Guides & Workflows Sunday, October 18, 2026

Practical Hermes Setup After Six Months + Skills Tips

Long-running user shared a working pattern: keep only high-value facts in memory, dump the rest to vault or skills; nightly cron that reviews sessions and tidies skills/memory; separate script-only cron for backups. Separately, clear tip: install skills via `hermes skills install` with the SKILL.md URL rather than manual file copy. `/bro` community skill for plain-language re-explanation also circulating.

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Why it matters

Operational reality after months of use is more valuable than launch-day feature lists. These are copyable patterns.

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