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title: "Guides, Cookbooks, and Integrations"
sidebarTitle: 'Overview'
description: 'Helpful guides and design patterns for building with Honcho'
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Honcho plugs into whatever you're already building. Add memory to an AI assistant, connect an external data source, wire Honcho into your agent framework, or migrate from another provider.
## Recipes
Compose the core primitives across multiple integrations:
One shared workspace across a chat companion, coding agent, autonomous agent, and ingestion job
## AI Assistants
Add persistent memory to AI assistants and agents:
Long-term memory that survives context wipes, session restarts, and project switches
Persistent memory for OpenCode sessions, with per-directory, per-repo, or branch-scoped session mapping
Add Honcho memory to Claude Desktop, Cursor, Windsurf, Cline, and any MCP client
Cross-session memory for Nous Research's Hermes agent
Memory across every channel — WhatsApp, Telegram, Discord, Slack, and more
Persistent memory plugin for the Agent Zero framework
## Platform Connectors
Connect external platforms to Honcho:
Build a Discord bot that remembers users across conversations
Create a Telegram bot with persistent user understanding
Import email threads into Honcho — peers, sessions, and messages from your inbox
Ingest meeting transcripts with speaker turns and participant data
Add Honcho memory to Paperclip companies, agents, issues, and documents
Build an embodied voice robot with long-term memory
## Agent Frameworks
Use Honcho as a memory layer in your agent orchestration stack:
Add persistent memory and theory of mind to your LangGraph agents
Give CrewAI agents memory that persists across sessions
Persistent memory skill for Zo Computer AI workflows
Build intelligent automation workflows with persistent memory
## Migrations
Coming from another memory provider?
Transfer your data and update your integration code