Hermes power users get better results with memory, skills, and cron
tomcrawshaw01 · x · 2026-07-27
A walkthrough explains how power users run Hermes much better by adding three things: memory, skills, and cron.
- Memory lives in two plain-text files: MEMORY.md for setup/process knowledge and USER.md for role, preferences, and style.
- The author argues that memory should stay small and curated; bloated memory hurts because every session has to read it.
- Skills turn repeatable processes into reusable commands, so the agent can stop rediscovering the same workflow every time.
- The setup can also chain multiple skills or spin up sub-agents to parallelize larger tasks.
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