Get Your Agent a Brain: Getting Started with hermes-cashew

Thu, 14 May 2026 00:00:00 -0400

You know the feeling. You fire up your agent, ask a question about something you worked on together last week, and it stares back at you like you just met. “I don’t have context from previous sessions.” You explain the project again. You restate your preferences. You remind it who you are.

This isn’t an intelligence problem. It’s a memory architecture problem.

Most AI tools treat every conversation as a blank slate. ChatGPT doesn’t remember you from yesterday. Claude doesn’t carry context from one project to the next. Some bolt on a vector database and call it memory: dump embeddings in, pull the nearest neighbors out, hope the semantic space lines up with what you actually needed. It works about as well as you’d expect.

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Get Your Agent a Brain: Getting Started with hermes-cashew