BREAKING
Nous Research launches Hermes Agent
Memory is the moat, not the model
Three-layer memory structure
1
SOUL.md persona
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2
skills/ procedural
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3
state.db episodes
0
chars
MEMORY.md
0
chars
USER.md
0
Memory Providers
Text and SQLite vs vector RAG
Hermes Agent
local
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Plain text + SQLite
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Easier debugging
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No vendor lock-in
Vector RAG agents
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Vector database core
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Harder to debug
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Possible lock-in
Agent memory architecture rising
AI NEWS BLITZ
Nous Research has released Hermes Agent, an open-source local AI with persistent memory.