{"item":{"id":"wf-memory-check","product":"hermes","language":"en","title":"Check that a memory update changes the next session","summary":"A two-session test verifies persistence, correction and retrieval with a harmless fictional preference. A verbal promise to remember does not count as a saved memory.","contentType":"guide","category":"workflow","revision":2,"canonicalUrl":"https://botclaw.tech/items/wf-memory-check","sourceUrls":["https://hermes-agent.nousresearch.com/docs/user-guide/features/memory"],"sourcePublishedAt":"2026-10-01T13:51:23.773Z","reviewedAt":"2026-10-01T00:00:00.000Z","collectedAt":"2026-10-01T13:51:23.773Z","updatedAt":"2026-10-01T13:51:29.241Z","source":{"id":"botclaw-editorial","name":"BotClaw","origin":"editorial"},"summaryMethod":"editor","applicability":{"version":null,"platforms":["Supported Hermes host"],"requirements":["A working conversation and a disposable or backed-up memory store"]},"verification":{"kind":"official_documentation","checkedAt":"2026-10-01T00:00:00.000Z","urls":["https://hermes-agent.nousresearch.com/docs/user-guide/features/memory"],"limitations":["Original BotClaw acceptance procedure based on linked official documentation. Product commands were not executed; check your installed version."]},"body":{"introduction":"Use a disposable profile or backed-up workspace. The test is deliberately small: one invented preference, one correction and one new session. Its goal is to distinguish a memory write from ordinary conversation context.","sections":[{"heading":"Write, correct, reopen","paragraphs":[],"steps":["Ask Hermes to save a fictional preference: for sample reports, use blue headings. Check the memory tool result or the actual saved record.","In a new session, request a sample report and check whether the preference influences its output.","Correct the preference to green headings and require the obsolete blue preference to be replaced or marked superseded.","Use /new and repeat the task. Verify both the stored correction and the next action. Remove only the disposable test record afterward."]},{"heading":"Evidence to keep","paragraphs":["Capture the two memory writes, the new-session boundary and the observed report choices. A model remembering within one continuous chat does not prove persistence. A changed file with unchanged behavior does not prove the agent uses the update."]},{"heading":"Common failures","paragraphs":["If the preference appears only before /new, inspect whether it was saved at all. If old and new preferences coexist, resolve the conflicting record and test a fresh session again. Do not reset a real user memory store to make the test pass."]}]},"indexable":true,"supersededBy":null,"review":{"state":"current","pendingChanges":0,"policyDays":7}}}