Synapse adds purposeful forgetting to Hermes agent memory
can lose useful continuity over time. The .md works for hand-picked facts such as a user preference or a project tool, but it is still a flat text file.
It does not track relationships between facts, it does not understand when something happened, and it can keep growing until it uses too much of the . Synapse is a for that stores information as a .
It is open-source, MIT licensed, self-hosted, and designed to work as a drop-in memory provider plugin. Its main idea is that not every memory should matter forever, so some memories can fade or be forgotten on purpose.
Key points
- MEMORY.md is useful for curated facts, but it is limited as a system.
- A growing memory file can take up too much of the .
- Synapse is presented as a memory provider plugin for .
- It uses a to handle relationships and time.
- Its key feature is purposeful forgetting, so less useful memories do not stay equally important forever.