groupsDay 6
Memory, Sessions & Backup
Make Hermes remember who you are and what you're working on.
~ 75 min hands-on
Goal
Understand the 2-layer memory system; back up and restore your config.
Two memory layers
Always-on: MEMORY.md (project/env facts) and USER.md (your preferences). Both are plain markdown in ~/.hermes/.
Manual compaction
When context gets long, /compact distills the conversation and updates the memory files.
Sessions
List with hermes sessions. Name them with hermes sessions name <id> "bug-hunt".
Backup
tar -czf ~/hermes-backup.tar.gz -C ~ .hermes/. Restore = reverse tar + restart.
External memory
Optional: plug in Honcho or mem0 for cross-session retrieval with real vector search.