Telling Hermes the same thing for the third time? It's probably filing it in the wrong place. Hermes has 4 homes for what it knows, and each one has a job: ▸ USERmd: you. Your name, timezone, how you like answers, your pet peeves. ▸ MEMORY.md: its own notes. Your machine, your tools, project conventions, fixes it learned. ▸ AGENTS.md: one project's rules. Lives in the project folder, loads when Hermes works there. ▸ Skills: long how-tos and recurring jobs. They load only when needed, so they don't eat memory space. 3 habits that make it stick: 1. Make it save. "I'll remember" means nothing until it calls the memory tool. Peek at ~/.hermes/memories/ to confirm. 2. Run /new when a task is done. Memory loads at session start, so fresh notes kick in next session. 3. Keep it lean. MEMORY.md holds about 2,200 characters and USER.md about 1,375. Hermes trims old entries to make room. Need more? Plug in an external memory provider like Honcho, Hindsight or Mem0. It runs alongside the built-in memory. Sort it once and stop repeating yourself.