Tiered Memory Graduation: Don't Delete, Promote

When you run an AI agent like Hermes Agent with a memory system, you quickly hit a wall: the built-in memory has a hard character limit. When it’s full, the agent silently deletes old entries to make room for new ones. Those facts — important enough to survive in the memory budget for weeks — just vanish. This is a known problem in the Hermes Agent community. Users on r/hermesagent regularly ask about memory management....

July 3, 2026 · 5 min · Shane Greaves