The Self-Improving Agent Loop

How Hermes Agent turns conversations into lasting knowledge through memory, skills, and cross-session recall

Conversation Layer Intelligence Layer Persistence Layer User Input CLI / Telegram / Discord / ... Prompt Builder Identity + Skills + Memory + Context Files + Honcho Tool Execution 40+ tools, 6 terminal backends Honcho User Model Dialectic preference modeling Skills Store ~/.hermes/skills/ Auto-created, self-improving Persistent Memory MEMORY.md + USER.md Session Database FTS5 search + LLM summaries Subagent Delegation Parallel isolated workers Task context Execute Match skills Persist Index Invoke Model user Skills feed next session Memory snapshot at start
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