honcho

honcho is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from johnson7788/MultiUserClaw. It costs 65 tokens per session (4,681 once invoked), scanned A, a copy of honcho, MIT.

A memory setup and management guide for Hermes using Honcho, a service that builds user profiles from information across conversations. It also supports separate agent identities that share a common view of the user.

In plain words
What is it for?
Setting up cloud or self-hosted Honcho, checking its status, configuring profiles and peers, tuning recall and observation behavior, and managing injected context and session summaries.
Why use it?
It explains how to make memory persist across sessions and how to diagnose configuration, connection, synchronization, and context-budget problems.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Which agent this was written for is unclear — built for hermes-agent. Also seen: built for hermes-agent.

Install

Getting it into your agent

One page per mod, every tool's command on it. A separate URL per tool would split the same page into five that compete with each other.

agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/johnson7788/multiuserclaw/honcho
Any agent
npx skills add johnson7788/MultiUserClaw --skill honcho
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/johnson7788/MultiUserClaw

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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README.md
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Per session 65 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 4,681 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
Origin 97% copy Near-identical to another mod in the catalogue.
Token cost

What it costs to keep this loaded

Counted locally with the o200k_base tokenizer, which is exact for GPT models; Claude uses its own tokenizer and its counts differ. Treat this as one consistent yardstick across the catalogue rather than a bill. Prices are per million input tokens.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5.1 $0.00065 $0.04681
Opus 5 $0.00032 $0.02341
Sonnet 5 $0.00013 $0.00936
Haiku 4.5 $0.00006 $0.00468

Measured 6d ago against content hash d592e79a28a1, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-06, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

honcho scanned grade A with 0 findings against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured 6d ago.

A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.

Nothing flagged

None of the 26 patterns this scan looks for appear in this file: no shell pipes, no recursive deletes, no credential paths, no hidden text, no instruction-override or anti-refusal phrasing, no agent-config snooping. That is not a guarantee, it is the absence of the things that are checkable.

Origin

This is a copy

97% identical to honcho — 2 lines differ, which has more behind it and is treated as the original. This page carries a canonical link to it rather than competing with it.

hermes-agent/optional-skills/autonomous-ai-agents/honcho/SKILL.md · 432 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 432 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Honcho Memory for Hermes

Honcho provides AI-native cross-session user modeling. It learns who the user is across conversations and gives every Hermes profile its own peer identity while sharing a unified view of the user.

When to Use

  • Setting up Honcho (cloud or self-hosted)
  • Troubleshooting memory not working / peers not syncing
  • Creating multi-profile setups where each agent has its own Honcho peer
  • Tuning observation, recall, dialectic depth, or write frequency settings
  • Understanding what the 5 Honcho tools do and when to use them
  • Configuring context budgets and session summary injection

Setup

Cloud (app.honcho.dev)

hermes memory setup honcho
# select "cloud", paste API key from https://app.honcho.dev

Self-hosted

hermes memory setup honcho
# select "local", enter base URL (e.g. http://localhost:8000)

See: https://docs.honcho.dev/v3/guides/integrations/hermes#running-honcho-locally-with-hermes

Verify

hermes honcho status    # shows resolved config, connection test, peer info

Architecture

Base Context Injection

When Honcho injects context into the system prompt (in hybrid or context recall modes), it assembles the base context block in this order:

  1. Session summary -- a short digest of the current session so far (placed first so the model has immediate conversational continuity)
  2. User representation -- Honcho's accumulated model of the user (preferences, facts, patterns)
  3. AI peer card -- the identity card for this Hermes profile's AI peer

The session summary is generated automatically by Honcho at the start of each turn (when a prior session exists). It gives the model a warm start without replaying full history.

Cold / Warm Prompt Selection

Honcho automatically selects between two prompt strategies:

Condition Strategy What happens
No prior session or empty representation Cold start Lightweight intro prompt; skips summary injection; encourages the model to learn about the user
Existing representation and/or session history Warm start Full base context injection (summary → representation → card); richer system prompt

Read the full file on GitHub · 432 lines

Changes

What this file has done since we first saw it

Hashed on every crawl. A supply-chain change to an agent config is a question of when, not whether, so the history is kept rather than the latest state alone.

  1. 6d ago First seen · 432 lines · 65 tokens per session scan A d592e79a28a1

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honcho is a skill published in the GitHub repository johnson7788/MultiUserClaw (318 stars, last pushed 23d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 65 tokens to every session and 4,681 once invoked, about $0.0003 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. It is 97% identical to honcho, differing in 2 lines, and is treated as a copy.

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