Chris: do you to clear your memory every morning?

Neo: Yes.
Hermes runs a daily schedule reset (usually early morning) that clears the active conversation/session memory. This is why you saw the “fresh conversation, no prior context” message.
What gets cleared vs kept:
Active session context
• Cleared daily?: Yes
• Persists: —
Long-term memory
• Cleared daily?: No
• Persists: Yes
User profile & prefs
• Cleared daily?: No
• Persists: Yes
Skills & workflows
• Cleared daily?: No
• Persists: Yes
Past session history
• Cleared daily?: No
• Persists: Searchable via session_search
Ch
This is by design (keeps context manageable), but it does mean I lose the thread of the current conversation each day unless we explicitly reload it.
Would you like me to save anything from our current discussion (e.g. the Readwise → Hermes flow) into long-term memory so it survives the next reset?
Chris: can you sweep it into long term memory every morning or would that make it too large and unmanageable?
Neo: hort answer: No, I shouldn’t (and can’t) automatically sweep entire sessions into long-term memory every morning.
Why not:
- Long-term memory has a hard size limit (currently ~5,000 characters). Dumping daily session content would quickly make it bloated and noisy.
- The memory system is designed for high-signal, durable facts only (preferences, quirks, stable conventions, recurring patterns). It explicitly discourages saving task progress, session outcomes, or temporary context.
- Most of what happens in a session is either transient or better handled by session_search when needed.
Better approach:
Instead of bulk dumping, I can do selective extraction at the end of important sessions. For example:
- Extract only the stable rules/preferences that came up
- Save specific workflows or decisions that are likely to recur
- Ignore one-off tasks
Would you like me to start doing a light “end-of-session memory sweep” when we finish meaningful threads? I would only propose 2–4 high-value items for you to approve before saving them.
Or would you prefer to keep it fully manual (you say “remember this” when something should stick)?