Agent Memory Is Data Infrastructure, Not a Feature
Agent memory is data infrastructure. Most teams ship it like an afterthought.
I built hermes-agentmemory, a memory plugin for Hermes Agent (the open-source agent with 151k stars on GitHub) that treats memory like the production data layer it actually is. It is MIT, has green CI on Python 3.10 through 3.13 across Linux and macOS, and takes one line to install.
The thing I want to argue: in 2026, agent memory is not "a feature your agent has." It is data infrastructure. Reads, writes, retention policy, deletion semantics, audit trail. Every property you care about in a real database, you should care about in your agent's memory.
Why I built it
A few days into using Hermes Agent on my own machine I went looking for the file that holds my conversation history. Hermes ships with a clean MemoryProvider ABC and a list of well-known backends (Mem0, Honcho, Hindsight,...
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