We Tried 6 Memory Providers for Hermes Agent (opens in new tab)

Giving an AI agent persistent memory sounds simple. Store facts. Recall them later. How hard can it be? Three weeks and six providers later, I have opinions. This is the story of what broke, what we discarded, and the one thing that finally worked — and why. The Setup I run Hermes Agent on a headless VPS with 4GB RAM. Nothing exotic. The goal was straightforward: the agent should remember things across sessions — my preferences, environment details, lessons learned — without me repeating myse...