SUMMARY
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Hermes co-founder Karan Malhotra says a curator periodically reviews an agent's skills and memories for unnecessary material, and that users can customize its criteria.
- 1The accumulation problemPeter Yang worries that automatically created skills and memories may become cluttered.
- 2A scheduled curatorMalhotra says Hermes periodically reviews skills and memories for possible cleanup.
- 3Customize the criteriaHe says users can inspect the curator and provide their own guidelines for refinement.
Takeaways
- An agent that saves skills and memories can accumulate unnecessary material.
- Malhotra describes a scheduled curator that reviews those records.
- Users can inspect and customize the cleanup criteria in the modular system.
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Keeping agent context manageable
Malhotra explains Hermes's configurable curator.
Peter Yang asks how an agent can avoid accumulating unnecessary material when it writes its own skills and memories. Hermes co-founder Karan Malhotra describes a curator that runs on a schedule and reviews those records for possible cleanup and efficiencies. He says the system has default criteria but is modular and open source, so a user can inspect the curator and provide their own guidelines for how it refines skills and memory.
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