort((a, b) =>
new Date(a.timestamp).getTime() - new Date(b.timestamp).getTime()
);
await session.addMessages(sortedMessages.map((m) => peer.message(m.content)));
}
}
```
</CodeGroup>
### 5. Update Your Application Code
Reference the [API Comparison](#api-comparison) to replace your Mem0 API calls with the Honcho equivalents.
## API Comparison
### Core Operations
| Operation | Mem0 | Honcho | Notes |
|-----------|------|--------|-------|
| **Initialize** | `MemoryClient(api_key=...)` | `Honcho(api_key=...)` | |
| **Identity** | `user_id` string param | `peer = honcho.peer("id")` | Peers can be users or AI agents |
| **Add messages** | `client.add(messages, user_id=...)` | `session.add_messages([peer.message(...)])` | Session-scoped, triggers reasoning |
| **Add observations** | | `peer.observations.create([...])` | Direct observation or "memory" import, no processing |
| **Search** | `client.search(query, filters={"user_id": ...})` | `peer.search(query)` or `peer.observations.query(...)` | Scoped to peer or session |
| **List all** | `client.get_all(filters={"user_id": ...})` | `session.get_messages()` or `peer.observations.list()` | Messages or observations |
| **Update** | `client.update(memory_id, data=...)` | `honcho.update_message(message, metadata=...)` | Metadata updates only |
| **Delete** | `client.delete(memory_id)` | `peer.observations.delete(id)` or `session.delete()` | Observation or session-level |
### Honcho-Only Capabilities
Mem0 requires manual assembly of context from `search()` results. Honcho's `session.get_context()` returns a ready-to-use `SessionContext` object with built-in token limits, auto-included summaries, and format helpers (`.to_openai()`, `.to_anthropic()`).
<Card title="Get Context" icon="window-restore" href="../../documentation/core-concepts/features/get-context">
Learn more about token-optimized context retrieval
</Card>
Mem0's `search()` returns basic vector, semantic, or raw memory matches. Honcho's `peer.chat()` enables your agent to *reason* about what it knows—returning synthesized natural language insights with streaming support and scoped queries.
<Card title="Dialectic Endpoint" icon="brain" href="../../documentation/core-concepts/features/dialectic-endpoint">
Learn more about inference-powered queries
</Card>
Additional features with **no Mem0 equivalent**:
| Honcho Method | Description | Use Case |
|---------------|-------------|----------|
| `peer.card()` | Stable biographical facts (name, preferences, background) | User profiles, personalization |
| `session.working_rep(peer)` | Cached psychological analysis (mental state, intentions) | Real-time adaptation |
| `session.get_summaries()` | Auto-generated short/long session summaries | Conversation continuity |
| `SessionPeerConfig` | Configure observation settings (who learns about whom) | Privacy controls, role-based learning |
## Next Steps
<CardGroup cols={3}>
<Card title="Architecture" icon="rocket" href="../../documentation/core-concepts/architecture">
Understand peers and sessions
</Card>
<Card title="Dialectic API" icon="brain" href="../../documentation/core-concepts/features/dialectic-endpoint">
Inference responses
</Card>
<Card title="Guides" icon="book" href="../../guides/overview">
Integration examples
</Card>
</CardGroup>
Questions? Join our [Discord](https://discord.gg/honcho) or open an issue on [GitHub](https://github.com/plastic-labs/honcho/issues).

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