Honcho Memory

by NousResearch

Honcho Memory is an AI Engineering skill for Claude Code, published by NousResearch in hermes-agent.

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Install Honcho Memory

Copy Honcho Memory into your Claude Code skills folder. Run the command in your terminal, or review the source on GitHub before installing.

terminal

npx degit https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/tree/main/optional-skills/autonomous-ai-agents/honcho ~/.claude/skills/honcho

Requires Node.js. Downloads this skill only — not the rest of the repository — into your Claude Code skills folder.

Without Node.js

git clone https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent.git

Clones the whole repository, then copy the skill’s own directory into your skills folder yourself.

In this catalog

Source file: optional-skills/autonomous-ai-agents/honcho/SKILL.md in NousResearch/hermes-agent
Installs to: ~/.claude/skills/honcho
Collection: One of 24 skills cataloged from this repository
Category: AI Engineering — 2451 skills

What Honcho Memory does

Honcho Memory configures and troubleshoots Honcho AI-native cross-session user modeling for Hermes agents. Use it to set up cloud or self-hosted memory, manage peer observation and recall modes, and tune cadence, depth, and context injection.

Honcho Memory is cataloged under AI Engineering on DirSkills. Honcho Memory comes from a repository tagged ai, ai-agent, ai-agents, anthropic and chatgpt.

Documentation

README

Excerpt

Honcho Memory for Hermes

Honcho provides AI-native cross-session user modeling. It learns who the user is across conversations and gives every Hermes profile its own peer identity while sharing a unified view of the user.

When to Use

Setting up Honcho (cloud or self-hosted)
Troubleshooting memory not working / peers not syncing
Creating multi-profile setups where each agent has its own Honcho peer
Tuning observation, recall, dialectic depth, or write frequency settings
Understanding what the 5 Honcho tools do and when to use them
Configuring context budgets and session summary injection

This is the opening of the README. Read the full README on GitHub.

Frequently asked about Honcho Memory

What else does NousResearch publish alongside Honcho Memory?
Honcho Memory is one of 24 skills that DirSkills catalogs from NousResearch/hermes-agent, the repository it ships in. Its siblings there include 1-3-1 Communication Rule, Antigravity CLI and Article Illustrator. Each one is a separate skill with its own page in this directory, installs the same way Honcho Memory does, and is maintained by NousResearch in that same repository. The rest of the collection is listed on the NousResearch/hermes-agent page.
How does Honcho Memory compare to other AI Engineering skills?
Honcho Memory ranks #17 by stars among the 2451 AI Engineering skills in this catalog. The most-starred ones next to it are Architecture Decision Records, AI-First Engineering and Agentic OS. DirSkills ranks by the star count of the repository each skill ships in, so that order reflects how popular those repositories are rather than any review of Honcho Memory against them. Open each page to compare what they document and how they install.