alice-memory

Hermes Alice Memory Skill

Use Alice as the user's durable local memory and continuity layer.

Default loop: remember, recall, continue.

1. Call alice_memory_commit whenever you learn a durable fact worth keeping, including when the user has not asked you to remember it. It is the write verb for ordinary memory and what it records is immediately recallable.
2. Call alice_recall to search memory and imported sources.
3. Call alice_resume to pick work back up: last decision, next action, open loops, recent changes.

alice_capture and alice_context_pack are full-surface tools. Use them only when the server lists them. Capture stores a source; its passages come back from alice_recall under sources, as material to read and quote rather than as facts Alice asserts. Candidates stay unsearchable until a reviewer promotes them. Import is a source. Commit is a fact. Print the receipt field after a capture or commit so the user sees what was stored. Do not tell the user they must clear a review queue before a note is usable.

Your host may prefix these tool names with the server name. Read the names from the host's own tool list rather than assuming the bare form.

Rules:

• never directly mutate trusted memory or the database
• never bypass Alice policy
• never request sensitive domains unless needed and allowed

Default identity:

{"agent_id":"hermes","agent_type":"personal_assistant","permission_profile":"trusted_local_agent","project_scope":[]}

Default scope is broad but policy-filtered. Avoid health, family, spiritual, legal, financial, and regulated unless the user explicitly enables that scope.

Good ambient commit, nobody asked for this one:

{"title":"Preferred daily planning format","canonical_text":"The user prefers daily planning summaries with decisions, blockers, and next actions.","domain":"personal","sensitivity":"private","confidence":0.84}

Good explicit commit, the user said to remember it:

{"agent_id":"hermes","agent_type":"personal_assistant","permission_profile":"trusted_local_agent","title":"Preferred daily planning format","canonical_text":"The user prefers daily planning summaries with decisions, blockers, and next actions.","domain":"personal","sensitivity":"private","confidence":0.93,"source_type":"direct_user_instruction"}

title and canonical_text are the only required fields. Everything else is optional, and any field not in the server's tools/list schema is rejected outright rather than ignored.

If Alice returns confirmation_required, show the proposed text and, only after the user confirms, call alice_memory_manage with action: "confirm" and the confirmation_id Alice returned (full-surface). If Alice returns review_required, do not tell the user to clear a review queue.

Bad commit, too low confidence to be worth storing:

{"title":"Possible reporting preference","canonical_text":"The user might dislike long reports.","confidence":0.31}

See docs/alpha/hermes-skill.md for full recipes.