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Hermes Inner Life

Your agent remembers how things have been going. Dated state, an evening journal, and dreams at night — for Hermes Agent.

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Overview

Adds dated state, evening journal, and nightly dreams to Hermes Agent for persistent context.

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hermes-inner-life

Your agent remembers how things have been going.

A Hermes Agent skill that gives an agent dated state, an evening journal, and free thinking at night.

  something happens   →   state.md           dated facts, no scores
                               ↓
  evening             →   journal entry  +   a short summary in memory
                               ↓                        ↓
  weekly              →   rollup             tomorrow's system prompt
                               ↑                        ↓
  night               →   a dream        →    back into state

What Hermes already does

Hermes has memory, self-improving skills, and a scheduler. This skill does not compete with any of them.

Hermes gives you	inner-life adds
facts and procedures in memory	how things have been going lately
skills that improve themselves	an evening journal and a weekly rollup
scheduling via cron	free thinking during quiet hours

Durable facts stay in memory. Reusable workflows stay in skill_manage. What was missing is the part in between — a sense of the current stretch, and somewhere to put a thought that isn't a task.

What it writes, and where

This skill keeps a record. Worth knowing what that means before turning it on.

Where	What	Reaches later sessions
`inner-life/state.md`	dated one-line facts about how work is going	only when a run opens it
`inner-life/journal/`	one entry per day	no — it sits on disk unread
`inner-life/dreams/`	free thinking, not about your data	no
native memory	two or three lines, rewritten each evening	yes — in the system prompt of every session

The last row is the whole mechanism and the whole caveat. Everything else is local and inert; the summary is injected into every session that follows, including unrelated ones and, on a shared host, other people's.

The skill is written to keep that channel narrow. State records *

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# hermes-inner-life

> Your agent remembers how things have been going.

A Hermes Agent skill that gives an agent dated state, an evening journal, and free thinking at night.

```
  something happens   →   state.md           dated facts, no scores
                               ↓
  evening             →   journal entry  +   a short summary in memory
                               ↓                        ↓
  weekly              →   rollup             tomorrow's system prompt
                               ↑                        ↓
  night               →   a dream        →    back into state
```

## What Hermes already does

Hermes has memory, self-improving skills, and a scheduler. This skill does not compete with any of them.

| Hermes gives you | inner-life adds |
|---|---|
| facts and procedures in memory | how things have been going lately |
| skills that improve themselves | an evening journal and a weekly rollup |
| scheduling via cron | free thinking during quiet hours |

Durable facts stay in `memory`. Reusable workflows stay in `skill_manage`. What was missing is the part in between — a sense of the current stretch, and somewhere to put a thought that isn't a task.

## What it writes, and where

This skill keeps a record. Worth knowing what that means before turning it on.

| Where | What | Reaches later sessions |
|---|---|---|
| `inner-life/state.md` | dated one-line facts about how work is going | only when a run opens it |
| `inner-life/journal/` | one entry per day | no — it sits on disk unread |
| `inner-life/dreams/` | free thinking, not about your data | no |
| native memory | two or three lines, rewritten each evening | **yes — in the system prompt of every session** |

The last row is the whole mechanism and the whole caveat. Everything else is local and inert; the summary is injected into every session that follows, including unrelated ones and, on a shared host, other people's.

The skill is written to keep that channel narrow. State records *

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Source repository: DKistenev/hermes-inner-life
License: MIT
Version: 1.0.0
Last GitHub push: Jul 27, 2026
Registry updated: Sep 1, 2026
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