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title: "Hermes Agent"
icon: 'bolt'
description: "Add AI-native memory to Hermes Agent"
sidebarTitle: 'Hermes Agent'
---

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

## Getting Started

Honcho support is built into Hermes Agent. See the [Hermes Agent README](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent) for full installation and configuration instructions.

The integration is opt-in and requires:
1. A Honcho API key from [app.honcho.dev](https://app.honcho.dev)
2. The `honcho-ai` package (`pip install hermes-agent[honcho]`)
3. Enabling Honcho in your Hermes config

## How It Works

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

## Next Steps

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  <Card title="Hermes Agent" icon="github" href="https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent">
    Source code, installation, and full documentation.
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  <Card title="Honcho Architecture" icon="sitemap" href="../../documentation/core-concepts/architecture">
    Learn about peers, sessions, and dialectic reasoning.
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